The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-31
MISCELLANEOUS BREvITIEs.

The California Cured Fruit Association
yesterday sold 100000 900 pounds of prunes to
Eastern buyers. The deal involves 500, 900.
Johnny Nelson was defeated by VIII
Stinson last night at Charles River Park.
Boston, in their twenty-hve-mile motor
paced race, Stinson winning in 1890.
In the Alabama constitutional convention
yesterday the minority report, a substitute
for the grandfather clause of the majority
suffrage report, was tabled by d vote of 109
to %.
The British armed sloop Buzzard arrived
at ST. Johns, n. F., Yesterday. leaking.
While crossing Green bay Sunday in a fog
she struck a rock in ten feet of water and
became badly damaged.
Oil has been struck on a farm in Parma,
a short distance south of Cleveland. The
flow thus far is said TO be about fifty bar
rels per day. Other portions of the farm
and other farms in the vicinity will be
drilled.
After a trial that lasted until late last
night. the directors of the Chicago Board of
Trade expelled Claude Meeker, a-member
OF the firm of Meeker Bros. of Columbus.
o, from the exchange. Meeker was charged
with being interested in a Columbus bucket
shop.
Arrangements are being made by the
Navarro Athletic Club. of Lexington. Ky.
10 erect a coliseum with a seating capacity
or 5000 for the purpose of holding athletic
exhibitions and istic combats. Kid Nc
Coy and Marvin Hart are booked to appear
during the fall trots.
y ~. &tNltSs "A NV 10TH. T.. l.. 4 IlSflp.
of Waterbury,. and James A. Doughty. Of
T~orrington, who, together with Charles f..
Br0okes. and job +. Elton, comprise the
executive committee OF the American Brass
Company. have acquired the entire capital
stock OF the Chicago brass works, whose
plant is situated at Kenosha. Wis.
Certificates of Incorporation were filed
at Dover. Del, yesterday as follows: The
kentucky Packing and Abattoir Company.
OF New York. capital $4,000; the Arkan-
Sas Valley oil and Mining Company. of
Parsons. Kan. capital $4,000. the National
Refining Company. of Cleveland. increased
its capital stock from S5oo.Oo0 TO Sl.5o0. 600.
Lord Stavordale. eldest son of the Earl of
Leicester. 20 which title he Is the heir ap-
parent. has just arrived in New York. He
expects 20 make a tour OF the United
States. Lord StarvOrdale is an Englishnan.
about twenty-eight years old. and viii sue
coed 20 an estate Of 3.gO0 acres which is at
tached 10 the earldOm IN Dorset. England.
Captain r.. l.. Holman. OF the Nashville.
ienn., nre department., his wife and TWO
children. his sister-in-law. Mrs. V. j.. Page.
death by what physicians say was pto-
mamie poisoning from a new ice cream
freezer. only after five hours hard work
did the physicians declare the sufferers out
OF DANCE
Captain Il. 5. Oaiey. OF the Seventh In
fantry, who was reported lost in an Arctic
blizzard last winter while IN charge of a
line. is IA Seattle. He saws that lS5 miles
OF line have been completed from St.
Michael up the Yukon river. The work was
prosecuted during the winter. when the
temperature ranged between 50 and 20 de-
grees below zero.
Judge Strimple Yesterday dissolved the
temporary Injunction against the Cleveland