The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-11

was captured while skulking in the
bushes near the road and was Identified as
negro who had one night before been
put off the same train and had sworn VEN
geance.
Two six-inch bronze Spanish cannon. for
merly part Of the defenses at Fort San
Felipe, Manila, and captured by Admiral
Dewey at the battle of Manila bay, have
been presented to the city OF Atlanta, to be
used at the base OF the monument which
Will be erected TO the memory of the late
Lieutenant Brumby
The first casting on the huge bronze
equestrian statue of George Washington.
. which is to be presented to the city OF
Paris by the Daughters OF the Revolu-
ton. was successfully accomplished in New
York on Tuesday. When completed the
statue will be fifteen feet eight inches high
and weigh eleven tons.
The eighth annual convention OF the
National League of Commission Merchants
began in Baltimore yesterday: An interest
ing address on 1.-The National League Its
Principles and What IL Has Accomp-
,ished'' was read by Harris Bean, of Bos-
ten, after which the convention adjourned
TO inspect the citys new courthouse.
w. V. Thompson, of Chicago, vice presi-
dent of the American Bowling Congress,
won the silver cup given by DR.. II. Timm,
of New York. president OF the congress.
for the highest score at tenpins- Mr.
Thompsons score was 192. There We're
of the crack bowlerS of the country.
S. d. Willis. a government revenue Of
ficer, has discovered about $1,000 nego-
tiated witness claims on file in the Ken
lucky state auditors office without war
revenue stamps affixed. They had been re-
ceived from every county in Kentucky and
the violation has heretofore been over
looked by Kentucky revenue officers.
In the criminal branch of the United
States Circuit Court at New York yester-
aSh
of the Port Jarvis National Bank, accused
of having embezzled funds of the bank TO
the amount of $4,000, and of having falsi-
fled the books of the institution, pleaded
guilty ana was remanded until Friday for
sentence.
The Hartford, Admiral Farragut's his
toric flagship, sailed from San Francisco
yesterday on a cruise to New York in,
war ship has complement of $40 men on
board. The Hartford will first call at San
Diego and then proceed to Valparaiso and
Montevideo and from there she will proceed
TO New York.
Rev. Benaiah L. Whitman, the president
of Columbian University, Washington, has
rendered his resignation at a meeting of
the board of trustees to accept the pas
torate of Calvary Baptist Church. Phila-
delphia. This action came as complete
surprise to a majority of the trustees of
the university, with which DIR. Whitman
has been connected since June, 1895.
Harry n. Pillsbury, champion chess
player of America. practically accomplished
last night, at Chicago, the feat of playing
simultaneously sixteen games blindfolded.
Pilsbury played against members of the
Chicago Chess and Checker Cub, and at
2 o'clock this morning had not only sue
cessfully completed the majority of the
games, but had won the greater number
The Nelson Kneass Monument Associa-
ton organized in Chillicothe, o., yesterday,
has for its object the erection of a monu-
ment over the grave of Nelson Kneass.
who wrote the music for ben Bolt" His
body Is buried in the Chilicothe Gene
terry Kneass died in 1869 and the slab
which marked his grave has been clipped
away by relic hunters until nothing re-
mains of 1t.