The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-17


the Society Of Authors. has arrived al
LIMA. Peru. i'm good health. 1t Is his IN.
tention to visit and report upon Lake Tit
caca and the eastern Andes chain.
The deadlock between the Californis
winemakers and the winegrowers has end.
ed by the breaking up of the growers
combine. Grapes are selling for S3 and $1f
a ton. instead OF SIS and 500. the prices
fixed by the Growers Association.
There have been go coke ovens at the
way Company at Stonega. Va. shut down
as a result of the h ut down of the iron
furnaces recently. as they supplied many
with coke and go men are thrown out OF
employment.
Asa Packer WILDER. one of the heirs TO
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES estate. left by
Asa Packer. the PENNSYLVANIA railroad
king and coal baron. has died In poverty i'm
San Francisco. His body was buried I'm a
pauper's grave. He was a victim OF the
morphine habit.
An order has been issued by Judge La.
combe. of the United states Circuit Court
at New York. authorizing Samuel Thomas
Charles l.. kimball and Albert &. Ions
receivers of the United States Flour Mil.
ing Company. TO issue certificates to tbs
amount OF $4,000.
BY the premature explosion OF dynamfts
at a quarry at Pewee Valley, near Louis
VILE, yesterday. Sam Scoess and mis- sor
Logan Scoess. were killed. and George
Shiscar was badly injured. Young Scocss'f
hands were torn on and both or ShfScarf
eyes were blown out.
The criminal element Is again I'm the sad.
die at Nome. according TO passengers who
have arrived at Seattle from the north
Thugs. thieves and nrebugs are keeping
the city in a state OF suppressed excite.
ment, and talk OF lynching was 10 be heard
on every street corner.
President Diaz. Of Mexico. has pardonet
j A. Clark. OF Mobile, Ala, who, on the
18th of March last. was sentenced 10 four
teen months imprisonment by the cour'
at Aruzaba. State OF Vera Cruz, for caus.
ing. as a locomotive engineer, an accidenl
in which the Mexican fireman was killed. 2
The headquarters of the United Garment
Workers Union will remain I'm New York
This was decided by the Detroit convention
by a vote of q for New York and Is for
Syracuse. The administration OF the union
was flercely attacked by the delegates from
the West, who favored removal 10 syria
cuse.
Herbert and Henry James, doing business
at New York. under the firm name OF
James a. Kirkland. wholesale dealers ir
hardware, stoves and ranges, made an as
signment yesterday. The resources are:
personal property sl10.00 and real estate
$4,000. The liabilities amount to about
$4,000.
President Benjamin Norton, OF the To
ledo, st. Louis a. Western, denies the
stories that are being sent out that the Clo-
yer Leaf Is now the property OF the Mis-
souri,, Kansas * Texas and the Chicago a
Erie. He also denies the report that the
shops and division headquarters are TO be
removed TO Marion, Ind.
Six men were badly injured by an ex-
plosion OF gas at the Atlantic Rennfns
C~ompany's works. in Philadelphia. One OF
them, Joseph Henderson. died later, and al
least two others will die. Besides Hender-
son, the most seriously hurt are Joseph
Jefferson, colored. and Thomas SharD.
Their deaths are momentarily expected.
Ulridi Ruppecht, a German resident of
Norwich. Ont, was found dead on the
grave Of his recently deceased wife, hay-
ing shot himself through the temple. The
ago and murder was suspected, owing 10
the fact that the couple had not been liv-
ing happily The stomach was sent to an
analyst and his report just TO hand showed
traces Of poisoning.