The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-19
MISCELLANEOUS BREVITIES.

souri, ana eastern Kansas TUESDAY night
General Chaffee has notified the War
Department that the transport Meade ar
rived at Manila on Tuesday.
Miss Caroline Lewis Gordon, daughter Of
General and Mrs. John b. Gordon. and
orion Bishop Brown, OF Maine, were mar
ried at Atlanta, Ga, last night.
The safe in the Office OF j. c. Brainer 6
Co., at Blooming Prairie, Mimi, was blown
TO pieces by cracksmen Tuesday night Be
tween $4,000 and 5000 in currency was
taken.
The stewards OF the Coney Island Jockey
Club yesterday sustained the protest OF
Jesse Dunn against the filly Leonaora Lor-
ing in the great hlly stakes and disqualified
the FLY.
In a fit Of jealousy Albert Hinckle. of
with pocket knife. indicting wounds from
which she died almost Immediately. He is
now dying in a hospital from self-infiicted
wounds.
Portions Of Georgia, Alabama North
Carolina and South Carolina have been
visited by terrific rains and in some sec
tons considerable damage was done AT
Eufalla, Ala, the rainfall was 7.62 inches
and at Newna 5.79.
The Old Turf Congress is thing of the
past. Representatives OF the seven or
CARNATIONS composing the organization
day and after few minutes session voted
10 disband the organization.
The st. Louis Transfer Company made
the first effort to break the strike OF its
drivers yesterday by sending out thirty
teams from it's stables. Several assaults
were made on the nonunion drivers, and
one of them was seriously injured.
A Boston publishing house is about to
bring out two books Of which Mr.. Otto
Stechhan, Of this city, is the author; one
a novel entitled, "Unrequited Love-" the
other q volume treating of the trust ques-
ton and social conditions, called WHITTIER
Are We Drifting?"
The board of city commissioners to gov
ern the city of Galveston during the next
two years, provided for by special act or
the Texas Legislature, took charge of the
city's affairs last evening, Mayor Jones
and the board of aldermen officially sur
rendering their offices.
The annual meeting Of the Union Traction
Company of Philadelphia was held yester-
day. The old board of directors was elect
ed. The annual report showed the earnings
to be 1881, 200 The receipts OF the company
were 3d. 49,, $50, and the cost of operation,
licenses, taxes and fixed charges s12,57O,414.
The big Boston department. store at St.
Louis, conducted by the RoSenthal & Leh-
man Dry Goods Company, made a general
assignment in favor Of its creditors yes
terday. Its liabilities TO 3S5 creditors are
given as $4,000. Members of the firm have
nothing to say as to the cause of the fail
ure.
The Santa Fe shops at San Bernardino
Cal, are again the scene of strike troubles
All the men in the boiler department have
struck TO force, if possible the reinstate-
mGnt OF two employees VINO were discharged
by Master Mechanic Lape. Other depart
ments, it is thought, may become involved
in the controversy.
The convention OF authors and editors OF
the Ohio valley, which has been In ses-
sion in connection with the Cincinnati fall
festival the past two days, adjourned yes
terday, after addresses by Chairman
Charles Z. Greve, ex-Gov. Will Cumback
Howard Saxby. Madison Cawein, Judge
Saule Smith and others.
The race between The Abbott and Cres-
ceus for a $4,000 purse, scheduled to take
place at Readville, Mass, LeXt Friday, has
been declared off by the directors of the
New England Trotting Horse Breeders As
ISOLATION No official reason is given for
the change, but ii is understood the owner
of The Abbott refused to race.
There was a large attendance at the In
ternational Good Roads Convention in Buff
falo yesterday. Victor valiant, the official
representative of the Belgian government,
delivered a brief address on good roa is
The session closed with an address by A.
w. Campbell deputy minister Of public
works of Ontario, on the general subject of
good roads.
The Central Western and Southwestern
traffic associations have announced a rate
of one fare, plus 81, for the livestock ex-
position TO be held in Chicago from Nov
80 TO Dec. Z. General Manager Skinner
of the exposition, was yesterday notified
by individual lines outside of these associa-
lions that they would make an equally low
round-trip rate.
At special meeting of the stockholders
of the American Sugar-refining Company
held in Jersey City yesterday, the capital
100000 to $90,000,0O0. 1t was also voted
that $l0,0OO.O00 of the new stock should be
applied to the cancellation of mortgage
bonds of the company. President Have
meyer did not attend the meeting.
Jimmy Michael defeated Bobby walthour
last night at the Madison-square Garden,
paced bicycle race the first of a series
for the indoor championship of the United
States. Michael covered the distance in
1882. thereby establishing a new record for
fifteen miles indoor. The best previous fig
ureS were PAS.
The committee of eighteen of the anti
Tammany organizations. which has been
ering candidates for mayor OF New York
to be submitted to the general conference
of the organizations, took final vote last
night, which stood: For Seth Low, II; for
George l.. Rives, l. The general conference
then met and selected Seth Low as it's
candidate for mayor.
DR.. John w. McKowen, of Clinton, La
was shot and killed yesterday by State
Senator r. Emerson Thompson, OF East
Feliciana parish. Some time ago Thompson
was arrested at the instigation of Nc
Kowen for alleged larceny of part of a
fence between Thompson's place and the
plantation of Mrs. Pipes, the sister Of
Ing between Thompson and McKowen, and
resulted in the tragedy.
The National Association of Railway Pos
tai Clerks. in session at Milwaukee. yes
terday amended its constitution by reduc-
ing the certificate fee from S. to 81. The as
ISOLATION shows a growth of 1900 men,
ters in fifteen months, the total member
ship now being about 5000. The woman's
auxiliary adopted a key designed by Mrs
Is. j. Joslin, Of ST Paul, Mimi, as ma
tional emblem. Buffalo, N. Y. will get
the next convention OF the affiliated or
ganizations.
THE Army Canteen' was the subject Of
a lengthy discussion at yesterdays session
OF the American Pure Health Association
at Buffalo, and on it's conclusion the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted with but
one dissenting vote: THAT this body de-
plores any action in curtailing the opera
ton OF army canteens or post exchanges,
as formerly existing in the United States,
and In the interest of general and military
sanitary and temperance, recommends their
establishment"
Judge Lawton, of the Middlesex County
(AIassa chusetts) Probate Court, has decid-
ed that the will of the late Maria j. Mar
shall of Weston, Mass, is invalid on the
ground that the testatrix was of unsound
mind and incapable of executing a testa-
mentary paper. Miss MarshalIs will pro-
vided for large requests to the Hampton
Normal Institute at Hampton, Va, and
Booker T. Washington's school for negroes
at Tuskegee, Ala. a score Of other insti-
tutions were to receive small legacies
The Standard Oil Company. which con-
trolls the Pacific Coast OIL refining works AT
90