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

The capital stock Of the National Rice
Milling Company has been reduced from
100000 TO $500, 00O.
Official kilograms and letters from all
points in Cuba indicated the prevalence OF
peaceful conditions everywhere.
The third Pan-American Medical Con-
gres will meet in Havana, Feb. 4, ana VIII
continue in session four lays
The annual convention of the League OF
American Municipalities meets in Charles
town, S. c., to-day and will continue three
days.
The yellow fever situation at Havana
shows general Improvement. Twenty-elgnt
cases are now under treatment, including
only one American.
A contract was entered into yesterday by
Thomas w. Lawson, of Boston, with
George Lawley. of South Boston. TO build
a cup defender. Crownshield will design
her.
James Black, John Waldean and Mrs.
Ella Banning were taken to Springfield,
ILL.,, last night from Vandalia. and lodged
in jail, charged with changing 81 bills
to $40.
Theodore Wallert, who murdered his
wife and four stepchildren near Airing
ton, Mimi, last August, was yesterday
sentenced by Judge Caldwell, at Henderson,
to be hanged.
BY a cave-in on the 1900 foot level of the
Pennsylvania mine. ut M~arysvlile. Cal /.
yestel day, Albert Cornelius Mas killed and
John Barrett. Nelson IIouck and George
$500
j. hnson injured.
A deal has just been contaminated where
by the Standard Oil Company acquires all
of the interests of the Pacific Oil Company.
The purchase price is said TO be In the
neighborhood of $1,000 1000.
The grand jury at Minneapolis has in
dicted Frank III. Hamilton, the newspaper
man, for the murder of Leonard r. Day in
a hotel billiard room Nov. p. The charge
Is murder in the first degree.
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building of the South Carolina. Interstate
and West Indian exposition, at Charleston.
was laid with Masonic ceremonies, yester-
day, in the presence of over 10000 people.
John Gibson, the child murderer, was
taken from Jail at Maysville, KY, Monday
night, to Germantown for safekeeping. 1t
was reported a mob intended to lynch him.
He was later taken back to the Maysville
Jail.
William Paulsen, the Chicago bank spresi-
dent who was convicted of receiving de-
posits in his bank when he knew Ii to be
insolvent, was admitted to bail i'm the sum
of $1,000, by the Supreme Court of Illinois.
yesterday.
On Jan. 10 the Niccolet National and First
| National banks of Minneapolis Will be con-
solidated under the name of the latter.
Each bank has a capital in the ~neighbor-
hood of 100000 and a surplus of hundreds
of thousands.
Azure Cameron. a prominent distiller.
shot and killed Irvine Bottoms at his home
a few miles east Of Columbia, Ky. The
affair happened at a social gathering.
Cameron claims self-defenSe and gave him
self up TO the sheriff.
A jury was secured. at Des Moines, Ia.
yesterday, for the trial of Mrs. Charles
Kuhn, accused of poisoning her husband,
1t is claimed by the State that Mrs. Kuhn
placed strychnine In a bottle of beer which
her husband drank.
Cornelius L. Alvord, jr., former note tell.
er of the First National Bank of New York,
accused of having embezzled $690,000 from
that institution, was indicted yesterday by
the United States grand jury. The fndict-
nient was found IN ffty-one counts.
In commemoration Of the twenty-ffth
anniversary of the conservation as Bishop
of the Chicago Diocese or the Protestant
Episcopal Church, Bishop William Edward
McLaren was last night presented with a
loving cup by the church clubs OF the
diocese.
AT the meeting of the stockholders OF
the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders
| Association Yesterday the secretary was
| authorized to increase the Kentucky Flu.
turity stakes for 1903 and 1904 TO 81 goo. the
largest trotting stake in the world. Spring
foals of 1901 will be eligible.
John w. jolly, who shot n killed his
sister-ip-law, Emma Kleekamp, I'm New
port, KY, Aug. Z last, and then shot his
wife, who later died from the effects of her
injuries, was yesterday sentenced to be
hanged. He will be executed in the jail
yard at Newport on Feb. Z
The firm of Hunter G. Hart. coal dealers
composed of Alexander w. Hunter and
Thomas Hart, has suspended business al
Nashville, Tenn. Hunter alleges there is q
shortage of $12, 600 and that there are other
serious Irregularities in the firms affairs
Efforts to find Hart yesterday were un-
/ awaiting.
AT the annual meeting OF the American
National Red Cross In Washington; yes
terday, the resignation of Mrs. Phoebe
A. Hearst from the board of control or
account of the pressure of other duties
was accepted. and Mrs. W. B. Harring.
ton, president of the California Red Cross
was appointed to ill the vacancy.
James A. Legg. an honorably discharged
soldier, on the way 10 his home in CoIum.
bus, o., from the Philippines. dropped dead
seating himself at a table. Legg served
with the Seventeenth United States In.
fantry in Cuba, and subsequently went &c
the Philippines, where he distinguished
himself in many engagements
The contest for the seat made vacant b,
the death of United States Senator Cush
man X. Davis daily becomes narrower. Yes
terday w. b. Dean. of st. Paul. withdrew
from the contest. This leaves former At
torney Moses f. clapp as the only an
nounced candidate from that city. RoberT
q. Evans, OF Minneapolis. is now the onl,
avowed candidate from that city.
The committee of one hundred appointed
by the New York Civic Federation TO fighr
vice opened headquarters yesterday A
delegation of the committee, headed bj
Harry White, secretary of the United Gar
ment Workers Association. called upor
Bishop Potter yesterday to request him {,
use his influence to nave a laboring ma
appointed on the committee of fifteen
Bishop Potter said he would do all In hi
power to aid them.
A contest over the s.. 900 estate of Mis-,
Mary Strauch, of Tacoma. Wash, began n
the Probat Court at Cincinnati yesterday
Miss Strauch. who IL twenty-one years old
is a daughter of the late Adolpn Strauch. 4
famous landscape gardener. She Is a mem
Der OF a religious sect known as the Church
of the Living God. and was accompanied
by an elder. She declares she will turn /
all over 10 her church. Her guardian. Leo
pold Burkhard. objects. as does her mother
Judge Ferris reserved decision.
Attorney General Oren. OF Michigan. Ia,
filed In the State Supreme Court a demurre
TO the plea Of General A. +. Marsh. VIII
was pardoned q week ago by Governor Pin
gree while the appeal from his conviction