The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-31
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

A. hlrSkey, dry goods ana nOtlOnS, at
Waco. Tex, failed; liabilities. $4,000
One passenger of the steamer Ohio, just
arrived at Tacoma from Nome, was robbed
of $500 and one died en- route.
A. H Miller &c Co., cotton commission
merchants. of Waco. Tex, have failed
Their scheduled liabilities are $4,000.
There is no truth in the report which
reached New York from Kingston, jamaica
that President Simon Sam, of Haiti, died
suddenly recently.
Jack McClelland. of Pittsburg, and Billy
Ryan, of Syracuse. fought twenty rounds
to draw at Pittsburg last night They
weighed in at 122 pounds.
Emil Sanchez. the Cuban wonder, of De-
troit, fought twenty-round draw with
Kid Ashe, of Cincinnati, before the Sem
ate Athletic Club at Springfield, o., last
night.
effect that the Carnegie Steel Company in
tends to invade the sheet steel business
by manufacturing this product at its Du-
quesne works.
Ralph orthwein,. of st. Louis. has pur-
chased of Col W. F. Blees, of Mexico.
Mo-. the champion gated saddle horse of
the world. Rex Mcdonald. 1t is said $500
was the price paid.
A consent verdict of guilty was agreed to
yesterday, at Atlanta Ca I'm the case of
ment from the ticket Office of the Atlanta
&c West Point Railway.
A railway franchise which the Executive
Council of Porto Rico has granted to the
North American Company is very valu-
able. 1t will permit the construction of
network of lines in the islands.
1t was announced that p. A. B. Widener.
the traction magnate, of New York and
the American Steel and Wire Company, to
the place made vacant by the resignation
last spring of G. T. Boynton, of Chicago.
The recruits at the Preside, San Fran
cisco. have been organized into battalion
of three companies and will be sent to Ma
Mia on the Sherman. A shipment of 2S9
mules and two horses has arrived at the
Preside from st. Asaph, Va.
John Byers. the colored middle weight, of
Boston, in his fight with Tim Murphy. of
Australia, last night. at Tattersalls, Chi
cago, proved a disappointment TO the 5000
spectators present. Byers got the decision
after six rounds of tame fighting.
AS Lon Aswell and Miss Lillian Henley
were out riding in buggy at Memphis,
yesterday, the horse became unmanageable
and kicked the vehicle to pieces. His hoof
struck Miss Henley the head, dashing
her brains out. Asweli was fatally injured
in the same way.
Joe Ess. leader of the Massillon. O.. mill
tary band, was killed near Canton, yester-
day morning. He was riding on the plat
form of crowded train from the Alliance
Republican meeting. when he struck the
truss of a bridge and was thrown under
the train. He was thirty years old and
married
A dispatch from Edmonton Manitoba.
states that the house of q settler named
Hutsko at Egg Lake East, was burned
down a few days ago. five little children
losing their lives in the building The
father was away and the mother had gone
&c a neighbor and on returning she found
the house in ashes. Two of the children
belonged TO neighbor.
The princess Of Anhalt whose father.
Prince Christian OF Schleswfg- Holstein, IL
was recently reported by cable from Rer-
divorce for his daughter from her husband
Prince Aribert, Of Anhalt, came to the
United States in May last travelling as
Countess Munsterberg. She visited Canada
and thence went 10 England month later
In his annual report TO the Governor OF
Georgia, Adjutant General Byrd recon-
mends that ali the negro troops of the State
be disbanded and mustered out of service
because he believes they cannot be of any
service to the State from military stand
point. THAT the colored troops cannot be
called into service for quelling riots and
condition exists" says the report.
A dispute over the division of the estate
OF the late Signor Foil. the baritone of the
Royal Italian Opera Company, OF London.
has been taken into court at Tacoma.
Wash. The estate Is valued at $4,000
Folis sister, Mrs. Bessie Walker, or Ia
coma. who vas recently appointed admin
istratrix. began action against her nfeces.
Lillian +. Harger and Bessie L. Harger
both prominent N Tacoma society. for