The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

Roland Reed. the actor. was reported to
be doing well at St. Luke's, New York.
last night.
Governor Leslie Shaw was inaugurated
yesterday for his second term as cnleI ex-
ecutive of Iowa.
The Sextrio Furniture Company. of Gin
cinnati, has assigned to Kenton Krane, who
will continue the business Assets are
placed at $4,000. Liabilities, $4,000
The McBrayer distillery at Mt. Sterling.
KY, will start this week after being idle
for years. This is one Of the largest dis
tilleries in the State, with offices in Gin
cinnati
Resumption of navigation on the Ohio
river is now well assured The entire
river is practically clear Of ice, and there
is a promise of a substantial rise from
headwaters.
The Southern Association of Hosiery
Manufacturers. comprising the entire no
siery and spinning-mill industry in the
South, met in Atlanta yesterday and adj
vanced prices 10 per cent.
Hon. Murray Vandiver was yesterday
elected treasurer of the State OF Maryland
by the general assembly In joint con-
vention. He received the unanimous vote
of the Democratic majority.
The Columbus co. Hotel Company was
Incorporated yesterday with a capital stock
of 100000. The company will operate the
three leading hotels of the city-the Chit
tenden, Neil and Great Southern.
Suit has been brought at Falls City. Neb.,
to set aside the will of the late "CoL"
Stephen ID. Miles, pioneer Nebraskan
and old time government mail con-
tractor. An estate valued at $S.OOo,0oo 10
involved.
The injunction proceedings in the Sacra-
mento, Cal, mayoralty case, enJoining
George NJ. Clark from exercising the du-
ties of the office OF mayor, were dissolved
yesterday. Clark is now In possession or
the office.
The steamer Moana arrived at San
Francisco yesterday from Australia via
Apia. Samoa She was sent TO quaran-
tine on her arrival. The Moana did not
touch at Honolulu and brought no mail
from that port
The Minnesota Agricultural Society has
adopted resolutions protesting against the
Hanna-Payne ship subsidy bill before the
United States Congress. declaring that the
bill would initiate against farmers inter-
ests and products.
Augusta Stryezynski. eleven years Of age.
and her two-year-old sister Olga. were
burned to death in their nome in Chicago
yesterday. The children had been left
alone, and while playing with matches
overturned can of benzinc-
Detroit's municipal building has been
quarantined on account. of discovery of a
case of smallpox therein. In this build
ing are located the two recorders courts.
the two police courts, the city poor COM
missioners and various minor officers
Bishop o. W. Whitaker of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania, will
leave Philadelphia to-day for Cuba to in
quire into the progress of the Protestant
Episcopal Church there. He will be &C
companied by Rev. DR.. Powers, general
church missionary.
The Executive Council of Massachusetts,
has committed the sentence or Edward
Ray Snow. the nineteen-year-old murderer.
from death by electricity to life imprison-
ment. Snow recently pleaded guilty TO a
charge of numbering James L. White
more last September.
The New York grand jury has found an
Indictment for assault in the first degree
against Willis Rosser. the medical student
who shot Frederick Slater, Of Railway. ~.
j., in the Madison-square Garden Rosser.
while soldier, recently killed a man in
San Francisco and was tried and acquitted.
Edward Sozeng was killed yesterday at
the Great Northern coal shed In Larimore,
N. ID. His clothes caught in a big shaft
connecting with the fly wheel and he was
thrown around In a circle until his right
arm was pulled out of the socket at the
shoulder and the top of his head knocked
off.
The purchase of the McCassy Bros
dashboard factory in Cincinnati by the
Saginaw Manufacturing Company. OF Sag
NAV. Mich. is said to be the beginning or
a consolidation OF the business of manu-
featuring washboards and that other manu-
factories will soon come into the combina-
ton.
Prof James Taft Hatfield, OF the chair
of German at Northwestern University. has
rendered his resignation president OF
the College Musical ~.ub and as leader OF
the college choir. This action was the re-
suit of his physicians advice. who warned
him to give up all the work that he possi-
bly, could.
Citizens of Dickinson county, Kansas.
have organized an Indian famine relief as
ISOLATION, with j. X. Forney. recently re-
turned from India, president Its object
is to send Kansas corn TO missionaries at
Bombay for free distribution. The corn
will be contributed by farmers and shipped
from here.
In the Ohio Legislature yesterday Rep
resentative Mckenzie introduced a bin pro-
viding that all original grants or extern
sons Of grants To street railway companies
shall be submitted to a vote OF the people
before becoming operative. City councils
are 10 be required TO take action on all
renewals at least one year prior to the ex-
piration OF the original grant.
In blind tiger at Pound Gap. KY, John
and Tazee Hall an. Arch and Henry Leap
opposed Henry Sutherland and Berry Long
and Henry Campbell. Two hundred shots
were exchanged. TaZee Hall and Henry
Leap were killed and Dave Sutherland and
Henry Campbell MORALLY wounded. Arch
Leap and Henry Sullivan were also wound-
ed. A game OF cards caused the fray.
Dudley Furgeson. who a short time ago
shot and killed Private Detective Meehan,
at Cincinnati was yesterday declared In
sane and ordered to be committed TO the
Long View Insane Asylum until he recov-
ers. when he is to be returned to the Gus
tody of the sheriff. IL was the opinion OF
expert witnesses that Ferguson WAS insane
when he shot Meehan. Ferguson Is the SON
of prominent attorney, Hon. 4. A. Fer
guson.
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