The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-28
BREvITIEs.

The twenty-seventh chautauoua assembly
season opened yesterday.
tn steamer Patrieian has cleared from
New Orleans, for Cape Town, with i,0fo
horses for the British army.
Among the passengers who arrived at
New York yesterday on the Bremen from
Bremen and Southampton were Mrs. Crane
and daughter, who accompanied the remains
of Stephen Crane, who died on June 8.
Joseph S. Chamberlain and Walter Rey-
nolds were blown 10 pieces yesterday near
the Dittmar Powder and Chemical Com
pany's plant at Maxim. n. ]. They opened
a box of dynamite with an iron wedge.
The steamer Cottage City has reached
Victoria, b. c., with ninety-two passengers
and $50, 900 in gold dust. She brought news
that the party searching Date island for
DR.. Hickman returned without meeting
with success.
ing department of the factory OF the Stand
ard Starch Company. AT kankakee. Ill. in
jured six girls and a boy. Victoria Peopfn
was badly burned and inhaled flames. Her
death is feared.
Angry because Moses Gaines. colored.
aged twelve, playfully blocked his en-
trance at a gate in Montgomery, Trip
county. Kentucky, GIL James. aged four
teen, fatally shot him with a revolver.
Jones is in Jail.
The China restriction bill. increasing the
tax on Chinese immigrants from $50 to
500. has been practically adopted by the
IdDdQldn f1OuSt Vi SOulIlOnc- lC AItnc~
ure also restricts the immigration Of Jap
anese to twelve per month.
Professor Bashford, dean OF the DEPART
ment of zoology of Columbia University.
accompanied by his wife. has started TO
spend a year in Asia, chiefly in Japan.
where he will be the guest OF the Imperial
University of Toki and Of the Japanese
commission Of fisheries.
The New York Board Of Health has de-
cided TO thoroughly d~isinfect the Chinese
o.,o In 1fQnhnnn RrnnkIVn ana
Coney island. as a measure Of precaution
against the plague. The Board Of Estimate
has appropriated 10000 for the work. which
will be Immediately begun
A bronze statue, life size. of Raphael
Semmes, late ADMIRAL in the Confederate
navy, was unveiled yesterday In Duncan
Place, Mobile. Ala, by Mrs. Electra
Semmes Colston. daughter OF the admiral.
The address was by William j. Semford.
nominee for Governor of the State
The steamship st. Paul sailed from New
York yesterday for Southampton with over
500 passengers I'm the first cabin. The list
Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff.
Mrs. Charles Emory Smith. wife of the
postmaster general. DR.. George +. shrady
and the Misses Wilson, daughters OF the
secretary OF agriculture.
In a fight with pistols at the Mayer Ho-
tel. in Baton Rouge. La. yesterday be-
tween the three Gorig brothers. George.
Duncan and Leon, and J. Z. Basson on
one SIDE, ana GOfuOn heuue anu DoDtfk
Askew on the other. Reddy and Askew
were dangerously wounded and Ed Stock
ing. a bystander. received a bullet In his
leg. The trouble grew out OF business trans
actions
Rev. DIR. Frank Chase, pastor OF the
NJ. r. Church Of D~ansville. ~. Y. and edi-
tor of the Normal Educator. who has been
visiting his mother at P~artlandville, ~.
Y, was taken 10 B~inghamton Hospital
| yesterday violently insane. He had been
suffering from nervous prostration for some
| time. DR.. Chase was formerly pastor OF a
| large Universalist Church IN Detroit and
later of a Methodist church in Buffalo
A body, the last OF the unidentified from
the McDonough. Ga, wreck. Is at an un-
dertaking establishment I'm Atlanta When
| IL reached that city IL was marked Elder
w. I'll. Jensen, of the Mormon Chunkh
in Utah. but nobody claimed IL. Yesterday
a Mormon elder said the body might be
that OF Elder Bennison. of Chattanooga
The body is that. of a man thirty-hve years
old, dark hair and with brown mustache.