The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-30
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Valley Brick and Coal Company, of Nell
sonville, o.. capital s500,oo0, and the Art
Metal Company, Cleveland, o.. capital
| 5000.
1t is reported at Goshen, N. Y, that
| Frank Rockefeller, brother of John d.
| Rockefeller, is negotiating for the purchase
| of John r Gentry, 2:o01z for his stock
ranch at Wichita, Kan. Gentry is owned
| by K. III. Hartman.
Assistant District Attorney Mcintyre, of
| New York. resigned yesterday, and Charles
| f. lie Barber has been appointed as first
assistant district attorney in his stead. Mr..
| lie Barber has been an assistant district
attorney for some time past.
| s. w. Hubbick, said to be stock dealer
of Omaha, shot at his wife, slightly wound
| ing her. and then turned his weapon upon
| himself with fatal effect at Denver, Col.
| last night. The couple were married on
| Christmas day 1t is not known what
prompted the deed.
| William Thilly, creditor of Henry
cinnati Volksfreund. has filed a petition
asking for a receiver to take possession OF
the property of William Haacke, includ.
| ing the Volksfreund. The court has not
| acted upon the application.
ST. Paul has issued stringent quarantine
orders against .Winona, where five hum
| dred cases of smallpox are said to exist.
| The Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul and the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads
| have been instructed not to bring passen-
| gers from Winona to st. Paul.
| In a fight between Sam Gum and Jim
| Love on one side and Dutch jackson and
| Philip Franklin on the other, near Tatum,
| l. T., Love and Gun were killed. jackson
| surrendered and is in jail Franklin es-
| capped, but officers have him located in a
| swamp and trouble is feared.
| The convention of the Modern Woodmen
1 of America, scheduled for the week of June
| to at st. Paul, may be transferred TO
| Minneapolis, owing to a conflict of dates
with the National Medical Association,
which also meets at St. Paul. Both ex-
| pected to use the auditorium in that city.
! Governor-elect Odell, of New York, an
Eounced after long conference with Ser
| ator Plat and Chairman Dunn that IN
| his message 10 the Legislature he would
| recommend Single-headed police bill to
| be passed by the Legislature. 1t is believed
| the bill will be completed very soon and
| passed forthwith.
! The flagship Kearsarge and the battle
| ship Massachusetts, of the North Atlantic
| squadron, Rear Admiral Norman H.
! Farquhar in command crossed the bar
| and entered Pensacola harbor yesterday.
An admiral'S salute was fired from Fort
| BarrancaS. Other vessels of the fleet are
| expected inside of week.
| Following the acquittal by the Cleveland
! City Council of several of its members who
! had been charged with accepting brides
| County Prosecutor Keller announces that
4 the cases will be presented to the grand
jury Jan 10 for investigation The prose
1 against the accused councimen.
| The Tivoli a New York resort has closed
| its doors after an attempt had been made
for two weeks to keep ii open as tenn
| perance tavern. The police watched the
| place to arrest women who left ii without
| male escorts. This scared patrons away
and the proprietor reached the conclusion
| that his efforts were Improbable.
Charles ]. Bremen aged forty-eight.
| bookkeeper. cashier and confidential clerk
| at the Wainwright branch Of the ST. Louis
| Brewing Company, is charged in a war
ont fcc,r xxvffh 1l,<yx frar<
$4,000 during the past three or four years.
Bremen has been connected with the COM
| pany in confidential capacity for nearly
ten years.
Two cases of Tobin bronze plates for the
| bottom of the new cup defender arrived
| by express at Bristol, r. l., yesterday and
| were sent at once to the Herreshoff yard.
| This is the last lot of bronze plate for the
new boat. A carload of nickel steel plates
| is on the way. There are 156 of them in the
consignment destined for the top sides of
| the vessel.
The American Shipmasters Association
has been organized at San Francisco, Its
| object being to work for the enactment OF
| such legislation as may be needed to pro-
tcct the master of a vessel in the discharge
! of his duties. One hundred licensed ship
masters have signed the roll. Branches
will he established at San Pedro, Seattle
and New York.
| bureau of the Republic Iron and Stee
Company, stated yesterday that the conf
pany had asked for conference with the
| Amalgamated Association of Iron and Stee
| Workers. The conference will be held the
latter part of January, and among the
| things to be discussed Will be noninter-
ruption clause.
The Colorado State Teachers Association
has adopted resolutions requiring the Colo
RADIO representatives in Congress TO emplo,
their best endeavors to urge Congress Il
reorganize the Bureau of Education OF
broader lines, erecting it into an independ
ent department on plane with the Bureau
of Labor and provide for proper compen
sation for the commissioner of education
T. HI. Griffin, of Detroit. has secured q
five years lease on the Oakley Cincinnati
race course, and in the future the traci
will be devoted to trotting races. AT the
next meeting of the stewards of the Crane
| Circuit application will be filed by tn,
Oakley people for admittance. The frs
meeting will be held IN July, probably from
| July to g. AT this meeting between $35, 90
and $4,000 will be given away In stakes.
Judge E. H. Gary. president of the Fed
night at Chicago TO the directors, subor
dinate officers and chiefs of department
of the corporation of which he is the head
would be expended in the erection of
structural iron department in connection
with the Illinois steel works at Chica &c
and in general repairs and additions to tn
! mills.
The Northwestern Steamship Company
new steamer, the Northwestern. wa
launched at the yards of the South Chicag,
Ship-building Company, at South Chicago
yesterday. The boat has a keel of 2i2 feet
Is 256 feet over all, forty-two feet bean
and twenty-six feet deep of hold, draw
fifteen feet of water and has capacity o
1900 tons of freight The Northwestern
J first trip will be from Chicago to Liver
( pool with cargo of grain.
Mayor Diehl, of Buffalo, has sent to tn
mayors of the principal cities of the Unite
States and Canada kilograms that tn
, RunalO o.
: will be celebrated deliberately and en-
Enthusiastically by her citizens Throughout
the last night of the century. especially Il
} view of the Pan-American exposition to b
held there in commemoration OF tn
marvellous developments of the nineteent
century in the western hemisphere.
Daring diamond robberics have been OF
recent occurrence In San Francisco. Owe
| $4,000 worth of jewels were taken froi
three residences. Good descriptions Of III
thieves were obtained. and the police hav