The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-03
TELEGRAPH MISCELLANY.

Maud Come, John DAILY, mayor of Linz
erick, and Major Mcbride, late of the Irish
brigade in the TranSvaal, addressed 2,OOO
o. their countrymen at Chicago last night.
The residence of E. Perkins, at Symco.
Wis, burned yesterday and his six-year-
old child lost its life. The mother saved
her life by jumping from a second-story
window.
Solomon Regard. a veteran of the civil
war, was yesterday found guilty at To-
ledo of the murder OF his young wife last
fall and was sentenced to life imprison-
ment. The trial lasted a week.
The evidence in the case against Samuel
Moser, who is charged with the murder of
his wife and three children, was concluded
at Pekln, Ill, yesterday; ana court ao-
journed till Monday, at which time the ar
guments will be made.
The big British tramp steamer Samoa
has Leen purchased by the government at
fitting her up for transport service. When
the vessel is refitted she will be able to
carry over two thousand soldiers.
Mrs. Henry Wortansky, of Secaucus, N.
j., smashed the saloon of William Rose. of
that town, wounding the proprietor. She
was finally arrested and held in $500 bail
yesterday. The reason that she went on
the crusade was that she could not get
her husband TO stop frequenting the place.
The coroner's jury in the inquest over
the body of John Golden, a miner who
was Shot and instantly killed by George
Johnson, marshal of Central, H., formerly
VI OlINe Till, NY, Wine lCSlSlllS DR.
rest, rendered a verdict of justihable
homicide yesterday. johnson was released
from Jail.
The Illinois Board of Health has been no.
titled of the existence of eight cases Of
smallpox at Petersburg. two at Lincoln,
one at Vienna and of a pe~stilence resem-
bling impetigo at Anna. The State Board
of Health announces that the spread of
smallpox in the State has been very rapid
and the death rate unusually large.
The Canadian House of Commons. by a
vote of 125 TO 10, has passed Mr.. Costigan's
motion that an address be presented 10
King Edward VII asking that the portion
of the coronation oath so offensive 10 Cath
olicS be eliminated. Leaders on 10th sides
of the House spoke in favor of the mo-
ton, but there was a difference of opin-
len on its phraseology. the debate lasting
from early Friday till 2 o'clock Saturday
morning.
In the case of John Kelly against Asses
scr Rhodes. the Supreme Court of Wyom-
ing has sustained the decision of the Dis
tlict Court, affirming the right of the State
to tax sheep which were being driven
through the State from Utah to Nebraska.
Kelly sotIgnt to evade the tax, but the
court hold that as the sheep grazed while
in transit Tie tax die not conflict with the
Interstate laws, on which MIR.
Kelly sought evasion.
Peter Sarver, a farmer living near
Youngstown, o., was fatally stabbed by
his landlord. Solomon Cross, last evening.
the lease of the place to another man
EAL2 ~ a
Sarver i~nterposed objections, which precip-
itated a quarrel, during which Gross pulled
a pocket knife and stabbed Sarver in the
back and neck four times. The victim will
die. The assailant has been arrested and
placed in Jail.
1t is reported that Rear Admiral W. T.
Sampson is at work on a volume OF
memoirs. TIL Schley-SamDson contro-
versy, il is said. is what first suggested
the plan to the admiral. As an officer in
the navy he feels that his lips are sealed
as TO his official acts against comment on
his superiors. His personal "reminiscences
viii enter into the work, but the memoirs
will be founded on his naval career and
VIII present the official correspondence
which ne had with the Navy Department
and men of prominence outside of X.
Ground is being broken for what it is
said will be the first Protestant church to
be built in the Philippine islands. +. NJ.
his sister. Mrs. Mary Knox Robinson. have
given 10000 for the building. and a native
of Manila. where the church is TO be
erected, has given the ground The church
is to be erected as a memorial TO Charles
Knox. the father of the American con-
tributors TO the fund. The church will he
called the First Methodist Episcopal
Church of Manila.
In the Federal Court at Nashville. Tenn.
the jury In the Underwood-cunningham H.
bel suit was discharged. having failed To
reach an agreement. The suit grew out of
a publication in the Confederate Veteran
OF which the defendant. Sumner A. Cum
nInghem, is editor and proprietor. Because
Of certain statements % en- article IA that
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