The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-21
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
DOMESTIC NEWS FROM ALL GUAR
TIERS TRIMMED TO BARE FACTS.
Minor Crimes and Accidents. Court
Rulings, Sporting Notes and
happenings i'm General.

Governor Nash. of Ohio. is opposed 70
prize nghting and may put a stop 10 the
proposed pugilistic carnival at CINCINNATI
Tod Sloan and Tommy Burns, the jock
eys, have arrived at San Francisco. Sloan
says he is there purely for pleasure an0
will not accept any mounts.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris desires the
statement made that there is no truth IN
the rumored engagement OF Miss Sartoris
and Mr.. Nichols, OF New YORK.
Frank Hamilton pleaded not guilty at
Minneapolis yesterday to the charge OF
numbering Leonard r. Day, and the case
went over the term. 1t will likely be tried
in February.
The Rev. DIR. William Wallace Fem, pas
tor OF the Church of the Messiah, chicago,
has been elected Bussey professor OF theol-
ogy at Harvard University, TO succeed DR..
Charles Carroll Everett, who died last
month.
Attorney General John NJ. Sheets yester-
day appeared before the Supreme Court OF
Ohio and asked that all the cases Drought
against the constituent companies OF the
Standard Oil Company in Ohio be dis
missed.
Fourteen hundred bottles of imported
beer We're poured into the sewers of
Charleston, S. G., yesterday. by officers OF
the State Dispensary. IL was condemned
as c~ontraband goods, having been found In
blind tigers
Martin Stickel has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree for killing VIM.
Il. Shanklin in November, 1899, at his home.
near Kelso. Wash. Shankiin was shot while
eating his supper and the house was
burned by the murderer.
The body of a young woman of about
twenty years, richly dressed, wearing a
bracelet and three rings, one containing
the initials "A. H." was found in the river
at Tiltcnville, o., last night. Her throat
was cut, indicating murder.
Eugene, aged four years, Julia. aged
eight. and Frances, aged six, children of
Raymond r. Reaume, a farmer, residing
near Ojibway, Ontario, were drowned yes
terday by falling through a hole in the ice
on Turkey creek, near their home
Jean de Reszke. the operate tenor, and
Senior Don Francisco Gonzales de Cosce.
governor of the state of Queretaro, Mexico.
the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
from Bremen, Southampton and Cher
bourg.
After working for six years and spending
millions OF dollars the Tamarack Mining
Company, of Calumet, Mich, has struck
a bed of conglomerate at a depth of 400
feet. The miners found copper within a
few inches of the spot designated by the
surveyors.
Philip d. Armour. head of Armour & Co.,
Chicago, who has been slightly i'll for a few
days past, was reported TO be in a serious
though not alarming condition last night.
The present difficulty arises from q compli-
cation of ailments, and comes in the nature
of relapse.
The directors OF the Chicago & North
western Railway nave determined on a
permanent pension system for the 1900
employees of the road, to go into effect
Jan. /, 1901. The full working of the plan
Will call for an annual expense to the COM
pany of 100000.
After a six months European cruise, the
old corvette Essex arrived in Hampton
Roads yesterday, with la apprentice boys
on board, all of whom are reported well
The cruiser Buffalo arrived yesterday from
New York TO take on recruits for the ships
OF the Asiatic squadron.
The Southern Pacific Company has let a
contract TO a San Francisco firm for 0,000,-
900 bricks to be used in lining the tunnels
of the new Bay Shore road, to run through
the hills of South San Francisco. This is
said TO be the largest contract of the kind
ever entered into in the world.
August Belmont. who has been i'll at
Hampstead, l.. L., with. typhoid fever. has
successfully passed the crisis of the disease
and it now rapidly improved. Within the
next two weeks he will take a trip in his
private car to California, where he will re-
main until his health is restored.
The Illinois Supreme Court has rendered
an opinion affirming Judgment in the case
Of Hugh NJ. Shorb VS.. Katrina Weber, in
which it is held that dramshop keepers are
liable Tor the death OF a man who loses his
life by reason of having become intoxicated
or liquor sold or given to him by them.
e. T. Bedford, of the STANDARD Oil Com
pany. confirms the report that several large
capitalists identified with that corporation
are about to organize a 100000 glucose
company to operate a large plant at Shady
Side, N. j.. independently of the Glucose
Sugar Refining Company or any other COM
pany.
The Western Packers Canned Goods As
ISOLATION held a meeting in Chicago yester-
day at which thirty packers from Iowa.
Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois were pres
ent. AS a remedy for overproduction the
sp nlrA Dnranr 80 II 49,
of curtailiDg the acreage devoted to canned
goods next year.
The lead for the keel of the new cup
defender arrived at the Herreshoff dock,
Bristol, r. l., yesterday. The molds and
retorts are rapidly nearing completion. and
1T is probable the work of running off the
metal Will begin early Saturday morning.
There is nearly one hundred tons of lead
to be put in the keel.
r. C. Deshon, attorney for the Anglo
American Savings and Loan Association,
which was recently forced into a receiver
ship, announced at New York yesterday
that a plan for relieving the associations
difficulties maaf;ne Of had de BEEN direc determ anG s on at a
money pledged 10 carry out the plan.
Johnson Tyner and j. l.. Morris. two Iron
Mountain Railroad brakemen, were killed
at Piedmont, Mo-, yesterday, and ]. v.
injured. They were standing on the rear
platform of their cabOose backing down
through the yards and ran into some cars
that were being switched by another train.
John J. Lentz, of the Twelfth Ohio dis
trict, announced, yesterday, that he would
contest the seat in the next Congress of
Emmitt Tompkins, by whom he was de-
feated at the late election by a majority
of eighteen votes. Mr.. Lentz claims to have
evidence of the alleged corrupt use Of mon
ey to secure the election of Mr.. Tompkins.
Referee Emanuel Blumenstiel has filed
his report in the New York Supreme Court
in the divorce suit brought by Wilhelminie
Marie MacDoweli against William Mel
bourne MacDowell. the actor, once husband
of Fannie Davenport. The referee finds
that Mrs. MacDowell is entitled to a de-
cree. The couple were married on June Is
last.
At a meeting in Cleveland. o., last night
of engineers who are members of the Ma
sonic order it was decided to form an in
~ternational association of Masonic en-
gineers 10 be composed of locomotive.
marine and stationary engineers. The OBJ
ject will be mainly educational. About six
ty engineers attended the meeting last
evening.
Victor Which, thirteen years old, a spe-
ciaI messenger employed by the St. Louis
postofice. was held up by five negro boys
yesterday on Eighth street. in the down.
town section of the city. and relieved of his
money and a bundl of registered letters
of participating in the hold-up, were ar
rested soon after.
The 5000 employees of the Crane Company.
OF Chicago, will receive substantial Christ
mas presents from their employers this
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