The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.


TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The Seattle CWash5 city election re-
suited in sweeping victory for the Repub-
lican ticket.
Floods are doing much damage in north
ern Ohio. Portions of the towns of FIRE.
mont, Warren and Berea are under water.
Dal Hawkins, of California, and Percy
Mcintyre fought a twenty-five-round draw
at the Genesee Athletic Club, Utica, n. Y,
last night.
The tenth annual bench show of the Mas
coutah Kennel Club opened at the FIRST
Regiment Armory in Chicago yesterday.
Nearly 100 dogs are on exhibition.
Princess Agnes Won Salm Salm is In Chi
cago for the purpose of raising money for
a corps of trained nurses and physicians to
assist the sick and wounded Boer soldiers.
w. r. Vaughn. the Cincinnati newspaper
man who was injured in the Missouri Pa
cific wreck at Independence, Mo-, week
ago, died yesterday after an operation on
his arm.
The st. Louis National Stockyards Com
pany. of East ST. Louis. certified to the
Illinois secretary of state yesterday TO an
increase of capital stock of from 81 600
to 5000, 0O0
The official publication of the goling in
terests of the United States. Golf by name.
has been acquired by Harper Brothers.
New York. and the April number will be
issued under the new ownership.
Conrad Abelman, a wealthy retired prod
uce merchant, fifty years old, committed
suicide last night at his home in Brooklyn
by shooting himself in the head. He had
suffered from nervous prostration for
months.
Members of st. Paurs Universalist
Church, Prairie avenue and Thirtieth
street, Chicago. have unanimously voted to
invite Dr. Joseph *. Mason, OF the Church
Of tho otiop ilaGalnhfa N becOme
their pastor.
new labor organization known as the
Excavators Union. regularly Incorporated
with 10000 members, is about TO enter into
nected with the building of the under
ground tunnel at New York.
Ten thousand persons viewed the re-
mains of Archbishop Hennessy at ST
Raphaels Cathedral, Dubuque. yesterday
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, Arch,
Crosse, and Scannell, of Omaha, will at
tend tho funeral.
Skagway advices state that Superintend-
ent Charleson, Of the Yukon public works
| for the Canadian government. has arrived
there with a large force of men to COM
mence the construction of nearly thou
sand miles of new telegraph lines connect
| ing with the Skagway-Dawson line near
Tagish lake.
The 1000 employees Of the Jersey City
| Company, who are now laid of, were told
yesterday they would not be needed for ar
| indefinite period. The American Sugar Re
| filming Company has decided to keep the
| Jersey City plant shut down for severa
| days more and possibly for weeks.
The bowling team of the Pontiac Wheel
men, of New York, has issued a challenge
| to the Ail-star team, which is now touring
| the country, to roll game or series OF
games for 81 900 or any part thereof side
he to he coming
| ternational bowling tournament at Unior
| Hill, N: j.. during the week of July 10 to Y
| The jury in the case against Albert E
| Davis and Samuel G. BROKER, charged
connection with the so-called city hal
| steals, yesterday brought in verdict find
| ing both Of the accused men guilty. The,
were employed as clerks In the Public
Works department, and were charged will
| making out and receiving money on fals'
| bills to the extent of many thousands o.
| dollars.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska for the
| second time. but in different cases. yester
day affirmed the constitutionality Of the
| law giving the State Board Of Transports
| ton power TO regulate telegraph and tele
| phone rates. The Nebraska Telephone
Company sought an Injunction preventing
the board from acting on complaint. ant
| to grant 1t. On appeal the Supreme Court
| sustained the lower court.
George w. Drake, a famous mountain
| detective and ex-deputy United State.
| marshal. together with a man named Ford
| were shot to death last night near Tor
rent, KY, by William ST. John. 1t is re
| ported to be the result of bad feeling Of
| long standing between Drake and st. John
1 Drake has run down more moonshiner:
| and criminals in the mountains of eastern
| Kentucky than any other officer in thu
service of the government.
| A bundle of iron pipe, which fell from
| the window of the sixth floor of the rea
Of II. c. F. Kochs & Co.'S department
| store, on West One-hundred- and-twenty
fourth street. New York. yesterday. strucl
| two men who were unloading a truck a
| the curbstone below. They received in
| juries from which they died within shor
time. The dead men were Walter Walsh,
| driver, and his helper. George Corners
| both living in Mott Haven.
The antitrust law is to be tested by
| suit in the Federal Courts against the com
| bine of bill posters Spencer Jones. of Gin
cinnati, as attorney for W. III. Donaldson
| publisher of the Cincinnati Bill Board, tele
| graphed from the Gilsey House in New
| York last night that he had secured serv
ice on Campbell of Chicago. Breslaneron o
| Minneapolis, Bryan of Cleveland, Stahbra
| and Doud of New York and others in tn
| combine charged in the suit with boycott
| ting Donaldson.
A suit brought at Chicago by David To-
| Terrence. son of the late General JOSEPH
| break his fathers will and become joint,
| entitled with his half-sister Mrs. JESSE
| Norton Terrence Magoun, to the estate
has been settled. Under the terms of tn
| agreement young Terrence. who was Gu
| off with bequest of $3.50 in the will. re
| ceives $4,000 in cash for relinquishing al
| claims to the estate, which is valued a
| more than half million dollars.
Judge Glasell, of jamestown, N. D., ha
| found for the defendants in the suit of al
| Adrian. Mimi, bank against ten farmer
| who had signed contracts to take stock Il
| a horse company, and whose signature
| afterwards turned up on promissory note
| for 81 600 each The swindle was exten
svely worked among the farmers In tina
| section, but the court held that the tearing
| out of the false leaf bearing the suppose
contract, by which process the promissor,
| notes were disclosed. constituted forgery
| and that the bank. while an innocent pur
chaser, was guilty OF contributory negh
gence under the circumstances.