The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Hugh ]. MCGOWAN, of the Indianapolis
Street-railway Company, has leased the
julius f. Pratt property on North Penn
sylvania street.
ceptanee of the appointment. by Governor
Tyler, TO succeed the late Judge Riley on
the Supreme Court bench of Virginia.
All of the refneries in Philadelphia con-
Quoted by the American Sugar Refining
Company will close from Friday until
Tuesday of next week, owing to a shortage
in raw material. -
The homes Of JOHN Morgan, 14z9 West
Ohio street. and j. Former. rs Laura street.
were entered by burglars at an early hour
yesterday morning and a few articles of
value taken from each.
Certificates of incorporation were filed at
| Dover. Del, Yesterday for the Newark &
Granville Street-railroad Company. of New
ark, o., TO maintain and construct a street
| railway in Ohio. Capital. $500. 900.
The entertainment given 8Jast night by
thirty girls from Hadley Industrial School,
by request. will be repeated at First
Friends Church, at Alabama and Thir-
teenth streets, this evening, at 7:45.
The Canadian Pacific strike has been
practically settled. A large committee of
men met Manager Whyte and Superin-
tendent Cross and the mechanics and
boilermakers' schedules were fully agreed
on.
| Deputy Marshal Ephraim Frost. of Pee
bles, o., was killed, Tuesday night, by
Jerry Moore. Frost was trying TO arrest
Moore when the latter struck him in the
back with his fist, breaking Frost's neck.
Moore is under arrest.
The Crucible Steel Company of America
has advanced the price of all kinds of open
hearth steel 81 a ton. This applies to all
products except fine tool steel. which re-
mains at seven cents per pound and up
ward. according to quality.
John Miller. of $50 West Washington
street. was arrested yesterday morning
for tearing down a barber pole belonging to
a West Washington-street barber with
whom Miller had some trouble. He was
charged with malicious trespass.
1t was reported at New York. yesterday,
that the Princess hatfield. adopted
daughter of the late c.. p. Huntington,
was a passenger on the Oceanic. from Liv-
erpool- Her name, however, was not on the
passenger list, and at the Southern Pacific
Railway offices il was said she is still in
Europe.
The hearings instituted by the State of
Nebraska, through its attorney, c. j.
Smythe, against the Standard Oil Company
OF the State of Indiana. under the anti
trust law. which began at New York, Tues
day. has been indefinitely postponed. 1t was
stated that the reason for this was the alb
sence of witnesses.
William III. Williams and David L.
| Davies have been appointed receivers of
the Globe Building and Loan Company AT
| Columbus. o., under a joint bond OF $780,
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cation of Thecka Wolfel, a stockhoider
who alleges in her petition that the affairs
of the company have been ged and
that IL Is insolvent.
The synod of the Lutheran churches
| comprising the States of Illinois, Indiana.
Michigan and Ohio. in session at Spring
field. ILL.,. yesterday elected the following
officers for tine ensuing year: President
William Schuelzke. Springfield. ILL.,: secre-
tary. Rev. William Rosensteinegle, Car
thage College. Carthage, ILL.,; treasurer. r.
G.. Link. Meridosia. Ill.
Col. Cornelius Cadle. secretary of the So
ciety of the Army of the Tennessee. an
nounces that the ~thirty-second reunion az
| that society will be held at Detroit. on
Wednesday and Thursday. Sept. % and p.
The annual address will be delivered by
Major William Warner. of Kansas City.
Mo. The chairman Of the Detroit committee
is Gen. Russell A. Alger, the secretary,
| Capt. L. II Chamberlin.
Yesterday at noon the Commercial Club
had received fifty-eight applications from
out-of-town buyers for certificates emitting
them 10 a rate of one-third fare for the
trip home The fall excursion rates began
last Monday and run to Sept. 8. The buy
ers have until Sept. 26 TO return home AT
the reduced rate II the proper certificate
is secured. About five hundred buyers are
expected 10 take advantage of the excur-
! sion rates.