The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-07
T%ELEGRAPHlC BREvITIES
DOMESTIC NEWS FROM ALL QUAR-
TIERS TRIMMED TO BARE FACTS.
Minor Crimes and Accidents, Court
Rulings. Sporting Notes and
Happenings i'm General.

halamaZOO, MICH, VII De OpenSQ III
day. 1t employs 500 men.
Thomas c. Butler. aged sixty-one. for
meriy champion sculler of New England.
died at the home of his brother in Boston.
yesterday. of heart disease.
The proposed trip of the Columbia Uni
versity football team to California. which
was to have taken place during the Christ
mas holidays, has been abandoned.
The football team of the University OF
Chicago last night chose James Henry as
their captain for next year. Henry played
right half back on this years eleven
John Bullock, charged with the murder
of Chief of Police Walsh, of Freehold, n.
j., has been captured at Portsmouth. Va.
Bullock was badly wounded before being
ubdued.
George ellis. who was injured by the ex-
plosion of the boiler in the Chicago &
Northwestern power house. al Chicago,
died yesterday. making the eighth victim
of the accident.
Thomas O'Hara, an old-time Jockey. we'll
known both in this country and In England.
was adjudged insane at Chicago yester-
DAY, and was committed to the Cook Coun-
ty Hospital at Cunning.
Prof. W.. c. Campbell. acting director of
Lick Observatory. is TO succeed the late
Prof. James Keller as director. The APP
pointment will be confirmed at the next
meeting of the board of regents.
AS a result of a premature explosion
which occurred in Riverton mine No. 2 at
Springfield, ILL.,. yesterday. o Benedict.
aged sfxty-two. was killed and David Bene-
dict, his son. probably fatally injured.
An extra session of the Santo Domingo
Congress was opened on Wednesday. Pres
ident JimineZ's message recommends a reel
procity treaty with the United States and
concessions for railroads in Barahona and
Monte Christi.
Charles w. Morgan. who did business in
New York and Philadelphia under the
name Of c. w. Morgan g. Co.. stock
brokers', and who was arrested on Wednes--
day, assigned yesterday for the benent or
his creditors. No statement of the assets
and liabilities has been made.
The $4,000 Kentucky futurity, for foals
Of 1898. the star stake OF the Kentucky
Breeders Association and the American
Trotting Turf, closed second payments with
over a thousand w%eanlings entered, break
ing the previous record of 93 In 1873, also
held by this association.
The revenue cutter Thetis. on which re-
pairs costing $50, 600 have just been made
In San Francisco, is having her machinery
and will go into commission. The old yes
sci has been largely rebuilt, and Is pro-
nounced as good as new.
Oscar Gardner. Of Wheeling, and Buck
Stelzor, Of Columbus, O., fought a twenty
round draw before 200 sports at Marietta.
O., last night. Both men were bloody
after the third round. Gardner took the
count i'm the fifth round and the gong
saved him from being knocked out.
Commodore Alexander Henderson,, u. S.
N, retired, is seriously i'll at his home In
Yonkers, n. Y. The commodore had "A
stroke of paralysis a year ago, from which
he never recovered. He is weak, and near
~ seventy years old. The physicians at
tending give little hope of his recovery.
Oliver Berriman, Oscar Moore and James
Dodson are dead and Robert Clevenger and
Oscar Elliott are seriously injured as the
result of a fall of rock in the World-Herald
mine, at Aurora, Mo. The men were all
spade hands and were engaged at the time
in lining tubes at the head of the drift.
The injured men will probably recover
At the annual national conference of the
American Baptist Home Missionary So
ciety, in Denver. yesterday, the twentieth
century memorial. adopted in New York
city on Nov. 20 by the joint committee ap-
pointed at Detroit in May last. was pre-
scented by Rev. DR.. Woody. of Oregon, and
was Endorsed.
VIM. D.. Ryan, of the United Mine Work
ers of America, has offered $500 reward
for the capture of Frank H. Stout, late
night engineer of the coal mine at Daw-
son, H., who killed John Wilson a few
weeks ago. Governor Tanner will offer
$500 additional reward.
Paul Prebles and Frank Andrews were
killed Wednesday night by a fall of coal in
the Luke Fidler mine. at Shamokin. Pa.
owned by the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company. The men were
working on a breast of coal at the time.
when a large mass above them gave way
and completely covered them.
The third days session of the industrial
convention at New Orleans was marked
by the adoption of the report of the organi-
cation committee making the association
a permanent affair and providing for the
enrolment of a paying membership, but
providing also that exchanges and cities
may send delegates to the meetings.
VIII r. Morris. of Fort Worth. late ma
tional organizer in Texas of Bryan clubs
among travelling men, yesterday morning
received the following from VIM. ], Bryan:
I'VE have made the best Sight we could
for principles which all believe to be Amer
lean, and We must continue to do DIR duty
as We see IT, regardless Of temporary re-
verses"
AS q result of a bill presented in the
present session of the Georgia Legislature
to prohibit children under twelve years
of age working in the cotton mills OF the
formed an association TO stop the prac-
tice. Since the organization of the mill
owners the advocates of the bill have de-
cided not to insist on its passage
The crusade against vice in Chicago has
taken a new turn. In view of the newspa-
pers' attacks on the dives the keeper of
two of the most notorious suggested, some
days ago, that the ministers preach in his
places. The offer has been accepted. and
the Rev. DR.. E. F. Goodwin and the Rev.
D. F. Fox will preach I'm the two dives.
David Plemon and EbeneZer Dixie, who
were indicted by the federal grand jury
of Milwaukee on a charge of endeavoring
to defraud the government in illegally Sc
curing assignments Of soldiers homestead
claims, have been found guilty and will
be sentenced later. E. S. Cary, indicted
for drawing up papers for the men. was
acquitted.
While a New York Broadway crowd
watched the proceedings Wednesday even
ing a patrol wagon carted away 10000 films
and negatives of the American Electroscope
Company, as well as the proprietor. John J.
into custody at the instance Of Anthony
Comstock. The 10000 films and negatives
are alleged TO be in part improper.
A petition was filed in the United States
Circuit Court at Birmingham, Ala, yester-
day by forty laborers employed by the
Jones Valley Iron Company, asking that
the company be declared a bankrupt. The
petitioners were employed at the William
son furnace. which is operated by the COM
pany, and struck some days ago, because
the November pay roll was not met.
While attending her husbands funeral at
New Virginia. Ia, Mrs. John Hossack was
arrested at the cemetery charged with his
murder. She was placed in jail at Indian
OLA She took the arrest calmly but pro-
tested her innocence. Hossack. who was a
well-to-do farmer. was killed by a blow on
the head while sleeping beside his wife.
Mrs. Hossack claimed to have found her
husband dead.
According TO a decision rendered at Chi
cago yesterday by Judge Adams, of the Ap-
pellate Court. a city Is not liable for dam
ages for injuries received in runaway ac-
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