The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

The United States war vessels Mont
gomery. Osceola and Uncas have arrived
Fortune has sailed for Culebra.
A portrait of President Lincoln will be
placed in the Mississippi hall of fame. The
picture was furnished by Robert T. Lincoln.
of Chicago. in response to request and
will be placed alongside that of Robert z.
Lee.
Three children of Morris Bressler died
last night at the city hospital in Baltimore
from burns received at their home during
the day. The mother left them at home
alone and when she returned the house
was in flames.
The British Board of Agriculture has
closed the ports of the United Kingdom
against the importation of animals from
chusetts. Connecticut and Rhode Island.
The order takes effect Dec. 5. Cargoes arriv-
ing in the meanwhile will be the subject Of
special investigation.
William Landau, of Buffalo, who was ar
rested at New York Thursday In connec-
ton with an alleged cotton swindle through
WHICH Ladenburg, Thalman Co., bankers,
100000, was arraigned yesterday and held
in 81, 900 bail for examination on Jan. s, 1903,
on a charge Of grand larceny.
BY the explosion of boiler used with a
stationary engine at Lizella, Ga; yester;
two injured, one Of them being in q critical
condition. The dead are Paul Rogers and
Walton Taylor Injured: James Witham:
probably fractured. An unknown colored
man.
A report that the steamer Bannockburn
Is ashore on the mainland north of Michipi-
Gotten island is not believed at Chicago II
is reported from Sault Ste. Marie thai dur.
ing the last week the weather has been fine
and there has been nothing TO prevent a
sailing boat from making the trip from the
island to the Sault to say nothing Of the
trip TO Michipicoten harbor which is about
fifty miles in an airline from the mainland
north of the west end of the island
William II. McNutt. who was arrested
at New York Thursday at the request of
the Chicago police. was arraigned yesterday
and held in $4,000 for examination next
Sunday. The complaint charges that Will
lard Block, a Chicago lawyer, was induced
to buy s13.500 worth of stock in the Horse
shoe Copper Mining Company of Arizona
When arraigned McNutt denied that he was
the man wanted, but he admitted he was
presiden. of the Horseshoe Copper Mining
Company and that he knew Block.
William and Martha Hogeboem, aged
about sixty years. were found dead in bed
in hotel at Albany, N. Y, yesterday,
having been asphyxiated during the night
by Illuminating gas. They were residents of
East Cobleskill and arrived in the city
Thursday to meet their sons and their
daughter who were discharged from
the Albany county penitentiary after hav-
ing served a term of six months imprison-
nent for petty larceny and burglary. 1t
Is believed the deaths were accidental.
Archbishop Patrick b. Riordan, OF San
Francisco, and his secretary, Rev. Charles
a. Ramm, were passengers the White
Star line steamship Celtic, which has ar
rived at New York from Liverpool. They
were met by Rev. Father Lavelle. rector of
st. Patrick's Cathedral, and went to Father
Lavelle's home The archbishop went
abroad TO press the Plus fund claim at The
Hague. AS to the award of 500 900 in the
Plus fund case. the archbishop said that
the money would be used TO stimulate the
cause of religion on the Pacific coast
j. G.. Phelps Stokes, or one of the
wealthiest families in New York has taken
up a permanent residence at the Univer-
sity Settlement in the lower East Side of
New York city He has been interested
actively in this work since leaving Yale
in 1895. and he has been for a long time
a member of the council or governing body
of the settlement. Anton Stokes his
brother. Is secretary of Yale. There are
several other wealthy men residing in the
settlement and aiding in its development
among them being DR.. Willebough WALL
ing. of Indianapolis. and E. c. Poole, of
Chicago.
Deputy Police Commissioner Piper of
New York, has decided to send some cap
tains and mounted police to the West Point
Military Academy for special instructions
in horsemanship. few days ago he sent
a letter TO Superintendent Mills. OF West
Point. asking him TO name a day when
mounted men of the police department
could visit West Point and get instruc-
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