The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-23

to contest the will or his grandfather, VINO
died in 1885, The estate Is worth Sl,loo,V"
The coremakers employed in the foun-
dries affiliated with the National Foundry
mems Association in Cleveland went on
strike yesterday because of the refusal or
the foundrymen's association TO sign last
years working agreement. Several num-
dred men are idle
1t is announced that George c. Smith
will on Feb resign the position or gen
eral manager of the St LoulS-LoulsVllIe
lines of the Southern Railway to accept
position with the Westinghouse interests,
as vice president of the Security Invest
ment Company, of Pittshurg.
Miss Annie Early Wheeler, second
daughter of General Joseph Wheeler, who
served as a nurse in the Cuban and Phil
ippine campaigns, undermining her health
in the tropical climate is slowly recov-
ering from a severe attack of appendicitis
in a sanitarium in New York.
The following electric railroads were in
corporated by the Ohio secretary OF state
yesterday: The Akron Niles Railroad
Company capital stock $1,000 the Alliance
& Pittsburg Railroad Company, capital
stock $4,000, and the Hamilton, Glendale
& Cincinnati Traction Company, capitai
stock $25OO00.
A warrant has been issued for the ar
rest of Albert Moore, of Clifton City, Mo-,
charging him with kidnapping the nine-year-
old son of Mrs Ella Bunch, of Sedalia,
Mo. The motive of the alleged kidnapping
is not apparent Mrs. Bunch is in very
moderate circumstances. Moore is a stock
buyer and lives at Clifton City.
The Valley Bessemer Association this
week sold to the leading Pittsburg inter-
est $1,000 tons of pig iron at $3.50 at the
furnaces in the Shenandoah and Mahon-
ing valleys. This is the largest single
purchase of pig iron for many months.
The price paid is also an advance or 70
cents a ton and so cents a ton above the
lowest price paid for pig iron last month.
III 1oht
tween the sugar and coffee trusts at To-
ledo has shifted TO the Ohio Supreme Court.
Yesterday afternoon Clarence Brown, for
the Arbuckles. made a demand to see the
books of the Woolson Spice Company. The
demand was refused and the answer given
was that the case would be taken to the
Supreme Court and an application made for
suspension of the Circuit Courts ap-
PEAL.
President MacLean, of the Iowa State
University has suspended ten students
of the sophomore class for having kid
mapped the freshman class president, Stiles,
on the evening of the annual class ban
uuet Stiles was forciby placed into
hack by ten sophomores and driven ten
miles into the country, where he was
locked in a farm house and kept for two
days.
Chicago leads all other cities of the
world in crime" said State Attorney Deem
en-, addressing the Chicago Congregational
Club at the Palmer House Monday even
IDen the speaker quoted
to show that arrests and criminal prose-
cutions in Chicago were greater in num-
Der proportionate to population than in
London or New York. He charged that
leniency in prosecution is largely respon-
sible for this state of affairs.
The steamer Alk has arrived at Port
Townsend, Wash, five days overdue from
Skagway. Her officers report that Alaska
has been visited by one of the severest
storms known for years and that consid-
cradle damage has resulted. In making
the run from Juneau TO Takeu inlet, dis
tance of sixteen miles, two men on the
lookout were almost frozen to death at
their post of duty and the vessel had TO
return to Juneau, where the men were
placed In the hospital for medical treat
ment.
The agitation in Chicago against the
bill board nuisance has resulted in the
massage by the City Council of an ordi-
nance providing that all sign boards and
bill boards more than three feet square
now within two hundred feet OF any
park park boulevard or driveway be de-
clared a public nuisance and torn down,
and that such boards be prohibited in
the future. The owners given thirty
days in which TO pull down their signs
The penalty Is a fine or 800 for the first
offense and for each succeeding offense
the same fine and three months impris-
onment An effort was made 10 suppress
unsightly bill boards throughout the city.
but the Council majority would not agree
| TO the more sweeping measure.