The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

Buffalo day" at the Pan-American Ex-
position Saturday attracted 162,662 people,
the largest crowd that has yet visited the
exposition.
Prof w. D. Gibbs, Of the Ohio State Uni
versity, has been elected professor Of agri-
culture and director OF the experiment sta
ton at the New Hampshire Agricultural
College.
Andrew Carnegie offered to give 100000
for the erection OF a library building In
Nashville, Tenn. The offer is accompanied
with the usual provtso that the city pro-
vide running expenses
Pitcher Earl Moore. of the Cleveland
American League Club has declined the
offer of $500 to play with the Cincinnati
Cleveland for 1902. His salary is not an
nounced.
Mail advices from Barbados give par
ticulars of a landslide covering five hun
dred acres of land In the district of BosCo-
bel. Over hundred houses were de-
stroyed. The district was devastated. The
governor has started a relief fund.
Two jointists, Charles and Doc Lindsay,
were convicted in the Winfield Kan, Po
lice Court on forty counts. of selling liquor.
They were sentenced to six months and
hned 800 on each count. This will mean
twenty years in jail and fine OF $4,000.
Secretary of State Hay in a letter 10
State Superintendent of State Prisons Col
Inns, of New York, declines the invita- ton
of the latter to designate an official repre-
sentative of the government to be present at
the electrocution of CzOlgocZ the murderer
of President Mckinley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas McGregor were
found murdered Friday morning at their
home about ten miles from Many, Ia.
There is no clew to the perpetrators of the
crime. Robbery is believed to have been
the object OF the murderers McGregor Had
been stabbed three times in the breast and
both he and his wife had been shot twice.
Tom Bass. the owner and rider of a
string of horses which are billed for the
Kansas City and st. Louis shows, was
i C1x So E-.n
grounds in Mexico. Mo, while training the
| celebrated jumping horse Columbus. The
! horse turned a somersault and fell with
his weight on the rider.
conference between representatives of
| the cotton mill operatives of Fall River,
Mass, and the executive committee of the
| manufacturers association was held yes
\ terday, lasting nearly three hours, during
which time the demand for per cent ad-
/ vance in wages was renewed and again de-
! clined by the manufacturers. leaving the
| situation practically unchanged.
| Capt. Criel w De Monels. until recently
\ a lieutenant in the Eleventh Hussars of the
/ English army, was taken to Chicago from
| Albany, y. Y, yesterday, charged with OBJ
/ tanning money under false pretenses. Two
years ago he was commissioned by Chicago
| friends to make contracts for American
horses for the English army in South At
| RIGA, and it is charged he did not make
proper returns.
| At Fairplay, Col, Mrs Ella Vallie. who
was accused of completely in the murder of
/ her husband, Uplide Vallie, was discharged
| from custody at the conclusion of her pre-
| liminary hearing. no evidence having been
/ produced to connect her with the crime.
| Charles Baker, who is charged with the
/ murder of Nallie, on whose ranch he had
| been employed. waived examination and
| was bound over for trial.
/ The convention of the Polish National
! Alliance adjourned sine die at Toledo, o.,
| yesterday. The alliance yesterday supple
| mented its action of Friday night in do
| mating to the Toledo Mckinley Memorial
| Association by appropriating an additional
( 500 TO the National Memorial Associa-
tion. A resolution was adopted unanimous
/ ~, by a rising vote, expressing regret for
the death of President Mckinley.
| Secretary of War Root left Little Fair
| head lake, on William g. Whitney'S pre-
serve in the Adirondacks, yesterday. He
| will spend Sunday with his son, student
1 at Hamilton College, and with his brother,
Prof. Oren Root: Secretary Root has had
| me vacation, is reported to be in excel
| lent health and has been feasting on veni-
| son which he shot himself. He Will proceed
| TO Washington the first of next week.
Judge Burke, in the Circuit Court at Chi
| cago, yesterday granted a temporary in
| junction on behalf of Capt. George Il.
/ Porteus, general superintendent of the Ma
| tiOnal Bureau of Identification, restraining
| the officers from removing the headquar-
| tiers of the bureau from Chicago to Wash
| ington, ID. G.. The plea made by Captain
POrteus sets forth that he established the
| bureau and that its removal would work
| him great personal injury.
| The statement was made at Cheyenne,
| Wyo., yesterday by Barney Mccartney that
| his mining company intends to consolidate
| all of the big paying mines in the southern
| Carbon county country and connect them
| with the Smelter at Grand Encampment by
| an electric railway system. The deal has
been pending for some time. 1t is esti-
| mated il will cost 81. 0O0. 900 to construct the
| trolley system. The amount involved in the
entire deal is in the neighborhood of $4,000,
| 600 to $4,000, 00O
The Trinidad Electric Company, limited.
| has just been organized by American and
| Canadian capitalists for the purpose of &C
pany and the Belgian tramways now OPP
Grating in Port au Spain Trinidad. British
! West Indies The capital of the concern is
| $1.5O0O00. F.. S. Pearson, consulting engi-
/ neer of the Metropolitan street-railway.
! New York is interested in the enterprise.
| Il. r. Pearson. of Halifax. n. s., and Sir
! William Van Horne are heavy stockhold-
| ers.
| Some days ago John OBrien, superin-
| tendent of one of the departments of the
| Richmond Va. locomotive works, was shot
! ana killed while standing at the gate of
| the works and few minutes before fell
| low-workman was shot in the head and
| seriously wounded. The affair remained a
! mystery until Saturday, when r. r. Ed
wards OF Chelsea Hill. opposite the works,
/ was arrested. Edwards stands charged
| charge. He had been employed at the
works, discharged and since unemployed.