The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-03

not damaged. Two seamen were slightly
injured during the voyage by being thrown
against the railing by a sea.
The competition for the commission of
designing and erecting a $4,000 monument
in Pittsburg to Col. Alexander l.. Hawkins,
of the Tenth Pennsylvania volunteer regi-
ment, was decided yesterday. The winner
is William Copper, a sculptor of New York.
Two Chinese merchants of Hong-Kong.
Laing KOm Wing and Eng Hok Fong,
arrived at Victoria, b. c., by the steamer
Kaga Maru yesterday. In an interview
they said they had come over to investi-
gate the trade possibilities in the United
States with a view to establishing steam
ship lines to San Francisco.
The crown prince of Siam and party
sailed from Victoria for Yokohama en- route
home to Siam yesterday. TIL steamer En-
press of China was held until then I'm
Difference to the superstition of the prince
and party. Monday is the Friday of the
Siamese and it is unlucky to sail on Mon
day. and therefore the steamer was kept
until the beginning of Tuesday.
Pessimism pervaded the convention of
the National Reform Association, held in
Pittsburg yesterday. Rev. e. L. Eaton.
the LIQUOR interest in politics was due to
the fact that it was nonpartisan. If church
members would be nonpartisan, and voted
as a unit, he thought they could defeat the
liquor interests. Resolutions to this effect
were adopted
News of the cremation of Mrs. Charles
Loddy and her children in their little log
home in the %recesses of the Jenese noun
tain has reached Albuquerque, N. NJ. The
cabin took fire from a stove, and the fran
tic mother attempted TO force the children.
the eldest fifteen years of age, through a
window, but before she could do so the
roof fell in upon them and they were
burned to death. The father was away
from home at the time.
The battle for and against the revision
of the creed in the P~ittsburg Presbytery
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vision. When II came to a final vote on
the question, although the Rev. Drs. d. r.
Breed of the First Church, w. L. EVAN of
the Third Church and others made a hard
fight against it. they were o~utnumbered,
the vote standing IS for and 46 against.
The presbytery thereby decided that the
Confession Of Faith needed remodeling.
Application was made at Albany. n V.
Yesterday for the extradition to Illinois
of William II. McNutt TO be tried there
on the charge of having entered into a con-
spiracy through which William L. Black,
of Chicago, was sWindled out of $4,000
through the purchase of 10000 shares of the
stock of a gold mining company which SUBJ
sequeutly proved to be worthless. McNutt
contests the application on the ground
that he was not in Illinois at the time the
crime is alleged to have been committed.
A trip TO Chelmsford. Mass. by the Jury
chosen to try j. Wilfrid Blondin at Boston
on the charge OF Wife murder yesterday
took the place of the forenoon session Of
the Superior Criminal Court. After the re-
turn to Boston the house on Green street
where the murder is alleged TO have been
mi was visited. At Chelmsford the
spot where the headless body OF Mrs. Blon-
din was found under a brush heap and the
place where the head was found in the bed
or a brook were pointed out and their exact
position indicated upon maps and charts.
a carriage containing Mrs. George E.
Weyl, wife of a New York broker, and her
two sisters, whose home Is in Atlanta, Ga,
fell from a bridge near Caldwell. n. j.
Miss Annie Sewall was seriously cut about
the head and injured internally. IL is
feared she Will not recover. The carriage
was crossing the bridge. a frail structure,
when the horse became frightened and
backed against the light railing. The lat
ger gave way and the party was precipi-
tated into the stream forty feet below. All
escaped with cuts and bruises except Miss
Sewall- The horse was killed instantly.
Argument in the appeal from the decision
declaring constitutional the franchise tax
law was begun In the appellate division Of
the supreme Court at Albany, n. Y. yes
terday and Will continue for three days.
forty-seven corporations, among the larg-
est In New York city, are parties TO the
controversy The amount involved aggre-
gates S2.ooo,ooo, which has been assessed