The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

The New York Court of Appeals did not
hand down decision in the Molineux case
yesterday.
All differences with the miners have been
adjusted and the Moweaqua Qll.) coal
shaft started up yesterday with it's full
complement of men.
William Morgan and Ross Chadwell,
Baptist Church, near Big Springs, Va,
died Monday night. This makes six dead
from that feudal encounter.
President Adams, of the Wisconsin State
University, who is i'll. could not be seen
yesterday, but as far known there is
foundation for the rumor that he will re-
sign at a meeting of the regents, TO be held
next Friday.
c. c. Pharr, farmer residing near Bel
fast, o., was shot from ambush Monday
night while entering the gate in front of
his house. The ball, supposed to have been
fired from a rifle, passed entirely through
his body and death is only a question of a
few hours.
The Presbytery of Westchester N. Y,
sitting at Rye, yesterday accepted the Rev.
pastOrate of the First Presbyterian Church
of YonkerS DR.. Pentecost has undertaken
Presbyterian missionary work in the Phil
ippine islands.
Three persons We're drowned on Monday
in the Missouri river, near MurfreesbOro,
Pike county, Arkansas, while attempting to
cross in a leaky boat. The dead are Paschal
Hudson, aged twenty-six years; Elsie
holm, aged eleven years.
Fred l.. Taft, attorney for the Guar
antee Savings and Loan Company, of Cleve-
land yesterday appeared i'm the Ohio SUI
preme Court, and admitted that the con-
Germ was insOvent and asked the appoint
ment of trustees. The court appointed
Messrs. Taft and j. b. Livingston.
The will of the late X. B. Armour was
filed in the probate court at Kansas City,
Mo, yesterday. By its terms the estate is
left share and share alike to the widow,
Mrs. Annie II. Armour, and the three chill
dren, Andrew Watson Armour, Lawrence
II. Armour and Mary Augusta Armour.
Harry Trieder and William d. Lyons,
who were arrested at New York Monday
on suspicion of completely in the murder Of
the five-year-old boy, Albert Robinson
whose body was found in bag were ar
raigned in Police Court yesterday and dis
charged. There was no evidence on which
to detain the men,
At Houston Tex, yesterday Walter
Malch and Ben Kegans engaged i'm a street
duel the former being instantly killed and
kegans mortally wounded. The trouble,
1T Is said, arose over a trivial affair. Four
shots were fired. Kegans receiving a bullet
through the abdomen and Malch one
through the heart.
Judge Lacombe. in the United States
Court, at New York, handed down on order
yesterday dismissing the writ of habeas
corpus in the case of Wardman Bissert
recently convicted of accepting a bride
from a keeper of disorderly house The
case will be appealed to the Supreme Court
of the United States.
The stockholders of the Edison Electric
Illuminating Company yesterday voted TO
issue $3.50 900 additional stock The board Of
directors was increased from nine to twelve
members. At the close of the meeting the
directors met and elected the following Of
ficers: President, G. l.. Edgar; vice presi-
dent, Walter G. Baylies; treasurer, Henry
G. Cabot
BY the action of the Yale field corpora
ton, yesterday, the athletic field with the
Ill NI.a11
be transferred, free of debt, to the univer-
sity corporation. A committee was named
to arrange the transfer, the university cor
poration having expressed it's willingness
to accept the property. 1t is estimated to
be worth $4,000.
After serving five years of a life SEN
tence for criminal assault on a woman
Elijah Warren. of Pike county. Alabama
will be released from the Alabama peni-
Tertiary to-day on an order from Governnr
Jelks. The woman has furnished the Gov
swore falsely. Thereupon a pardon We
issued TO Warren.
At a special meeting of the directors of
York, yesterday, Harry Weissinger nresi,
dent of the Harry Weissinger Tobacco
Company, OF Louisville, Ky, was elected n
member of the board of directors. The ac-
ton of the executive committee in acouirinp
a large majority Of the stock OF the Harry
Weissinger Tobacco Company was ratifjed
Abe Majors: popularity known as 1.-THE
boy murderer has been
Logan, Utah. TO life imprisonment for the
killing of Captain Brown. chief of the Oe-
Gen police. three years ago. Majors, who
is barely out of his teens, was convicted
for the crime and sentenced TO be shot in
1899. but the Supreme Court granted him
a new trial, which was concluded on Sat
urday last
Sing Iii. Chinese restaurant keeper on
Erie street Cleveland. found dead in
his room last night with his head almost
severed from his body. The police claim
the AFFAIR is murder, but have not yet
placed the responsibility for the crime
Show XII brother Of the murdered man
says his brother was a member of the
Highbinders Society. No arrests have vet
been made.
The funeral Of George c. Montgomery.
the Santa Re Railroad secret-service man
who was shot and killed while sitting i'm
his home al Winfield, Kan. last Saturday
by some one on the outside. who fired
through the window. was held yesterday
The Santa Fe company has posted a notice
in all its stations to the effect that it VIII