The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

The passenger brakemen Of the Chicago
& Alton have united in a formal demand
for an increase in pay from 500 to $50
monthly.
Delegates to the American League of
municipalities convention at Grand Rapids
spent yesterday afternoon sightseeing.
There was banquet at night.
Three hundred coal miners in the Spadra
district of Arkansas have struck for an adj
vance of 10 cents a ton for mining coal
There is a prospect Of an early adjustment
of the difficulties.
Twelve loaded freight cars on the Chi
through a bridge near Kemper. Ill, yes
terday and the bodies of three tramps are
believed to be under the wreckage.
At yesterdays session of the convention
OF the American Forestry Association, at
Lansing, Mich, Gen. c. G. Andrews, chief
forest fire warden of Minnesota, read a
paper on the Minnesota system for pre-
venting forest fires
Mr. and Mrs II. n. Davis. parents of the
late Senator Cushman X. Davis. yesterday,
in Yorktown, 5. d., celebrated the sixty
fifth anniversary Of their marriage Mr..
Davis is nearly ninety-eight years OF age.
and his wife Is lightweight. Both are in
good health.
At a meeting of the trustees of West
ern Reserve Seminary. of West Farming
ton, in Warren, o., yesterday is was de-
ment of $4,000 having been secured by
popular subscription. The trustees elected
w. II. Dye president
Collector Stranahan, of the port of New
York, has requested the office of the United
States district attorney to institute for
fixture proceedings in the case of the $40 900
pearl and diamond necklace seized from a
wealthy female passenger on the Kronprinz
Wilhelm a week ago on Tuesday.
For the past month the Tax Board of Re
view has been laboring with the Cleveland,
o.. corporations TO compel them to raise
their returns By calculations made yes
tod hot f1Na ~s1fn
raised nearly S4O00000 This will increase
the city's tax funds more than 100000
Police Officer ]. J. Flowers was killed at
Bessemer. Ala YESTERDAY by two traaInPs
ing for loiterers. They found two white
men in a box car and ordered them to
come out. The men refused to do so, and
as Flowers struck match he was shot
dead.
The general strike of the gold beaters of
the United States. which began about five
weeks ago. was declared off yesterday by
President Lambert, of the Gold Beaters'
turn TO work to-day in all the cities affect
ed by the movement. The strike was ended
| by compromise.
c. A. SpreckIes, the San Francisco sugar
refner, w. w. Cook. S. d. McGibbon, II.
s. Casgrain and Surveyor Fabvre, of Mont
! real have applied to the Canadian State
| Department for Incorporation for the pur-
| bb1siness in Canada The company will be
! capitalized at 100000.
The Southern Railway has increased the
wages of machinists, blacksmiths and boil
! err makers employed on its system. The APP
/ prentice system is 10 be regulated on a
| basis of one apprentice TO five JOurneymen;
| time and one-half is to be allowed for al
| overtime, including Sundays and holidays
and also for work on the road away from
/ home.
| new plan of escape has been tried sue
| cessfully by a Fort Sheridan prisoner.
/ Frank Dyer. of the ninth battalion, who
| had been moving the lawn near picnic
party ran among the picnickers, and then
| into the cover of a ravine. Guard George
| Breakey could not fire for fear of hitting
some one in the picnic party. Ryer had
served only one day OF his sentence OF
| eighteen months in the guardhouse. De-
| sertion was the offense.
| AT meeting of 800 iron workers of the
/ American Iron and Steel Company at Leb-
| anon, Pa, who have been on strike since
/ May il was decided to notify the company
/ that IL the imported negroes, brought here
from Reading early in the week, are not
/ withdrawn within twenty-fOur hours all
/ the machinists bolt and nut workers and
| other employees will go on strike, thus tying
! up the extensive plant, which, when in op-
| GRAFTON, employs ZOO men and boys. Sheriff
! Coppenhaver has sworn in fifteen deputies
| After lying in unmarked graves for TWEEN
/ ty-five years the bones of twenty-one sol
| dierS who fell in the last battle with the
/ Nez Perces Indians near the Bear Paw
| mountains in Montana, are TO have reared
/ above them a suitable monument, and the
| spot will become a national park. General
/ Miles commended the soldiers. and his
! request the Interior Department has with
| drawn the land about the spot from entry
! The next Congress will be asked TO make
Bear Paw national park and erect a mon
| ument.