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

yesterday. To-day the north and south
Cheyenne canyons and other points of in
terest will be visited.
At a meeting of the G.. B. Markle miners
at Freeland, Pa, yesterday. 1t was decided
to return to work John Markle has agreed
to reinstate all men except those who were
evicted and to also abide by the findings
OF the arbitration commission.
j. b. Weitkum, representing the New
York Life Insurance Company, and whose
home is in st. Louis, was killed by an cleo
trio car at New Orleans last night. Mr..
Weitkum, who is about fifty years of age,
arrived from st. Louis in the afternoon.
The Knoxville, Tenn, Chamber of Com
merce railroad commission has received
assurances from the Jellico operator that
if the railroad will furnish 200 cars a week
to Jellico district, the price of domestic
coal at the mines will be reduced to $3.50
per ton, reduction OF s..
Mayor Low laid the cornerstone of the
New York public library, Astor, Lenox and
Tilden foundations at Forty-second street
and Fifth avenue yesterday. Addresses
were made by the Rev. w. X. Huntington,
rector of Grace Church, John Bigelow,
president of board of trustees of library,
and Mayor Low.
A proposition has been made to the cred
itors of the banking firm of Gilman Sons
& Co., New York which made an as
signment a few weeks ago, looking TO a re-
sumption of business. A number of the
creditors have replied favorably to the let
tiers sent out, and it is generally believed
the firm will resume
The Mississippi State Supreme Court yes
terday handed down a decision affirming
the case of the Yazoo a. Mississippi Valley
Railroad against Writ Adams, state rev.
enue agent, appealed on writ of error The
suit Involves 100000 in unpaid taxes. This
is the largest case yet won by the revenue
agent against the railroads.
]. A CahOen, a motorman on the Nor
folk & Atlantic Terminal Company at Nor
folk, Va, yesterday shot Captain Winfield
Tucker, of the Merritt & Chapman Wreck
ing Company, three times, and inflicted
fatal wounds. Tucker was drawing a pis-
toll to shoot Cahoen on account of domestic
troubles when Cahoen fired first from the
platform of his car. Cahoen was arrested.
The stockholders of the United States
Steel Corporation, who have been meeting
and adjourning since called for the purpose
OF passing upon the bond conversion plan
because of the injunction suit, have finally
adjourned. The charter of the corporation
provides that special meeting may be adj
journed any number of times If the adj
journments be for not more than month
each.
The Missouri Supreme Court yesterday
sustained motion to quash the alternative
writ of mandamus issued at the relation
of Dr. w. p. Hill, of St. Louis, to compel
the Board of Equalization to assess corpo-
rations in Missouri at their full value. No
opinion was written in the case The de-
cision takes the case out of the Supreme
Court. and is a victory for the Board of
Equalization.
Peter Lenousky and Victor Zarambo,
convicted at Wilkesbarre, Pa, of the muir
der of Anthony Sennick, were yesterday
sentenced to be hanged. The condemned
men attacked their victims with an axe
while he was at work in a mine. Their
object was robbery, Sennick having had
the reputation of carrying his earnings
about mis- person. On the day of the muir
der, however, he had left his money at
home.
.,,;t mos Glad in the Distriot Co,r+ 90
I,eayenworth, Kan, yesterday, asking the
appointment OF receivers for the Home
Riverside Coal Mining Company property
i'm that city, The petition alleged that the
property is insolvent; that it owes debts
amounting TO over $4,000; that the proper
ty is not worth over 100000, and that IL
forced to foreclosure sale would not
debtedneSS.