The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-21
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

A DELAYED blast caused the death OF Peter
Olsen and William Laid i'm the Ohio-Dead-
wood tunnel, near Rockford, ;. D, yester-
day.
John Graham, a ranchman, captured two
Chinese who were being smuggled into
Texas from Mexico. he turned the Chinese
ov"" 10 the custom officers at FL Paso,
oliver NJ. Romig and George c. Thurston
robbed Christian Kinzel. of Pioneer. O..
of $500 The two men were arrested at
Toledo yesterday. part OF the money has
been recovered
In a fight between whites and blacks at
Port Arthur, Tex, Lewis Schoh, white,
was shot through the knee and negro
name unknown. was shot through the
| chest and probably viii die.
The Supreme Lodge. Knights of Pythias.
! closed its biennial session at San Fran
cisco yesterday with the installation Of
IN f 1904. i-0' VIII meet ''''''' ~ .
The book committee Of the Southern
| Methodist Publishing House yesterday rat
! flied the agreement for the Northern Church
and the church in the South To establish
jointly a publishing house at Shanghai.
China.
Moses Rosenberg. two and one-half years
! old, died from burns yesterday. making
the sixth death that resulted from the fire
| that swept through the siX-story double
tenement at % Essex street New York, On
| Tuesday.
De Gar We're drowned yesterday at Cum
/ berland causeway. near Bridgeton. Conn.
The party was grabbing. and the young
after them, and all three sank.
Otto Wolf has been arrested at Jersey
! City, charged with a murder committed in
! Vienna, Austria. He was arraigned before
Judge Hood in the Criminal Court, Jersey
/ City and remanded TO await the action OF
the United States authorities.
Mrs. Tobey, wife OF Or. II. a. Tobey. SUI
! perintendent OF the Toledo State Hospital
for the Insane and one OF the best-known
| leaders in the work for the relief of the
! insane, died at the State Hospital In To-
| ledo yesterday after brief illness.
Col. Frank Herne has retired from the
! presidency of the National Tube Company,
and Vice President Willm b. Schiller has
| succeeded him. Mr.. Herne says there IS
no further significance In his retirement
| than that he wishes 10 rid himself OF bust
! ness cares.
r. c. Bliss, OF Cincinnati, has been ap-
| pointed manager Of the Western Union Tel
egraph Company in Cincinnati In place OF
for long time in the service OF the west
tern Union Company, and recently as man
ager at Springfield. o.
An attempt on the part OF the Grand
| Rapids malleable iron works 10 cut the scale
/ OF the molders in the employ of the COM
! pany resulted in strike yesterday, and
l25 men are out. The men have been earn
| ing $3.50 per day, but under the new scale
$3.50 would be the maximum wage.
Edward and Richard Sutton aged six and
! eight years respectively, were drowned to-
gether in Coles creek, near Merchantville.
y. J., while wading In the stream. Recent
rains had washed several holes in the
creek. which is normally about two feet in
depth. and the boys stepped into one OF
these and lost their lives.
One OF the men injured in a trolley acci-
dent Tuesday night Jerome avenue,
borough OF the Bronx, y. Y. died. card
in one of his pockets bore the name OF r
w. Keyes, and IL Is supposed that was his
name. policeman named j. h. Palmer
lies unconscious IN the Fordham Hospital
The skull is fractured and he probably viii
die. The other persons injured are reported
10 be doing well.
The man who was killed Tuesday evening
when a special train OF the Central Rail
road Of New Jersey ran into a train OF the
| Pennsylvania Railroad OF New York *
Long Branch Railroad at Belmar. y j.,
has been identified as Richard b. Almond.
/ Of New Orange. y j. The other person
killed was Alice Bishop. eight years old.
who had been spending the day at Belmar
with an uncle. Henrietta McGrath was
/ slightly injured
/ Striking stablemen OF the State-street de-
/ partment stores. Chicago. caused such a
| disturbance yesterday that a detachment Of
| fifty police IN patrol wagons and ambu-
lances was sent 10 State and Fifteenth
1 streets 20 restore order The stablemen
/ gathered about the barns and angrily
pleaded with the drivers. who were just
starting 10 work. 10 strike. When a cara
I van Of wagons left the barns the strikers
I began throwing bricks and stones and a
| riot call sent In. one man was ar
/ rested. None was hurt.