The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-20
BREvITIES.

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Peter Sells, of Sells Bros and Fore
paugh shows, was yesterday, at
o., granted a divorce from his wife on the
ground of gross neglect. She was given
$4,000 alimony.
The funeral of Charles G. Beaman, a
member of the law firm of Evarts. Choate
& Beaman, of New York city, and general
counsel of the Wisconsin Central Railroad
took place at Windsor, Va. yesterday.
Charles F. Stone, an insurance man, was
shot and killed at Houston, Tex, yester-
day, by a burglar in his room. Stone fired
at the man and missed. The thief then
shot him above the heart and escaped.
Workmen tearing down an old barn near
Akron, o., yesterday, discovered a canvas
bag containing $1,000 in gold, which be-
longed to Oscar Osborne. who was MUIR
dered by a farm hand two years ago with
robbery as the motive.
An invalid young lady, sister Of General
Castillo, of the Cuban army, committed sui
eide at Havana yesterday by shooting her
self through the heart. Thu motive for
the deed is believed to have been grief over
the marriage of her sister.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, commander Of the
Department of the Missouri, was. last
night, the guest of honor at the annual
banquet of the Kansas City Commercial
Club, given in commemoration of the sign
ing of the John Jay treaty.
Harry H Stewart, who was arrested in
New York some time since and brought to
Cleveland, charged with numbering his in
FAINT daughter and throwing the body in a
sewer, was declared insane YESTERDAY.
Stewart will be placed in an asylum.
John, alias Red Corbett, who has
served several terms in the penitentiary,
was shot and killed at Chicago late Tues
day night by Policeman Edward j. Grady,
who surprised him with a companion in the
act of committing a highway robbery.
The Philippines Company, of New York
cffxv rovftnl Ell 900 nnO xroc sn4nv1Dro+-l %
Dover, Del, yesterday. The purpose Of
the corporation, as stated in the applica-
ton, is to construct railroads and acquire
and develop lands in the Philippine islands.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has revoked
all permits for prize fights issued prior
to the passage of the anti-fight ordinance
by the City Council Monday night. The
mayors action puts an end to the stories
that he would not approve the new Law.
John d. Long, secretary of the navy, has
purchased a site for a residence which he
will Immediately erect at Colorado Springs,
Col. Mr.. Longs daughters, who have been
will make that place their permanent
home.
An incident of the very active business
in the New York stock market is the high
prices asked for memberships on the Stock
Exchange. Yesterday So, 900 was bid for
a seat on the Exchange, compared with a
sale on Tuesday at $4,000, which was the
record price.
The habeas corpus act will go into effect
in Cuba to-day. The first case under il
will be that of an American of the name of
from Detroit, who is held on
telegraphic request under a charge of alter
ing the books of the Standard Life Insur-
ance Company.
A contract was signed yesterday by Pres
ident j. M. Elliott, of the Southern Car
Foundry Company, with the Tennes-
see Coal and Iron Company by which the
former company is to erect a pressed steel
annual capacity of 5000 complete cars.
Yesterday three men were buried alive
beneath thirty-five feet of earth in an irri-
cation canal four miles east of Chadron.
Montana: Staunch Burns, his son. and
Woody Litchfield, a hired man. Burns, ST..
was a wealthy ranch and sheep owner.
The steamer Amur arrived at Victoria, 3.
c., from the north yesterday after a rough
trip, bringing news Of the drowning by the
capSiZing of a boat at Hata lake, near Con-
per mountain. of Peter Early. Mrs. Joseph
Taylor and Minnie Baker. The Amur also
brought news that typhoid and pneumonia
are very prevalent at Dawson.
u. NJ. Henderson, formerly assistant cash.
Ter of the First National Bank of Greeley,
Col. who disappeared last July. has been
located in a small town near FL Paso, Tex,
on the Mexican side of the border. After
Henderson left Greeley the bank officials
made an examination of his books and dis
covered, it is said, a shortage Of nearly
$780, 600.
John Freeman. of Estherville, Ia. ac-
cused of numbering his wife and burning
his house, yesterday confessed his guilt
and chloformed her and threw her on a
bed. Then he covered her with excelsior,
saturated it with gasoline and set it on fire
and left the house. His motive was TO get
possession of her property.
The Singer Manufacturing Company, of
Elizabeth, n. Y, has filed papers at Tren-
ton increasing its capital stock from &c.
600 600 TO $50. 600. 600. This increase. in was
stated, was made necessary by the issuance
of $50, 000, 900 of stock dividends to the stock
holders of the company, being division
OF that amount of the compary's surplus.
The papers state that the surplus exceeds
$50. 600. 600.
The writ Of habeas r asked for
Mayor Kelley. of South Omaha, has been
denied by Judge j. D. Baxter, in the District
Court. Kelley must now stand trial in the
ceived bribe money at the hands of Omaha
an other brewers as an inducement to per-
nit the saloons of South Omaha to remain
open all night and on Sundays.
The funeral of Mrs. Calvin s. Brrce took
place at Lima. o., yesterday. The services
were conducted by Rev. Robert ]. Thomp-
son. pastor of the church, assisted by DR..
Thomson, formerly president of the Miami
University, who also delivered an address
at the funeral of Senator Brice. The chill
dren left last evening for New York, but
it is probable they will return and make
Lima their home.
DR.. c.. A. Miller. instructor in mathe-
mates at Cornell University. has received a
prize OF $500 from the Scientific Academy OF
Cracow, Austria, for his work on the theory
of groups. This theory is one or the most
modern branches of pure mathematics, and
IL is extensively used in the advanced the
ory of a~lgebraic and differential equations.
DR.. Miller has published many original
monographs on the subject.
Thomas Parker, a native OF Lincolnshire.
England, was frozen TO death near the
mouth of White river in the Klondike dis
trict early in November. He and another
man were building winter quarters. and
when some distance from Camp Parker fell
through the ice crossing a stream. He got
safely out, but dropped on the trail. and
before he could reach camp froze to death.
He was about thirty-seven years old.
A car ON the incline OF the Great Ka-
nawha Colliery Company. thirty miles
above Charleston, w. Va, broke loose yes
terday while loaded with men going to
work, and ran down the steep grade with