The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-05
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Funeral services over the remains or
Bishop w. y. Ninde, will be held Monday
afternoon at o'clock in the Central
Methodist Church, at Detroit.
A young man. aged thirty, years. who
registered as r; S. Osborn, from LeXing-
sor Hotel, Hutchinson, Kan, yesterday, by
taking strychnine.
Mrs. r. C. Kerens, of st. Louis, will
build charity hospital at Eureka Springs.
Ark, to cost $500 The site selected Is a
tract OF land on which Johnson springs Is
located, close to the town.
The Canadian government has passed an
order in council extending the moduS VI
vendi with the United States in relation
to the United States fishing vessels on the
Atlantic coast during the season or lsol
The new steamer American. one of the
pioneer vessels of the Amerfcan-Hawaifan
line, arrived at San Francisco yesterday,
after a run of fifty-eight days from New
York and twenty-one days from Coronel.
John Yates, aged forty years, and son.
aged eighteen years, miners, were burned
in their cabin, near McQueens Run, ..
The fire was caused by the explosion or
can of giant powder.
Among the bills introduced in the Colo
RADIO Legislature, yesterday, was one for
the restoration of capital punishment. THIS
Is result of the recent lynchlngs In the
State. Three men have been Summarily eX-
ecuted within year.
Two weeks ago the home of Conrad Ruff,
near San Jose, Cal, was burned and four
of Rufus children persisted. Mrs. Conrad
Ruff. stepmother of the children, was
arrested yesterday on charges of murder
and arson. She denies the charges.
At Snyder. Neb, last night. Herman
Seatin, saloon keeper, was shot to death
by one of three men who entered the saloon
and commanded Seatin to throw up his
hands. He refused and one of the robbers
shot him through the heart All three rob-
bers got away. A posse is in pursuit.
Z. Won Suffer, of the oldest and
wealthiest citizens of Jackson, Miss, COM
mitted suicide Thursday night by shoot
ing himself through the brain. He was
descendant of an aristocratic German fam
lily and had been subject to respondent
moods since the death of his aged wife, one
year ago.
The entire senior class of Georgia School
of Technology, at Atlanta, has been sus-
pended because the members refused to
attend recitations Dec. % and New Years
day. No commencement exercises will be
held in June. The engineering students will
be granted diplomas in November, 1901,
and the textile students in December, 1901.
G. o. Carpenter. jr., of St Louis, stu
dent at Harvard, on returning to Cam
bridge from the Christmas vacation, took
sick with a mild case of varioloid. He was
taken to a Boston hospital Immediately.
AS he has not been in Cambridge for over
two weeks. and has been entirely isolated
from the other students, no uneasinesS is
felt.
Seventeen well-to-do farmers on the
Oneida Indian reservation have been ar
rested by the United States marshal.
charged with cutting timber belonging to
the government to the value of $4,000. The
government is preparing to bring similar
suits against several prominent Wiscon-
sin mill owners, $4,000 being about the
sum involved.
William p. Rockwell, the fifteen-year-
old boy, who ran away from his home in
rn..x Co..
tematic search has been made by his mill
licnaire grandfather, Charles III. Swan. of
New York, was found In Jacksonville Fla,
yesterday selling lunches in a Bay-street
restaurant. He arrived there several days
ago on the schooner Dudley, and says he
will not return.
At a meeting of the Ohio State Board
of Equalization yesterday resolution was
offered asking the Governor to call an ex-
traordinary session of the Legislature for
the purpose of enacting corrective legis-
lation for the board. 1t is held by emf
nent legal talent that the board is with
out power, owing to confused legislation
enacted at the last session of the Legisla-
ture.
After an absence of more than eight
years James McCready Snow, mayor Of
Monston, n. D., who disappeared in July
1892, leaving no trace behind him, has been
heard from. Through letter received
in Key West, Fla. Mr.. Snow was prom
inent in the insurance business, and soon
after he went away 1t was found his affairs
were heavily involved, the Bank or Nova
Scotia holding about $4,000 of his paper.
Cornelius N Bliss has been selected to
succeed the late w. l.. Strong as chairman
of the Business Mems Republican and
Sound Money Association of New York.
his organization, which was formed in
1896. has heretofore taken no part in pol
itics except in presidential contests. 1t
has now decided to take an active part
In State and local campaigns. With this
idea in view a committee was appointed
last night to secure articles Oh lncorpora-
ton.
The trial OF Police Captain Herlihy on
charges of insulting Rev. Mr.. Paddock and
neglect of duty in the RED Light pre-
cinct, when he commanded IT. was CON
tinued at New York yesterday. John
Becker, a manufacturer. was questioned In
regard to the character of houses at Nos
As and so Allen street. He said ne had
seen disorderly women soliciting from the
windows. Miss Rebecca Goodman told OF
women in the Allen-street places. She said
they spoke TO men.
Much damage has been done on Anasta-
STA island by northeastern blow, which
set in Thursday night and continued until
late yesterday afternoon. The morning
tide was very high end the lower part OF
the roadbed and track of the South Beach
Railway was washed away The carriage
drive across the island and round by the
lighthouse was also badly damaged. The
heavy seas cut away large quantities OF
the ocean front in the neighborhood OF
Casa Marina. The Coquna Sheet, on which
valuable property stands, is almost gone.
Governor Sanford, of Alabama, has
fused requisition papers for r. q. Doug
las, alias Eldridge Williams, arrested at
Butte Mont, charged with attempting to
murder his wife, and who confessed to
having killed James Boswell, of Wetump-
ka in Alabama, in 1891. The Governors
grounds for the refusal were that the in
dictment had been lost or stolen. and that
all pages of the court records on which
a record of the case had been made had
been torn from the books since the escape
of Williams.
In view of several persons at Chicago
Jacob Schweir committed the final act in
a confessed plot to kill John Korda,
Schweir's landlord. He pushed korda into
the lake from a pier at the foot of Michi-
gan street at a point where the water is
a dozen feet deep and then ran from the
scene leaving Korda TO drown The Ilot
failed, for the intended victim was rescued
from the water by workmen in nearby
factory Schweir was arrested late last
night. He was surprised 10 learn that
Korda was alive and confessed TO an at
tempt on the mans life.
Industrial and Trade Notes.