The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-19
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREvlTIES
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS PRESENTED
IN Condensed FORM.
Items of Interest from All Sections
OF the COUNTRY md a Few from
Across the

track gate receipts were donated to the
fund for Harry Weldon.
A surgical operation was performed. al
New York. yesterday. on Roland Reed,
the actor. II was said last night that Mr..
Reed was doing well.
Mrs. Flora Miller, tried at wapokeneta.
O., for the murder of her two-year-old STEP
child. was last night convicted OF man
slaughter. The plea Of the defense was in
sanity.
AL Hereford, manage Of Joe Cans, an
nounced, last night, that he had mailed 70
William Naughton. of Chicago. a draft for
$1,000. as a forfeit for a six-round fight with
Frank Erne.
The grand jury at Cleveland has indicted
Harry Stewart, the stenographer arrested
in New York. On the charge of having muir
dered his infant daughter. Stewart Will be
taken back to Cleveland.
u. S.. Bandy, a colored preacher. arrested
in Chicago on the charge of assaulting a
fourteen-year-old girl at arkansas City.
Kan, yesterday cut his throat in jail and
1t Is said will die.
The United States transport Sherman
arrived at San Francisco last night. thirty
five days from Manila, via Nagasak. She
brought 50 cabin passengers, 45 sick. Isl
discharged, Il prisoners, IL insane soldiers
and AZ bodies.
Inc NatlOnal Association OF Sptr1tuallStS
has voted down the proposition TO send
delegates TO the conventions Of the w. G.
T. u This was in retaliation of the re-
fusal of the w. c. T. u. to recognize the
association.
Thomas J. Corcoran. of Aspen. 300 miles
northwest of Denver, who is riding a
wheel from Denve to Boston. has arrived
in New York, after averaging seventy
miles a day for thirty days. He starts for
Boston to-day.
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which has been In grand council for ten
lays at st. Louis, has adjourned 10 meet
In San Francisco the second Monday Of
October, 1901. The work OF revision of the
constitution was completed.
Sharpsville. Pa, was the scene of trouble
last night between the Shenango furnace
strikers and the imported laborers. In the
melee Harry Gursley was shot in the
The furnace will be shoveled out
and closed down for an indefinite period.
The three days coursing meet at Man
kato, Kan, ended yesterday. George Day
ton, of Lincoln, Neb., won first and third
money In the all-aged race with hummer
and Lady Gilmore. A Mankato dog, Pearl
Trent, won the second consolation stake.
Tom Gallagher, the veteran short stop.
and Ora Morningstar. the young Western
billiardist, faced each other, last night, in
the fourth match of the handicap series, IT
Maurice Days Academy, New York. for a
purse of 500. Morningstar won by $50 to
3S2.
Judge Gilhooly, counsel for the Elizabeth
port On. j. Bank, said yesterday he was in
possession of the diamond necklace given
to Mrs. Hart by William Schneider, the
~defaulting clerk. The jewels were obtained
through legal proceedings, about which
Judge Gilhooly is reticent
The potato crop of the United States ac-
cording TO the Orange Judd Farmers final
report in it's issue of Oct. 20 at the prac-
teal completion of harvest approximates
Z59, 600, 600 bushels, or nearly 5000, 600 bushels
less than last year and a fairly good yield
compared with the average of the past ten
years.
The National Master Horseshoers. in ses-
sion at Milwaukee. yesterday passed a
law creating a national holiday for the
trade. the date being the first Saturday
after the first Monday of August each year.
The association decided to establish an in
stitute ON the basis of a veterinary college
within two years.
DR.. Slattery, Of Dubuque, yesterday filed
a bill for attendance on the late Arch
bishop Hennessey for s4.625. DR.. Slattery
the archbishop from March %,
1899, to March 4, 1900. He say he prac-
tically abandoned his practice so that he
might devote all his time to him.
The State of Idaho has segregated 24S, 600
acres of land on the Snake river. near
Falls, to be reclaimed under the
Carey act, by canals to be taken out of
the river at the head of the canyon lead
Ills " liz ldllS. III uUutTldkllR MIL cost
81 500. 900. This is the greatest irrigation
undertaking ever projected in the State.
Col. o. H. Smith, formerly assistant quar-
termaster general of Michigan, who was
by the grand jury at Lansing for
alleged fraud and embezzlement in con
nection with the military clothing frauds,
changed his plea from not guilty
to guilty. He must pay a fine of 81, 200 be-
fore Oct. % or go to jail for two years.
The Yellowstone Park Railroad Company.
s., 500, 900, was incorporated at Tren-
ton, N. j., yesterday. with power to build
railroads through the Yellowstone Park.
The incorporators are Alex. Morrison, OF
N. Z. Everett. Of Jersey City:
Mont, and c. E. Barrett, of
Ind.
Health Commissioner Reynolds. of Chi
cago, is considering the advisability OF
licensing dealers in horse meat. inspectors
discovered that a large amount of the
is being disposed Of in Chicago
markets. The facts have been laid before
Reynolds, who has been asked to set
aside the prejudice against horse flesh by
allowing It's sale under proper regulations.
The will of the late Caleb T. Symmcs,
Of Lancaster, Mass, p~hilanthropist, makes
requests to the amount of 500 600.
s., 900 of which goes to the American Peace
n the same amount to the Salt
Lake Academy for the education Of Nor
mon children. Mr. Symmes, I'm life, was
q great advocate of universal peace and
deeply interested in The Hague con-
The Indians of the Indian village at Burt
Michigan, are homeless. The land on
they lived was sold for taxes two or
three years ago, and on Oct. 4, 1899. they
promises to go away in the spring, IL the
writ granted by the Circuit Court was not
served and they were allowed to stay. A
of them went away The remainder
were evicted on Monday and their homes
burned down..
Capt. George wellington Streetor and
soldiers of his army, who's
to hold flled-in land on the Chi
cago lake front last summer resulted I'm
he mobilization of the whole police force
Of the city, were yesterday declared not
OF conspiracy to commit murder. A
charge of unlawful assemblage still re-
mains against the squatters on the GRIM
calendar, as well as a number of civil
suits.
~Forty-nine thoroughbred Short-horn cat
lie were sold at auction yesterday. at the
show of blooded short-horns and
)rice of $3.50. Some of the best prices were:
supplement-, thoroughbred heifer, S525;
Warden Secret. $500; Duke of Cedarville,
winner of first prize In the exhibition con-
of bulls, $4S5. He was secured by w.
Nelson, proprietor of the Kansas City
Judge Tuley. of Chicago. will instruct the
ury to acquit Charles ii. Peasley and John
!. Johnson. of the Coliseum building, when
t collapsed In July. 1899. Peasley and John
ION were on trial on the charge of man.
as a result OF the accident. The
Judges action is the result Of the claim of
he defense that the indictment was faulty
md did not set forth the things the prose-
'ution would have TO prove TO show the de-
iendantS guiIty of criminal carelessneSs