The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-19
GENERAL NEWS In BRIEF
VARIETY OF DISPATCHES ROBBED
OF sUPERFLUOUs vERBIAGE.
Items that Will Interest Business men,
TOiIers, Politicians and All
Classes of Readers.

City yesterday. Chicago was selected as
the place of holding the next convention.
John N. Green. of Metropolis. Ill. was
arrested yesterday by the sherin OF JeI-
ferson county, Illinois, for the murder or
a young man named Cooper In that county
twelve years ago.
United States Marshal Alcott. of the New
Jersey district. has formally seized in New
York ST.. 900 worth of diamonds which were
brought into this country by Antonio An
senias without paying duty on them.
C. Barnett, alias Evans, has been arrest
ed at Allentown Pa. He is supposed TO be
a green goods swindler and counter
feiter His arrest was brought about by
Lawrence Wheeler. of Hazleton, Ind.
Capt. Charles Belmont. In command Of
Quintard. and at various times employed
on yachts owned by millionaires, was killed
by trolley car in Brooklyn last night.
A registered package. containing 5000.
sent from Dubuque, Ia. TO bank at
GAINESVILLE, has disappeared. Postal Clerk
Marcy forgot to deliver the package at
GAINESVILLE and carried it through. 1t dis
appeared at Hampton.
The Minnesota Board of Grain Appeals
has issued circular announcing the crea-
ton of an intermediate grade of f1axseed
to be known as mo. fiaxseed. Hereto
fore faxseed has been rated mo. l North
western" Rejected and mo Grade
There is a scarcity of fruit cars in South
ern California and orange shippers are ex-
periencing some anxiety. There are over
1900 carloads of fruit to be shipped and
the shippers declare that 200 cars a day
should be started for the East. The rail-
roads are at present unable to handle over
100 cars a day.
Frank Kester aged forty years, was shot
and killed last night at his home In Kansas
City by Policeman Sias Shumate. Hester
vas intoxicated and was taken home by the
policeman. He got weapon. declaring
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officer. thinking his life was in danger.
shot Kester. The dead man has wife and
three children.
General elections in Jamaica. have con-
Guided. OF the fourteen members of the
Legislature returned, thirteen are pledged
to resist Joseph Chamberlain's attempt to
restore absolute crown government The
feeling against the British colonial policy
is growing stronger. and II Mr.. Chamber
lain refuses to yield, delegates will be sent
TO England soon.
A verdict for the defendant was found
by the New Hampshire Supreme Court jury
in the case of the University Of Illinois
VS.. solomon Spalding. of Nashua, N. H.,
OF $4,000 TO protect fund deposited with
Charles Spalding, son of the defendant, by
the university. District Attorney Hamblett
moved that the verdict be set aside.
Attorney General Sheets. of Ohio has re-
c0fved letter. purporting to have been
written by one Of the patrons Of the Home
Cooperative Union of Lima, threatening
his life. The company was recently ousted
writer says the plan of the company was
the only one by which poor man could
ever secure home. Mr.. Sheets will pay no
attention TO the letter.
The American Cattle Growers Association
has been organized at Salt Lake City by
the representatives of fifteen trans Missis-
sippi States. The association Is designed
to fill the same field with reference to the
cattle industry that Is occupied by the
National Wool Growers Association to the
present at the meeting represented capital
running into the hundreds of millions.
Harry N. Pillsbury, champion chess play
er of America, arrived at Chicago from
Philadelphia Thursday and registered at
the Morrison hotel. He had been in town
but few hours when he reappeared at the
desk and shyly penned an addition to the
name on the register. The revised sigma
ture read Mr.. and Mrs. H N. Pillsbury."
Marriage license records show that Mrs.
Pillsbury was Miss Mary E. Bush, whose
home was given Philadelphia.
Charles Z. c. Mather, who several days
ago pleaded guilty to the larceny of Jewell
ry valued, 1t is said at $4,000. was sem
years imprisonment in Sing Sing. Mathers
scheme was to secure jewelry from whole
sale dealers on memorandum, under the
pretense that he was going to sell II to
Howard Gould for the latters wife. Mather
then pawned the jewelry and disappeared.
Later he was found In Seattle and brought
back to New York.
William H. Croker, of San Francisco,
solar eclipse expedition to be sent by the
University of California from the Lick
Observatory to Sumatra to observe the total
eclipse of the sun on May IL. An astrono-
mer and assistants, with apparatus from
Mt Hamilton. will sail from San Francisco
on Feb. 10 to be away until July. They
will establish an observation camp some
where within twenty miles of Padang on
the west coast of Sumatra.
Mrs Lillian M. N Stevens. national presi-
dent of the w. c. T. u, and Mrs. Susanna
NJ. ID. Fry, the w. G. Il. u. national record
ing secretary, have sent petition to the
judiciary committee of the national House
of Representatives asking that an amend
ment to the national Constitution be pro-
posed by that committee defining legal mar
riage to be monogamic and making polyg-
amy in any form crime against the
United States and punishable by severe
penalties.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
American Protective Tariff League has just
been held In New York. Charles A. Moore
was elected president and Chester o. Girls
void treasurer The operations of the
league were embraced in the report of the
general secretary. Briefly. the report was
that the organization had received. includ-
ing the cash balance on hand, $69172, and
that IL had expended $62,S34, leaving a cash
balance on hand of $685. The total dis
tribution Of literature exceeded 135. Oo0. 900
pages.
Yale graduates propose that the bones of
Elihu Yale. which are inferred in Wales,
be removed to this country for interment
on the Yale campus. The suggestion is
made by Percy l.. Lang. of Yale So, of
Waverly, n. Y. The suggestion Of Mr..
Lang is favored by many graduates. The
remains of the founder of Yale are Inferred
in the churchyard at Mexhon, Wales.
Secretary Arson Phelps Stokes of the
Yale faculty said: 1T would be a fitting
thing to do, out / should consider 1t quite
unlikely"
Justice Fitzgerald. on an application from
Guggenheimer, Untermeyer & Marshall,
directing that a mandamus be issued in
the suit brought by Anton j. Dittmar to
recover S377,000 and be served on Count
Boni de Castellane and his wife, Anna
Gould by publication. This is the suit in
which Dittmar asked for an Injunction to
restrain George. Edward and Helen Gould,
as trustees under the will of Jay Gould,
from paying to Anna Gould her share Of the
income from the estate.
The death of Mrs. Maria T. Banigan
while on a visit to relatives i'm Chicago re-
r. l. Since the death of Joseph Banigan
his wife has travelled extensively, spending
one winter in Europe and another in New
York She was noted for her charitable
work. and IL was chiefly through her in
fiuence that Mr.. Banigan bequeathed so
much money to plAlanthropical institutions
She was New York woman and married
Joseph Banigan twenty-seven years ago.
He died in 1898. leaving fortune estimated
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