The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-20
GENERAL NEWS In BRIEF
VARIETY OF DISPATCHES ROBBED
OF sUPERFLUOUs yERBIAGE.
Items that VIII Interest Business men,
.TOi1ers, Politicians and All
Classes of Readers.

Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, COM
mandant OF the Charlestown navy yard, is
i'll at his home at the yard. Captain Bar
clay Is acting commandant
Mrs. G. j. Bree and baby daughter were
burned so badly at Clarkffeld. Mimi, yes
terday, by gasoline explosion that the
child died shortly after and the mother
cannot live.
Col Edward Volrath, of Bucyrus o., OF
the Eighth Regiment. known as McKinley's
own regiment, says full arrangements have
been made to take the regiment to Wash
ington, and that it would take part in the
inauguration.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt left for the
East last evening after another day hunt
ing coyotes on the plains east and south or
Colorado Springs, Col When his train ar.
rived at Denver he was met by prominent
citizens. but the colonel declined to leave
his car.
A sale Of the imported and American bred
Hereford cattle from the herds of K b. Ar
mour and James Funkhauser began at
Kansas City yesterday with cattlemen
from many parts of the country present.
Nineteen cows and bulls were sold at
average Of 1904 head.
The National Salt Company will erect
mammoth salt plant in Akron, o., during
the coming summer. Pennsylvania and
Akron capitalists are arranging to erect an
independent plant soon as the weather
moderates, and a war between the two con-
Germs seems probable.
| Ripon, Wis. antiquarians claim that the
| meeting which marked the birth of the Re-
publican party was held in a schoolhouse
in that town forty-seven years ago to-day.
| 1t was at one time the home of Governor
| Peck. movement is on foot to buy the
| building and make IL the home of political
and historical museum for Wisconsin.
1t is reported that all of the big silk
| thread manufacturing concerns in the
| United States are to be consolidated. The
| object of the syndicate is 10 minimize eX-
nlaca q hnSinpSS
paying basis. The money is to be furnished
| by the Coates Thread Company, an Eng
fish corporation, backed by capital stock
The Denver fire and police board, after
lengthy investigation of the charges of
| receiving brides from criminals, yesterday
demanded the designations of all the Of
| ficers accused, including Detectives Thomas
| f. McIlduff, Edward Carberry. George
Sanders, Police Captain Arthur Martyr,
| Police Sergeant Michael Mahoney and
Patrolman 5. p. Engle.
| The Navajo Indians leaving their
| reservation and wandering all over the
| northern counties of New Mexico. They
| have practically taken possession of a strip
| of land fifty miles wide and two hundred
| miles long, and are barring out of the strip
| ali stock whose owners do not pay them for
water privileges This tax Is generally
ten sheep for every 1000 head allowed to
| water.
! Bankers of Illinois cities and towns held
a session in Chicago yesterday for the pur
| pose, according 60 financial authority, or
| considering the Chicago clearing house as
| the medium for handling all checks on
| banks outside the State. The meeting was
also for the purpose OF discussing plan
| for an interstate clearing system, which
| will make Chicago the central point for all
the central and middle States.
| Through the generosity of William Z.
Dodge the botanical exploration of the
northern Rocky mountains carried on by
| DR.. Il. A Rydberg in 1897, under the same
patronage, will be continued this year by
r. S. Williams. Mr.. Williams will leave
/ New York early in June and go to north
western Montana to collect specimens for
the herbarium, museums and plantations
of the New York Botanical Garden.
WI Tingfang, the Chinese minister to the
| United States, has accepted an invitation
| to go TO Cleveland and on next Friday
afternoon deliver an address in the Chamber
OF Commerce on Washington and Con-
the guest of the Sons and Daughters of the
! American Revolution at their banquet N
the Hollenden. He will speak to them, but
| his subject has not yet been announced.
| Sixty peach growers of Catawba island
| Ohio, have former a combination to fight
the San Jose scale, which has been destroy
/ ing peach orchards. The association will
! spray the trees with crude oil exclusively.
it having been demonstrated that this rem
edy is more effective in the destruction Of
! the pest than anything else. Two car
| loads of oil have been purchased for the
| purpose and VIII be used early in the
| spring.
The Ontario Court of Appeals has decided
| that American deposits in Canadian banks
| are liable for succession duties, and as "A
result the executors of the late Daniel Scot
| ten, millionaire tobacco manufacturer of
| Detroit, must pay the Ontario government
| $45, 240 in succession duties or again appeal
] TO the Supreme Court at Ottawa. These
succession duties were held to be due on
100000 which the late Daniel Scotch de-
posted in western Ontario branches of
| Canadian banks at the time of the silver
scare in the United States.
Edwin Gould was served with summons
| in chancery at New Orleans yesterday. An
| amended bill was filed in the United States
| Circuit Court on Monday in the suit of the
United States VS.. the Texas & Pacific
Gould family, including the Countess De
| Castellane. A number Of railroad land
settlers s havng , bef 20 aware OF the pres
| amended bill and the papers were served.
] He will have to remain in the city until a
| hearing has been fixed for the case.
Behind closed doors and with every eff
| fort TO maintain the secrecy of the pro-
| ceedngs, Justice Jerome, of the Court of
! Special Sessions, at New York yesterday
held an examination of some of the men
| held as witnesses as result of the pool
room raid which he and District Attorney
Philbin carried out on Monday at No Dey
man limited that prominent city officers
would be implicated. Mr.. Schurman said
| this really the primary object of the
| raid. 1t was in hope of obtaining some in
/
| benefited by protection to his pool room
| that the novel raid was projected and con-
| summated.
| orders will be issued to-day by Major
| General Otis to all post commanders
| in the Department of the Lakes, directing
| the immediate enlistment of men for the
| Twenty-ninth United States Regular In
| fantry Regiment. which will rendezvous at
| Fort Sheridan. The new regiment is de-
| signed for service in the Philippines and
| will be sent there in battalions as rapidly
l &laxr vot,f,
| will be designated at once by the various
| post commanders and offices will be estab-
| lished In most of the towns throughout
| Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and
/ Ohio. The enlistment will be for period of
| three years. The new regiment VIII be
| commanded by Lieut.. Col A. w. Corliss,
| of the Second Infantry.
General Sporting News.