The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-23

dealers, or about s1.60 when purchased di-
rect from wholesale dealers and jobbers.
Homegrown potatoes are small and of
poor quality.
The Royal Scottish Clans continued
their twenty-fifth biennial convention at
Pittsburg yesterday. The following officers
Bradwood, ILL.,; royal tanist. Charles Nc
Knight. Boston; counselor, Mayor George
Taylor, jr., of London. Canada; royal
treasurer, Peter Kerr. Boston.
The Hastings Oil Company. of Marietta.
o., recently Incorporated. yesterday pur-
chased A. Hockstetter's half interest in the
Brown Mills field tract, which consists of
over LOCO acres and has a daily produc-
GEO.. The new company has planned an ex-
tensive development of the property.
A meeting of the creditors of the Mu-
tual Mercantile Agency, whose failure has
been announced. will be held i'm New YORK
next Tuesday. Mr.. Baldwin, of counsel
for the creditors. said yesterday that, so
reorganization in view, although he
thought that reorganization was the only
means by which the cerditors could recover
a cent.
BY the terms ot the will of Stephen Bal
lard, a wealthy manufactures OF Brook
lyn, who died on the 18th inst. the Amer
lean Missionary Society of New York is
to receive two-thirds of the property, valued
at Sl5O,GD, and the Berea College. of Ken
lucky, one-thi-d. Bertha NJ. Forbes. of
r moreeSter, M Mass. Is 6eaueathed 5000 in
~ VI ANA NA1to - nOurthCtl'A
TO Mr.. Ballard.
Governor McSweeny. OF South Carolina,
has pardOned Col. W. A. Neal, formerly
superintendent of the State penitentiary.
who was convicted of failing to turn over
the funds TO his successor in office. Col.
Neal was over $1,000 short i'm 1898. but his
bondsmen paid the full amount. and have
been repaid by Mr.. Neal. He abandoned
his appeal TO the Supreme Court. and has
never been actually imprisoned.
The National Firemen's Association held
a brief convention at Buffalo yesterday.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President. George G. Hale,
chief of the Kansas City fire department;
secretary, ID. w. Gillen, of Chicago; treas
urer, III. S. Salisbury. of Wisconsin, and
corresponding secretary, l.. E. Lockabill,
of Virginia. A number Of vice presidents
were also chosen. The next convention
Will be held in Detroit.
At a meeting of directors of the Southern
Manufacturers Commission Company in
Charlotte, N. -. last night, all blank forms
for contracts between the company and the
firms with which ii proposes to do business
were submitted and approved. The com
pany now announces that IL is In the held
to do a selling agency business on "a 4
Ter cent. basis in competition with the
Northern commission houses for the cotton
mills of the South. which charge a COM
mission OF . per cent. and more.
1t is believed that a woman is at the
head of "A gang of burglars committing
depredations in Westchester county. New
York, recently. Burglaries were COM
mitted in three towns in the county on
Tuesday night. In each case there is evil
dence that a woman was concerned. At
Mount Vernon $500 of valuables were
taken from the home of Charles Barry.
AT that place the burglars cooked a meal
before leaving. and, in addition TO the fact
that the prints of a woman's shoe were
found under the window where the burg
lars entered. the manner of the cooking
gave evidence OF a woman's skill.
An opinion was handed Town yesterday
by Judges Wallace. Shipman and La
Comb. in the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals at New York. reversing the
judgment given in the Mrs. Phillis Dodge
jewelry case oy Judge Brown in the United
States District Court. Under that decision
the claimant, Mrs Phillis T.. Dodge. OBJ
tanned possession of a pearl necklace and
other Jewels to the value OF S64. 900. The
reversal is based. for the most part, OF a
ruling of Judge Brown to the effect that
the government was required 10 show
intent TO defraud on the part Of the claim
ant ia order to maintain its action. The
Circuit Court OF Appeals held that this
ruling was crrCreous. The case will go
back 10 the District Court for a new trial.