The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-30
BREVITIES.

ask lOT Il state commission u ANtSNA5dNC.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Mayor-elect Seth Low announced yester-
day the appointment of Col. John y. Par
fridge as police commissioner OF Greater
New York. Colonel Partridge is now state
superintendent of public works.
L. c. Williams, the negro editor of the
Kansas City Observer, is dead from the
effects of a stab wound received in a fight
with another negro. Williams's brain was
penetrated with a pair of shears.
J. w. McRae, president of the Canadian
Railway Accident Insurance Company ana
vice president of a number or companies,
accidentally shot and killed hlmself In ms
office at Ottawa yesterday, while cleaning
his revolver.
The subcommittee engaged in the prelim-
mary work or revision of the Presbyterian
creed was In session again at washington
yesterday. The proceedings consisted most
ly of interchange of individual views or the
members n no important action was
AIKEN.
Mack Montroy and Dave Cummings, en-
ployed in one of the lumber camps near
Two Harbors, Mimi, secured some stuff
they supposed was alcohol and drank it,.
IN hour later both were dead. Another
also drank the mixture and is In a serious
condition. Montroy's home was at Detroit,
Mich.
1t developed yesterday that Charles L.
Hayward, who was arrested at Havelock,
Neb., on a charge Of burglary n taken to
Lincoln, is in reality held for the alleged
murder of John j. Gillian, a former MEM
Der of the Legislature, and one of the
prominent business men Of Lincoln, last
August.
A meeting of the executive committee Of
the Grand Army of the Republic will be
held in Chicago Dec. II. The selection Of a
city for the next annual encampment will
be the chief matter to come up for discus
sion. Denver, Atlantic City and Washing
ton. ID. G. are the principal contestants for
this honor.
At Minneapolis yesterday Samuel Hogan
was sentenced to three years In the state
penitentiary for shooting Peter Kolik soon
after the Mckinley assassination. Kolik is
a Pole. and on being asked if he was an
Anarchist. replied that he was. 1t after
ward developed that he did not understand
English well.
was in the employ of the lsthmian Canal
Commission, and who was arrested in New
York on Tuesday night on a warrant issued
in the District of Columbia, charging him
with selling reports of the commission,
was taken to Washington yesterday by a
United States marshal.
Directors of the Interstate Independent
Telephone and Telegraph Company, a new
$3,OO0,O 900 corporation recently organized in
New Jersey for the purpose of acquiring
and controlling telephone companies, held
it's first business meeting at Joliet, ILL.,, yes
terday. Directors were present from New
Jersey, Ohio and Illinois.
The fishermen now on strike at Pensa-
cola, Fla, now number 400. The bone of
contention is that they want ~ cents per
pound on all large -redsnappers brought
to pensacola. They are at present ~receiv-
ing 8 cents less, which, the dealers claim,
is the highest they can pay for this fish,
as that is the maximum at which a profit
can be made.
The Columbus Steel and Iron Company has
been forced to bank it's big furnace in that
city owing to inability to secure coke, and
the 15O employees Will probably be idle Tor
the next ten days. The source OF the trO -
ble is shortage in cars, all available equip
ment being used to rush coal to the lakes
before the close Of the season OF naviga-
ton, which is later this year than usual.
Thirty-six exhibitors, with more than
1000 animals, have just added their quota
TO the list of exhibits for the international
Live stock Association show, which is TO
be held at the Union Stockyards, Chicago,
next week. More than 10000 animals will
be on exhibition, and the money value of
these prize animals is approximately 49,
100000. 1t will be the greatest show Of the
kind ever held.
Walter Smith, a prominent business man,
shot and instantly killed James Rush, a
bartender, on the street at
Tenn, near Smiths home. 1t is claimed
that Rush was making an effort to shoot
Smith. There were no witnesses to the
affair. Rush was a single man from Knox
vile, Tenn, where he had relatives. Smith
Is q married man. Smith gave himself up
" II OlllCGIS.
Tom Shorter. a negro wearing the uni
form of the Ninth United States Cavalry,
was arrested by the conductor OF a passen-
ger train at Union Springs, Ala, for beat
Ing his passage, a quantity OF counterfeit
dollars, half dollars and nickels was found
on his person. The negro claimed it was
Filipino money. He also had molds for
making money. The negro claims that he
has recently been in the Soldiers Home at
San Francisco.
According to the New York Journal Of
Commerce, the Borden Condensed Milk
Company, whose capital stock heretofore
has been S20,VO,00, all common, or which
s17,500,00O has, ii Is understood. been issued,
intends to issue 5 ,75O.OOO preferred stock.
This new issue Of preferred stock is being
made for the purpose of absorbing several
the Borden Company.
Falliacao Taceo, aged twenty-five years.
was arrested in Detroit yesterday by De-
tectfve Lombard, OF the local force. on a
Springfield. ILL.,, where it is alleged he
stabbed Guisetto Mato, a countryman Of
his, to death a few weeks ago. 1t is also
said that Tacco. after stabbing his friend.
rolled the body in "A blanket and dropped it
in a well. TaccO admits his guilt but says
the stabbbing was done in self-defense.
State Commissioner of Mines Harry Lee,
OF Colorado, yesterday received the returns
OF Inspectors +. Snye and 7. H. Clifford,
who We're sent TO Telluride TO investigate
the recent accident at the Smuggler-Union
mine by which twenty-five men lost their
lives. The report fully exonerates the COM
pany from any blame in the matter and
says the fatalities appear to have resulted
from a failure on the part Of those present
TO realize the danger until it was too late.
In the United States District Court at
Des Moines, Ia, yesterday the Balliett
jury was dismissed, owing to the death Of
one of its members. The ~contending sides
IN the case could not agree as TO trying. it
before the eleven remaining jurors. The
case was continued until the next term
Ballet is the owner of the White Swan
mine in Baker, Ore. and is accused by the
United States with having used the mails
TO further a fraudulent scheme by which
he sold stock to the amount of a quarter
Of G million dollars.