The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27

States senatorship to succeed Senator Heit-
field. Judge Standrod will have the un-
divided support of the southeastern coun-
ties and expects to draw considerable sup
port from the northwest and center of the
State. He favors caucus.
Former Mayor A. A. Ames, of Minneapo-
lis. who was indicted in connection with
the municipal corruption in that city and
who was supposed TO have gone TO Mexico
for his health, has been In Louisville for
the past ten days under treatment of a
physician.
Probably for the first time in history a
hold union Thanksgiving services on
Thanksgiving morning. This event will
take place in Paterson, N. J., when the
Second Presbyterian Church, which has
the congregation B'Nai Jeshurn since the
great fire of Feb. 8. will have as guests
the Members of the Hebrew congregation.
President Woodrow Wilson will leave
Princeton to-day for Chicago, where he
will address the Princeton Alumni Asso-
citation on Friday afternoon on the sub
ject, The Future of the University" He
will also speak before the Chicago Com
mercial Club on THE Relation of the Uni
versity to Commerce" On Monday he
will return to New York and that evening
he will address the Presbyterian Union on
The University and the Church"
Isaac Sanders. colored. was yesterday
charged with the murder of Edward Saat-
kamp, who was found dead in the factory
of the Ross-Moyer Machinery Tool Com
Saatkamp was accountant and acting SUI
perintendent of the factory, while Sanders
acted as porter. Several months ago John
Siefert, an employe, was found murdered
in the same factory, and the murder has
never been solved. Robbery was the mo-
tive of both murders.
One of the largest coal deals in recent
years has been consummated at Marietta,
o. George Gilmore, of Pittsburg, with
hpadnna rtprS at Weston w Va. sold on
tons on fifty thousand acres of valuable
coal lands in West Virginia to the Wabash
along the new Wabash road through that
State. The company has let the contract
for the road to be built at once and will
give attention TO the coal developments
The price paid is not given.
Considerable anxiety is felt in marine
circles in regard to the safety of the an
adam steamer Bannockburn. The missing
boat left Port Arthur, Ont. last Friday
wheat. bound for Midland, Ont. h
should ave arrived at Sault Ste. Marie on
her way down some time during Satur-
day, but up to a late hour last night she
had not been reported as entering the 500
passage nor had her owners been able
to locate her in shelter at any Lake Su-
perior port.
Eastern heirs claim the ownership of and
property at Los Angeles. Cal. valued at
several million dollars. and hundreds of
titles are threatened. Miss Mary j. Bell,
a niece and one of the dozen heirs of
John Bell, a wealthy landowner. who lived
in Los Angeles in 1871, has arrived here
from Pennsylvania and retained a law firm
TO prosecute the case for the heirs. The
allegation is made that the realty claimed
was not apportioned TO the heirs in the
administration of the estate.
Bobby Walthour last night defeated Otto
Maya handily and Nat Butler with diff
Guilty in a novel three-cornered motor-paced
race, run in five-mile heats at Memphis. In
the first heat WaIthour met Maya, who lost
his pace. and failing to fight for IL lost three
and one-half laps in all. Walthour's time
was 7:39, tying the indoor record. Nat But
Ter met the Albanian in the second and was
second under the record. This gave Butler
the second chance at Walthour, who again
won by three-quarters of a lap. the second
time in 1852.
Colonel John Jacob Astor has. through
the secretary of the Automobile Club of
America, offered to subscribe $4,000 toward
Association, provided the route Of the pro-
posed highway between the two cities be
changed from the west bank to the east
says that while the west bank of the Hud-
son is sparsely settled there are clustered
on the east side scores of country seats
of wealthy New Workers who he thinks
would gladly contribute literally to the
highway were il built near their properties.
At a meeting of the club the scheme was
further considered, and IL was proposed
that the government be asked TO appropri-
ate 100000 early.