The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-14
MISCELLANEOUS BREvITIES.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was elected a lieu
tenant in the Twelfth Regiment, National
Guard of the State of New York. yester-
day.
server of Chicago, filed a petition in bank
ruptcy yesterday. scheduling liabilities of
81, lis, 900. Assets were placed at 5000.
Gen. John c. Bates yesterday assumed
of the Department of the Mis-
souri,, relieving General Merriam, who goes
TO the of the Department of the
Colorado.
The Bank of Montreal has received from
British Columbia a bar of gold weighing
8, 200 ounces, and valued at $4,000, and
which will be deposited in the assay of
flee at New York. \
The seventh annual international conven-
ton of the Catholic Order OF FOresters
opened at Detroit yesterday with 200 dele
gates in attendance. After a sermon by
Bishop Foley routine business occupied the
first session.
The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Fire Insur-
ance Company, organized in 1882, and doing
business in several States, sold out yester-
day TO the National Fire Insurance Com
pany of Hartford Conn, which will as
sumo all liabilities.
Horace l.. Belts. has been made general
auditor of the Union Pacific. Mr.. Belts and
other Union Pacific officials deny the ru-
mored consolidation of the auditing de-
partments of the Union Pacific, Southern
Pacific and other allied roads.
Justice Maclean, of the New York Su-
preme Court, yesterday granted a decree of
absolute divorce to Mrs. Helen Potts Hall
from Blakeley Hall. Mrs. Hall is one of
the claimants to q portion OF a fortune of
the late George +. Gilman, of Black Rock,
Conn.
The Alabama constitutional convention,
by a vote of "a to 80, reconsidered the sec
ton of the report on the judiciary commit
tee referring TO the adjustment of district
solicitors and the creating of county solicit
tors instead.
The steamer Hum boldt arrived at Seattle,
Wash, from the Lynn canal, Monday
night. bringing 15 passengers and half a
million dollars IN gold. $500, 600 being con-
signed TO the Seattle assay office and local
banks. the balance being owned by private
parties on board.
The Texas State treasury was closed yes
terday by order of the Legislature, while a
committee Is counting the money placed
there. This action is one of the incidents
caused by the failure OF the First National
Bank of Austin. where some of the State
funds were on deposit.
The fourth annual convention of the
American Association of Opticians was be-
gun at Chicago yesterday with a large
attendance of delegates from all parts of
the United States. Yesterdays session was
taken up with routine business. The con-
vention will last four days.
George Senior. a steamboat engineer. of
Newport, Ky, died early yesterday from
a self-inficted bullet wound. Late Monday
night he met his wife. from whom he had
separated. at her mothers house, and fired
four shots at her, only slightly worflding
her. He then nred a ball into his own head.
Harry Cook. an old soldier. with his skull
crushed in at the base was found last night
beside the railroad track at Springfield, o.
He died after being taken 10 the hospital.
A broken cane was lying beside him. The
coroner ordered the police 10 investigate
the case. believing il TO be murder.
G.. W. Luttrel was shot and probably
fatally wounded at oxford, Ala, yester-
day by w. f. H~igginbotham. The trouble
is said TO have resulted from remarks al
eyed 10 have hapn made ny Inffrpl To Hio-
einbotham's wife on Monday. Both men
are prominent. Higginbotham escaped.
The national convention of the knights
of Columbus opened at Cliff Haven. y. V.
Yesterday. sixty-hve of the seventy-three
delegates being present. Almost every
State in the Union was represented. The
taken up and the discussion continued
throughout the day. The convention will
be in session at least four days.
Vice President Roosevelt. accompanied
by William Allen White. editor of the En-
poria. Kan. Gazette. left Colorado Springs.
Col. last night for the East. after a visit
or eleven days in and around Colorado
springs. On his way East he will stop only
at Hutchinson, Kan. where he will be a
guest at the Grand Army reunion.
Detectives arrived at Cincinnati yester-
DAY with Edgar r. Cochran. who was ar
rested at Detroit Monday night en- route
from the Windsor races. The forgeries
charged against Cochran here are said now
to approximate $1,000. Although both Coch-
ran and his wife are prominently connected
he was unable To secure bail and went to
jail. The preliminary hearing WAS set for
next Friday.
President ID. II. Francis. OF the Louisiana
exposition. left ST. Louis last night for Chi
cago 10 meet Chairman Thomas H.. Carter.
of the national commission. They will pro-
coed 10 Canton. o.. where President Nc
Kinley will be met and Informed that all Is
I'm readiness for him 10 issue a proclamation
inviting the nations OF the earth TO partici-
pate in the worlds fair TO be held in st.