The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-09
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREvITlES
DOMESTIC NEWS FROM ALL QUAR-
TIERS TRIMMED TO BARE FACTS.
Minor Crimes and Accidents, Cour.
Rulings, Sporting Notes and
Happenings i'm General.

1JOAA 6OAts lAt @NO4N tSAl ROON-
and novelist, was celebrated throughout
Norway yesterday.
The Lorain (O.) steel mills will resume
operations Monday morning in all depart
ments except the blast furnace giving en-
ployment TO 1000 men now idle.
Mayor, Harrison, of Chicago, has ac-
cepted the resignation of Civil-service Com
missioner John w. Ludwig, and appointed
Joseph Powell to succeed him.
One hundred and sixty miners at the
Simpson coal mines, in Lafayette, Col.
have gone on strike for an increase in
wages for top men from $3.50 10 s. a day.
Edward Burnett, who murdered Lawson
Earwood in a lonely spot on the river bank
near Gallipolis, o., Oct. 6, vas convicted
yesterday of second-degree murder He
claimed self-defense.
A skiff containing Edward Mason, Ed
ward Matthews. and John Momant. steam
boatmen, was run down by the towboat
Dick Fulton, at Industry. Pa, and all three
drowned They lived at Jeddo, O..
The Vanderbilt railway interests have
tons of steel rails at s26 per ton This
breaks up the organized efforts Of the
railroads to force the price down To s22.
The Bowen building. at Guyandotte, w.
Va, burned yesterday morning. Annie
Cook, aged sixteen, ran into the bulldog
and carried a three-year-old child to a
place of safety, but was herself fatally
! burned.
John Gibson, the Catlettsburg, KY, child
murderer, who is in Jail at Maysville, still
claims that he is innocent. There is a
movement on foot, 1T is said, by some of the
citizens of Catlettsburg to prevent a lynch
ing and let the law take its course.
An effort is being made in this country
to raise funds for a college for women in
Madrid. Spain. Miss Alice Gordon Gulick,
of Arbondale, Mass, who over twenty years
ago founded a school for girls in northern
Spain, is at the head of the movement.
Anthony Poor, who in June last killed
John Adams for his money while they were
terday found guilty of murder in the second
degree at Collins, Mo-, and his punishment
placed at sixty years in the p~enitentiary.
c. p. Bently, of Colorado Springs, Col,
who is said TO be secretary of several min
ing companies with headquarters at Colo
RADIO Springs, is under arrest at Clinton,
Ia, charged with fraudulently issuing
stock in companies of which he was secre-
tary.
Harry Taylor, son of a prominent family
and messenger of the Adams Express run
from Keokuk to Des Moines, was indicted
and placed in Jail yesterday at Keokuk on
his confession of robbing the safe of the
express company of $1,000 on the night of
Sept. "A.
Alice O'Donnell. twenty-six years Of age,
a trained nurse, while visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
James Jones. of Brooklyn. Friday night,
killed their fifteen months old child, Ar
thuI jules, CutlluS Ills tilIOdI Will Il razor.
She escaped Immediately after committing
the deed.
The Northwestern Congregationalist, of
Minneapolis, has been sold to the Chi
cago Advance Company and its readers
will have their present subscriptions filled
by that paper. The Congregatfonalist was
founded in 1888 by Herbert w. Gleason, of
Minneapolis.
The presidents of the railroads included
In the Trunk-line Association and the Cen
fol IAfa n.1 ArIth -nCfnr n~nof "a 90
associations have decided to postpone fur
Their consideration of the proposition TO
do away with free transportation until
next year.
General Armstrong, colored, sixteen
| years old, was yesterday found guilty of
%assaulting a white girl at Platte City.
Mo, last July and a verdict OF hanging
rendered. AT the time of the crime Arm
strong barely escaped lynching. His vic
tim recovered.
The American Tobacco Company took
steps, at Knoxville, yesterday, to test the
anti-cigarette law of Tennessee. By pre-
| arrangement, Roy Scott, a dealer in to-
bacco, sold a package of cigarettes and
was arrested. The case will be taken to the
Supreme Court.
Three masked men entered the office of
Peet Brothers Soap Manufacturing Com
pany. at Armourdale, Kan, last night, and,
leveling revolvers at the cashier and super
intendent, secured $500. The money repre-
| sented a weeks wages for the laborers in
the oil department..
The Missouri Guarantee Savings and
Building Association made an assignment
in the sum of 100000 at st. Louis yeSter-
day to William H. Verify, trustee, for the
benefit of the creditors and stockholders.
All property, real, personal and mixed, was
included in the assignment.
All the damage claims at Tacoma have
been settled arising from the street-railway
accident on the 4th of July, when a loaded
car plunged off the Delain-Street bridge
forty feet, into a gulch, killing forty-five
persons and injuring 15 others. The high
est payment was $4,000 and the total settle
ment cost 100000.
d. o. Mills. the New York capitalist, has
| promised the University of California to
defray the expenses of a two years astrO-
nomical expedition of the Lick Observatory
to South America or Australia. The cost
| will be about 1000. The object of the ex-
| petition is to study the movement of stars
in the line of sight.
Dawso mail to Nov. 5 gives details of
/ the smallpox epidemic now prevailing
there. There nave been about thirty cases.
The Yukon Council has ordered that every
person in the Yukon territory, from White
Horse Rapids to Forty Mile, be vaccinated
at once. This district contains about
twelve thousand people.
The big four-masted steel ship built for
| the Standard Oil Company, of New York,
was launched from the Arthur Sewall Com
pany's yard, at Bath, Me-, yesterday. The
! Astral will be the nrSt or the STANDARD Oh
| Company's fleet of sailing ships to fly the
American flag. She will ply between New
York, Japan and China.
The attorneys for Rosslyn III. Terrell, the
train robber. sentenced to be electrocuted
| on March / next, will make one more effort
TO save his life. They have given notice
that they will present his case to the Ohio
board of pardons at its next meeting. ask
ing that il recommend communication of sem
tence to life imprisonment.
The fast mail train on the Burlington
| road made the remarkable run Friday
night from Chicago TO Galesburg-1e2. :
| miles-in 157 minutes Allowing nine min
utes for stops in Chicago yards. at cross
| ings and for oil and water the net time
was 14S minutes. or an average of sixty
six miles an hour actual running time.
Alfred Scharch, head ~bookkeeper of the
| Fourth National Bank. of Grand Rapids.
Mich. was arrested yesterday, charged
with defalcations to the extent of g. eco.
He has made q full confession. He Is un-
der personal bond to the bank, and the in
stitution will lose nothing. He was admit
ted to bail, the bond being fixed at $1,000.
Creditors of Justice Peter +. Smith. of
the Superior Court. of pennsylvania. filed
a petition in bankruptcy in the United
States Court, at Pittsburg, yesterday, al
leging that he was insolvent and that he
| admitted his inability TO pay his debts and
his willingness TO be adjudged a bankrupt.
No statement of the indebtedness was
made.
The United States torpedo boat Craven,
| which was I'm collision recently in Newport
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