The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS BREvITIES.

The steamer Tyconderoga. belonging to
the Champlain Transportation Company,
plying between Baldwin and Caldwell, on
Lake George, was destroyed by fire yester-
day at Rogers rock dock. No lives were
lost.
George A. Quinlan. vice president and
general manager of the Houston 81 Texas
Central Railroad, died at Houston last
three months. He was one of the veterans
OF the railroad service of Texas, and was
widely known. He began railroading in 1856
as a rodman on the Chicago a. North
western.
The Right Rev. Edgar l.. Jacob. bishop
of Newcastle. England, was a passenger
on the steamer Germanic, which arrived at
New York from Liverpool yesterday. He
said that he would remain i'm this country
about three months, and would attend the
convention Of the Episcopal Church at San
Francisco in October.
The body of an unknown eighteen-year-
old boy was found on the bumpers OF a
Lake Shore train from Buffalo. at Cleve-
land, yesterday. "A cash that probably
only clew to his identity was an unused
ticket bought at Elma, N. Y, on the Buffa-
10 K Allegheny Railroad.
Surgeon General Wyman has notified
Health Commissioner .Starklof. OF st.
Louis. that Dong Gong. the Chinese laun-
dryman who was discovered here suffering
with leprOsy, cannot be sent TO the leper
settlement at Molokai, Hawaiian islands.
AS a last resort, DIR. Starkloff intends to lay
the case before the Governor of Louisiana.
and ask that Dong Gong be received at the
leper settlement of that State.
Former Auditor James ii. Burns was
arrested at st. Paul yesterday on a charge
Of grand larceny preferred by County
Treasurer Metzdorff. The arrest is made
in connection with the alleged recently dis
covered tax certificate frauds by which
the county is believed to have lost large
sums. Burns was arraigned In the police
court, waived a limfn examination
and was released on $1,000 bail.
The Ohio attorney general yesterday filed
"A suit i'm quo warranto i'm the State Su-
preme Court to Gust the Ohio Building and
Loan Association of Cleveland and for the
appointment of a receiver. The association
is the third one which has gone upon the
rocks AS a result of the failure of the Supe-
rior-street Savings and Banking Company
of Cleveland. Judge Shauck set the hear
ing of the motion for a receiver for Sat
urday.
The most important haul OF counterfeit
ing apparatus ever made i'm eastern Ore
gon was the capture on Snake river. by
Deputy United States Marshal A. A.. Rob-
erts, of Portland, and a special agent of
the secret service of the Treasury Depart
counterfeit money. F.. r. Coon was cap
tured while in the act of repairing his tools.
An accomplish. a young man named Butts,
was also taken.
A settlement of the litigation which has
involved the Life Assurance
Company since last September was ef-
fected yesterday before Judge Chetlain at
Chicago by the acceptance of the bid of
Walter III. Lee for the assets OF the COM
pany. Some time ago Mr.. Lee offered to
pay 40 per cent. on all approved claims
against the company in return for the title
to all the assets. The claims which are TO
be settled aggregate in round figures the
sum of $1,000. 300.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
said last evening: 1T was reported Thurs
day that a Western man had been selected
for the vice presidency of the Seventh Ma
uonal Bank on the reorganization of the
institution. The man. whose name was
not mentioned. was said TO have become a
director in the Seventh National shortly
befor~ its suspension on July 2. From this
description II is believed that 1t is r. w.
Kansas City. Mo"
Attorney General Douglas, of Minnesota.
has written an opinion for the Railroad and
Warehouse Commission which. If followed.
VIII work A great change in the methods OF
the department. He declares all elevators
adjacent TO railroad lines public elevators
within the law. whether on spur tracks.
sidings or whether only adjacent to the line
of railroad. There are about one hundred
or these elevators In the State. and they
have never been licensed or regulated by
the State in any way, having been classed
as private elevators.
The Supreme Court of Montana has de-
MED the application OF the Boston and Mon
tana Company for AN order requiring the
Montana Ore Purchasing Company To fur
nish additional bond I'm the Pennsylvania
case and for an injunction restraining r..
a. Heinze from operating the Minnie Healy
decision OF Judge Harvey. The court unani-
mousiy struck from the records the sensa-
tional afidavits involving Judge Harvey
which were fled I'm the lower court I'm sup
port OF a motion for a new trial. now pend
ing. Work at the Minnie Healy mine will
now be resumed.