The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-20
CONDENSED DOMESTIC NEWS.

riage OF idiotic. insane, or epileptic per-
sons. failed TO pass the Minnesota Senate
yesterday.
BY a unanimous vote the Presbytery of
Chicago has pledged itself to raise 100000
during the next five years, to be used IN
the erection of new churches in Chicago
and its suburbs.
The funeral of former Attorney General
of Illinois George Hunt, who died at his
home in Riverside, ILL.,, took place at
Springfield yesterday from the First Pres
byteTian Church.
Dennis j. Sweeny, chief of Chicago's
fire department, is critically i'll. The vet
eran fire fighter is troubled with a COM
plication of diseases, the principal of which
is heart affiiction.
In the Police Court at Louisville, yes
terday, the conspiracy charges against w.
Greet Campbell, h. G.. Bennett and VIII
bur Beatty, Denver capitalists. were dis
missed on the motion of the prosecution.
Fifty agricultural students of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee are at Biltmore, n. c.,
contesting for $500 in prizes offered by Geo.
w. Vanderbilt for the best records in judg-
ing the blooded horses, cattle, sheep, hogs
and poultry on his farm.
Major General Sir Stanley Clarke and
Lady Clarke have arrived at San Francisco
from the Orient. on a tour of the world.
Sir Stanley Clarke was equerry to the
Prince OF Wales, and expects to hold the
same position under King Edward.
The British Columbian Legislature has
passed a resolution asking the Dominion
government to subsidize shipbuilding. The
government has decided to appeal to the
Privy Council against a judgment of the
full court of British Columbia, which was
to the effect that naturalized Japanese
could vote.
Fifty Chinese passengers on the steamer
Belgian King. which has arrived at San
Francisco, Cal, from Hong-Kong, have
been refused landing by Collector of the
the commissioners in charge of immigra-
ton. They are alleged to be students and
merchants. but their credentials are ques-
toned
John r.. Ashe. president of the York cot
ton mills. at Yorkville, Ga, committed sui
eide yesterday by throwing himself into a
well. 1t is believed the deed was COM
mitted under temporary alteration caused
amounting to $4,000. Superintendent
Grimes. of the mill, had. however, already
perfected arrangements to set the desired
money.
The inquest over the victims of the Dore-
mus laundry boiler explosion at Chicago,
of March IL, was begun before Coroner
Traeger yesterday. Considerable testimony
was given tending to show that the boiler
was known 10 be in an unsafe condition and
had been reported to the proprietor Of the
laundry. Mrs. George Phil, widow of En-
gineer Phil, who was killed in the explo-
sion, testified that her husband had ire
quently told her the BOILER was leaky and
unsafe.
Frederic Harrison, president Of the Lon
don Positivist committee. who is in New
York. says: What has most impressed
me during my stay in America has been
the wonderful philanthropy which causes
your citizens TO give out of their wealth
an abundance 10 create and maintain Ii
braries and institutions OF learning. We
ia England. with our different social sys-
tenn, are less fortunate. Nobody thinks
there of giving much-needed endowments
to our colleges"
Former Judge A. S. Seldom. who YVES APP
pointed referee TO hear. testimony In the
$3.50 900 damage suit brought by ex-Gov-
ernor William j. Stone, receiver of the
Mullanphy Savings Bank, st. Louis. against
the directors of the bank for alleged care
lessness in the management of the bank.
has filed his report in Judge Douglass
court, at St. Louis. recommending that
Judgment be rendered against the bank Of
ncials. General negligence Is charged, in
that they allowed heavy overdrafts to be
made.
Professor s. W. Stratton. of the phvsics
department of the University of Chicago,
announces that. in view of the fact that
he has been appointed director OF the
new Standardizing Bureau at Washing
ton. he will resign his professionally. His
resignation will take effect either i'm April
or July. He will go to Europe. where he
will study systems of weights and meas
ures in France, Germany, England and
Austria. The new bureau OF which he
Is TO be the head will cost s250.0O0. Accord
ing TO the present plans OF Professor STRAIT
ton. he will have three kinds of work
commercial measures. manufacturing meas
ures and educational measures.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has
made Theodore kundtz. of Cleveland. a
knight of the Order OF Franz Josef, one of
the highest nonhereditary honors within
the power OF a European monarch TO be-
stow The decoration Is believed TO be the
second conferred on a citizen OF the United
states. DR.. Gerster, of New York. having
received a similar decoration In 1898 for
his work in assisting destitute Hungarian
immigrants. Mr.. kundtZ'S gift was con-
fcrred through the Austrian consul at
Pittsburg and Is bestowed. it is believed,
because OF Mr.. Kundtz's extensive charity
10 the Hungarian people and institutions,
both in Cleveland and In Austria.