The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
MISCELLANEOUS TELEGRAPH NEWS
CUT DOWN TO BARE FACTS.
Crimes and Casualties of Minor Iia-
pO~rtance-BOId Forgery of Theat
Tickets-Big Cargo of Sugar.

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The old carriage hardwa house of the
| II. d. Smith Company, Stonington, Conn,
! capitalized at $500. O00. is financially embar-
raised.
Captain Sigshee will be asked to attend
the unwilling of the monument at Key
West in memory of victims OF the battle
ship Maine.
j. Arnold Parsons, a slate quarryman,
twenty-three years Did, was blown to
pieces at Argyll, Pa, by a premature ex-
plosion of powder.
Philip H. Bruck, former mayor of Co
lumbus, O., has made an assignment 10 j..
Nicholas Turner. The assets are placed at
81 600 and liabilities at about $4,000.
Billy Stiff, the Chicago middleweight,
was given the decision over Jack McCor-
mack, the Philadelphia heavyweight, at
the end of six rounds, at Chicago, last
night.
Charles Tawney, twenty-three years old,
| a farmer residing twelve miles southwest
of Fremont, Neb., hanged himself because
his love for a young woman was not re-
ciprocated.
General Leonard Wood, the new COVER
nor general of Cuba, accompanied by his
wife, arrived in New York yesterday from
Washington. General Wood will sail for
Cuba to-day.
The Maryland Board Of Education will
appeal TO Congress to return TO the state
money said to be due the State from the
sale of public school lands in the old
Northwest Territory"
The National Refining Company. in which
| Andrew Carnegie is said to be interested,
the largest opponent of the Standard, VIII
begin operations at its new refinery, in
Ffndlay, o., on Monday.
Eddie Connolly, of St. John, n. B., was
given the decision on points over Kid Nc
Partland, of New York. in twenty-five
! rounds of fighting at the Broadway Athletic
Club. New York. last night.
A dispute over a laundry bill. and the dis
play of a revolver led to the murder last
night of l.. NJ. Yeaton, a Franklin IN. H)
insurance agent. The assailant was 4. g.
Wingate, proprietor of a laundry.
DIR. F. c. Rainier. a physician of Fort
Scott, Kan, was accidentally killed yester-
day while hunting with a party of friends
near there. The trigger OF his gun caught
on a post and his head was blown of.
A carriage containing Mrs. Lucy Duncan
and Mrs. John Krupp was run down by a
Southern Pacific freight train at Maria,
Tex, yesterday. Both were instantly killed.
A daughter of Mrs. Duncan was fatally
hurt.
The 225 employees of the Roger Wheel
| works, at Cincinnati, struck yesterday be-
cause the superintendent insisted on them
working overtime. The works are behind
in their orders and offered extra wages for
all overtime.
of Lima, o., has opened an Office there for
the receipt of names. of these willing to
go to South Africa and aid the Beers. He
already has several hundred applicants,
nearly all of whom are of Irish or Dutch
descent.
| At Tacoma, Wash, yesterday Adam Crist
| deliberately shot his wife fatally, killed
| his eight-year-old son, seriously wounded a
second son, aged five, and put a bullet
through his own brain, killing himself.
Jealousy is the only motive assigned for
the crime.
The chambers of commerce, banks and
| traders of Caracas have energetically pro-
tested against the contract awarded to Up
ton, of Warren, o.. for the coinage of two
million bOlivars, the reason for this pro-
test being that Venezuela has a gold
standard.
The mother house of the Community of
All Angels, Sisterhood of Charity of the
Episcopal Church, has been removed from
| Wilmington, Del, to Springfield, Ill. Mother
Mary Margaret is the mother superior. The
sisterhood will work in the Episcopal mis-
siOns Of the city.
The contest Instituted by Robert H.
| Waters, of Newburyport, Mass, against
the will of his uncle, the late Prof. Othniel
c. Marsh, of Yale University, has been
settled, and the entire estate, involving
between $4,000 and $l0O, 600, goes to Yale
University. Waitress contest was volun-
tarily withdrawn.
| =. A. Widener and William L. Elkins,
the Philadelphia traction magnates, and
William c. Whitney, the New York capt.
/ lis nave CuI H L
est in me stock of the famous Academy of
Music, at Broad and Locust streets, Phila-
delphia, and will erect a new opera house
on the site of the present building.
What is probably the largest cargo of
sugar which hast ever arrived in Philadel-
phia on a single vessel came on the British
steamship Indra, from Samarang. 1t con-
sists of 1926 tons of cane sugar, and is
valued at over $500, 900. The freight due the
vessel Is over SCI, 000. and the duty due the
government on the cargo will be over $780,
| 900.
The Tacoma (Wash.) Daily Ledger has
changed hands, passing into the control of
the Tacoma Newspaper Company. The in
corporators are A. r. Grafton, G. NJ. Hell
lar and Charles A. Murray. all of Tacoma.
Mr.. Grafton becomes manager, but other
wise there will be no change of the staff.
1t is understood the purchase price is
SIS. 900.
Headquarters of the commercial forestry
exhibit of the United States at the Paris
Exposition will be opened Monday at Gin
cinnati in the Methodist Book Concern
building. The exhibit will require $So.OoO to
be raised by subscription. Cincinnati lum-
bermen have subscribed s.. 900 and the MEM
bers Of the Yellow Pine Dealers Associa-
ton have given $500.
Detectives are looking for the most auda-
cious forger of theater tickets that has
ever operated in Chicago. The man who
is wanted represents himself as having re-
ceived the tickets for advertising, and Of
ferS to sell them at reduced rates. Twelve
hundred bogus tickets for high-priced seats
have been presented to one of the down.
town theaterS within two weeks.
When the trial of Roland +. Molineaux,
at New York, was adjourned yesterday I'M
til Monday William j. Kinsley, the hand
writing expert, was still on the witness
stand, undergoing a severe recross-exam-
nation at the hands of Mr.. Weeks. the at
torney for the defense. 1t is expected that
the work of crOss-examining Expert Kins-
ley will not be completed before Tuesday
evening next.
Frank Walker was hanged at Mounds
vile, w. Va, last night. He was to have
been executed In the morning, but at $40
o'clock the execution was postponed till
evening. When the trap fell Walker was
praying. At Greenwood, Fayette county,
Walker demanded whisky, and on being
refused shot the saloon keeper, Thomas
Sanders. Walker escaped and was cap
tured in Connecticut.
Mr.. Henry Lands. secretary of the Bal
timore Board of Trade, and one of the most
prominent insurance men of that city, COM
mitted suicide there yesterday at the Union
Protestant Infirmary. He entered the in
stitution two weeks ago and underwent a
severe operation for abdominal trouble. He
was temporarily insane, and while the
nurse was absent from his room Mr.. Lam
dis jumped from a third-story window to
the pavement.
C. Percival Stewart, formerly of the
Granite State Provident Association, the
American Investors Trust and the Finan-
cial Agency Company, was arrested at New
York last night. five indictments having
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