The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-19
BREvITIEs.

Cadet Adam +. Casad, of Kentucky, will
be captain of next years West Point Mill
tary Academy football team.
The University of Iowa football team
will play the University of California
Christmas day and Leland Stanford New
Years day.
Aaronson, the Swedish bicycle rider who
was injured In the six-day race at Madison
nounced, developed pneumonia and is likely
to die.
The house of John Freeman at Esther
vile. Ia, was destroyed by fire yesterday
flames. There is suspicion of foul play and
Freeman has been arrested pending an in
vestigation by a coroner's jury.
The Chicago Gasftters' Union has signed
a three years agreement with the con-
tractors, and it's members will return to
work to-day, after an idleness of nearly a
year. One of the provisions of the agree
ment was withdrawal from the Building
Trades Council.
Three unknown men. each about thirty
years of age, were found dead i'm the Hull
House oil mill, at Muskogee, L. T., yester-
day. Death had been caused by suffoca-
ton. The only name found about them
vas a notebook bearing the name Robert
O'Efete, Philadelphia
With the arrival of the steamship Kaiser
Wilhelm IL at New York for the first
time immigrants were admitted to the new
immigration station on Ellis island. The
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these were the first to pass through the
new Castle Garden"
The strike of marine engineers, inaugu-
rated at Pittsburg four weeks ago, was
compromised yesterday and officially de-
clared off. The coal combine" conceded
the advance in wage demanded and agreed
| TO take back all of the old employees. but
refused to sign the scale presented by the
union.
The funeral of Oswald Ottendorfer, pub
sI4 a-l n1fr@r ~ fhA Nanw N@-I CTnAe.
| Zeitung, took place at New York yesterday.
There were services at the house, at which
there were present only the family Of the
deceased and Immediate friends. The body
| was inferred at Greenwood. Otto Hubach
made an address at the grave.
Eight carloads of partly spoiled bananas
lying in storage at the Illinois Central
freight house. Chicago, have been con-
demned by the health authorities and or
| dered destroyed. The condition is the out
come of the war between the banana deal
ers and the alleged trust, the Chicago deal
ers refusing to buy the fruit.
Archbishop John Ireland, of st. Paul, will
celebrate the silver jubilee of his episco-
pate next Friday. On that day he will
the Catholic Church. IL Is not thought
that any public notice will he taken of the
occasion on account OF the aversion of the
prelate to anything like notoriety.
Five hundred Chicago ministers will ush-
Christian rally. Clergymen of all denom-
nations will assemble I'm the Methodist
block. Clark and Washington streets. on
the morning Of Jan. 81. and will devote
the entire day to the discussion of relig-
icus progression during the nineteenth CEN
tury.
The torpedo boat Bailey did not complete
the standardizing of her screws of New
port, r.. L.. yesterday. because OF a slight
/ mishap on the last mile of her trial In Mar
ragansett bay The mishap was the giving
way of a bushing in a valve OF the repeater
| of the starboard engine. In consequence Of
this the board has postponed further trials
| until Saturday.
Daniel Keegan. who is said TO be a resi-
dent of Cincinnati, while attempting TO
| board a freight train at Alton. ~. Y. yes
terday, was struck by a west-bound Della
ware & Hudson train and killed. A COM
panion. c.. w Smith. also OF Cincinnati, was
injured Two fingers on Smiths left hand
were cut Off and he Is badly bruised and
cut about the head and face.
Harry Love. whose nome Is In Illinois,
is at a hotel In Webster. Ia. in a serious
condition. He was on the ice with G. r.
' Williams and q young woman. They we're