The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-02
NEWS FROM ALL LANDS
MISCELLANEOUS TELEGRAPHIC DIS
PATCHES IN BRIEF FORM.
Interesting Notes on a Great Variety
Of Subjects, Including Happen
ings ut Home and Abroad.

Col. Thomas W. Scott has been appoint
Order, a fraternal insurance society with
headquarters in Chicago
President Mckinley will remain in Can
ton to receive the news OF the election
next Tuesday night, and will return 10
Washington on Wednesday.
General Leonard Wood, commander of
the Department of Cuba, and Lieutenant
Mccoy, Of his personal staff, sailed from
Miami. Fla, yesterday for Havana
The limited train On the St. Paul * Du-
luth road ran into an, open switch near
Hirckley. Mimi. and the engine ana Two
cars were derailed. Brakeman William
Rapp. of ST. Paul. was killed.
General William Booth. COMMANDMENTS
chief of the Salvation Army, is coming 10
New York next September 10 take prac-
tically the control of the Salvation Army
in the United States for at least SIX
months.
1t is announced that prices of anthracite
coal have been advanced 80 cents a ton
over the nominal price of the July circular
by the anthracite mining and carrying
companies. The change covers the whole
country.
Colonel William L. Haskin, of the Second
United States Artillery, stationed near
Havana, Cuba, is suffering, it Is reported,
from yellor fever, in a light form. Two
privates of the regiment have also peen
attacked.
has voted not to join with the Chicago
Board of Trade in the proposed New Elk
change Telephone Company, which would
erect wires and connect all the important
exchanges.
The body of Wray Tourney Carr. drowned
in Lake Washington, near Seattle, last
Sunday while duck hunting, has been re-
coved. The body of his companion, Clark
G. Carr, of Galesburg, ILL.,, has not yet
been found.
Thn Init cd Of RI SharTn
sailed from San Francisco yesterday for
Manila, via Honolulu, with about $50 SOL
diers and large number of cabin pas
sengers mostly wives and children of
officers stationed in the Philippines.
What were generally accepted in jack
sonville, Fla, Wednesday earthquake
shocks and so wired officially to Washing
ton by the weather bureau officer there.
the ST. Johns river near the city.
The residence of the Rev ]. b. Wheat
ley at Wheatley, Ky, was burned yester-
DAY. Mrs. Wheatleys aged mother, Mrs.
A. j. Alexander, persisted, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wheatley were suriousIy injured
while escaping from the burning building.
As result of Halloween prank two
men were shot at Shelby, o., and both may
die. Floyd Armstrong and Morris Brewer
placed cannon crackers in the spouting at
Roscoe McCormick's house. Mccormick
fired both barrels of shotgun with deadly
effect.
Reports from northern and north central
Texas, show Tuesday nights storm to
have been very destructive. Houses were
wrecked in Kaufman, Ellis, Hill, Collin
and Grayson counties. Three persons killed
and several seriously injured. Crops suf-
fered severely.
The mine workers employed by the firm
of Crawford & Dugan, near Hazleton. Pa,
numbering about fifty men, quit work at
the Honeybrook strippings yesterday after,
noon and say they will remain out until
they get an increase of 10 per cent. which
the firm declines to grant.
regular monthly mail service between
San Francisco and Tahiti was begun yes
terday by the sailing Of the steamer Aus
tralia for Tahiti under contract with the
French government, which had heavily
subsidized the company for the new sery-
ice. Heretofore the mail has been carried
by sailing vessels.
Suits for damages, estimated at an ag-
gregate of $4,000 to 81 100000, were filed in
the Circuit Court at Chicago yesterday by
the School Board against the Elevated
Railway Companies, whose tracks and
traffic are alleged to have damaged school
property. 1t is claimed that aside from
injuries to the buildings themselves, pupils
are greatly hindered in their work by the
noise made by the trains.
Charles f. Labberis, a guest of the Vic
toria Hotel, Chicago, was taken from his
luxurious apartments 10 cell in Central
Police Station Wednesday night. He was
arrested on a warrant sworn out by a
wholesale fruit firm on South Water street.
The police claim that the arrest nipped
in the bud clever forgery scheme which
| the prisoner may have been operating
| in places outside of Chicago.