The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-29
GENERAL NEWS In BRIEF
VARIETY OF DISPATCHES ROBBED
OF sUPERFLUOUs vERBIAGE.
Items that VIII Interest Business men,
ToiIers, Politicians and All
Classes OF Readers.


loon-closing law.
Trustee Campbell was given authority
yesterday TO operate the Wheatland CPa.)
mill of the Continental Iron Company until
July 1. The mill viii be started at once.
The Ironton and Kentucky Bridge Com
pany, which is TO erect bridge across the
Ohio between Ironton, o., and Ashland,
KY, was incorporated at Lexington, Ky,
yesterday. The capital stock is s1,25o,oOo.
John Williams. wife and child were killed
Sunday night on Clinch river, Kentucky,
by tree falling on their home. The tree
blew down during storm and crushed IN
Williams's house. Williams was farmer.
A bill was introduced in the Senate yes
terday requiring all foreign surety COM
panies t. deposit 100000 with the super
.ntendent of the insurance department be-
fore being allowed TO do business in Mis-
souri,.
Sunday night at the West Virginia Hos
pital for Insane at Weston, Mack Ware
and Andrew Gooden, two inmates, attacked
Michael Whelan, one of the guards. and.
overpowering him, gouged out both his
eyes with their fingers.
The United States consul at Valparaiso,
Chile, j. F. Caples, has resigned. The
United States minister, Henry L. Wilson,
is coming to the United States on leave of
absence. Messrs. Caples and Wilson both
sail on the next steamer from Valparaiso.
The Peruvian government has granted
monopoly of the pearl fishery on the coast
IL o.
MORO and Huacana inlet. The govern
ment for three years is to receive tenth
Of the gross output of the fisheries and
afterward is to receive a fifth.
Articles of Incorporation were filed with
the Ohio secretary of state yesterday by
the Trinidad and Bermudez Asphalt Com
pany. Cleveland. Capital stock, 100000 c.
M. Warner, President Quinlan, I. Z. Cole,
M. L. Bramley and John Is. Cowing are
the incorporatorS.
Manager Klepetko, of the Boston and
Montana Mining Company, at Butte, an
nounces that the eight-hour day for miners
will be put into effect Feb / in the prop
critics of that company. Manager Gill; of
the Butte and Boston, has posted notices
to the same effect.
Judge Dale of the District Court at To-
peka, Kan, yesterday insisted that Mrs.
Mary Z. Lease must positively be present
when her petition for a divorce Is taken
up. Her attorney sought to have the court
grant her divorce without putting her to
the expense of a journey from New York.
Gen. John w. Foster and wife left the
City of Mexico yesterday on their way 20
Southern California. Many social atten-
tons were paid them by President Diaz
ard the Governor Of the state of Moroles.
where the Fosters sojourned for some
weeks.
The plants and franchises of the gas and
electric light companies of Bucyrus, o.,
were sold yesterday to Peter Young, of
New York, and Isaac Baxter, of Detroit.
The companies are capitalized at $4,000,
and have lately been granted ten-year
extension of their franchises.
The Citizens Union city committee, of
New York, held meeting last night and
a proclamation for the campaign of 1901
was distributed. The signers to the proc
lamation contain large number of new
names, among them being three former
mayors, namely, Hewitt, Cooper and Edison.
A number of capitalists met last night and
formed company with capital stock of
500, 600, which is to quarry Autograph stone
in one of the Southwestern States, and
bring it to Cleveland to be sawed and
dressed. Heretofore all Autograph stone
used in the world has come from Bavaria.
The Phoenix iron foundry, of Providence,
r l.. went into receivership yesterday.
its secretary, M. w. Gardiner, being ap-
pointed receiver. The application for re-
ceiver was made to protect the stockhold-
ers and creditors. The liabilities are SS0,U0O,
while the plant has a tax valuation Of
$4,000.
The Circuit Court at Cleveland has af-
firmed the finding of the lower court in
favor of John ID. Rockefeller in the mil
lion dollar suit brought against him by
Captain James Corrigan to secure the re-
turn of large block of Standard Oil stock.
The case will be appealed to the State Su-
preme Court
Charles Duncan, the authorized repre-
sentative of John Mitchell. president of
the United Mine Workers of America, and
Federation of Labor, arrived In Denver yes
terday, on his way to the northern Colo
RADIO coal fields to investigate the pending
strike conditions.
Col George d. Wick, president of the
Youngstown, o., Iron and Sheet and Tube
Company, who returned from Europe yes
terday said that there was no truth in
the story cabled from London that he is
connected with SO,0OO,0c0 tube company.
His return TO Youngstown, he stated, is to
above named
An excursion composed Of nearly hun
dred st. Louis merchants and manufacture
ers left last night over the st. Louis &
San Francisco Railroad for weeks trip
through Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Ar
Kansas and Kansas. More than sixty local
concerns were represented. The excursion
lists took with them souvenirs advertising
their respective houses.
The Duchess of Manchester, who has
been confined to her rooms in the Palace
Hotel, San Francisco. since Saturday night
owing to an attack of sore throat, has al
most entirely recovered and will go to
Monterey to-day or Tomorrow The duke
expresses his annoyance at the exaS-
gerated reports of her slight illness which
have been circulated.
The faculty of the University of Wiscon-
sir has decided that they will not accept
the invitation from the committee i'm charge
OF the inaugural ceremonies at Washing
ton to send a delegate to represent the
university in the inaugural parade. 1t is
against the policy of Wisconsin to send n
tcdy of students to participate in any
public exercises of this nature.
Public School Superintendent Cooley, of
Chicago issued a bulletin yesterday declar-
ing that all children in the schools must
be vaccinated Immediately and ordering
that all unvaccinated pupils be kept on.
of school until the directions are complied
with. President Harper said he would issue
a notice requiring all students in the Uni
versity of Chicago to be vaccinated.
Three Italian laborers were killed by the
collision of a passenger train with a gravel
train on the West Shore Railroad at Wee
hawken, yesterday. The gravel train, on
which were the laborers, was being pulled
on a siding to get it out of the way when
the passenger engine struck IL. The en-
gireer and fireman of the incoming passen-
ger train jumped from the cab and escaped
without injury.
In fiat in West Thirty-sixth street
New York, there died, as the result OF in
halng Illuminating gas, woman whose
son says she came of one of the most dis
tinguished families of Tennessee She was
Mrs. Anna Terry, the widow OF DR.. c.
c. Terry, graduate Of the Harvard Med
ago, one of the most distinguished sur
geons in New England
The special committee appointed in Sep
TENDER, 1899, to revise and publish a new
song book for the Sabbath schools and
Young Peoples Union of the United Pres
byterian denomination has completed its
labors The new song book is intended 10
sllpplant the present edition of the Bible
songs now used in all United Presbyterian
churches of the United States. From $50, 900
to 10000 copies will be published.