The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Freedmens Aid Society of the Meth
odist Church is holding its annual session IN
Cincinnati.
The steamer Mariposa, which arrived at
San Francisco yesterday, brought 600
worth of English soVereigns for California
and New York banks.
The seventh annual convention of the Ma
tiOnal League of Commission Merchants or
the United States is in session at New
Orleans. Over 400 delegates are present.
Attorney General Cunningham, of Louisi-
ana, has commenced procesalnss 70 p d,si
the Cincinnati Debenture Company organ
lied under the laws of Ohio, from doing bus
mess in Louisiana.
Mary Keima. of No. s Berg street. Cleve-
land, was shot yesterday by Anton Stano,
Of Jerome alley, and cannot live Jealousy
is the cause. Stano is a married man and
Mary Keima has two children.
The trustees of the general convention of
The chief business was the appointment Of
a missionary to Japan, appropriations and
the election of a financial secretary.
The executive committee of the Photogra-
piers Association has selected CelerOn, on
Lake Chautauqua, as the place, and July II
to %, as the date for the next annual con-
vention and exhibition of the association.
J. w Miller has been arrested for the
murder of Daniel II. Wilson, an old rancher,
who was assassinated on the night of Oct.
IS, 1896, at his own door in Sotano county,
California. Miller is a brOther-in-laW OF
Wilson.
A movement is in progress for a consolida-
ton of the interests of the leading Ameri-
can manufacturers of gas and electric light
put of these fixtures in the United States
is about $6D00,000.
The troubles between Captain b. M. Shaft
ner commanding the naval militia of llli-
nois and Commander +. IT. Harrison, of
the first battalion, eliminated yesterday in
an order mastering out of the service the
entire first battalion.
Mrs Henry Haskell Powling, manager of
the Star hosiery mills. at Hagama, N. Y,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy Her
assets are given at about $4,000 and the
liabilities at about $4,000 of which $4,000 is
secured by mortgages.
Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania has
received an opinion from Judge Advocate
General Lieber, of the United States army,
in which he decides that soldiers of the war
with Spain may be buried in the National
Cemetery at Gettysburg.
Justice Brewer, Of the United States SUI
preme Court sailed on the White Star line
steamship Majestic from New York yester-
day for Liverpool His visit abroad is in
connection with meeting OF the Venezuelan
boundary commission, of which he is a mem
Der.
on board the steamer Colon, which ar
rived at San Francisco from Guatemala and
South American ports yesterday, was Sig
nor Roma, minister from Guatemala to the
United States. Minister Roma Will proceed
to Washington at once to assume his
duties.
c. D. Firestone, proprietor of the Column
Company, has sold the dash department of
the business to the McKinnOn Dash Com
pany OF Buffalo, n. Y, which owns the
consolidated dash companies of the United
States.
The Engineering ard Mining Journal, in its
compilation Of mineral statistics for 1898,
places the worlds production of gold In the
year at 1886 2l8, 954 To this total the United
States contributed $649C0,00O Russia SIS, 1876, =
600, South Africa 13,476000 and Australasia
$61 .4S0.O O0
The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce has
adopted a series of resolutions, among
which is one indorsing the action of the Ma
tional Board of Trade against the provi-
sions of the war revenue tariff act which
calls for stamp taxes on sales made on COM
mercial exchanges
Clifton Sfton, Canadian minister of the
interior, has received a report from Com
missioner Ogilvie, of the Yukon, stating that
there would be no starvation in Dawson
this winter, although the government would
have to assist a number of persons who
went into the country without means.
The Dutch steamer Rotterdam, which ar
rived from Rotterdam yesterday, reports
that during the embaFkatiOn Of passengers
the police authorities made a search for
Count WalSin Esterhazy, who was said to
be stopping in a hotel at Rotterdam, try
ms q AmpFica