The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-18
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Mrs. Zelaya, wife of the President of
Nicaragua. has arrived at New York on
the steamer Vaderland from Antwerp.
The schooner John E. Hall is ashore on
Ducks island. thirty miles from Oswego, in
Lake Ontario. The crew probably have
been drowned, nothing has been seen or
heard of the men.
Kenyon L. Butterfield instructor in rural
sociology at the University of Michigan.
has accepted the position OF president OF
the Rhode Island State College of Agricul-
Providence. He will assume his new duties
April /.
The executive committee OF the National
Municipal League has accepted the invita-
ton of the Detroit Municipal League to
hold it's next annual meeting in Detroit.
The date of the meeting has been fixed for
April % % and "a.
Two freight trains on the Burlington route
collided head-on in the yards at Table
Rock, Neb., yesterday, wrecking both en-
gines. Fireman Morell was killed. No one
else was hurt. The indications are that
one of the engineers was asleep.
Mrs. w. W. Jones. wife of railroad sta
ton agent at Rockport o., shot herself i'm
the head in front of the postoffice yester
day and died last night in a hospital. The
husband of the dead woman gives
cause for the deed her belief that she was
becoming insane.
wife and killed himself by shooting at ST.
Joseph, NO. last night. He lay i'm wait
for her an hour and fired the shot be-
cause of jealousy. Williams was fifty
three and his wife forty-three. They were
the parents of nine children.
Vincent st. John, president of the Min
ers' Union, is one of the men indicted
for participation in the riot at the Snug
gler-Union mine at Telluride, Col. in July,
1901, in which two men were killed and
five wounded. He was arrested yesterday.
but released on $4,000 bonds. The ndict-
ments charge him with murder, attempt
to murder and robbery.
Sem Hall. the building recently added to
the equipment of Rush Medical College,
| Chicago, through the generosity of DR..
Nicholas Sem. was dedicated yesterday
| Sir William Kingston, professor of clinical
| surgery at Laval University, Montreal, de-
| livered the dedcatory address President
| Harper, of the University of Chicago with
which Rush Medical College is affiliated,
| also spoke.
Three of the men thought to be con-
! cerned in the bank robbery at Clarence,
| as well those of other institutions of
| the same kind in central Illinois. were ar
| rested yesterday at Gibson City by the
| town marshal and deputies there A large
| sum of money was found in their possess
sion, and the shoes worn correspondent
with the size of the tracks made in the
| snow around the bank.
The office of the X-ray expert and cleo
| trical diagnoStician of the law department
of Chicago has been created and will be
| filed by DIR. l.. Preston Pratt. In his
| letter rendering the position to DR.. Pratt,
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office has become necessary on account
| of numerous attempts at fraud through the
| evidence of X-ray and electrical so-called
| experts in claims against the city for
| personal injuries.
The hearing at New York of the charge
| against David Bucklin of being manager
| of gambling house at No. East Forty
! fourth street, the Garfield house. was COM
menced yesterday. Bucklin pleaded not
guilty and declined to make reply to the
question. What is your business?" Jo-
| seph Jacobs, the detective who is said
to have gathered testimony against the
house. was the first witness. He told how
| he obtained entrance to the house and
| played faro and roulette there. Buckin he
said, received the men who came in and
watched the different games.
Five Crows, a noted Umatilla Indian
| chief, has been found dead near Athens
caea h f fen S t s Wn rnzs
death. He was seventy years old and dis
tingushed himself in the Bannock war OF
1878 by killing the famous Indian chief
| Egan into the hands of the Umatllas
| who were friendly to the whites. and they
cut off his head. carrying it in triumph
| to the United States troops. The Snakes
| were so enraged that they gave battle
| to the troops on plain and were so bad
ly defeated that the invasion ended.
The ninety-second annual report of the
American Board of Foreign Missions shows
receipts for the year of 5.105. The report
states that indemnities for property de-
stroyed in China in 1900 have been pait
and adjusted under conditions satisfactory
to the missionaries and in most instance.
to the native Christians and which als(
admit of the reopening of missionary worl
in all it's varied forms. 1t has been de
cided to re-establish the North China Col
lege at Tung-Chou. The enormous de
mand for the Bible and translations of al
kinds of western books which has spruns
up during the last two years has beer
felt in Tung-Chou to an extent that ha:
made it absolutely impossible to supply
the demand at times.