The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

At Cleveland, yesterday, John Planneric
shot and slightly wounded Mary Novak
and then shot himself through the heart,
because the woman had refused to marry
him. Planneric died before the police ar
rived.
Judge Munger in the Federal Court at
Omaha yesterday discharged twenty-seven
Union Pacific strikers charged with con-
tempt in maintaining a picket line" and
intimidating workmen. The court ruled
that the evidence was insufficient
Mrs Robert Garrison, a middle-aged
woman, wife of a farmer near Bedford,
Mich, was murdered yesterday. The muir
derer is alleged to be farm hand en-
ployed by the Garrisons in the summers,
and is said to have shot the woman for the
supposed purpose of robbery.
William s. Knox, engineer at crib No. g.
one of the victims of the explosion in the
Cleveland water works tunnel. died early
Yesterday, making three fatalities thus far
as a result OF the accident. Two other
men, James Ossman and Edward Emael-
son. are in critical condition and prob
ably will die.
ruled the motion for a new trial filed by
attorneys for Robert III. Snyder, the banker
and promoter of New York and Kansas
City. convicted of bribery and sentenced TO
five years in the penitentiary. Motion for
arrest of Judgment also was filed and over
ruled. His attorneys gave notice of appeal
to the Supreme Court Snyder is at liberty
on bond.
G. w. Perkins, or y. I. morgan * Co., Is
said to have completed the details of the
new harvester company yesterday. Mr..
Perkins arrived at Chicago Saturday night
and went to the Chicago Club. but his pres
when asked about his Chicago trip, but it
was stated that the completion of the har-
yester combine was what required his pres
ence there.
the position of superintendent of the Chi
cago division of the b. & o. Railway, made
vacant by the promotion of ID. ID. Caroth-
ers to be general superintendent of the Bal
timore & Ohio Southwestern, will be filled
by w. G. Loree, brother of President
Loree. The new official has been super
intendent of the Pennsylvania lines west or
Pittsbure. with headquarters at Column
bus, 0.
The Erie G. Western Transportation
Company's new steamer Tioriesta, which
will go into commission as one of the
Anchor line fleet at the opening Of the sea
the Wyandotte yards of the American
Shipbuilding Company. Detroit. The Ii
onesta, which is 800 feet long over all, will
have cargo capacity of $500 tons and a
passenger capacity of $50. The steamer
will run between Buffalo and Duluth. and
her schedule will be based on a running
time OF fourteen miles per hour.
The army under Gen. Alexis Nord has
occupied the arsenal and the Notifications
at Port-au-P Prince. Haiti. without resist
ance. M. Numa, an adherent of NJ Son
eque, has been elected president of the Sen
ate. The Haitien Congress will convene
Dec. Is for the purpose of electing a PreJ.
ident of the Senate. Callisthene Foucharc
has retired from the presidential contest In
eque's only opponent for the presidency
The latter controls a majority of the Con.
| gress, but 1T is believed that the numer.
| Gus force under General Nord will have
| a favorable effect upon the balloting.
The Allan line steamer Peruvian, Cap
| tain Harrison, fifteen days from Liver
| pool arrived at ST. Johns. n. F., yesterda,
| with two blades of her propeller gone. She
encountered terrible weather and wa.
| driven hundreds of miles from her course
| On Sunday the Peruvian rescued the crew
of seven men from the waterloggee
| schooner Nokomis, 107 miles of this coast
| The crew were on the leaking schooner TO
! five days and were short of water and pro
visions. The Danish steamer Granaria, from
Rotterdam, has also arrived at st. Johns
She rescued the crew, numbering eight per
sons, of the schooner Threasher, one hun
dred miles of the coast, and under circum
| stances similar to those reported by tn,
| Peruvian The Threasher sank an hou
| after the crew left her.
z. ]. Warner. subagent at Cherry Creel
] Indian Agency. on the Cheyenne Indian
( river. has given out a statement at Siou,
| Falls of the success of the plan inaugural
| ed by President Roosevelt to make tn
| Indians self-supporting. He says that con
| trary to predictions, the Indians have takel
kindly TO the plan and that in many case
| the Indians have voluntarily SURRENDERED
their ration tickets. asking that they b
given work by which to earn a livelihood
the Indians employed is son Of Sittinl
| Bull, the famous fighting chief Severa
| hundred miles of roads have been built an
several valuable dams have been built OF
the Cheyenne agency and fifty-eight OF
| Rosebud agency. One hundred Indians ar
| now at work on the Cheyenne agency an
five hundred on the Rosebud agency.