The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-09
CONDENSED GENERAL NEWS.

Admiral Schley has accepted the invita-
ton of the knights Templars and Retail
Merchants Association to visit Nashville,
Tenn, and will probably do SO in January.
The admiral will be by Mrs.
Schley.
The Pan-American Congress OF it's session
in the City of Mexico decided at the sUg-
gestiOn of President RaigOsa to adjourn
for a fortnight in order. as he said, TO allow
the committees time to consider the prof.
ects submitted to them.
w. n. Miller, counsel in the Ellis Glenn
case, employed by the State in connection
with Attorney General Freer, was notified
at Parkersburg. w. Va, yesterday that
Judge Nathan Golf had granted an appeal
to the United States Supreme Court.
The Commercial Pacific Cable Company,
recently Incorporated to operate a cable
line between this country and the Philip
pine islands, yesterday filed with the New
York secretary of state a certificate of in
crease of capital from 100000 to $500 600.
Final arrangements for the presentation
of the silver service to the battleship Hi
nOis at Old Point Comfort have been made.
The ceremony will take place Saturday.
Nov. 10. The Governors party and Hi
nois delegation will reach Newport News
Friday evening.
According to the New York Tribune John
Hays Hammond, the mining expert, who
had an unpleasant experience in South
Africa at the hands of President KTuger's
government at the time of the Jameson
raid, is to make his home in New York.
lie Will reside on hlNeGSlue uTlNe.
Gebhard Terlinden, recently held at Chi
cagO Cor extradition to Germany on a
charge of forgery, was yesterday granted a
stay of execution until Nov. -, at which
tune the Federal Court of Appeals will be
asked to review the evidence. In the mean
time Torlinden must remain in jail.
Edward Glennen. of Akron. o., was found
dead in bed yesterday in a hotel at
P~hoenixville, Pa, having been suffocated
by gas. Glennen was employed by the
Stirling Company, of Barberton, o., and
was experimenting the placing of some
boilers for the Phoenix Iron Company.
The fire in the Mikado mine. at Bessemer,
Mich, was extinguished yesterday after a
damage of $4,000. Two hundred men are
thrown out of employment. The body of
Erick Johnson, one Of the entOmbed men,
was found elinging to a ladder $50 feet
yet been recovered.
The contempt case against the editors OF
Hearst's Chicago American was concluded
yesterday and Judge Hanecy reserved his
decision until Tuesday next. Judge Shope,
on behalf of Judge Hanecy, closed his argu-
ment with a lengthy Interpretation Of the
law in such cases. Every inch of standing
room was occupied, chiefly by lawyers.
Philip Schmitt and John J. Hefner are
under arrest at New York charged with
swindling Thomas +. Greacen. a wholesale
shoe dealer OF New York, out of goods
travelling salesman employed by Greacen,
and according to the police he transferred
large amount Of goods to Schmitt under
fraudulent sales.
Verplan Colvin, former superintendent of
the State Adirondack survey, has filed
against the State of New York a claim OF
S3l5,2i1. In 1900 the General Assembly legis-
lated Mr.. Colvin out of office. Mr.. Colvin
claimed that the plans. maps and papers in
his office were his personal property, and
under protest surrendered them TO the state
engineer and surveyor.
Two of the Indian mounds on the worlds
opened yesterday under the direction of
Prof. ID. l. Bushnell. the ~well-known
archaeologist. In one mound were found
the skulls and fragments of five human be-
ings in a very bad state of preservation.
Mixed with the bones were pieces Of pot
terry. Nothing else was discovered in the
mounds.
Francis c. Cantine. as referee. has filed
his report in the New York Supreme Court
approving the accounts of the Morton
Trust Company, receiver OF Harper &
Bros, publishers. The business OF the
company was bought by the new firm Of
the same name in September. 1900. The re-
ceiver collected S1.6G3.3 81. Claims were pre-
scented by fOrty-seven creditors. aggregat-
ing 2.O4.2oS, and these were allowed. The
new corporation held s1.999,O31. The bal
ance I'm the hands Of the receiver which is
available for distribution is 1857.
Mrs. Guy Deniberae and her infant child,
who were severely burned in a fire which
burned their home at South Norwalh,
Conn. Thursday night, died yesterday.
This makes four deaths the record Of the
fire. two OF the Deniberaes having per-
ished in the house. An explosion OF a lamp.
which spread burning oil over the family
group while at supper, was the cause of
the tragedy.
Sheriff Bryant. of Baldwin county, yes
terday brought 10 the Mobile (Ala.) jail for
safe Keeping Wesley Jones. n thirteen
year-old negro boy. charged with criminal
~ assaulting the ~six-year-old daughter Of
Rev. Rencher. a minister who resides at
C4nnIFnn Baldwin r,.r.4r~ Tho GIRL ia aid
TO be I'm a serious condition. The boy de-
MES the charge. Fears of lynching caused
the negro to be taken to Mobile.
At a meeting of the Boston Clearing
House Association yesterday the vote
checks drawn upon hunks In NaW England