The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-03
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Washington State and British Columbia
are blockaded with deep. soft snow.
The weather in Colorado is so cold that
sheep are piling on top of each other in
an endeavor to keep warm and many are
smothering.
Edwin 1. Horseman. wholesale and re-
tail dealer in toys, kites, etc, at New York,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy with
liabilities reported at $4,000 and assets
SIP, 900.
The revolution in Venezuela, headed by
former Secretary General PeraZa, is with
out an echo in the country. He is said TO
be, with fifty followers, in the mountain
district.
The new Argentine-Chilean procotol in
connection with the frontier settlement has
been signed, and the presidents OF Argen-
tina and Chile have exchanged kilograms
of congratulations.
Governor Tanner of Illinois. has issued
a requisition on the Governor of Louisiana
for the extradition of S. George D'Essauer,
under arrest at New Orleans. who is want
ed in Chicago for forgery.
While trying TO escape from logging
camp near Sparta, Wis, where there are
twenty cases of smallpox, lumbernlan
shot and killed one of the guards who
are enforcing quarantine.
President Havemeyer, of the American
Sugar-refning Company. said yesterday
he had nothing TO give out concerning
report that a settlement of the differences
In the sugar trade had been arranged
WI Ting Fang will be the guest of the
New York State Bar Association at Albany
on JAM 10 and is, during its annual meet
ing. He is to speak before the association
on the subject of Chinese Jurisprudence.
Frank Rockefeller. who owns a 1900
acre ranch near Belvidere, Kan, denies
that he is about to breed fine horses or
to enter the racing field. He will devote
himself to raising high-grade range cattle.
Receivers of the Herring Hall Marvin
Safe Company, at Hamilton, o., have
transferred all the properties, including
five large Eastern plants, to the reorgan-
lied company, which has capital of $780,
600.
James A. Walker, the Republican candi-
date for Congress, who was defeated on
the face of the returns by Congressman
w. F. Rhea, of the Ninth congressional
Virginia) district, has filed notice of con-
test.
The two-year-old son of Mrs. Harold Nc
Cormick, who is daughter of John d.
Rockefeller, died yesterday in Tarrytown,
n. Y, of scarlet fever. Another child of
Mrs. Mccormick is also dangerously i'll
from the fever.
The Annapolis, Frolic, Wompatuck and
Piscataqua, of the Mosquito fleet, were
sighted off Bermuda yesterday. They sailed
from Hampton Roads for Bermuda on
Sunday, on their way to Manila. They are
all small vessels
The Toronto Furniture Manufacturers
limited, with a capital stock of s3.000000,
has been formed by the amalgamation of
| firms comprising nineteen manufacturers,
controlling about IS per cent. of the fur
| niture trade of Canada.
AT Columbus Ga, William Ruttledge
| shot and killed George Bass, a fourteen
| year-old boy who had playfully put a sack
| over his head and gone TO the Ruttledge
home to brighten the children. Ruttledge
did not know who Bass was.
| The Illinois Central has disposed of the
| last lands remaining of its grants from the
State to syndicate of Illinois men, headed
| by ex-RepreSentative Filtnan. The tracts
! aggregate 10000 to 5000 acres, and the
| consideration was over $275,000.
| More than a hundred teachers Of the
| Cleveland schools, who have been taking
| holiday tour of Florida and Cuban points.
have returned to Miami. Fla, from Ha-
| vana. They visited the Everglades, and
| will go from Miami directly home.
| The workers at the plant of the National
| Steel Company, at Sharon, Pa, yesterday
signed the new scale for 1901, which pro-
vides for a reduction of 10 per cent. About
400 men were affected. 1t is said .nat me-
ccales for all the nonunion mills are now
| being prepared by the company.
| William Whiteright Stuart. nephew of
! the late William Whiteright, and Mrs. S.
w. Duncan a grand niece, have begun an
| action in the Supreme Court of New York
for construction of the privileges of the
| will of William whiteright, who died in
May. 1898, leaving about 100000
James III. Hardy. well-known attorney
| and real-estate dealer of Cleveland filed
petition in bankruptcy yesterday. His
liabilities placed at s243, S51; assets, S12,-
| AGO. Hardy built number of business
blocks and at one time was president Of
| the Superior-Street Railway Company.
| Charles r. Westervelt, former cashier OF
| the Dime Saving Institution, of Newark
| n. j., yesterday entered plea of guilty
| to two indictments for forgery and not
guilty TO two indictments of embeZZlement
! The amount he is charged with embezzlins
| is s50,500 He will be sentenced next week
The Champion Iron and Steel Company S
| tin-plate mills, located in Muskegcn, Mich,
| have been bought by the American Tin-plate
| Company. The outstanding stock TO be
| transferred amounts TO about S461 900. 1t is
said the price paid was about $4,000 The
| capacity of the mills is over 10000 pounds
| daily.
doing business as August Coldewey &
| Co., wholesale liquor dealers, assigned
| yesterday to @. ID. Coldewey as trustee
Assets are about $4,000, liabilities are not
| given. The trustee says the assignment
| was made for the purpose of liQuidating
the business.
| A sensation was sprung in the alleged
| Buffalo divorce mill case yesterday wheT
T'avid c. Fftzergeald, one of the lawyers
| alleged to have operated the mill, was ar
rested on a warrant charging him witt
subornation of perjury in securing false
testimony for the PLAINTIFF in the divorce
suit of Elizabeth Garlipp against August
| Garlipp.
Miss Frances Roberts, of Highland, n
| Y, has commenced proceedings to have
| her father, Charles III. Roberts, a wealthy
| retired dentist, declared incompetent
| declaring he is lavishly dealing out his
fortune to one son. DR.. Roberts is over
| eighty years old and his fortune amounts
to $2,e00,0OO, acquired largely by speculation
| In railroad bonds.
| Controller Coler, of New York, said yes
| terday that he had refused to pay the
| December salary of James j. Coogan, pres
ident of the borough of Manhattan. The
| amount Is 800. Mr.. Coogan registered
and voted at Southampton, L. L., at the
last election. The city charter directs that
| a borough president must be q residen,
of the borough during his term of office.
Charles C. Morschheimer, travelling
| salesman of Pine Bluff. Ark, on Tuesda,
shot and killed Charles Bradley. proprie
tor of the Bradley House at Hamburg
| Ark. The killing the result of an at
tack made by Bradley on Morschheimel
| with an iron window weight. Morschheimel
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