The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-24
TELEGRHPHIC BREVITIES
MISCELLANEOUS DISPATCHES con-
DENsED TO BARE FACTS.
Minor Crimes, Suicides. Ruling Of
Courts and other happenings
of General Interest.

The merchants in Boston have begun
movement looking 70 a removal of the
war tax imposed on imported tea since
the Spanish war.
Tommy Sullivan, of Brooklyn, and Buddy
Ryan, of Chicago, fought six ROUNDS 10
draw at the Illinois Athletic Club. Chi
cago last night.
Miss Helen Baird, leading lady in the
Man from Mexico is dangerously I'll
with typhoid pneumonia at st. Luke
Hospital in ST. Paul.
Harry Lyons. of Chicago, got the de-
csion over Buddy King. of Denver, at the
end of the tenth round before the Coio-
RADIO Athletic Club at Denver last night.
"A petition in bankruptcy has been filed
by Barnes & La Dow, door and blind man.
ufacturers, of Mechanicsville, n. Y. The
liabilities aggregate $62,996; assets, sA.9S0.
CONGRESSMAN John r. Fitzgerald has ap
pointed Charles DAILY, captain of the Har-
yard football team, TO the vacancy now
existing at West Point from the Ninth
Massachusetts congressional district.
Benjamin Hefin, ten years old, stabbed
the thirteen-year-old son of j. +. Penneii
to death yesterday at West Union. w. Va,
with AN old knife. The troubles arose over
Pencil throwing Helms hat away.
The employees of the Symphonian Manu-
featuring Company, at Asbury Park. n. j..
went on strike yesterday on account OF a
threatened
wages About one hundred men are out
Before the Phoenix Athletic Club at
Memphis last night Kid McFadden. of
San Francisco, knocked out freckies
O'Brien, of New ORLEANS, in five rounds "A
large crowd witnessed the night, which was
lively exhibition.
At Louisville Yesterday Coroner II. NJ
Mccullough was found not guilty of the
murder of George Owen, whom he shot
and killed en- Sept. "A. The killing grew
MO(s, Oh a nd
Owens families, who are neighbors-
In the Court of Appeals at Frankfort,
Ky yesterday, the case of Caleb Powers
VS.. The Commonwealth was submitted
without argument, with leave to hle briefs
on Dec. l. Powers is under life sentence
as an accessory to the Goebel murder.
The torpedo boat De Long was success
fully launched at Lawley's shipyard, Bos-
ton, yesterday. Mrs Mills, OF New YORK,
daughter of Commander De Long, who
chrstened the boat on Thursday, and a
large number of spectators were present
The New York grand jury on Monday
will begin an investigation OF the charges
preferred by the Merchants Association
the books of the water department. repre-.
senting sums which the city has been kept
out of the last twenty years.
Lightning followed electric wires into
the First Methodist Church at Massillon,
o. Thursday night while services were be-
ing held. Nearly everybody in the church
was shocked and several were rendered
unconscious. Miss Eva English is In Sc
rious condition as a result of the shock.
Miss Cast still leads in the Brooklyn BIZ
cycle race, and at the end of last nights
riding she had scored 397 miles and fifteen
laps. AT the close the following scores
Brandon, 1914; Mrs. Lindsay. 1872; Miss
Davis. 391.12; Mrs. Bayne, 391.5; Miss
Pethard, 1858.
VIM. r. Hattersley, a prominent capital
list of Toledo, is at the head of company
of financial men organized to build an cleo
trio road from Toledo to Defiance, o.. via
Waterville, Grand Rapids. Liberty. Napo-
leon and Jewell. Nearly all of the right of
way has been secured. The company mas
s., 000,0 coo to invest.
The Chinese minister, WI Ting Fang.
who addressed the Cincinnati Commercial
Club Thursday evening on the foreign
trade of China, returned to Washington
Yesterday His visit had the effect of pro-
ducing a profound respect among the Gin
cinnatians for the representative OF the
Chinese government.
w. H. Moore president of the National
Good Roads and Improvement convention,
has appointed a committee of Chicago.
Wisconsin and Western men to visit
Washington and petition the secretary or
agriculture to request an appropriation OF
$4,000 for the support OF road inquiry
under his department.
The Ontario Agricultural Department is
warning millers and those who have stores
of -four and meal to be on the lookout for
a destructive insect known as the Mediter-
ranean flour moth. The larvae has the APP
pearance of a caterpillar The Agricul-
tural Department thought il had the pest
exterminated some time ago.
AT a meeting yesterday of the Boston
central branch of the United Irish League
resolutions were adopted protesting
against the arbitrary suppression of free
speech in Ireland and expressing gratif-
cation at the splendid welcome accorded
IL. L~xnr 10 hi "a rr0nc
sage was sent to Mr.. Kruger inviting him
to come to America, especially Boston.
Hobart Fuller, a Canadian shoecutter,
who has been located i'll Rochester, n. Y,
for some time and who boarded In house
near the scene of the Heating murder, was
taken into custody last evening, and at
once put through the sweat box The
police had been for some time shadowing
Fuller and think they have secured enough
evidence against him to warrant holding
him.
The twenty-fourth annual congress OF
the American Secular Union and Free
Thought Society began at Cincinnati yester-
day, with the annual address by President
John +. Remsberg, of Kansas. Secretary
T.. G. Reichwald reported a membership of
65,000 The society is considering PROPOSE
tons to abolish chaplains in Congress, the
army and navy and State institutions, and
to eliminate the Bible from public schools.
The Milwaukee Boxing Club opened last
night Jake Magner, of that city. and
Larry Gleason of Chicago, went six
rounds to draw. Maurice Rausch, Of
Chicago. knocked out Ed Kane, of the
same city, in two rounds; Ted Malone, of
Milwaukee, won from Charley Berry. OF
Waukesha, in six rounds, and Charley
Neary, of Milwaukee, and George Locks.
Of Sheboygan, went six fast rounds to a
draw.
Despite the fact that there is strike
among the engineers employed on the
steamboats, owned by the Monongahela
River Consolidated Coal and Coke Com
pany, of Pittsburg, coal is being sent
south. Since yesterday morning 112 bargss.
thirty-five coal boats and about thirty
five flats passed Davis Island dam en- route
TO lower river points This will be fol-
lowed this morning by at least 100 barges
and about fifty coal boats.
Several hundred Indians near San Diego,
Cal, are threatened with starvation. They
have made no provision for the winter and
are now suffering for want of food. Mrs
Mary Watkins, the teacher of the Mesa
Grande reservation, where there are sos
people. of whom twenty-seven are so old
that they helpless, writes of having
visited seven of the reservations and found
the Indians in a dreadful condition of want
in all of them. Their usual food products
failed them this summer.
The poverty-strcken condition of Mrs.
Adelia Burton. who claims to have been a
confidential servant in the family OF Jeffcr-
son Davis during the civil war, was
Chicago yesterday and her wants attended
to- Mrs. Burton, who was discovered I'm a
lonely howell on the South Side. declares
that when the President of the Confeder-
ate States fed to escape capture, she was
Entrusted with the private effects of the