The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
VARIETY OF NEWS PRESENTED IN
A CONDENSED FORM.
Dispatches from All Quarters of the
Globe, Covering Matters of Gem
eral Interest-Marine Notes.


Joe Cans won from Spider Kelly in the
eighth round at Denver last night.
Jack Carrig of Buffalo and Percy
Queenan, of Milwaukee. fought six rounds
TO draw before the Badger Athletic Club
in Milwaukee last night.
At a trial behind PAGERS at the Brockton,
Mass, track Will Stinson broke all previ-
Gus records against time behind pace, from
eight to fifteen miles. inclusive.
All the street mail boxes in Fremont, o..
We're broken open and the contents rif1ed
Thursday night. The amount of valuables
Is unknown. but was considerable.
The North Dakota Agricultural College
experimental station has been awarded
gold medal at the Paris Exposition for the
best display Of fife and blue stem wheat.
The Brooklyn baseball team was last
night formally presented with the Pitts
burg Chronicle-Telegraph trophy cup en-
blematic of the championship of the world.
The town of Guadalupe, Mexico, forty
miles below FL Paso, Tex, in the Rio
Grande basin, was flooded by a cloudburst
on Wednesday. Thirteen hundred people
are homeless.
The Great Southern & Western Railroad
Maryland Steel Company for 5000 tons of
steel rails because they can be bought 10
per cent. cheaper than abroad.
Yesterday was military day at the Mont
gomery, Ala, street fair, the feature be-
ing the presentation to Lieutenant Hobson
bama. General Joseph Wheeler made the
presentation speech.
The ship wachusett, coal laden, from
Newcastle, Australia. for Kahului, is over
due at Honolulu, and reinsurance has been
raised from 20 to 50 per cent. There are
twenty-nine men on the Wachusett, which
sailed from Newcastle on May %.
Adjutant General William c. Liller, of
the Spanish-American Veterans, announces
that the headquarters of the association
will be established in Philadelphia on Nov.
!. with Colonel James b. Coryll. senior
vice commander in chief, in charge.
A switch engine on the Mobile & Ohio
Railway collided with a freight near
Cairo. ILL.,, yesterday, and G. G. Oliver,
Mobile & Ohio agent at Jonesboro, ILL.,,
and Louis Pallozalla of New Orleans, were
killed. Several cars were wrecked.
The National Horseshoers' convention adj
journed sine die at Milwaukee last night
after selecting Baltimore as the next place
of meeting and electing the following off,
GERS: President, l.. B. Dolan, Milwaukee;
secretary. William j. Gore, Pittsburg.
Charles W. Miller, the six-day bicycle
champion, defeated Eddie McDuffee, of
Boston, in a ffteen-mile paced race at the
| by two and a half laps in the slow time of
| twenty-eight minutes and one-fifth second.
At st. Luke's Hospital. New York, yes
terday, IL was said that the condition of
Roland Reed. the actor. who was operated
Oh for q cancerous growth or the stomach,
was much improved. and that he would in
| all probability be able to be out in a few
| days.
Four desperadoes entered the Office of the
| Cline Paint and Oil Company at Nome,
Alaska, the night OF Sept. "a. and while
one held up Manager Wintermantle the
other three carried the safe into the street
| and took from 1t the contents-S1,300 in
| cash.
The remains of the late William L. Will
! son, postmaster general in President Cleve-
| lands Cabinet and President of Washing
| were laid to rest yesterday in the family
W. VA. Noseni Cemetery ona''es'on'
The British bark Inverurie has arrived at
| San Francisco from Swansea with her flag
| at half mast, there having been three
| deaths during the voyage. The vessel was
| ordered into quarantine. No information
regarding the cause of the deaths could
be obtained.
| The inmates of the Dunning poorhouse
and insane hospital, near Chicago, have
| raised SS4 as their contribution to the Texas
relief fund. Thirty of the inhabitants of
| the poorhouse formed a relief society and
| gave up smoking and other luxuries to
| swell the fund.
| Tom Gallagher, the veteran billiardist
| and Leonard Howison, the young Canadian
| met last night at New York in the fifth
| game of the professional handicap series
! The veteran essayed to play 400 points
| against 200 for Howison, but lost. Score
/ Howison. 200; Gallagher, 263.
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| entered by three masked men yesterday be-
| fore dawn. They blew open the safe, and
| ii is stated. secured about $1,000. Constable
| William Maron. who heard the explosion,
l fired into the darkness to alarm the town.
| The robbers returned the fire, killing Ma
\ ron instantly.
| Harry Hilyard Stewart. arrested in New
| York on Wednesday at the request of the
| police officials of Cleveland. was arraigned
/ yesterday and held for requisition papers
! to arrive from Cleveland Stewart has been
| indicted by the Cuyahoga county, Ohio
| grand jury. charged with killing his three
| months-old baby.
| At Harlem yesterday an accident oc-
| Cured in the steeplechase event which
necessitated the destruction of Rollins. the
/ favorite. The horse fell over the sixth
| jump. breaking his right leg at the Shout
| der. The accident happened in full view
| of the grand stand and he was taken from
| the field and shot.
The troubles between the white and Jap
| anese fishermen is said to have eliminated
| in series of murders and robberies on the
Skeena river. Richard Gill, one of the best
4 known cannery men in the north, reported
/ that he had seen dead bodies floating down
| the rivers on several different occasions
| with wounds in their heads.
| Hundreds OF Indians are holding a wal
dance and feast near Turtle Lake, Wis.
| in the vicinity where the great cranberry
marshes form a means of livelihood for a
| large share of the redskins. The powwow
| is held in celebration of the end of sue
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known only to those who participate in 1t
A firm of solicitors in Aberdeen, Scot
| land. has renewed a former request to the
| police of San Francisco for information
| regarding the whereabouts of William
| Brown, the son of a Scotch clergyman
| who disappeared from Bakersfield. Cal. in
| March, 1899. A substantial reward is offered
to any one who can find the missing man.
1 New Orleans detectives yesterday ar
rested John Krug. German by birth, on
telegram from G.. A. Taft, of Houston
| Tex. Krug was formerly the agent of the
| wells-Fargo Express Company at Escalon
| Tex. He and John Lehn are charged with
| the robbery of $4,000 from the express
| company. Krug denies being guilty.
| The Atlas line steamer Alec, from New
| York, Oct. IL, for Kingston and Contra
| American ports, has arrived at Kingston
| Jamaica. She reports that she touched Al
| Navassa yesterday morning in order e
| island. who will Immediately commence the
reorganization of the phosphate work.
| there.
| The preliminary examination at New
| York, of Albert Il. Patrick and Charles
fraud the estate of William a Rice by
| forged check for $4,000, drawn in Pat
| ricks favor on Swenson & Sons. banker.
| OF that city, was adjourned yesterday unit
| next Wednesday. the prosecution having
finished.
Boston Sons of the American Revolution
| last night celebrated Yorktown day. the
| surrender of Lord CORVALLIS and the
| foundation of the American Republic II.
| years ago. At the banquet at the Hote
| Somerset speeches We're delivered by Maj