The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-14

be devoted 10 charity. 5000 IL permitted
TO remove the property from the county,
but the judge declined TO consider the offer.
Two OF the big car ferries OF the Ann Ar
Dor Railway are tied up at their docks at
Frankfort. Mich, unable TO proceed from
that port because OF the insufficient coal
supply. There is not ten tons OF soft coal
in storage there, where about 80 cars are
usually kept on hand All engines on the
division north OF Durand are in danger OF
being tied up unless relief comes soon.
James B. Hawley. who last April at De-
troit shot and killed his brother Edward.
was yesterday found not guilty OF man
slaughter by a jury in the Recorders
Court. Hawley claimed that he shot his
brother who was a tremendously powerful
man. in lf-defense after he had attacked
him The Hawley brothers are well known
along the lakes as 'longshoremen and
wreckers.
vented by Prof. William +. Fulton, OF the
University of Tennessee. was installed yes
terday. The gauge is in the Tennessee river
observers Office in Chattanooga, a half
mile distant. The instrument clearly
showed the stage of the river. the reading
being automatically recorded. The test is
being made by the government.
Three girls aged two. four and seven.
children of Louis Smith, colored. were
burned to death to-day in Sixteenth
went out leaving the children In bed
asleep. Some hours later fire was dis
covered, and before the children could be
reached they had been burned to death.
The mother, hearing OF the death of the
children, grief stricken and had TO be
removed TO the hospital
At the annual meeting of the Gridiron
Club yesterday the following officers were
cago Record-Herald: vice president, l.. A.
Coolidge. Boston Journal; secretary, Rich
ard Lee Fearn. New York Tribune; treas
urer. George III. Walker: executive COM
mittee in addition to the above named offi-
GERS. Francis E. Loupp. New York Evening
Post; Rudolph Kaufman, Washington Star.
and James s. Henry, Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. Joseph Oil. Atlanta Constitution, was
elected a resident member of the club.
The Chicago Health Department put a
steam trip hammer out of commission in
the hope of saving girls life. Pearl Gull
Yer. aged fifteen, was taken i'll with typhoid
became critical the noise of the steam ham,
mer in a machine shop near her home
greatly aggravated the disease. The physi-
clan in charge of the case. fearing for his
patients life, appealed to the city Health
Department TO use its police powers 10 stop
the hammer. The department acting on
the advice of the corporation counsel or
dered the police TO suppress the machine.
! The committee appointed by the ma
chinery building section of the trades as
sembly waited on G. +. Emmons, general
manager of the General Electric works at
Schenectady. n. Y, to demand the rein
/ statement Of Edwin lifting. secretary of the
/ trades assembly, business agent of the
! Screw Makers Union and international
! third vice president of the Allied Metal
! Mechanics. who had been discharged on the
/ allegation that he had been away from his
work nine days without the consent of his
/ foreman. IL is stated that In the event OF
the refusal of Mr.. Emmons to reinstate
lifting or to give good reason for his dis
charge all union men in the works TO the
number of about 5000 would walk out on
Monday.