The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-25
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS NOTES.

The battleships kearsarge. Alabama and
Massachusetts,. from Kingston. Jamaica,
arrived at New YORK yesterday.
The Arkansas Senate. by a vote of "a to Z.
passed the House bill appropriating $1,000
600 for completing the new State Capitol
at Little Rock.
Governor Odell. of New York. has signed
the bill authorizing women taxpayers in
villages and towns to vote on propositions
TO expend money for public purposes.
The smallpox in Barbour and Randolph
counties West Virginia, is growing critical.
Forty-six cases and three deaths are re-
ported. A strict quarantine is enforced on
all the infected districts.
Mrs. Margaret Mcdonald. of Elizabeth.
n. j., on her way 10 San Francisco to
visit her son. who Is in business there, died
after the train left Harrisburg, Pa.
The suit Of Thomas X. Scarborough
against the Pacific Express Company for
$4,000 damages for having been arrested
and prosecuted on a charge of embeZzle-
ment resulted in favor of the defendant in
the District Court at Omaha yesterday.
The sale of the personal effects of Will
liam Marsh Rice, the Texas millionaire
begun yesterday by order of John +.
O'Brien, temporary administrator OF the
estate. The sale will not be concluded for
several days.
Rev. Edward Croninwett, of Butler. Pa,
has been elected president of the Capital
University, OF Columbus, O.. Croninwett
has been pastor of st. Mary's Lutheran
Church in Butler for twenty-five years. He
will decide in a few days when he Will as
sumo charge.
The Joint committee which is arranging
for the reception of President Mckinley in
Chicago. June II. has decided that the BAN
Quet should be held i'm the evening at the
Coliseum, and that accommodation should
be made for 1000 persons. Five thousand
tickets of admission will be issued.
In n speech to the representative citizens
~ q 4 Inn - laEt nfDhf INnnrOD Kos
ter Peabody. a New York millionaire.
offered $4,000 for the erection of a Y. Nj. c..
a. building In that city, providing the clti,
zens would maintain it. He also offered
$50 900 for a Y. NJ. G. a. building for the
negroes under the same conditions.
Walter ~. Brice. a broker. and former
journalist and soldier, and Miss Isabel
Haskens. the actress. were married yes
terday afternoon at the home OF the brides
aunt, Mrs. Remington. 36 West Fifty
seventh street, New York. Mr.. and Mrs.
Brice will enjoy a short trip and will make
their permanent home on Staten island.
A large number of missionaries were in
attendance at the thirty-first session of the
Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary So
ciety, which opened at Hartford, Conn.,,
yesterday. The t~reasurer's report showed
the total appropriations for foreign work to
be $3.50 and the donations from different
States for missionary work to be ~SlOO!Oi3.
Total expenditures were 500, 935, leaving a
dercit fo- the year. About $50 was used for
the India famine fund.
The Board of Public instruction at Pen
sacola, Fla, has demanded the ~resigna-
ton of G. H. Dye, principal OF a public
school. 1t is alleged Dye made himself
obnoxious to the teachers and pupils by
his remarks about the South. when the
teachers were at work preparing a pro-
gramme for the pupils TO take part in the
Confederate Decoration day. Dye attempt
ed 10 change the programme by substi-
tuting a song in accordance with his own
sentiments. He is from Massachusetts.