The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-04
BATCH OF FRESH NEWS
HOT FROM THE WIRES AND SERVED
WITHOUT TRIMMINGS.
A Little of Everything, and Certain
Who Like Facts Cut to the Bone.

The first cargo of American coal for
Russian warships cleared Norfolk, Va,
in the British steamship Ferdine. for Port
Arthur, yesterday.
Senator Chauncey Depew, who has been
indisposed since Friday at his home in
New York, from the grippe. was feeling
better yesterday
Joseph Jefferson, the actor, has pur-
chased a three-story apartment building in
Chicago valued at $4,000 Mr.. Jefferson
paid $4,000 in cash and assumed a mort
gage of $4,000.
William II. De Haas. civil engineer in
the employ of the United States Engineer
ing Department at Pensacola, Fla, shot
himself yesterday morning and died al
most instantly.
Edward It. Platt, elder son of United
States Senator Platt. has been elected gen
eral superintendent and manager OF the
United States Express Company. Senator
Plat is president
war between local and Minneapolis millers:
The price has fallen from $3.50 per barrel
Wholesale to So. 80 retail, though the price
of wheat has advanced.
At the close of yesterdays meeting of
the directors of the United States Rubber
Company in New York it was stated the
board had decided to make a reduction III
the price of manufactured goods.
Former President Andrade, of Venezuela,
who has been exiled since the last revolu-
poets to leave in the near future and 1t Is
believed he will join the Venezuelan insur-
gents.
BY the decision of Mr.. Griggs, the
United States attorney general, the term
of the Porto Rican Assembly will expire
Jan. 81, Mr.. Griggs pronouncing in favor
of a sixty-day continuous session from
Dec. 8.
The Republic Iron and Steel Company
has decided to engege in the manufacture
nd tirr1 hsa-
ing made to erect hoop mill with a capac-
ity of 100 to $50 tons per day in Youngs-
town, o.
The trustees of the Christian Church AS
ISOLATION, in session at Dayton, O.. yester-
day accepted the resignation Of Rev. w.
II. Sanluels publishing agent and Sc
lected Rev. Jasper n. Hess, of East Chi
cago, as his successor.
Commissioner of Charities John w. Kel-
Ter, of New York, has suspended from duty
DR.. John w. Moore, who has been in charge
of the insane pavilion and alcoholic ward,
at Bellevue Hospital, for the last two
months, on the ground Of negligence.
Emmett Phillips, aged forty years, a
claim adjuster for the Kansas Southern
Railroad, was found dead in room in the
blossom House in Kansas City, Mo-, last
night. He had taken Strychnine. He had
been drinking heavily for several days.
A rubber manufacturing company. with
capital of S1,000000, will be established in
ing to Attorney Milton +. Foreman. Mr..
Foreman says the company is to be known
as the Western Rubber Shoe Company.
More than 100 men have been confined to
the hospital at the Brooklyn navy yard
during the last week suffering from the
grip. Col. r. L. Meade, commanding the
barracks, and Capt. A. T. Mark and
Lieut.. Pickering are among the sufferers.
A syndicate has been formed to control
much of the slate output of the Bangor
and Pen Argyll quarries in Pennsylvania.
The companies in the combine are the
Bangor. Excelsior American and Star, in
the Bangor region, and Alban at Pen
Argyll
A mail sack containing a number of reg
istered letters and valuable packages was
ron (O) station of the Valley railroad just
before train time Wednesday night. A
messenger placed it there to be thrown on
board the mail train.
The worst snowstorm since the winter of
1SS9-9O throughout southern Oregon and
northern California has ragged during the
last twenty-four hours. Telegraph and tele-
phone communication has been paralyzed.
The snow is from one foot to seven in
depth Trains are all behind time.
The jury in the case of Allen Andrews
indicted at Massillon, o.. in connection with
the Dowieite riots last fall returned YER
dict of guilty late yesterday. Andrews re-
sisted the officer who was protecting the
Dowieites Others indicted for participa-
ton III Dowieite riots will be tried.
Morton Mortimer, actuary of the Provi-
dent Savings and Life Assurance Society,
and John w. Won kleik, assistant actuary
of the same concern. who were arrested
at New York last week on a charge of
grand larceny, were held for the grand
jury yesterday.
John Bazaiuski, eighty-five years of age,
and Bianipaer Genkinski, six months old,
were found dead from asphyxiation at St.
They slept in a room heated by gas stove,
which had become extinguished during the
night without the flow of gas being stopped.
A conference of steel plate manufacturers
was held in New York yesterday to dis
cuss an advance in the price of their
product. II is understood the quotation will
be increased cents per 100 pounds. Steel
rail manufacturers are expected to take
action soon on the quotation of an advance
in rails.
An important meeting of the officials of
the metal trades will be held in st. Louis
on Jan. 15 for the purpose of arranging for
a national movement next spring to estab-
fish nine-hour working day. The trades
interested are the machinists, pattern MAX
ers, core makers, brassworkers and boiler
makers.
Pittsburg capitalists will open at once a
tract of 1900 acres of coal land in Clarion
county, Pennsylvania, and build railroad
sixteen miles long from Clarion to Sum-
vision of the Pennsylvania Railroad The
new line will cost 100000 and will traverse
hitherto virgin territory.
The new prices on window glass will not
be announced either by the American Glass
Company or by the new independent or
ganization until next week. The i'm
preston is growing at Pittsburg that the
Unionl between the two big concerns has
rot yet reached that stage at which a
perfect pool on prices is possible
About 70 per cent of the striking struc-
tural steel workers of Pittsburg will go
&c work this morning at the new scale
s, for day of nine hours The American
of the men yesterday, and the union at a
meeting last night declared the strike off
SO far as the combine is concerned.
The 1900 striking employees of the Louis
vile stemery of the Continental Tobacco
Company decided last night to go back to
work to-day. They will not get the in
creased wages asked for but their other
demands, including abolition of docking
and permission TO leave the factory for
dinner, were granted by the management
II. z. Weber, a well-te-do farmer, who
lived near Lisbon, Me-, blew himself to
and upper part of his body were found on
top of the barn Notes left by Weber
said that the writer had decided to kill
himself by exploding dynamite cartridges
He had been acting strangely for several
weeks.
After Jan. "a the Pacific Mail is to handle
all of its business between Central Ameri-
can and Mexican Pacific ports and New
York and Europe by way Of San Francisco
and the Southern Pacific's New Orleans
route. When extensive wharf facilities are
completed at Guyamas, part OF the bust
ness will be sent via that port and the
Sunset route.
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