The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-08
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

! Secretary OF the Navy W. II. Moody made
| an inspection Of the Charlestown navy
/ yard yesterday. He was received with due
/ honors.
| The cross-examnation of Frank c. An
1 drews. who is on trial at Detroit. charged
with Incorporating funds Of the wrecked
/ City Savings Bank, was continued yester-
/ day by Assistant Prosecutor Merriam.
At Washington. d. c.. yesterday Coroner
/ Glazebrook issued a certificate OF acct
! dental death in the case of William frank
| Ter. a Washington shoe dealer whose body
was found in the Potomac river on Wednes-
day.
James McArkin. sixty years old. was ar
rested at Joplin, Mo-, yesterday on charge
! revealed many tools and devices for making
counterfeit money and large quantity of
spurious coin.
The annual outing of the knights of CO.
be held at Putin Bay O.. Aug 10 to Il
inclusive. Members of that organization
will be present from Buffalo, Chicago. In
dianapolis. Cincinnati. Detroit and Column
bus The affair will be almost entirely
social.
The Denver Horse Show Association has
| decided 10 give in connection with its an
! nual exhibition the first week I'm Septem-
! Der a record breaker broncho riding con-
i test The winner will be given a worlds
! championship belt. valued at 500, and in
! addition the association will hang up purses
amounting 10 $1,000
At Bloosburg. five miles west of Ration,
n. NJ. a cloudburst drowned four persons
Mrs Francesca Dominguez and three chill
/ dren A man, his wife and three children
| are reported drowned at Terceo. They
were seen just before the arrival of the
| big wall of water, but all efforts to find
/ them since have failed.
Frederick A Warren, formerly a WELL
| known clubman Of Chicago, was adjudged
/ insane by Judge Wheatley yesterday and
committee 10 the asylum AT EiSln. ne No MaS
| at one time an officer OF the Exclusive Chi
| cago Club and a member of the Calumet
| and Union League clubs. Domestic trouble
is the cause attributed to his breakdown.
James Big Heart. nominee on the Full
! blood ticket, has been elected principal
! chief of the Usage Indians for two-year
| term over Bacon Rind, candidate on the
Progressive ticket The principal issue
! lands. Big Hearts election means that
the land will not be allotted during his
term.
Nebraska Prohibitionists Yesterday NOM
| mated the following state ticket: Governor
| S. T. Davies; lieutenant Governor, Isaiah
| Lightner; secretary of state, d. d. Norton
| Dale; attorney general w. Bert Clarke, of
| Saunders; land commissioner, ]. NJ. Dill
| worth superintendent of public instruction
| A. e Howard.
Archer Milton Huntington, son Of Mrs
! Arabella d. Huntington, and son of the
! late Coils p. Huntington, is reported TO
have been operated on for appendicitis at
! his home "Pleasance Bay Chester, N
Y. The sG operation was performed by sew
|
| eral surgeons from New York. 1t was
| successful. and Mr.. Huntington is report
ed TO be doing well.
The court-martial called at Erie, Pa, to
! try Charles w. Penrose, assistant pay
| master United States navy and attached 10
| the United States steamer Michigan, con-
| vened yesterday at the request of II. L.
| Moore. Junior counsel for the accused, ad-
| journed until Monday to await the arrival
of the senior officer, Major Waller, who is
at Warm Springs, Va.
| lice Bud Wilmoth at Womesdorf. w. Va,
two weeks ago. has been captured after
| desperate chase through the mountains.
| BlOOdhOunds were repeatedly put on and
| taken off his trail and all hopes of his cap
ture were abandoned until Wednesday,
when the negro was found near MOntrose
and he captured there by twenty men
| yesterday. heavy reward was onered 1or
| him dead or alive He served several terms
| in prison
The fire in the United Verde mine at
! Jerome, A. T., has crept down to and is
| entering the fifth level. The old shaft is
| abandoned on account of gas The lower
| leve! is open through the new shaft, the
upper levels in that shaft being bulkhead-
ed. The smelter has shut down, owing
TO break in the machinery and practi
cally all the men have been discharged, eX
cept the machinsts and the few who
aid in fighting the fire when plan of
ton is developed. Probably 500 men are
idle as a result
The Viscount de Clinchamp, who is the
| French member of the party headed by
Harry de Windt, which set out from Paris
on Dec - 1901. for an Overland trip around
yesterday on the steamship La BTetagne.
The vtscount's arrival in Paris will COM
plete ms trip ana ne VIII De the second
member OF the party TO arrive home The
De Win6t party started out with four MEM
bers. The two who are still travelling are
De Windt himself and another Englishman
named Harding.
Kentucky's delegation to the annual meet
ing Of the Grand Lodge of Elks in Salt
Lake City left Louisville yesterday, $50
strong in special train COMPOSED of five
sieepers, a dining coach and a baggage car
over the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Railroad The party, which is in charge of
r. s. Brown, district passenger agent of
the road, went by way of ST. Louis The
Kentucky delegation goes to the Grand
Lodge meeting instructed to cast a solid
vote for George Z. Crank, of Omaha, for
grand exalted ruler.
A warrant has been issued at Cincinnati
for the arrest of John H Vessel for using
the mails to defraud The man cannot be
found: He opened an office in Cincinnati
July l and is charged with soliciting con-
signments of lumber. which when received,
he sold 10 local firms below the market
| price. 1t is estimated that he has OBJ
tanned $1,000 worth Of lumber. There is an
established lumber dealer here bearing the
agencies this man is alleged to have used
He closed his office and disappeared last
Saturday.
Margaret A. Berg, who for more than
| half century was maid and nurse in the
wealthy and prominent family of the late
William Shakespeare Caldwell. of New York
ard Richmond, Va, and who died in Paris
recently, bequeathed $4,000 of the $4,000
she had saved 10 the Baroness Won Zed-
witt and the MarQuese Des Worthwhile,
daughters of Mr.; Caldwell, who are said to
be worth several millions. Notice has just
been filed in New York Directing to the
probatng of the will by Charles Katen. of
Stamford, Conn. He is joined in the con-
test over the will by forty-two nephews.
nieces and other relatives of the testatrix.