The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS BREvITIES.

The United States grand jury continued
its inquiry into the affairs of the Seventh
National Bank, at New York. yesterday.
Richard Delafeld. president of the Park
National Bank, was called as a witness
yesterday.
President Schurman. of Cornell Univer-
sity, announced that Frank Irvine, of Lin
coin, Neb., has been appointed TO the chair
of practice and procedure in Cornell. to take
the place of II. 5. Redield. who resigned to
accept a similar position in Columbia Uni
versity. Mr.. Irvine Is a Cornell graduate or
the class of 1880.
During a sham battle at Boulder, Col,
yesterday. between companies of the Colo
RADIO National Guard. Private Wright. of
a Denver company, received the wad from
n blank cartridge in his forearm and Will
probably lose his arm if not his life. Lieut..
Rice Means, who served as an officer in the
Philippines, was burned in the face with
powder.
John Doscher, formerly preside mt and
trustee of the Malcolm Brewing Company,
was arrested in Brooklyn yesterday on a
shevin's attachment for alleged failure TO
account for between 100000 and $4,000 of the
~company's funds. Doscher had been or
Gered by the supreme Court to make an
accounting. Failure 20 do so, it is said,
made him subject to arrest.
The second days session of the Ladies'
Catholic Benevolent Association, at De-
troit. was devoted to consideration of for
ty-seven proposed amendments To the con-
stitutiOn, seven of which were adopted at
the morning session. The only one of gen.
eral interest adopted was that providing
for the publication of the official organ in
German as well as in English.
The body of c. r. Penick. the banker. OF
Charlton. Ia, and brother of ex-senator
Penick. was discovered floating in Lake
Michigan. off Racine. Wis, Tuesday, not a
hundred feet from where he fell into the
lake from the steamer Virginia on Friday.
Two men fishing from the pier both claim
to have been the first to see the body and
each wants the $500 reward for finding the
body.
a lorge number of prominent w. c. T. l..
women from all parts of the United States
and Canada assembled in the Delaware
venue Baptist Church at Buffalo yester-
day. The congress Is not a regular annual
eathering and there are no accredited dele
gates; it is merely a meeting of officers and
members OF the w. {. 7. L; TO see the ex-
position. Mrs. Lillian NJ. y. stevens, of
Maine. president of the national w. {. 7.
l.. presided.
Vice President Roosevelt. who stopped in
Chicago yesterday before taking a train
for Colorado Springs. took breakfast with
Governor Nates and promised the latter to
stop at Springfield, ILL.,, the last week in
August and review the National Guard at
the general -encanpment. The Vice Presi-
dent left over the Santa Fe. last evening.
for his Western destination. where he is to
deliver an address on the twenty-hfth an
niversary OF Colorado statehood.
\ a meeting of the board of directors of
the Pan-American exposition 1t was decided
be closed tight next Sunday. Moreover. the
board voted that. If necessary. the midway
shall be fenced OH ana no visitors allowed
TO traverse It or Sunday. Shortly before the
directors acted the COnceSsiOr1ires sent an
ultimatum TO the director generals office.
which. in effect, was an announcement of
their intention 70 open next Sunday when
the exposition gates opened.
Secretary Emery. of the San Francisco
Board OF Health. has made the discovery
that Chinese record their certificates of
birth in the recorders office many years
after the births occurred. whereas, the law
requires that they shall be recorded within
thirty days. Mr.. Emery sees in this viola
ton OF the law a chance for the Celestials
TO evade the exclusion act by sending the
certificates to Chinese IN the Orient who
are desiroUs OF quitting China and who use
this method 10 defeat the ends Of the act.
William 4. Aldrich has filed for probate.
at san Francisco. the last wills or the late
Consul General Rounseville Wildman and
his wife. the late Letitia Aldrich Wildman,
who. with their son. were lost in the wreck
Of the Rio de Janeiro. The wills were exc
cuted In $500, and in them the consul gen
eral and Mrs. Wildman each bequeathed
what he or she owned 70 the other. and in
ease os the death OF both 10 their children.
The property Will now be distributed
equally among five surviving heirs-at-laW
The cighty-hfth annual report OF the
American Bible Society shows that there is
a sight increase in the receipts from indi-
Viduals. auNilidrieS, collections. legacies
and the Bible house. The total issues OF
the year, at home and abroad, amount 10
1851, les. OF these. 5S0.5l3 were distributed In
the United States and 9l3.5l5 in foreign
eighty-hve years amount to $685. 49, The