The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-06
BREvITIES.

TELEGRAPHIC BREV1TIES.
service between Dawson and White Horse
are stalled in the ice near He'll Gate,
Alaska.
Six masked men held up the office of the
Western Lumber Company, at Portland,
Ore, last evening. They secured $1,000 and
escaped.
A northeast windstorm caused consider
able damage at Coney island yesterday. The
tide was the highest in years past and the
meadows were flooded.
w. r. Morley. the sturdy captain of Co.
lumbia's 1900 football team, has been
unanimously chosen to lead the white and
blue eleven next season.
A pardon from President Mckinley for
Marion Welcer, a government prisoner,
who died at the Tennessee state p~eniten-
in for eighteen months for violating the
revenue laws.
The explosion of a cannon cracker in
Sanders Theater, Cambridge, Mass, dur
ing a lecture, caused excitement among
five hundred Harvard students. A prank
ish student merely tried 10 play a joke on
the freshmen.
The Globe Steamship Company was in
corporated by the Ohio secretary of state
yesterday with a capital stock of 81, 200, 900.
The company will engage in a general
transportation business on the great lakes.
Headquarters will be at Mentor.
Gen. w. /. White. ex-quartermaster gen.
eral of the Michigan National Guard, who
the penitentiary, and who was p~ardoned
Tuesday night by Governor Pingree, was
released yesterday from the Jackson
prison.
Governor Stanley. of Kansas, has under
taken to establish a system of civil service
among the officers and employees of the
various state institutions. The proposed
new law will provide that politics shall not
no QOnGi6Qra6 i'm Ca1anffnr nfinarC for Cfnfn
institutions.
L D.. Bonebrake. commissioners of
schools of Chic, has announced his in
tention to make an investigation of the
accounts of the late clerk of the Cincinnati
Board of Education, George X. Griffiths.
This is done under express authority given
him by law.
AS a result of Tuesday nights snow
storm the telegraph, telephone. electric
light and fire alarm wires in Syracuse.
n. Y, are in great confusion. A number
of horses were killed by live wires i'm
the streets and pedestrians had narrow
escapes. About three inches OF snow fell.
Eagle City, on the American Yukon, was
connected by telegraph with Dawson Oct.
70, giving through service from Eagle TO
Skagway. The same system is also ex-
tended south TO Atlin. Eagle is the first
town on the American side of the bound
airy, and is about one hundred miles from
Dawson.
Thomas Tudor was released from the
Ohio penitentiary yesterday on a telegram
stating that President Mckinley had
granted him a pardon. Tudor is a native
OF Mississippi He was sent to the peni-
tertiary on April is, 1899, to serve five
years for larceny. He was convicted for
stealing four horses.
Near Wapakoneta, O., yesterday fifty
workmen on the new ea~st-and-west rail-
road, the Columbus & Northwestern, top
pied over and destroyed five box cars be-
longing TO the Cincinnati, Hamilton * Day
fOn RQlIr0Q6 and fora M tho main fran
In their efforts to lay a crossing over the
tracks of the latter.
An explosion of dynamite at the mines
of San Andres de la Sierra, Mexico. killed
or und many miners. At the latest
advices twenty-six dead bodies had been
recovered. Fifteen injured persons, some
of whom will die, were taken from the
wreckage, and the ruins are thought to
contain other victims.
Two persons were killed in Utica, n. Y,
yesterday by coming in contact with cleo
trio wires that had been broken from poles
by a storm. The victims were a Pole,
about twenty years of age, and an Italian
boy, fifteen years old. The snow broke
down thousands of wires, and the tele-
phone, telegraph and car service is badly
crippled.
Miss Della Neibel, twenty-five years old,
whose home is in Fostoria, o., twice at
tempted to commit suicide at Chicago yes
terday by shooting herself in the breast.
She will probably die from her wounds.
Biz d lItQutnliy tADItSStu BEltl over
her brothers detention in a sanitarium
near her home I'm Ohio. and this is be-
lieved to have been the cause of her at
tempted suicide.
At yesterdays session Of the forty-sec-
ond annual convention of mechnical engi-
neers, which is being held in New York,
the following officers were elected: Pres
ident. Samuel II. wellman. Cleveland: vice
Ambrose Swasey. Cleveland; treasurer,
VIM. III. Wiley, New York city. w. +. NJ.
Goss. of Lafayette. Ind, was elected to
the board of managers.
The United States grand jury, which has
been in session i'm Covington. Ky. since
Monday, was discharged late yesterday.
Th formal statement was made by United
State District Attorney Hill that Frank NJ.
Brown. assistant cashier of the German
National Bank of Newport, KY, had been
indicted on four counts, and that Robert
Winstel. the individual bookkeeper of the
same bank. had been indicted on one count.
Fred l.. Gilmore. of Baxter, Ia, was
knocked senseless late Tuesday night near
Michigan avenue and Harmon court. Chi
cago. and robbed of Sl1. 299 i'm negotiable
paper, $3 in money and a watch. The
robbers, William Cummings and George
Hays, after a desperate fight will detec-
t~ectives. were captured and all the booty
save the watch and money. was recov-
cred. Gilmore was I'm Chicago exhibiting
cattle at the live stock show.
After receiving subscriptions for the re.
lief of the famine-stricken in India to the
extent of S252, 98S, the New York committee
of one hundred ended its work yesterday
with a meeting OF the executive commit
tee. The committee was appointed in May
last, with William T.. Dodge chairman
and John Crosby Brown secretary. II is
estimated that more than a million dollars
has been sent from the United States &c
India for the help of the sufferers.
Major Wood. commanding the Canadian
mounted police in the Yukon territory
r-L> Ill., ~ - -~11 ------
the collection this year on the Klondike
output as amounting to nearly $500, 900
about $4,000 0 more than was received last
year. Ten per cent. OF the gold mined is
supposed to be paid to the government
which would Indicate the Klondike out
put for the season 10 have been only
100000, but the general estimate has
placed II at nearly 500. 000.0 900.