The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-26
TELEGRAPHIc BREvIT1Es.

September gales injured the apple crop
from 10 TO % per cent. by blowing fruit off
trees.
Governor-elect Dukes, of the Choctaw
Nation, and ID. Thomas, who were sup
posed TO have persisted in the Galveston
floods, are safe.
The twenty-mile bicycle paced race be-
tween Jimmy Michael and Burns Pierce
at Hartford. Conn. last night was won
by Michael by six laps, or just one mile.
The loss of life in the great storm at
Nome Alaska. on Sept. IL. II and g. is be-
leved to have been small, although a large
number of small vessels were wrecked.
At the biennial convention of the Car
penters and Joiners of America at Scran-
ton. Pa, yesterday. ii was decided to hold
the next biennial convention at Atlanta.
Ga.
The tenth annual conference of the
American tro-Therapeutic Association
convened in New York yesterday with Dr.
Walter III. White, of Boston. president of
the association, in the chair.
Irving b. Dudley, United States minister
to Peru, and III. b. Gudger United States
consul at Panama, were passengers on
at New York yesterday from Colon.
The annual conference of the National
Union of Young Mems Catholic Society be-
gan in Brooklyn yesterday. One of the
subjects to be considered is the project Of
Bishop McFaul, of Trenton, for a Roman
Catholic federation.
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, has ap-
pointed William p. Potter, of Pittsburg
10 the Supreme Court vacancy, caused by
the death Of Justice Henry Green. Mar
shall Brown, of Pittsburg, was appointed
TO succeed the late Judge Slagle, of Allie
gheny.
On board passenger train near Lebanon,
KY, Nj. w. Penn shot and killed j. l..
Whitlock and wounded ]. w. Strange, a
freight conductor. Strange struck in
the leg by a stray bullet Penn was
rested An old grudge existed between
Penn and Whitlock.
William Haley, who engaged i'm rough
street fight in Cincinnati Monday night
with Harry White. and who was arrested
was found dead in his cell this morning.
III is said some mysterious stranger rushed
In and kicked Haley over the heart while
he was PROSTATE over White and thus
caused his death.
Margaret May Kenney, an orphan. thir-
teen years old, last night confessed TO set
ting fire TO the Childrens Home at Wilkins
burg, Pa, last Sunday. because of trouble
with the cook, she placed ammonia and
carbon oil in the coffee, resulting I'm the
severe illness of nearly all the inmates
She is how in Jail, charged with arson
Yesterdays session of the National Pris-
on Congress at Cleveland was largely de-
voted TO discussion of the report of the
standing committee on preventive and
reformatory work, read by its chairman
George Torrance, of Pontiac, ILL., The re-
poit strongly urged preventive measures,
and pointed out that IL is far better TO keep
people out of prison rather than TO treat
them in prison.
ID. V. Rhodes, inspector of national GEM
eteries, and fifteen assistants have arrived
at San Francisco from Washington. They
VIII take passage on the transport Han
COCK for the Philippines, where they will
attend to the transportation to the United
states OF the remains of soldiers, sailors
and marines who lost their lives and We're
buried in the island possessions of the
United States and in China.