The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27

minor officials at the mine for not promptly
closing the entrance to the bullion tunnel
after the fire originated. but finding that
the officers of the company were not guilty
of criminal or willful negligence.
At Bolton, w. Va, Tuesday night, four
masked men assaulted and robbed Lindsay
Burley and members Of his family, seouF-
ing over $1,000 in cash, besides other val
mother, son and daughter, were bound
land and foot by the robbers. 1t was
necessary to torture the father before the
hiding place of the money was discovered.
Warden McClaughrey has received word
of the capture at Tuscumbia. Ala, of
James seymour one of the convicts who
escaped from the Leavenworth (Kan.)
prison during the recent mutiny. Word has
also been received that a posse of deputy
United States marShalS have surrounded
Hating and Murray in the Shawnee hills.
in the western portion of Indian Territory.
w. c. Williams, a recluse, who was sup
posed to have been burned in a log cabin
at Marion, o., which was destroyed by fire
Saturday night, turned up at the scene of
his humble home while the bones which
were found beneath his burned bed were
being examined by anatomists. Williams
refused to give any explanation of his
whereabouts since the fire rendered him
homeless.
The North German Lloyd twin screw
steamship Kron Prinz Wilhelm arrived at
New York from Bremen after an exceeding
ly rough but nevertheless fast trip, having
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quicker time by over two hours than on
any of her previous passages. Her time
of passage on this. her third westward
voyage, was five days, nineteen hours and
six minutes.
The steamer Dolphin arrived at Seattle,
Wash, yesterday from the north with two
hundred passengers, of whom sixty were
transferred from the disabled steamer Far
allon, that anchored in Cardenas bay,
Alaska. The Dolphin brought the largest
cargo of fresh halibut that ever reached
q, and reports that the Yukon river was
frozen over entirely on Nov. 19.
G.. Frank Mclaughlin was shot and in
staptly killed by Lew Harbaugh, his part
ner in a livery stable at Sheridan, Wyo.,
after a quarrel concerning the manage
ment Of the business. Harbaugh is in Gus
tody. Mclaughlin was superintendent Of
the Nickel Mining and Milling Company,
which is operating Clouds peak, near Day
ton, Wyo. He was forty-eight years of
age and leaves a wife and two grown
daughters, residents OF Paterson, N. ].
The conference of superintendent of
Ohio State hospitals with the State Board
of Charities and the Governor yesterday
failed TO reach an agreement on the propo-
sition to abandon the State Hospital for
Epileptics, at Gallipolis, and substitute the
colony system. A plan was devised, how
ever, to provide for the care OF 400 insane
now confined in the county infrmaries. who
become charges upon the State next July
under a law enacted by the last Legisla-
ture.
The reorganization committee of the
General Carriage Company of New Jersey,
consisting of Edwin Post. Leroy Baldwin,,
Robert A. Jennings and Henry A. Rowley,
have prepared a plan for the reorganiza-
ton of the concern. Ii is proposed TO form
a new company with a total authorized
capital of 1900, 900, consisting of 10000
shares of $50 par value each. The COM
pany also will issue 100000 of 5 per cent.
debenture bonds.
A cablegram from London says that the
nvprdup shin Roanoke Canfain AmpShnrN-
from Norfolk June II. for San Francisco,
was spoken Sept. Is in latitude 81 south,
longitude 70 west. The Roanoke is laden
with coal for the Mare Island navy yard.
At one time she reinsured at 80 per cent.
after a report had been made that she had
been sighted on fire. Later she was re-
given in yesterdays cable shows the ship
had just rounded Cape Horn.
Abraham Pleser, charged with having set
fire to a Greenwich-street (New York; tene-
ment house i'm which siXty-two persons
were asleep, was arrested yesterday and
booked for arson. Pleser was one Of the
restaurant proprietors on the ground floor
of the building, and at : O'Clock yesterday
morning the place was discovered To be
on fire. When the hremen broke ia they
found three separate blazes burning with
grease smeared on the woodwork to help
them along. The sleeping tenants in the
building were hustled out safely.
President Shaffer. OF the Amalgamated
Association. emphatically denies the repOrt
from W HtellIlS INA III aEoOCAallOh oASt
i'm that district are TO vote on an emer-
gency assessment for the creation Of a gi-
gantic strike fund by the time the agree
ment with the United States Steel Cor
p~oration expires, eight months hence. He
says that about six or eight weeks ago he
authorized the leYying OF an assessment OF
10 per cent. but this was to make up a
fund having for it's purpose caring for men
who. since the great steel strike, have been
unable 10 secure employment.
A group OF nine relatives Of the late
Henry Dolan. who died in New York in
September. leaving an estate estimated in
value at $i.Up0.O00. gave notice yesterday
of their intention 10 contest the will. The
will created four trusts amounting 10 $4,000
and left the rest Of the estate 10 five nieces
of the de~ceased-Elen Cushing Of Chicago,
Juliet NJ. Coleman Of Buffalo. and Cornelia
Nj. Palmer. Mary Frances De Forrest and
Catherine l. Steward OF kansas-who are
named as residuary l~egatees. The con-
testants will urge improper influences over
and lack Of sanity upon the part Of the
teStatOr-