The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-03
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS NOTES.


The Yukon river from White Horse rap
ids down 10 Dawson opened on Saturday,
April %.
Melvin G.. Dodge, Hamilton College, 80.
ana librarian there several years. has been
appointed librarian of Leland Stanford, jr.,
University, at a salary OF $1,000 a year.
The board OF directors of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Company held its first
meeting yesterday and organized for bust
ness. Ex-Governor David K. Francis was
una nimously elected president of the boaru.
A dynamite explosion at Oates Camp, on
the Nashville x Knoxville Railroad eN-
tension from Monterey, Tenn, 10 LaufeI
Creek, killed two men and severely injured
several others. No details have been re-
ceived.
H. G.. Grant. who was arrested at Hast
il:gs, Neb., In March, charged with robblng
mail boxes. and who escaped from the OIL
GERS at Chicago while en- route TO Clncli-
natl 10 stand trial, has been arrested III
Buffalo, y. Y.
Joseph W. Stockwell, of Flint. Mich,
vas arrested at MG~skegon yesterday on 4
warrant which charges him and four oth-
ers with conspiracy to blackmail for S9O,vOj
John Racquet, a wealthy brewer OF Saginaw.
One of the accused is a woman. Another
Is an attorney.
a statue of Henry b. Hyde. the founder
OIL the Equitable Life Assurance Company,
was unveiled yesterday in the arcade Oh
the company's building in New York. Ths
A6A tlllOlltS were llC oDCtOiSS nav
by Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew and James
W. Alexander.
The Glover Club last night gave a banquet
at Philadelphia in commemoTation or the
retirement of Col. Alexander h mcclure
from active journalism after a busy career
oil ffty-five years. The speech makers IN
Guided Colonel Mcclure, General Miles and
Murat Halstead.
Charles A. Johnson, the defaulting cash
Ter of the First National Bank OF Niles,
Mich, was released on bail. at Grand Rap
ids, last evening. His ten-thousand-dollar
bond was signed by L. E. Wood and Theo.
Hopkins, both of Niles, the latter being
J0hnson's father-in-law.
Mrs. Nations crusade against the saloon
has resulted in a movement to purify Kan
sas politics. A permanent organization or
the Grand Chapter of the Law Enforce
ment League OF Kansas has been effected.
and in every city, town and hamlet IN the
State a local chapter is to be established.
Dawson advices dated April 10 give par
ticulars of the finding of the body OF Dr..
Bollinger by a pr0spector named Black,
about ten miles from the mouth of thu
White river. The body had been partially
devoured by wolves. identification is clear
~ established by letters found in the pock-
cts of the clothing.
The Kansas City, Mo, police commissions
ers have refused the request of the special
m of the Law and Order Enforce
ment League TO close the saloons on sun
day, and yesterday the league called n
mass meeting for tonight to take the first
steps toward petitioning Governor Dockery
to remove these officials.
Booker T. Washington has been placed at
the head of the negro department of the
South Carolina Interstate and West Indian
exposition. and has issued an address TO
the colored people of the United States
saying that those in charge of the negro
department are especially anxious to secure
exhibits representing the progress of the
race.
Nome papers as late as Feb. 20, received
81 Seattle Wash state that Ranianin II
Miller, formerly of Seattle, and Charles Il
Gay. brother of United States District At
tcrney Gay, of Seattle, were frozen in the
recent billiards. In the Nome region. Miller
was recorder for the agiapuk district. and
Gay was United States commissioner for
the Arctic district
The annual meeting of the bishops Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South was be-
gun in Louisville yesterday behind closed
doors. The most important business before
the bishops is the arrangement of the plan
of Episcopal visitation. This comprises
the dates and places of the annual confer
ences and the selection of the presiding
bishops. Nine bishops are in attendance.
The second national assembly of the
United Christian Party. at the call of the
rational chairman, William r. Benkert. of
Davenport. Ia, met in Chicago yesterday.
1t was unanimously decided by the assem-
lily that the United Christian party should
continue to stand for union in His name,
direct legislation of the people governed
by the golden rule" The assembly adj
jCurned to meet at the call of the chairman.
The BODY of the nine-year-old Rosenfeld
bow was taken from the Mississippi river
rear Fort Smelling yesterday. This is be-
lieved 10 confirm the st. Pau police sus-
picion that William Rosentield drowned his
four children and himself one Week ago.
The crime was most brutal, the father
first abducting the children, who were In
the custody Of their mother at Minneapolis
securing a rig and driving with them to
the river.
- ,Io..,- IL Tho NNfnfa No
Cormick alleged kidnapping case is about ex-
ploded. The detectives have practically con-
Guided that the slip of paper and the mys-
terious coincidence by which II came into
their nossession were the result OF conniV-
ance between parties in New York who had
access to the Mccormick home, and others.
The Gypsies who figured so largely In the
matter have been driven from Alexandria
county, and now are on their way TO Pitts
burg.
At Champoeg. a village thirty miles south
OF Portland. there was unyeiled yeste'-
day a granite monument dedicated To the
memory Of the founder OF the provincial
government OF Oregon, established In 1871,
the first American government west OF the
Rocky mountains. The monument was IN
yelled by the sole survivor of the meeting.
Francis Xavier Matthieu. The principal
speakers were Gov. 7. I. Geer, Rev. IL. n.
Hines and John Mimic. over o,VOO people
were present.
The visiting committees Of the New YORK
Merchants Association and Chamber OF
arrived yesterday morning at
Wichita Falls, Tex. After breakfast citi-
zcns drove the visitors about the place and
out five miles TO the big irrigation ditch
n; Holiday creek. where 2 basket picnic
was served. At Quanah. where the party
went in the afternoon. a herd OF ten thou
sand cattle was waiting i'm care of a crown
OF cowboys. who gave a roping contest for
the ienderfeet from Wall street.
At the sale of shorthorn cattle held In
Springfield, H.. by NJ. r.. Jones * Co, OF
Williamsville. and s.. L. Prother & Son, of
Springfield. which closed yesterday. j. W.
Brown and Randolph Brothers. of Indian
ola. Ia. gave $2.O65 for imported Stella.
Others selling for $1,000 and over were: Inn
ported Sybella. $1.025. 7. J. Wornali, Lib
erty. Mo: imp. Scottish Signet dull calf.
eleven months old. sl,Sl5, John Wilson.
Danvers. H.: Fox Glove " (cow), $l,2O5.
Mrs. Jerome Leland. OF Springfield.
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