The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-23
MISCELLANEOUS BREvITIES.

The body of Senior Vicuna left Buffalo
for Washington last night at $50 o'clock
in a special car.
The safe of a postoffice at Petersburg,
Tenn, was dynamited Wednesday night,
and about $500 in cash taken, besides the
entire supply of stamps.
The postofice at Hull. Ia, was burglar
lied Wednesday night. The safe was
blown to pieces by three explosives, and
S414 in stamps and $50 in money taken.
Bobby Walthour was matched yes
terday to meet Johnny Nelson, the Flying
Swede,' in a fifteen-mile motor-paced race
at Madison Square Garden, New York,
Aug. 26.
Two of the hitherto unidentified dead in
Tuesday night. have been identified as
Michael Nolan and Clyde Vandervoort.
young men of Springfield, III.
To-day will be Virginia day at the Pan
mond Light Infantry (Blues) pitched tents
at the exposition model camp yesterday.
They will act as Governor Tyler's escort.
Melville Nevin, aged twenty-eight wears
a resident of Missouri. while hunting in
Little Creek canyon, fifteen miles north
west of San Fr9ncisco, Cal. fell from a
his neck.
Mrs. Robert Lees. who was held for the
killing of the Hebrew peddler, Robert
Nogler. at Pittsburg, during a quarrel at
the home of Mrs. Grace Woods, was ac-
quilted by the coroner's jury yesterday on
ground of self-defense.
On the Dominion line steamer Common
wealth. from Liverpool and Queenstown,
the Oxford and Cambridge athletes who are
TO compete against Harvard and Yale i'm
New York next month.
Governor Dockery, of Missouri, has issued
a proclamation vacating after January.
1901, all commissions prior to Jan. 1. 1895, to
commissioners of deeds for Missouri to
persons residing in any State or Territory
of the United States or in foreign countries.
Work has commenced on the tearing
down Of the National Academy of Design
building. on the corner of Twenty-Five
street and Fourth avenue, New York. 1t
is an historic building. and will be re-
placed by a structure TO be used for bust
ness
The Porto Rico Relief Association Of
New York has decided to give the so. 900
remaining of the fund subscribed at the
time of the hurricane i'm the island two
years ago to be distributed by Bishop
Blenk, of Porto Rico, among the various
hospitals pro rata.
The United States transport Ingalls,.
which returned TO New York last week
with leaky cargo ports. sailed again YES
to-day for Mamie. 1t is said that all her
cargo has been removed and the stores
which she carried Will be shipped TO Manila
by a merchant vessel.
At the session of the fifth annual con-
vention of the League of American Munic-
qualities at Jamestown. y. Y, Yesterday.
an address dealing with the proposed Ohio
municipal code was made by Edward Kib-
leI. a tncHiDti VI bic COilLllcSlOn having
that document in charge.
r. T. Ross. a music teacher. and his
wife. fifty years old and penniless. were
asphyxiated by gas In their room at San
Francisco yesterday. In the hands of Mrs.
Ross was clutched a curtain. and IL is
thought she had attempted to reach a win
dow, but that Ross had dragged her back.
Choice Northern-grcwn potatoes sold yes
tefday at Kansas City at 50 cents a peck.
the price of two bushels a year ago. A
single bushel row costs $3.50 from retail