The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-06
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The miners of the Star mine at Aspen,
Col, have struck because of an attempt
or the owners to enforce ten-hour ody
system.
The tobacco trust is said 10 be trying TO
secure controlling interest In the cigar
firm of Powell. Smith & Co, or New \ orK.
1t is rumored that s10,OOOOo0 are to be IN
vested In the project,
A petition in bankruptcy was filed at
Utica, n. Y. yesterday by c. A Mott,
Claude p. Mott and Edgar O. Gould pro-
prietors of the Butterfed House In tnat
city. The liabilities are $77.264
The Toledo Times Company has pur-
chased the Evening News, and. beginning
Jan. T. will issue both papers from the
same office. II. p. Grouse is editor In CHIEF
and II. A. Eof business manager.
With the exception of Carson, Cal. where
OF the great snowstorm that has been rag
Ing in northern California and southern
Oregon since New Years night, report an
abatement of the fury OF the storm.
1t is reported that the negroes near Pop
lar Bluff, Mo-, who were subjected TO White
Cap outrages last week are organizing ana
arming TO protect their homes. Law-apiu-
ing citizens of the county are endeaVorlng
to quiet the apprehensions or the negroes.
Duncan Mcintyre. aged twenty-five, ia
tally shot Miss Eta Anderson, aged sew
n, because She declined to marry him.
He then shot himself, dying instantly.
Miss Anderson died in about thirty min
utes.
The threatened trouble between jamaican
laborers and American overseers of the
Ecuador Railroad has been temporarily
averted by the arrest OF an American
named Renalls charged with having insti-
gated the recent shooting and the bad feel
ing, which still prevails.
AT the midwinter commencement Of the
American University, East Tennessee, the
honorary degree of doctor of laws was con-
ferred by the board of regents upon +. A.
b Widener, of Philadelphia, in recognition
OF the inestimable services he has rendered
to literature and fine arts.
Four men were arrested at Snyder, Neb.,
yesterday, suspected OF being connected
with the murder and robbery in Herman
Sohn's saloon, at that place, Friday night
One of them, who refuses TO give his name,
admits being concerned In the robbery but
denies completely in the murder.
The men employed at the mines of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, at Gal
luj. n. NJ, have struck A telegram from
Mr. Mitchell, chairman of the National
Mine Workers Association, Is said to have
advised the employees to strike. saying they
would be supported. Several hundred men
are out
George Elder has filed petition in bank
ruptcy at Duluth In which he gives his
liabilities SlS,6 and his assets at 80 $50.
OF the Indebtedness s147, 1852 is the amount
OF a Judgment held by st. Louis county
against the American Land and Trust Com
pany bondsmen, Mr.. Elder being of
them.
The Jury in the trial of Charles Lee.
charged with murder in the first degree for
| the killing of Grant Arnett, at Seneca, Mo-,
| I'm May last failed to agree at Noosho, Mo,
yesterday After the jury was discharged
the defendant pleaded guilty to manslaugh-
| ter in the fourth degree and was sentenced
| TO two years in the penitentiary.
Hume David Browne said to be wanted
| in New York, Philadelphia and other cities
| for alleged insurance swindles aggregating
$50. ooo was arrested at Chicago, on Friday
night, after eluding the authorities for ten
| years. He is about forty years old and has
| a wife and two children in New Orleans.
Browne was formerly consul for the Ca
madam government at New Orleans, La.
| At a meeting of the directors of the
| American Clay Company, at Akron, o.,
yesterday. il was decided TO remove the
| general offices from that city to Pittsburs,
! lied less than year aso, has, within the
last few MONTHS sey tn add
cure control of number of other i'm
portant concerns.
DR.. w L. Clark. was yesterday found
guilty at Dixon, KY, of causing the death
| of Miss Cora Waller by criminal opera
ton and his punishment fixed at ten years
| imprisonment. She was taken to DIR.
| Clark's office by Thomas Holt, and when
| the operation said to have been performed
| resulted in her death in the operating
chair, he blew his brains out
| Capt. S. S. Brown. OF Pittsburg, the mil
| lionaire coal operator and turf man, has
| contributed $500 toward the expense of the
Confederate Veterans reunion, to be held
| at Memphis. in May. Captain Brown was
| soldier in TIE UnIon army. In his letter in
| closing the ccntril.utioni he says: God
bless tee old veterans IL they were mis-
guided they were an honest, honorable foe.
| and should have place in the heart of
every true American"
| Warrants for the rearrest Of ex-Council-
| men p. +. Mccain and ID. III. Williams
| Were issued at Scranton, Pa, yesterday by
| the Municipal League, charging bribery
| They are the two councilmen whom the
| league alleges agreed to tell at the hearing
what they told the officials of the league
| concerning city hall crookedness, but when
| called to testify denied that they ever heard
| of bribe-giving or bribe-taking.
A stiff advance for mining coal is to be
| demanded by the union mine workers this
year according to reports received at Pitts
! burg from various fields governed by the
| interstate agreement Some district con-
ventions have been held, and the districts
| that have not yet taken up the question
| will discuss ii at conventions TO be held
| next week. The heaviest increase to be
| urged Will be for machine mining.
| Mrs. L. NJ. n. Stevens, national president
| of the w. c. T. u, has received q letter
| from Mrs. Cunningham, president of the
State w c. T.. U. in Kansas, in which
! ing taken by w. C. T. u. women in that
| State in the outcome OF the trial of Mrs
Nation, the white-ribboner who wrecked
| a bar in Wichita. Mrs. Cunningham stated
! that W. c. L. u. friends of Mrs. Nation
had secured the best OF legal consul for
/ her in her coming trial.
The national officers of the w c. T. u
| who are stopping at Rest Cottage in
| Evanston, ILL.,, have decided on q new plan
| to increase the Frances 70. Willard memoir
| ial fund established st the national con-
| vention in St. Paul for the perpetuation
/ and extension of the, work of Miss Will
| lard. An appeal Will be made not only
| to w. c. T. L. members, but to the friends
| of Miss willard everywhere, to churches
/ interested in the principles she advocated
| and to the general public This effort will
| be made leading feature of the twentieth
| century work OF the National w. c.. T. u