The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-06
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

1t is stated s225,OOO has been subscribed to-
ward the construction OF the N,VOVO
alumni hall at Yale University.
The United States transport Crook sailed
from New York yesterday for Santiago to
bring back another consignment of bodies
of soldiers and sailors.
Hon. George w. Hull. former collector of
the port of Toledo. under President Cleve
land, has been appointed chief of bureau of
publicity and promotion of the Ohio centen-
NAL.
John Campbell, colored, and Arthur Cum
were shot and killed at Nashville, Tenn,
by G.. ID. Atnip, whom the police believe TO
be demented.
Bishop O'Connor. of London, has received
the appointment to the archbishopric of the
Toronto diocese, made vacant by the death
of Archbishop Walsh. Bishop O'Connor will
be installed early in May.
Selection of a jury at Canton, o. to try
Mrs. Annie S. George for the murder of
George r.. SaXton, was not completed yester-
day. The regular venire has been exhausted
by challenges, and "A special venire will be
drawn to-day.
Henry Watterson says the statement re-
Gently made by d correspondent of the
Louisville Courier-Journal that the late
Charles +. Crisp, of Georgia, was ''scheming
for a senatorship when he died. was not
an editorial utterance.
Lieut.. Frank H. Curry, Third Georgia
Volunteer Infantry. who shot and killed Pri-
waite Leo Reid. Battery /, Second Artillery
last January, at Savannah will not be tried
by court-martial, but will be delivered into
the hands of the civil authorities
The Iowa Board of Control of State Insti-
tutions has determined TO establish a factory
for making binding Irvine in one of the PEN
itentiaries. The board claims IL will produce
large part of the Irvine used In Iowa and
reduce the price from 70 TO 80 per cent.
The steamer ST. Joseph broke her shaft
and blew out both cylinder heads yesterday,
below Vicksburg. A colored woman, a deck
passenger, became excited. jumped into the
river and was drowned. No others were in
jured. The loss to the boat is about 700.
The ice in the Straits of Mackinac is very
heavy, reaching far into Lakes Huron and
Michigan, as solid. apparently, as at any
time during the winter. 1t Will take three
weeks of warm weather to clear the straits.
To-day is the first warm day of the season.
The City Council has declared the charter
of the Dubuque Qa.) Water Company for
feited and ordered legal proceedings for the
purchase of the plant by the city. This ac-
ton is the outcome of a long struggle on
the question OF municipal ownership. The
company values the property at $4,000
The Missouri Senate has passed bill in
tended to prevent the operations of trusts.
1t allows courts to issue restraining orders
and persons injured by trusts to recover
three-fOld damages. The Senate also passed
a bill which is intended to aid the attorney
general in getting testimony against trusts.
Insurance agents in Texas are alarmed
over the probable a a o of the Sg
say that If il passes the effect will be the
same as i'm Arkansas and kentucky, prac-
tically killing the insurance business. The
insurance men of the State are making a
strong fight against the bill.
Under suspension of the rules the bill pro-
vidinS for incorporation of the st. Louis
worlds fair TO celebrate in 1903 the centen-
NAL of the Louisiana purchase was passed
by the Missouri Senate yesterday. II has
already been passed on by the House, and
under the emergency clause which the bill
carries It will become a law as soon as
signed by the Governor.
Judge Kicks, of the United States District
Court, at Toledo has rendered an opinion
in the bankruptcy case of Joseph Fillerath.
in which he holds that creditors bill made
before action was commenced in the United
States Court, is not valid and orders the
sheriff 10 return the amount of the bill, thus
holding that the national bankruptcy act
takes precedence over any action under the
Ohio insolvency law.