The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-13
BREvITIES.

William Garrison and John Ray fought a
duel with revolvers near Thacker. w. Va
Ray was killed.
Rolla Wells was unanimously nominated
for worlds fair mayor by the Democrats
o. st. Louis yesterday.
At Georgetown. KY, yesterday. Newt
Nelson, colored, was fatally shot by Police
man Vaughan while resisting arrest. Mel
son escaped from Jail
The long-talked-of syndicate OF Troy, N.
Y, collar, cuff and shirt wholesale houses
is now regarded as a certainty by the man.
ufacturers concerned
1t is officially stated that the health Of
President Diaz of Mexico is restored as a
now in excellent health and spirits.
All north Texas and southern Indian Ter
ritory are white with snow. which fell all
yesterday. 1t was preceded by a slow,
drizzling rain, which will be good for the
wheat crops.
Edwin II. Conger, United States minister
to China, has cabled to an Iowa friend that
he will accept the Republican nomination
for Governor OF Iowa, but will not make q
fight for 1t.
A new theater costing $40, 0V0 with q
seating capacity of 1,500 is to be built on
the. site of the old Coates Opera House
at Kansas City, No.. which was destroyed
by fire two weeks ago.
A bill requiring foreign surety companies
to deposit s200.00 with the State insurance
department before being allowed TO do
1 CuSlUcSS III mleSUuIl was DdSScQ U1 LIE
Missouri Senate yesterday.
A. ]. Kelley and George Handschut, cat
tie r~ustlers, convicted Of stealing three
calves and peddling the veal. were SEN
fenced TO fourteen years each in the peni-
tertiary at Helena, Mont. yesterday.
The twenty or more men who were ar
| rested in st. Louis on the allegation that
they came from Chicago for the purpose
primaries were released from custody yes
terday.
A jury has not yet been secured in the
case of Samuel Moser, charged with the
examination OF the veniremen began yes
terday at Picking. ILL.,, before Judge Puter-
baugh.
Michael MCGOWAN, aged twenty-five, and
William Hugo, aged twenty, both single
Oak mine of the Delaware & Hudson Com
pany at Archibald, Pa, were killed yester-
day by a fall of roof coal.
Jimmy Ryan, captain of the Chicago Ma
tional League club last season and for ff-
teen years one of the leading attractions
OF the club, Will be with the ST. Paul West
srn League team the coming season as
part owner, captain and center fielder.
Stanislaus ]. Donnelly. OF Hastings,
Mimi, has been appointed administrator of
the estate OF his father. the late I~gnatius
Donnelly. The petition for letters of ad-
ministration state that the estimated value
OF the estate is $4,000; personal 5000 and
real $4,000.
Augustine G. Palacio, thirty-one years of
age, a member of a prominent family of
sanitarium at Sabin Rock, West Haven,
Conn, by cutting his throat. Dependency.
induced by the use of drugs. IS believed to
have been the cause.
Charles Carroll Mann, aged seventy-two
years. a retired stock broker and for years
a prominent Democratic politician, commit
ted suicide at Philadelphia yesterday by
shooting himself in the head. He had been
1 SuneTlnR from "a Q0mnlisQfl0n nf dicpQ aaQ
Tor the past ten years. He leaves two
sons.
For the third time Charles II. Wheeler,
In jail as a horsethief, and who was caught
In Arkansas, has escaped from jail at Sa-
lem, Ill. For several days he had refused
to eat and seemed to be in a dying condi-
ton. Monday night he managed TO break
jail. Officers have been searching for him
without success.
President J. ]. Hill. of the Great North
ern, has acceded to the demands OF labor
unions in the Northwestern States and will
dispense with japanese labor in the shops
and on the road. There were about two
thousand japanese thus employed, and Of
these about fifteen hundred have been dis
placed by white men.
Two hundred employees OF the Church
mine of the Providence Coal Company.
near Scranton, Pa. went on strike yester-
day because Foreman Evans discharged
their grievance committee. The committee
had been sent to confer with the foreman
about increasing the pay for loaded mine
cars from % 10 70 cents.
A capital punishment bill was defeated in
the Kansas Senate yesterday by a vote Of
IS TO IL. A sentiment in favor OF restoring
capital punishment In Kansas was aroused
by the recent burning OF the negro Alex
ander at Leayensworth, and that the bill
should be defeated by such a decisive vote
occasions some surprise.
The eleventh annual session of the At
lantic Canned Goods Packers Association
opened jointly Will the annual convention
1 ~ the Canning Machinery and GnpDlfo. A..
ISOLATION at Rochester, ~. Y. yesterday
ance. including the Western. Indiana and
Canadian associations. who are the guests
OF the Atlantic Association.
The primary election in Kansas City,
Kan, yesterday was remarkable because OF
the activity OF the women voters. Eighteen
hundred registered to vote at the primaries,
and many others voted who were registered
last year and were not required TO reregis-
ter. Many women clerks were in evidence
at the election booths. The saloons were
closed during the progress OF the primaries.
The annual conference OF the Peoples
party of Illinois began at Springfield yes
terday. Joseph Hopp, OF Chicago. chair
man of the state committee, presided. J.
A. Parker, of Louisville. KY, chairman OF
the national committee, was present and
delivered an address. The conference is
for the purpose OF mapping out plans TO
begin early work in the congressional cam
paign OF 1902.
Among the passengers who arrived at
New York yesterday on board the steamer
! tinez Silver. minister OF the United States
of Colornbia at washington. He'll aocou-