The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-26
OF APPEAL.
BREvITIES.

WI Tingfang, former Chinese minister,
sailed for China yesterday on the steam
ship Hong-Kong-Maru.
The Kentucky Democratic state executive
committee has ordered a primary election
for the nomination of all state candidates.
TO be held May 8 next.
President Diaz will attend the Thanksgiv-
ing ball of the American colony at the
City of Mexico. The American ladies will
send dinner to the English speaking pris-
oners in the city jail.
Jesse Pratt, at one time mayor OF Cam
den. ". j., committed suicide at his home
in that city yesterday by shooting through
the head. He was sixty-four years OF age.
Ill health is supposed to have caused his
self-destruction.
Advices from Honolulu say the dredger
employed at Pearl harbor in deepening the
channel under the United States appro-
priation to improve the harbor and make a
naval station sank to the bottom during a
high wind on Nov. IL.
Evacuation day. which is the anniversary
Of Nov. rs. 1888, when Washington marched
from Harlem into New York. just before
the city was evacuated by the British, was
observed yesterday. AS usual, the flag on
the Battery pole was run up.
Calvin Elliott. colored. was hanged at
Lincolnton, N. c., yesterday for criminally
assaulting Mrs. Caleb Brown near there
about two months ago: After repeated un-
successful attempts at lynching a special
term of court was called and the sentence
of death passed.
Joseph Kiskuba, a farmer. was the center
of a dramatic scene in the courtroom at
Marshalitown Ia, yesterday when he
swallowed a big vial of morphine. BY
heroic means a physician saved his life.
Kiskuba was IN trial for the attempted
murder of William Brande, a neighbor.
The flood situation In Texas has i'm
proved. Many of the railroad lines that
were suspended by washouts and flooded
tracks nave resumed operations and all of
the other damaged lines are expected TO run
trains to-day. The damage to railroads and
highways from the flood is at
500, 900.
As a penalty for swindling Meyer Conan,
of Boston, out of $4,000 by means of a gold
brick game more than a year ago, Samuel
Brotski, sixty-six years of age. who claims
a residence in New York, was sentenced
on for not less than four nor more than
seven years.
Search for traces of the bandits who held
up the Rock Island express train near
Davenport, Ia, Saturday morning has re-
bag, some jewelry boxes and dynamite in
the barn of William Rohwor, where the
robbers stole the team with which they
made their escape.
H. F.. C~hristianson, of the Sharpsburg
Qa.) State Bank, who was alleged to nave
absconded with $4,000 of the depositors'
money, and who was arrested I'm Missouri
and brought back TO the scene of the al
legged crime, has been released from Jail on
turning over to the creditors property
worth $13, 0O0. He has returned to Missouri.
Hugh O'Brien. who was stabbed at the ST.
Charles Hotel, Cincinnati. Monday morning
by Rufus Burgess, died from the effects OF
his wounds yesterday in the hospital. The
charge OF murder has been placed against
Burgess. The men had been drinking to-
gether and Burgess claims that O'Brien
threatened to kill him and he acted in self
defense.
Former President Grover Cleveland has
accepted an invitation to preside at a pub
lie meeting to be held in Philadelphia on
Dec. IL in the interests of the Berean Man
ual Training and Industrial School for
Colored People. Mr.. Cleveland will make
an address. Among the other speakers will
ory Smith. Col. a. X. Mcclure and Booker
T.. Washington.
President James F.. Gormley. of the Chi
cago Masonic Temple Association. on trial
for conspiracy to defraud Cook county by
evading aymen of the Masonic Temple
taxes. took the stand in his own defense
yesterday and made a sweeping denial of
all of Capt. Edward Williams
and Luke Wheeler. who were convicted and
are under sentence on the same charge. and
of Director ID. G.. Rush, OF the association.
charging him with knowledge and approval
of the plan to pay SD, 40 Of taxes with
$4,000.
After admitting that for twenty years she
had been sending begging letters TO prom
inent people, including recent ones to high
government officials, Miss Annie Mayors
has been sentenced 10 the wOrkhouse az
New York for six months. Agents for the
Charity Organization brought about the
woman's conviction. They charge that she
had accumulated considerable nronerfv
through piteous appeals To ~well-known per-
sons i'm society; that she lived a life of ease
and spent parts OF the season at the sea-
shore and in the mountains. They claimed
TO have about 1000 letters signed by the
woman which had. been turned over TO the
society by their recipients for the purpose
of investigation.