The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-23
KNIGHT & JILLsON.

Twin Cities. were married at ST Paul yes
terday.
The funeral services of Rear Admiral
Roger Nelson Stembel L. s. N, retired.
were held in New York yesterday: The
services were private and unofficial In
character.
WI Ting Fang. the Chinese minister.
was the guest of honor last night at the
eighth annual dinner OF the Commercial
Club OF Cincinnati. He made a, speech on
the foreign trade of China.
BY the upsetting OF coast-line stage I'm
Cal, S. w. Parker, of Ventura. was
drowned, and four other passengers mar
rowly escaped a similar rate
The hearing in the habeas corpus pro-
ceeding in the case of oberiin NJ, Garter r.;
the United States District Court at
| Leavenworth, Kan. yesterday
The Business Mems Association, OF Gin
| cinnau. have offered Corbett and Jenries
| $4,000 If they will fight twenty rounds IN
| that city on or before Feb. Is. Corbett Is
willing but Jeffries wants a finish fight
One thousand men have been thrown out
/ of work by the burning OK the plant OF the
| Minnesota Stoneware Company, at Red
| Wing. The plant was one of the largest or
its kind in the United States. Loss, $4,000.
Claude Chittenden, aged thirty years a
gambler. was shot and killed at Kansas
| City, Mo-, early yesterday by Percy Sea-
| we'll aged nineteen. of Mangen, q. T., In a
disorderly house kept by the common-law
wife of Chittenden-
David Anderson, an aged inmate of the
| National Soldiers Home at milwaukee,. who
| shot and killed Capt. Thomas nj. Pollock
/ on Aug. 4, 1899 was yesterday ad1udged
| guilty OF manslaughter by jury in the
| United States Court.
Senator William Z. Chandler of New
Hampshire, who is in New York. says that
\ he expects TO be returned to the Senate.
'"The Joint Legislature will have 325 MEM
bers," he said. and 1 am fairly confident
/ that / shall receive the support or lO.
Frank Speasmaker. postmaster, of Lon
| don, o., was found dead yesterday MORN
ing in his place OF business by one OF his
/ clerks He had shot himself in the head
with a revolver taken from his showcase
/ He has been postmaster nearly four years.
The steamer Bertha has arrived at Seat
tle from Kodiak and Valdez, with 80 pas
sengers and $4,000 gold in individual hold
| ings. She reports the schooner Emma
Louisa a total wreck at Tournegan. Pas
sengers report a rich gold strike about two
hundred miles north OF Valdez.
The National Association of State LIZ
| brarians aC yourned at Harrisburg. Pa,
yesterday, to meet at Waukesha. Wis. in
| 1901. The following officers were elected.
| President, l.. D. Carver, Maine; vice presi-
| dent George L. Reed Pennsylvania: Sec
| rotary and treasurer. Miss Maud Thayer.
| Illinois.
At hog sale held in Danyiile ILL.,, yes
| terday by John Salmon, of Madison Mills.
|
| an average of $3.50. which hog men say Is
| the highest average made I'm the cnitei
| States in five years The entire herd sold
for s2495. the highest priced hog selling
| for 500.
The selection of a jury in the case OF
Miss Jessie Morrison, charged with the
murder of Mrs. G. DIN Castle, was taken
UP at Eldorado, Kan, yesterday. the mo-
denied Only two jurors were accepted and
considerable difficulty In completing the
| jury Is expected.
Mrs. Ellen Young, ffty-six years old. who
was shot at Baltimore Wednesday night
| by her husband John Young, seventy
/ years OF age, died yesterday and Young is
| held on the charge of causing her death.
| The couple had quarreled frequently and
/ II is claimed by Young that his wife
! threatened TO kill him.
s. E. Gross, the wealthy real estate
| operator and author of the play "Mer-
| chant Prince of Cornville," on which
sCyrano De Bergcrac" is supposed TO be
/ based, announced last night an intention TO
build a new theater in Chicago to cost
| 100000. Mr.. Gross contemplates SIM
| liar venture in New York.
Maurice Brennan one of tho three men
arrested for dynamiting the property OF
the St. Louis Transit Company during the
recent street-car strike. was found guilty
| Yesterday and sentenced TO serve ten years
| in the penitentiary- Fred Northway and
| James Schwartz. who were indicted with
Brennan, will be tried soon.
At Bradford. Pa. yesterday. John j.
Heating. aged thirty-nine, a passenger
brakeman employed on the Buffalo. Roches-
ter & Pittsburg Railway. fatally shot his
wife, aged thirty-five, and then fired bull
let through his own heart Both were soon
| dead. The cause OF the tragedy Is ascriDed
to whisky and insane jealousy without
cause.
William T. Perry boy only fifteen years
cid, of 5l4 flaming street. Houston. Tex.
| who, il is said, is heir 10 Szl,OO0. was held
rgo1 of
| theft of 90 cents worth OF brass speaking
| tubes taken from fat house IN West one
hundred-and-ff fifteenth street. The boy was
placed I'm st. Johns College, FOREMAN,
sometime ago, but ran away.
william Simms colored. who shot and
killed his WIFE, Lilly Bell Simms. at Dun
! bar. Pa, on Oct. 16. 1883. was hanged at
| Uniontown, yesterday In the presence or
six hundred people. Simms met his death
unfinchingly. He gave out letter claim
ing that the crime was committed I'm anger
/ because OF infidelity. He warned all TO be
careful whom they married and not 10
marry too young.
| Delegate Flynn. Of Oklahoma says IL VIII
| be impossible 10 open the KiOwa. Conan
| che and Apache reservations for settlement
by spring. unless Congress takes early
action He believes IL may be necessary 10
/ secure an appropriation OF $4,000 10 re-
survey the entire reservation. Another OBJ
stacle is the existence of over three hum
dred cases Of smallpox among the Indians
on the reservations The disease is rapidly
! spreading
President Mckinley has granted pardon
4 to w Il. Carter, who Is serving a two-year
| sentence from Georgia for the embezzle-
nlent OF p0stofflce funds. Carter was
chairman Of the state Populist committee
OF Georgia and postmaster I'm q small
| town. II was charged that he used por-
ton OF the funds for political purposes.
Carter is suffering with a complication OF
! diseases He was confined I'm the Column
bus co. Penitentiary.
The divorce troubles OF William J. Harris.
! OF Spokane. Wash. wealthy mining man.
ended yesterday when Judge Prather APP
proved stipulationS Diminishing six suits
! aggrcgating nearly s3C0.tJo. brought against
I Harris by his wife. and Judge Richardson
: granted her decree OF divorce. Harris
/ agrees 90 give her $4,000 as provided In
| their original agreement and settles S23.-
| ooo upon her daughter Louise. besides pay
| Ing the wife a large additional sum. ~
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