The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-26
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yesterday.
The German cruiser Venetia arrived at
New orleans yesterday and was given a
noisy welcome.
The annual convention and exposition of
the National Carriage and Harness Deal
ers' Association will be held in Chicago
next week.
Two freight trains on the Plant System
collided near Dimmick, Ala, yesterday.
Engineer Adams Fireman Morris and an
unknown brakeman were killed.
Joint ballots yesterday in the legislatures
OF Oregon, Nebraska, Montana and Della
ware did not break the Senatorial dead
locks. There was no material change In
the voting.
The Oregon Senate Yesterday passed a
bill providing that the people shall be given
the right to express by ballot at their
regular State elections their choice for
United States senator.
The Prairie, from Havre, France, ar
rived at the Brooklyn navy yard yesterday.
with the government exhibits at the Paris
exposition and the exhibit of American
paintings. The latter will be sent TO Buff
talo.
George c. Johnston has been appointed
receiver for the Odd Fellows Endowment
Association, of Pennsylvania The liabili-
ties of the association are $4,000 and the
assets $4,000. The association has about
1000 members.
Martin Sickle was hanged at Kalama,
Wash. yesterday, for the murder of w. b.
Shanklin, near Kelso, In 1899. He had con-
fessed this crime and also that he killed
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Knapp Nov. Is,
1900. His motive was robbery.
DR.. John Hair. of Addyston, a suburb of
Cincinnati, was shot and probably fatally
wounded yesterday by George Bowman liv-
ing III the same house. The quarrel arose
over an accusation by Bowman that the
doctor was paying undue attention TO Bow
mans wife.
a Mas nc' inta
national convention, in Milwaukee yester-
day, a resolution was adopted against con-
Wet labor and urging subordinate unions
to work through national and State rep
resentatives to do all possible in further
ance OF the movement.
A call has been issued by Oliver w.
Stewart, chairman of the national commit
tee, Tor national prohibition conference
TO be held at Buffalo in August. The pur-
pose, as stated in the call, is TO discuss
questions of interest to State and county
chairman and local workers.
Ashea Waba, an actress, attended the
matinee at the Crescent theater New
Orleans. and would not remove her hat.
or hfteen days in Jail. This is the first
arrest that has grown out of the enforce
ment of the high hat law in New Orleans.
Two deaths from smallpox were reported
to the Chicago health department yester-
day, the first that have occurred there
since the recent outbreak of that disease.
sc far sixty-three cases have been report
ed. The health authorities believe danger
or an epidemic is now past
BY the death of the late Benjamin D. Sill
Imam, of Brooklyn, Yale will obtain from
the estate OF his brother, Austin e. SILL
man, an endowment of $50, 900 for a lecture
ship. The lectures must be of a nature
to illustrate the presence and wisdom Of
God as expressed in the works of nature.
The New York Journal and Advertiser
says: Andrew Carnegie has secured control
OF the Pressed Steel Car Company, which Is
paying over s2,000,000 a year i'm dividends.
BY securing control of the Pressed Steel
Car Company it is said Mr.. Carnegie will
be able to control the manufacture of steel
cars
j. NJ Carpenter and J. A. Stone, backed
by Pennsylvania syndicate of $10,0O00 900.
have purchased 10000 acres of timber, iron
and copper lands in Monroe county Ten
nessee, paying 100000 for the property.
They say they will build a railroad to the
property and will develop every product
OF the tract.
John Fl. Gordon. OF Woodbury.. Tenn,
charged with burning his wife to death last
Sunday morning. cut his own throat to es-
cape arrest Officers pursuing the alleged
! murderer found mis- body In Warren county.
near Luckey, soon after death had resulted.
Five small children are made orphans by
the double tragedy.
Judge Kirkpatrick. in the United States
Court at Trenton, n. J.. denied the applica-
ment of receiver for the Cuban Land and
Steamship Company. The judge said he
would not assume fraud on the part of the
officers of the company, and therefore de-
MED the application.
An ordinance providing for the Issuance
of bonds to the amount Of s5,OO0,0O for the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition was given
its first reading in the ST. Louis City Coun-
ell last night. The Council unanimously
voted to convene this afternoon 10 give the
bill its second reading, and a special meet
ing will be held Monday to pass it.
Deputy United States Marshal NJ. d. Rubin
left Syracuse, n. Y, last night under orders
from Attorney General John w. Griggs to
take fourteen Cinnamon from Utica and
two from Albany and conduct them to San
Francisco for deportation. They had en-
tered New York State from Canada at Ma
lone, in violation of the exclusion act.
Randolph Willis and Thomas Taylor. both
convicted of burglary, and under sentence
OF three years in the penitentiary, escaped
from jail at Pomeroy, o., yesterday, and
are now being pursued by bloodhounds
through the hills of West Virginia. They
sawed out the steel bars Of their cell and
dug a hole through the wall of the jail
building.
A daring hold-up occurred in the heart
of the business district of Memphis at
o'clock last night, when two masked men
entered the Climax saloon, Mt Second and
Monroe streets, and covering half dozen
people with revolvers made them throw up
THEIR <AItcT SecuTlIlt, liS iAicHty
in the cash drawer $3.50 the robbers es-
capped.
Letters have been received at New Bed
ford, Mass, announcing the loss Of boats
crew of six men from the whaling schooner
Charles III. Hodgdon, of Bedford, at sea
on Dec. Is. The men had put off in chase
OF a school OF wales, but were caught in
the school. Before help could reach them
they disappeared. All were natives of Cape
Verde island, but belonged in Bedford.
The grand jury at Williamsburg. KY
yesterday returned eleven indictments
against the Shotwells and their associates
charging them with conspiracy TO murder
Rolla White at Corbin, when the grocery
store Of Whites brother was blown up
Susan Cox and Sutton Farris. All but one
are in jail. The trials will begin next week.
w. w. Baldwin. an insurance agent of
Chattanooga, Tenn. was arrested at Knox
vile, Tenn, yesterday on warrant sworn
out by the Third National Bank of Chat
tanooga, charging him with forging in
dorsements on a note which the bank dis
counted for 5000. 1t is said Baldwin had
collected 5000 on the note, but the entire
sum was recovered.
Earl Durham. postoffice clerk. who last
summer shot and killed Mrs Annie Tyson
and wounded her husband, Samuel Tyson,
because of an attack on Mrs. Burnham,
was yesterday found guilty of manslaugh
ter In the fourth degree at Kansas City
and given sentence OF three months in
the county Jail and TO pay a fine of 500.
He was indicted for murder in the first
degree.