The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-19
.!TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Russell Sage was at his office yesterday
for the first time since he was taken i'll
two months ago.
The Virginia Legislature has appropriated
5000 to defend the recent suits against the
new Constitution.
The terminal station of the Long Island
City Railroad, at Long Island City, was
destroyed by fire last night. Loss. $4,000.
John Powers. superintendent of the Tiger
mine, was frozen to death yesterday in the
Greenhorn district of Oregon. He was six
ty-four years of age.
The executive committee of the Army
of Santiago de Cuba has selected Detroit
for the encampment of July 16 and IL, 1908.
to commemorate the surrender of Santiago
July IL, 1898. 49,
The last steamer from New York which
will reach the other side of the Atlantic
before Christmas, the st. Paul, of the
American line, has sailed with $i6O,615 in
money orders payable in fifteen European
countries.
At the meeting of the Ohio Fair Man.
ayers Association yesterday ]. S. Stuckey,
H. Chamberlain. Of Bellefontaine. secretary
and treasurer. The association will meet
at Sandusky in 1903
At a meeting of the board of directors Of
Kentucky yesterday the Rev. Dr. Henry Z.
Dosker, of Holland, Mich, was selected
for the chair of church history made va
cant by the death of DR.. c. b. II. Martin.
Nearly 5000 Beers. it is said. are preparing
to trek to America and Will settle in Col
orado, New Mexico and Texas. The repre-
sentative of this movement is Gen. Samuel
Pearson late quartermaster general of the
South African Republic, whose headquar-
tiers are in New York.
Louise Eames. claiming to be the only
child of Lester H. Eames, deceased, a for
fner Ottawa. Ill. bank president. seeks to
100000, asking that an agreement by
which she signed away all of her rights to
the estate for $4,000, be set aside.
Former members of the firm of Dernberg.
Click & Horner. which conducted depart
ment store at No. 1875 State street, Chicago,
and failed in 1895. filed a petition in the
Federal Court yesterday asking to be re-
heved of their debts, which are placed at
.292- The assets amount to $4,000.
Heavy snow in the mountains north and
west of Ell Paso is causing serious delay to
all trains entering the city from those d.
rections. The Rock Island and Santa Fe,
which cross the mountain ranges of New
Mexico. are the heaviest sufferers. but traf-
flc on other roads has been seriously ham,
pered
Horace L. Hotchkiss, who was Jay
bers of the New York Stock Exchange, has
sold his seat and will retire from Wall
street after career in the street of forty
FIVE years. Mr.. hotchkiss was one of the
organizers of the Nicaraguan Canal Asso-
citation.
Justice Leaventritt in the Supreme Court
of New York. yesterday handed down
decision vacating the stay granted by
Justice Fitzgerald restraining Fire Com
missioner Sturgis from dismissing Fire
Chief Croker until after the appellate d.
vision of the Supreme Court shall have
passed on the legality Of the trial
During a dance at the Natatorium in
Beaumont. Tex, last night a duel was
fought between John Breach, street COM
missioner, and Frank Matthews, both men
using pistols AS result Breach Is dead
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The shooting took place outside the dance
hall. Only three shots were fred.
At Upper Sandusky, o., yesterday Philip
Nagef was found guilty of murder in the
first degree without recommendation of
mercy for killing William Wade and will
be sentenced to death by electrocution. The
motive for the murder was robbery, Wade
murder about $50 which represented the
savings of a seasons work as a farm hand
Nagel and Wade had been bosom compan-
ions.
The tract of ground running along the
entire northern boundary Of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition site at St. Louis.
long and GOO feet wide, has been leased to
NJ. Xavier Rene, of Marsellles. France.
and his American associates for a rental of
$4,000. An earnest of $4,000 paid
TO clinch the negotiation. NJ. Rene stated
that the tract will be utilized for amuse-
! ments during the exposition.
Thomas w. Miller and James McGinniss,
proprietor of the Illinois Hotel No. 5ll
and 5iilz State street. Chicago. lodging
house with 40 rooms. which Is declared
| to be contrary to the building ordinance.
| were arrested yesterday on warrant
sworn out at the order OF acting Building