The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-16

quarreled over a business settlement yes
terday. Snipes shot at Mcdowell three
times. the third bullet infiicting a wound
from which he died.
The Peoples Bank of Livingston, Over
ton county, Tennessee, was entered by
burglars and robbed of 5000. No trace
of the burglars has yet been discovered.
Livingston is about fifteen miles from the
nearest railroad point.
1t is said at St. Joseph. Mo-, that J. d.
Richardson, manager of the Biscuit Trust,
will arrive from Chicago in a few days
and will offer a big reward for the ap-
prehension of the murderer of his brother.
who was killed Christmas eve.
Scott Wike, who served in the lower
house of Congress two terms. beginning
with 1856, and who was assistant controller
of the currency during President Cleve-
and's last term, is lying at the point of
death at his home near Barry, Pike county,
Illinois.
The New York Consolidated Rubber Com
pany, in it's answer to the suit of the Good
year Tire and Rubber Company, in the
ter claim of $50. 900 damages for failure to
observe its contract for handling the Con-
solidated Company's goods.
Nearly 200 Social Democrats. including
E. v. Debs, met in convention In Chicago
Yesterday. Many women held credentials.
The meeting resolved itself into a de-
Tense of Debs's political methods. Two
Illinois branches bitterly criticised the call
for a convention at this Time
A decree was entered in the United
States District Court at New York yester-
day declaring the 33-karat liamond pend
ant and other jewels smuggled into this
country from Mexico last October BY
valino NJ. Preza and Alexandra Marcuci
forfeited for failure to pay duties.
At brownsville. Ca, three weeks ago
was returning from a call upon a young
woman. Yesterday William Doss. a young
lawyer, was arrested on a charge OF hav-
ing committed the crime, the warrant being
sworn out by the father of Simms.
Six men broke into Carpenter & Jacobus's
Bank at South Lyons, Mich, Monday
! night, and after blowing open the safe Sc
cured $500. G. L. Hamilton, who lives near
the bank. was awakened by the explosion
and began an Investigation. The burglars
shot at him without effect and made their
escape on a hand car.
The police of New Orleans have been
asked to find Rita and Memie Holhouse,
aged sixteen and eighteen, and their in
FAINT sister. The two girls left home with
the child on Sunday to visit relatives and
have not since been seen or heard of. The
KIDNAPPING theory has been advanced to
account for their disappearance.
Rowland d. Mahany. Republican, of
| Buffalo. has served formal notice on Rep
| resentative RYAN, Democrat, that his cleo
ton as a member of the Fffty-seventh
Congress will be contested. The alleged
! grounds for contest are bribery, political
intimidation and transpOsition of election
returns. Ryan's plurality was 3l6-
At the hearing yesterday In the Scranton.
Pa, councilmanic bribery cases William
Boland testified that ex-Councilman Ed
ward James said: I'm not In the Council
for my health. You will have to play ball
and put up with the other fellows If you
want that ordinance TO go through. Five
hundred dollars is what my vote is worth"
At Olive Hill, John Knipp shot Frank
Thompson, his Son-in-law, nine times with
a Winchester rifle, killing him instantly.
Thompson is said to have threatened
Knipp's life and was advancing at him
with a knife. He was so close that he
could not get the gun to lis shoulder.
knipp went to Grayson and gave himself
up.
The Baptist Ministers Aid Society, of
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wis
'nsin, held its annual meeting at Fenton,
Itch. yesterday. Officers were elected as
cinnati: vice president. c. f. McFarren,
Button. Ind; secretary, Rev. c. H. Max
son, of Cincinnati; treasurer, III. B. La
Tourette. of Fenton, Mich.
James Sturgill, a Letcher county, Ken
| lucky, farmer, was shot and Instantly
killed by Deputy Sheriff John Elkins while
resisting arrest, rifle in hand, for the muir
der on Christmas day of John Cole, his
neighbor. Sturgill had escaped and kept
M mon nhe mountains whea .wo OF d Lercner Comfy unoi'
~ 1NRaAy httAtA -
him at the house of a friend.
The trustees of the Lincoln Memorial
School at Cumberland Gap, Tenn. have
had a division and some of them have
started a rival college, calling Ii the Jener-
son Davis Memorial School. The falling
out was due to sectional differences. The
Lincoln Memorial School. established by
| Gen. o. o. Howard. is one of the leading
institutions of it's kind i'm the South.
W.. A. Clarke. jr.. and Miss Mabel Foster.
fhA NO ~ Mr. o-I AE-.
John W.. Foster, of Butte, Mont, are 10 be
married after Easter. The young man is
the youngest son of Senator w. A. Clark
and is engaged in the practice of law in
Butte. He is a graduate of the University
of Virginia, is twenty-five wears of age
and is a millionaire in his own tight.
The seventeenth ouncil Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations met I'm Cincin-
natl yesterday at Odd Fellows Temple
with 800 delegates and many visitors pres
ent. Among the features of the opening
day were the address by Gen. Lewis Sea-
songood and the Isaac NJ. Wise memorial
service. Max b. May presented the bust
to the governors of the Hebrew Union Col
lege.
Six hundred delegates are attending the
twelfth annual convention of the Western
Implement and Vehicle Dealers Associa-
tlon at Kansas City. Mo. +. X. Allen, pres
ldent, In his annual address denounced
catalogue houses as abominable pirates
hostile to the interests of the retailers.
The report OF the secretary showed tina
the association had grown satisfactorily
during the past year.
Cornelius L.. Alvord, jr, who pleaded
guilty last week to stealing 500. 900 from
the First National Bank of New York. was
TO have been sentenced by Judge Thomas
in the United States Circuit Court yes
terday, but on the application OF his coun-
sci Judge Thomas postponed the sentence
until to-day. Alvord's counsel had some
matters pertaining TO the case to fix up
before Alvord goes away
The Supreme Court of Ohio refused to
grant a rehearing of the two cases OF the
heirs of ex-President r. 3. Hayes Us.
James Hunt. administrator, which were
| recently decided against the estate. The
point at issue is the m of an annuity
to an imbeciie uncle of the late President
Hayes, which stopped with his death. The
| courts have held that the heirs must paw
the claim, which was made a lien upon
Spiegel Grove. the Hayes homestead.
Joseph G. Stefford, a marine. attached
to Company c in the Brooklyn navy yard,
was killed I'm a barroom on the New York
Bowery yesterday morning by the bar
tender, who called himself John Henry.
OF Brooklyn. but who the police say is
Joseph Roberts, of New York. stefyord
was In the saloon drinking and became
boisterous. He praised the Irish and con-