The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs

a.
tional Association of Retail Grocers of the
United States is in session at Detroit.
The oil from the big Texas well recently
sunk will be piped to Port Arthur, and
stored there in tanks. Thence it will be
shipped In tank steamers.
The stockholders of the North American
Company, at their meeting at Newark, n.
j., yesterday. voted unanimously to de-
crease the capital stock from $4,000, 900 to
SIP. 100000.
James R. c. Field managing agent of the
Pleid Coal and Implement Company, of
untary bankruptcy in the United States
District Court at Omaha He places his
liabilities at s5l, 1880 and assets at 81, 2s4 10
In private car. fitted up especially for
muscular St. Bernard dogs left Chicago
yesterday bound for Alaska They WI
be used in the far north to TRANSPORT sun
plies over the glaciers in the Copper river
region.
According to news brought to Seattle nv
the steamer Al Xxi, which left Juneau Jan.
10, terrific snowstorms are raging on the
south Alaskan coast and the White Pass
e. Yukon Railway had been blockaded for
several days. No damage to shipping is
reported.
The postoffice and store of BurIin Hawlev.
in Trousdale county, Tenn, was robbed
and burned Sunday morning The robbers
broke open the safe and secured between
besides
The storew as then fired and the value of
the property destroyed is valued at $4,000
The Board Of Revision Of the CITY NJ
Sandusky, o., submitted it's report TO the
City Council last night, showing an adj
0itional shortage of s2O.1S2.37 The previous
been paid. The bondsmen have no hone
OF securing any more property from City
Clerk Miller.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has sus-
tanned a motion to quash the alternative
writ of custer In the ST. Louis Consolidated
Street-railway case, instituted by the At
torney general, on the ground of illegal
combination in violation of the antitrust
law, allowing ---e consolidation of street.
car companies legal
President Samuel Gompers. of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, who had been
called TO Cincinnati to arbitrate and adj
just the trade dispute between the brewery
workmen and team drivers unions as to
which organization should have jurisdic-
ton over the brewery teamsters, rendered
his decision in favor of the brewers union
last night.
In the United States Club field trials at
Grand Junction, Tenn, the pointer Derby
was run TO a finish yesterday The win
ners were Doc Light. owned by DR.. c.
Chisholm. of Birmingham, Ala. in first
place; Jingo's Romp, owned by N T. De
Gray's Pearl, owned by John E. Gill.
Franklin. Pa, third.
James II. Southall who was convicted a
couple of years ago of fraudulent dealings
In government time checks. by which he
secured nearly three-quarters of a million
dollars, yesterday had his sentence com
muted by the Minnesota state board of
pardons on account of the critical condition
of his wife's health. Southall was paroled
and returned home last night.
The 100 men employed at the I.attimer
Pa.) colliery OF G.. Pardee & Co struck yes
terday because of the alleged unwarranted
discharge of two drill runners and the
company's refusal TO reinstate them as re-
quired by a committee of the mine workers
The miners at the Harwood colliery of the
same company threaten to inaugurate a
sympathetic strike If the matters are not
adjusted.
Burglars entered the Oak Park Gid post
Office through skylight early Monday
morning, and with no one 10 disturb their
operations opened between 1000 and 5000
letters and extracted the money found in
them. The amount of the theft has not
citizens lose heavily. The robbery was
discovered by the jantor. who found the
floor behind the letter cases piled high with
torn mall.
Charges have been filed with Governor
Nash, of Ohio. against Col. G. 5. Zim-
norman, OF the Fifth Regiment. O. N G.,
by Major Dodge, and IL is expected that
courtmartial will be the result The
charges include false entries on the muster
rolls ana falling TO account for public
funds. The same charges are made against
Capt. III. b. Wright and Capt. b. o. Squire.
Lieutenant Colonel Pond makes counter
charges against Major General Dodge.
Potter & Kirkham. members OF the Con-
solida.2d Stock and Petroleum Elk
change. New York, have suspended
Liabilities are about fifty thousand dollars
Mr.. Kirkman told his creditors that the