The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-14

his, he did not agree with Mr.. Churchill as
to the righteousness of the South African
war.
The Journeymen Steamfitters' Protective
Association of Chicago last night made
peace with the Master Steamfitters' Asso-
cation and is no longer affiliated with the
Building Trades Council The junior
steamfitters will also accept the same
terms. The withdrawal takes about 600
men from the central body.
The three thousand employees of the Jones
& Laughlin iron and steel plants, at Pitts
burg, have been notified that the individual
wage contracts made two years ago will be
renewed for the ensuing year. with no re-
duction in pay. 1t is believed the same &C
ton will be taken by the Carnegie COM
pany, and the workmen are jubilant.
A careful approximation of the total yield
of gold from the Klondike and Alaska, in
GLIDING Nome, for the present year, has
been completed by a smelling company,
acting in conjunction with the statistcian
of the San Francisco mint The amount ag-
gregates SIS, 724, 81, divided as follows:
Klondike, 81, 1856, 329.17; Nome, "a, S65. S946l
Secretary Irwin Shepard. of the National
Educational Association, announces that
the executive committee has selected De-
troit the place of meeting for the fortieth
annual convention July to II, 1901. The
Central Passenger and Michigan Passenger
associations have granted a rate of one
fare for the round trip, plus the member
ship fee of s..
Inc American Forestry Association
opened its convention at Washington, ID.
c., yesterday. The board of directors SUBJ
mitted it's report which was accepted by
the associa ton. The report says that dur
ing the past year popular interest in for
estry had grown remarkably. The condition
o. the country's forests is in general mark
edly improved.
Two more arrests have been made of al
legged counterfeiters at Vandalia, Ill. Mrs.
Elizabeth Walden was yesterday bound over
In ba Of hu cd Ctafo
missioner Wright, at bingham, and gave
bond. Commissioner Wright also bound
5000 John Walden and Miss Emma Ben
ming, who were bound over by Commits
sioner Wright, are in Jail in Springfield.
Gloucester Mass, is again mourning for
the loss of several of her hardy sailors,
this time for the captain and twelve men
of the fishing schooner Sigfried, which has
now been absent from port for nearly ten
weeks, which Is believed to have foundered
past six weeks, have been sweeping the
north Atlantic Five of the members OF the
crew are married, while eighteen children
will mourn the loss OF fathers.
Can't c. II Lambson, of the United
states Fish Commission. sailed from San
Francisco yesterday on the steamer Sierra,
with 100000 live salmon eggs in his charge,
which he is taking to New Zealand. as a
present from the United States government
to the New Zealand government. These
salmon station, at Battle Creek, Tehama
county. California, from the fall run OF
Sacramento river salmon, between Nov. 10
and Nov. 10.
The canopy over Plymouth rock has been
defaced by vandals. The act, to all appear
ances was deliberately done. This canopy
IA of granite fifteen by fifteen feet and
thirty feet high. being built in the form of
four piers with arched opening and sur
mounted by a granite roof. The square
stones on either side of the western en-
trance are bruised and the angles broken
off, while marks of other hammering are
plain on various parts of the base. A re-
ward has been offered by the Pilgrim So
ciety for the detection of the vandals.
Gen. r. b. Brown. of GAINESVILLE. and
Milton Turner, of Cambridge, withdrew
from the Ohio Shiloh battlefield commits
sion after stormy session of that body
yesterday. A majority of the committee
voted to award the contracts for forty-six
monuments to be erected on the battlefield
TO a Clyde (Ohio) firm at their bid of
SAT 600. Messrs Brown and Turner charged
that favoritism had been shown in award
ing the contracts and declared their inten-
ton of enjoning the work and OF appeal
ing to the Governor for an Investigation of
the matter.
A petition has been filed in the Court of
Common Pleas at Columbus, o., asking
that receiver be appointed for the Fed
eral Natural Gas Company and that II be
enioined from disposing of any or its prom
erty or stock Application was made by
Messrs. Il. M. POSt0n and Charles l.. Kurtz
representing the Hooking Valley & Lake
Erie Railroad Company. The applicants
charge that fraud has been perpetrated,
and that the purposes OF the gas company
were misrepresented to them In securing
certain rights from the railroad company.
temporary injunction was granted.
Leroy r. Piper. former cashier OF the
First National Bank OF ST. Marys. o., who
disappeared several months ago while on a
pleasure trip in Yellowstone Park. has been
given up as dead. and o. Z. Dunan has
been appointed administrator of his estate.
When Piper disappeared he was on his way
10 San Francisco to look after his share I'm
the estate OF a deceased uncle. which
amounts TO 100000, and which the San
Francisco courts refused TO release in the
absence of an administrator.
Fred L. Dindhammer. Of the Northwest
ern Academy at Evanston, H., has broken
all the Western college RECORDS in A
strength test taken at the Evanston Y M
G.. A. gymnasium under the supervision OF
Director Dass. Dindhammer scored a total
OF 4,632 points. The best previous college
record In the West was AIS. made by AL
fred w Place, of the University of Chi
cago on Feb. Is last. The marks scored by
Dindhammer were as follows: Arms, 1.1S9:
legs 2sO4: trunk. $50: total, 4,632 Dind-
hammer is twenty-three years OF age.
weighs f5a pounds and is five feet seven
inches high
The appellate division of the New York
supreu Court has handed down an opin-