The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-07

John Hurst, who has been very Ill during
the past few weeks. is expected TO be able
TO attend the ceremonies.
The controller Of the currency has issued
a call for the condition OF national banks at
the close of business Wednesday. April 30.
1892.
Patents were issued to-day 20 the fol-
lowing Indiana inventors: Emil r. Drawer,
Winchester. dust collector; Cleveland c.
Hubbard. Lafayette. roller bearing; Henry
VI. Hunt. Indianapolis, clock-striking me-
chanism: John E. and B. Jones. Elwood.
sheet metal heating furnace; John g.
Kemp. Otterbein, carbid feeding mechan-
ism: John w. Lahmann. Indianapolis.
building stone or brick; Simon A. Loring.
kentland, seed dropper; William II. Os-
burn. Kokomo, cow tail holder; Pierre
Planting. Fort Wayne, apparatus for ex-
tracing tar from gas; Harvey G. Raley,
Lapel, lawn coaster; Levi Richner, Craw-
louisville. engine; Isom ]. Ross. Waynes-
vile. band cutter and feeder for threshing
machines; Jacob Stout. Bluffton. combined
harrow and roller: Frederick B. Whitlock'
indianapolis, stove top.
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Prof. William B. Creager. formerly OF
Terre Haute. and a graduate OF the In
diana Normal School and Indiana Univer-
sity, who now resides at Phoenix. A T.,
is an applicant for the presidency Of the
University Of Arizona. He has the indorse-
ment OF the Indiana senators and members
of the House delegation and others. who
will make strong efforts TO have him ap-
pointed.
Major Alexander Gilchrist and Jacob
Richel. of Evansville. are in Washington
on business.
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Tho DroSfIn~t &1lax cont fho fN11nurfn0
nominations to the Senate: Alexander o.
Brodie. Governor of Arizona; Nelson Read
Johnson. District of Columbia, second lieu
tenant OF infantry.
The President to-day summarily dis
missed John Grant, United States marshal
for the eastern district of Texas. On
April 1 last the attorney general charged
Grant with receiving a fee Of 5000 for
service in securing for a Beaumont CTex.)
national bank a designation as a United
States government depository. Grant is
said to have admitted that he received the
5000, but stated that il was not as a fee,
but was in payment OF the legitimate eX-
penses of himself and friends in that con-
~nection. When asked for a statement Of
these expenses Grant replied that 1t was
impossible for him TO give an itemized &C
count. Thereupon the attorney general
whic has received the Presidents APP
proval.
James c.. Keller, of Cleveland, in behalf
of the letter carriers of the country, was
heard to-day by the House committee on
postofices and post roads on the proposed
increase of pay TO letter carriers, particu-
larly those In frst-class cities. from $1,000
to $1,000 a year. He urged that for the
character OF the work done, the present
rates were low.
A bill giving to Porto Rico all public
lands except those required for United
States naval and military purposes to-day
was ordered favorably reported from the
House committee on insular affairs. 1t
transfers all the public lands TO insular
authority, except such as the President
may designate within one year for naval
stations. army posts and other public uses.
and the transfer is conditioned on Porto
Rico releasing all claims on the lands so
required by the United States for military,
naval and other public uses.
S
The President to-day granted pardons in
the cases of William H. Weber, John
Haddow, Tom Braley. Cass Braley and
David Clarkson. After a hearing before
United State District Judge Mcdowell, of
the Western district of Virginia. the petit
TONERS were a%djudged guilty of contempt of
court and on March 25, 1902, were sentenced
as follows: William II. Weber and John
Haddow. TO be imprisoned in the city. Jail
of L~ynchburg, Va, for six months; Tom
Braley, to be imprisoned In the county jail
of Wise county for one month, and Cass
Bradley and David Clarkson, to be impris-
oned in the county Jail of Wise county for
two months each: Weber and Haddow
were organizers of the United Mine Work
ers and had been in the neighborhOOd of
the mine engaged in the work of organiza-
ton for six or eight months. The other
three petitioners were miners employed at
the works and members of the United Mine
Workers.
The specific charge in these cases was
disobdience of an order and injunction by
the court restraining the petitioners from
going upon the mine property o. in any
way interfering between the miners and
their employees. The attorney general. in
his letter to the President on these cases.
said: The facts in this case are fully set
forth in the accompanying brief of the par
don attorney. L am unwilling to base a
recommendation or seeming acquiescence
in the view of the court that the ultimate
purpose of the union (the United Mine
Workers. is not legal, and I. is proper to
express the belief that the difficulties at the
mine were aggravated by the arbitrary dis
charge of union workmen. Nevertheless, L
do not intend by this statement 20 pass
upon the final judicial finding of fact that
contempt was committed. Under all the
circumstances, and especially in view Of the
punishment already suffered, l recommend
that as an act of executive grace the ap-
HAANoNAph PoAhbAA " cAohNNas
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Secretary Moody has decided to send the
armored cruiser Brooklyn to Havana 10
bring General Leonard Wood and his stat
here on May 20, after the government is
turned over to the new Cuban epublic.
This ship is sent as a mark of respect to-
ward the new nation.
The first movement toward the adoption
of a system of wireless biography by the
United States government for communica-
ton between fixed bases was made to-day.
when General Greedy, chief signal officer,
opened five bids for the supply of such
systems for service in Alaska, where the
ordinary cables fail in important points,
owing to climatic conditions. General Gree
ly was pleased at the responses, but would
not undertake to pass on the bids himself,
and they will be referred to a special board
of signal-corps experts for consideration