The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

Senator r. II. Garter has recovered from
an attack of the grip, and left Helena, Mont,
Tor Washington last night
The J. Wright Tobacco Company, of Rich
mond, Va, has sold out to the Continental
Tobacco Company to-day
The directors of the American Steel and
Wire Company have declared q dividend OF
IA per cent. on the preferred stock
The Massachusetts indetermnate sentence
act, so-caIled, was declared to be unconsti-
tuuonal by the full bench of the Supreme
Court IN Boston yesterday.
Muriel Anterior, daughter of Gertrude
Atherton, the novelist, was married in san
Francisco last night to Albert i. Russell, d
young business man of that city.
The Calumet stock farm, at Aurora, ILL.,,
together with forty head of horses and
brood mares, including the famous pacing
stallion Roy Wilkes (2:0612), is in the hands
of the sheriff.
The Cleveland Paper Company, which was
placed in the hands of a receiver a year
and half ago With liabilities of over $685.
900, has been absorbed by the Standard Pa
per and Bag Company.
E. D. Fuford of Utica. n. Y, has chal-
lenged r. O. Heikes, of Dayton, o., to shoot
for the championship of the world at mani
mate targets Heikes will accept the chal-
Ienge, the match to be shot at Dayton.
The Arbuckles have reduced the price of
graduated sugar a sixteenth of a cent Il
pound, making their price just that much
below the quoted prices of the American
Sugar Company and several of the inde-
pendent retineries
A. K. Wallis, farmer living near Brigh-
ton, Col, has been robbed of $780, which
he had in bureau drawer Herman Mat
son; q tramp to whom Wallis had given
shelter, has disappeared, and is suspected
of having taken the money.
1t is stated that there will be a contest of
the estate of the late Mrs. Lewis c. Led
yard, of New York, which is worth more
than $l,00O,0OO, and consists largely of real
estate in New York and Michigan. Two
wills have been filed for probate
The Grand Duke Cyril Vladimrovitch, a
cousin of the Gar of Russia, sailed on the
Hamburg-American liner Fuerst Bismarck
from New York yesterday. AS the Grand
Duke walked up the gang plank of the
sci flowers were strewn in his path by Rus
slams.
Preliminary steps have pecu taken in Den
Yer for the organization OF the United States
sixteen-to-one money league. The object of
the organization is to assist in the organi-
Zatlon OF political parties on the basis of
bimetalism. 1t is expected the league will
take a prominent part in politics.
The challenge to be issued on behalf of
Harvard, Columbia Yale and Princeton uni
Versities chess clubs for d match to be
played by cable with oxford and Cambridge
left New York by mail on the steamer Paris
yesterday. The Americans propose to play
the match on six boards, at the rate of
twenty moves an hour.
The Consolidated Barb Wire Company, of
Lawrence, Kan, has passed into the hands
of the American Steel and Wire Company.
The sale includes the plant in Joliet, Ill,
with a capacity of 2,400 tons a month, and
the plant in Lawrence, which embraces q
wire drawing mill nail mill and barb-Wire
mill, the largest mills west of st. Louis.
1t is reported that the Michigan Telephone
Company IS about TO pass under control
OF the Cleveland Telephone Company, The
Michigan Company operates exclusively I'M
der the American Bell Telephone Company's
license in Michigan, with 1900 subscribers
and lO,O50 miles of long-distance wire. The
capital stock of the company is &,5O0OO
Chief Justice Melville w. Fuller, who was
in New York yesterday TO see his wife and
daughters off TO Italy on the Fuerst Bis
marck, denied that he had foster brother
or that he knew anything whatever about j.
W. Dearborn, who died Tuesday in a Wash
ingtOn-street hotel, leaving letter in which
he claimed TO be q foster brother Of the chief
justice
The application for certificate of reason
able doubt, pending an appeal, in the case
OF William A. T.. Moore, who was sentenced
to nineteen years imprisonment for robbery
eXtortion and assault in the first degree was
argued before Justice Nash in the Supreme
Court at New York yesterday. Decision was
reserved. Decision on motion for the release
of Fayne Strahan Moore was also reserved.
A number OF Chicago painters, decorators
and frescoers have formed a cooperative
association. Charles Fritz, secretary says
he does not believe the association will enter
into competition with meI who were paying
union wages. Where contractors did not
pay union wages. he said, the association
would be able 10 defeat them for the reason
that the jobs could be figured at cost price.
The Metropolitan Elevated Railroad of
0l4ACdSp Was Sutu ytolSidetJ ~ N1aotCt III
Chancery Sherman for S6000,000. The road
was bought by Fred p. Olcott, of New York,
chairman of the reorganization committee
in the interest of those security holders who
have deposited their stocks and bonds with
the reorganization committee under the
terms Of the agreement put out some months
ago.
John Francis, Dayton, o., murderer, who
figured as the alleged chief participant in
the famous ballot-box forgery at Columbus
several years ago. died Tuesday night of
consumption Many people at Dayton believe
Francis was merely the scapegoat and that
persons in high political life merely urged
act to gain his Heedom. which came soon
afterWard.