The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-13

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road conductors have arrived at Havana,
Cuba, on an excursion.
The fourth annual convention of the
League of American municipalities is In
session at Charleston. S. c.
The regents of the University of Cali
fornia have formally appointed Prof. W.
w. Campbell director of the Lick Observa-
tory.
There are more than forty cases of small
pox at Kansas City, Mo-, In st. Georges
Hospital Only one death from the disease
has occurred.
Bishop Charles R.. Hale, who has been
critically i'll at his home in Cairo. I'LL, Is
stronger, and is not so delirious as he has
been for several days.
The Sisters of Mercy Convent at Fort
Dodge, Ia, was burned yesterday. Several
of the sisters were slightly injured. Moth
ing was saved. Loss 10000 insurance 5000
The first train will be run through the
Great Northern tunne in the Cascade
mountains next Sunday. The tunnel Is l3.-
200 feet long, and the thickness of the roof
at the thickest place is $500 feet.
Two hundred and fifty men, including all
the miners, drivers and laborers employed
at the three mines of the Missouri and ILL.,
nois Coal Company in st. Clair county,
Illinois, are on strike to secure regular pay
days.
The trial of Henry Seeimer, hfty-six
years old, a lawyer, was begun before Re-
corder Golf, i'm General Sessions, at New
York, yesterday. Seeimer is charged WIN
subornation of perjury in connection WIN
a bogus divorce bureau
The Western Union Telegraph Company
reports that for the quarter ending Dec.
81, part estimated, the net earnings will
be about 81, 10000 The dividend of IA per
cent. which was declared yesterday calls
for the payment of $1,217 900.
The Lakeview and Ager Stage was rob-
bed Tuesday night about two miles from
L.akeview. Ore, by a lone highwayman;
No passengers were aboard. Two mail
sacks were rifed and a considerable
amount of registered mail taken.
The German ship Gertrude, which put to
sea last week from Astoria, on her way to
the United Kingdom, and later was re-
ported as foundered off the Washington
State coast, with all hands on board lost,
has been sighted off the Golden Gate.
Topeka, Kan, has begun a crusade
against vice by subscribing 1850 W as n
fund for the prosecution of saloon keepers.
The officers of the Good Citizenship Fed
Grafton say they will make the subscription
100000 before they are through with II.
Charles E. Mather, a jewelry commission
agent, was found guilty of grand larceny
in the first degree, at New York, yester-
day. The charges against him were that he
obtained jewelry valued at about $4,000 on
memorandum and pawned IL instead or SELL
ing it.
Herbert Stuart Stone and Miss Mary Grisby
Mccormick. both of Chicago. were married
DIT bdillfnOTe yeSleIudy. III 10 Liz
daughter of William G.. Mccormick. of
Chicago. and the bridegroom the son OF
Melville L. Stone, formerly of Chicago,
now residing in New York.
Rear Admiral Edward K. Bickford ar
rived at Vancouver, B. c., from England.
| yesterday, to assume command OF the
North Pacific squadron, succeeding Admiral
Beaumont, who has been transferred to the
command of the South Pacific squadron.
and is now in Australian waters.
1u;e ~ Uon Dfpar the hrokor wh0
with John b. Mckenzie, fed at the time
warrants were secured for their arrest
recently, when Charles w. Morgan was
arrested, surrendered himself at New York
yesterday. He gave bail In the sum or
5000 and will be arraigned to-day.
George Hines, a miner. at Coal Creek.
Tenn, fired two shots at Mrs. George w.
Bentley. and while in the act of firing a
third was shot dead by an unknown per-
son. Hines was drunk and Mrs. Bentley,
his next door neighbor, was at the well
pumping water when Hines began firing.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has is
sued a formal order TO the Standard OIL
Company to permit the state attorney gen.
eral to inspect the books of the company
giving the list of stockholders at present
and from the time the company was or
ganized, the minute books of the company
and other books and papers.
A committee of rich Dunkards has pur-
chased the town site of Sunnyside, in the
irrigated section of Yakima county, Wash
ington. They propose founding an ideal
colony, which shall be noted for its tenn
| perance. Christianity n educational in
situations. A college, patterned after that
of Oberlin, o., is to be FUNDED. No sa-
loon will be permitted.
Mayor julius Fleischmann, of Cincinnati,
has refused to recede from his promise to
| grant a permit for a prize fight at Sanger
| fest Hall between Feb. l and 4, between
James Jeffries and either Gus Rubin. Tom
Sharkey or Bob Fitzsimmons. n delega-
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the mayor refused to reconsider his deter
mination to permit the fight.
Harold Money. of the Carteret Gun Club.
won the fifth renewal of the Interstate
Park handicap yesterday on the grounds,
at Queens. l.. L., by grassing his full al
lotment of twenty-five birds, shooting from
the 30-yard mark. A. III. Fox, Of Balti-
| more, was his closest attendant in the mat
ter of kills, his total score being twenty
three out of a possible twenty-five.
The will of the late Senator Cushman X
| Davis, who died Nov. q, was filed for pro-
bate at st. Paul yesterday by Mrs. Anna
| NJ. Davis, the widow. The will is very con-
else, and was made during the senator's
last illness. 1t leaves all his estate to Mrs.
| Davis and names the st. Paul Trust Com
| pany as executor. The estate Is valued at
| SIS, 900 in personal and 1000 in real prop
erty.
In a suit for damages against the Balti-
more & Ohio Railway, at Toledo, A. A.
Hickerson was awarded a verdict by a
jury in the United States Circuit Court
of $500. but not for blacklisting, Of which
the defendant railway was accused. The
award was given on Hickerson's second
cause of action, which was based on an
| Ohio statute that makes Ii imperative for
a. railroad to give employees reasons for
their dismissal.
The Hampton-Benges feud was renewed
in Clay county, Kentucky, yesterday. Men,
bers of both parties met at the distillery
operated by Elihu Allen, and when the
| smoke cleared two men were probably IA
| tally wounded. Several men were engaged.
all being mounted on horses. Nathaniel
| Hampton was shot through the back and
| one of the Benges party through the Shout
| der. More trouble is anticipated.
The case of William II. Crossman & Bro.
against the United States was argue be-
fore Judge Townsend in the United States
| Circuit Court, at New York, yesterday. De-
| ciSion was reserved. The case involves the
question as to whether or not the Hawaiian
islands came under the Constitution and
laws Of the United States Immediately on
| the passage of the joint resolution of an
nexation on July !, 1885, and before the act
of April 80, 1900.
The Illinois Stats Zeitung. a leading Ger
/ man newspaper of Chicago, was sold at
| auction yesterday TO Mrs. Margherita Ras-
| ter, widow of Herman Raster. who was ed
itor of the paper from 1867 to 1890. The
| property was bid in for $50, 200, subject TO
| a mortgage of $4,000, making the selling
price over 100000 Mrs Raster was one of
the heaviest creditors OF the paper. The
paper will be reorganiZed at once. II is said.
and no interruption TO publication will take