The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-12

HAPPENINGS OF A DAY DESCRIBED
IN BRIEFEsT FORM.
News Items of Interest tn Business
Men. Court Notes and Crimes
of Various Degrees.

/ change member.
/ DIVIDEND DECLARED.-The directors
\ of the Western Union Telegraph Company
+ have declared the regular quarterly divi-
/ dend of Ia per cent.
/ PUBLISHERS FAIL.-The failure of the
/ publishing firm of Butler & Alger of New
| Haven, Conn, is announced. The liabilities
/ are stated to be $5l,3OO, and the nominal as
/ sets $16,762.
YACHTS FOR SALESMEN-The Stand
ard Oil Company has awarded a contract
/ for fleet of gasoline yachts 20 be used by
/ statesmen in various ports 10 meet incom-
/ ing vessels.
! ILLINOIS CELEBRATION.-The eighty.
| third anniversary CT the admission of Hi
nois into the Union as a State was cele-
| brated with appropriate exercises al
/ Springfield on Wednesday.
! CANDIDATE FOR SENATORIAL a
meeting of Republicans a Aurora, Ill. on
| Wednesday Congressman Albert j. Hop
/ kins formally announced himself a candi-
date for the United States Senate.
DIAMOND MUST GO.-Police Commits
sioner Murphy, of New York. has an
nounced that he will dismiss Captain Dia-
mond from the police force. He was re-
Gently found guilty of neglect of duty.
| IRISH PATRIOTS SAIL.-John f. Red
| mOnd. Thomas O'DOnnell and Patrick A.
McHugh, Irish Nationalists, who came tc
this country TO solicit subscriptions to the
/ United Irish League. sailed for Europe or
/ Wednesday on the Oceanic
SCHWAB GOING TO EUROPE.-Charles
NJ. Schwab. president of the United States
Steel Corporation, will leave for Europe
shortly after Christmas He will be absent
for two months and Will spend the time in
England and on the continent.
MURDER IN A HOTEL.-Dick Little
was shot and killed at the Holmes Hotel
in Shawnee, o. T., Wednesday night by
Perry Griffin. who escaped. The trouble
/ originated from the attempt of the land
lady to eject Little from the hotel.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY board
of trustees of the American University, in
session at Washington, elected presi-
dent John E Andrus. of New York; secre-
tary. DR.. c. w. Baldwin, Baltimore; treas
urer. Charles c. Glover, Washington.
FOR BURNING WIFE.--Reuben Pickett.
who has been on trial for the murder of
his wife, whose charred body was found
in the bathroom of their fat was found
guilty of manslaughter in the first degree
by jury at Minneapolis on Wednesday.
SALE OF HEREFORDS.-At the combi-
pure-bloOd Herefords at Kansas City on
Wednesday eighty-five sold at an average
of $3.50 per head, Among the sales was
the cow Mona, which went to John Hatson,
of Canon, Tex, for $525.
TO HANG FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Schultz, alias Lindsey. was sentenced on
Wednesday at 500, Ont, to be hanged on
Feb. for the murder of Miss Mary Craig
in August. The couple came from Glad
stone in the spring. This will be the first
hanging to occur in the Canadian 500.
ALLEGED FORGER.-George Moore,
who says he is resident of New York,
was held in $1,000 bail on a charge of
forgery in Brooklyn on Wednesday, 1t was
charged by the police that Moore was con-
nected with gang of check swindlers who
have been operating all over the country.
MRS CHEEK PAROLED.-Governor
Jelks, of Alabama, has granted a parole
TO Mrs. Mamie Cheek who was recently
convicted in Henry county of killing a
man named Danzey, her divorced husband.
ic of POL of
the wealthiest citizens of southeast Ala
bama
PUGIIISTS INDICTED.-The special
grand jury called to investigate the prize
ing has returned indictments against Jim
my Hoy and George Sddons, the prin-
cipals, and Hoy's second. None of the
spectators was indicted.
STEAMER LIBELED.-Deputy Marshal
West attached the British steamer Monte
negro on Wednesday as she was lying Off
Lambert's Point. Va, coaling. The libel
under which she was attached was filed by
Frank A POuppirt of Galveston, late a
passenger, claiming $4,000 damages for in
juries received on board.
NEW STEAMSHIP LINE.--Steamers for
a new line to carry export trade from La
porte, Tex, to Manchester Eng, are in
course of construction, and portion of
the fleet will be completed and ready to
put in commission by the time the channel
now under construction between Laporte
and Galveston is finished.
FAVORS RELEASED.-William Favors,
the negro car reporter who was arrested
last August charged with the murder at
Pierce City, Mo, of Miss Gazella Wild. a
lynching of three innocent negroes, has
been released from Jail at Kansas City,
there being no evidence against him.
KIDNAPPED BY TRAMPS.-Walter H.
Bruner, aged sixteen years. son of a
fireman, was brought home to Buffalo on
Wednesday from Batavia. n. Y, having,
as he alleges, been abducted by five tramps
on Monday last The boy asserts that his
captors obliged him to beg for them. He
escaped from them on Tuesday and went
to the police of Batavia for protection.
CAPITALIZED AT $1,000 OOO.-The Indian
Territory Illuminating Oil Company, capt.
tai SS,000000, has been Incorporated at Tren-
ton, n. j. The company is authorized to
purchase, own and control all the rights,
real estate, personal property, docks or
other security of the Phoenix Oil Company
and Usage Oil Company, now operating in
the Usage Indian reservation.
QUAILS CONVERSATIONAL South Nc
Alester, l. T., Capt. ]. w. Ellis, chief of
the Indian police. confiscated 4SS quails on
Wednesday which were in charge of an
express company and consigned to a Chi
cago commission company. This is the
largest shipment of quails ever cOnfiscated
in the Territory. 1t is against the law to
ship game out of the Indian Territory.
BAPTIST CONFERENCE.-THE was a
joint conference in W ashington on Wednes-
day of officers of the National Baptist Ed
vocational Board and the Home Mission
Society of New York, looking TO an ad-
justment of differences that have arisen
between the two organizations over mis-
sionary work among the cOlored people of
the country. There will be several ses-
sions.
TIES ON THE TRACK.-An attempt was
made Tuesday night TO wreck west-bound
passenger train on the Erie Railroad west
of Lima, o. Two heavy ties were placed
on the track. The engineer discovered the
obstruction. but was unable to stop his
train until the ties had been showed ahead
a distance of over one hundred feet The
engine was derailed. but no other damage
done.
CASHIER ACQUITTED. - Harry NJ.
Clark, former cashier of the First National
Bank of Bridgeport, o., who was indicted
about four years ago on the charge of
making false entries on the books of the
bank, was acquitted in the United States
Court at Columbus on Wednesday, after a
second trial On the first trial Clark was
found guilty. but the court remanded the
case for retrial.
CHARGES NOT PRESSED.-The Grim
inal proceedings against Attorney Robert
A. Ammon, growing out of his relations
with William f. Miller, OF the $40 per cent.
Franklin syndicate. were dismissed
Wednesday by a New York magistrate.
Ammon was charged with having received
complainant failed to appear TO press the
charges against him.
DISABLED STEAMER. - The steamer
Ella was lowed into North Sydney. y. s..
Wednesday with her shaft broken. The
bodies Of four men who lost their lives
while trying to reach shore at Scatterie to
bring assistance TO the steamer have been
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