The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-12

names of Charles Adams and Frank Adams.
Adams is wanted on the charge of having
killed his aunt. Mrs. Mary Rogers, on or
about June 20. 1888. by beating her over the
head with some blunt instrument because
she refused to accede to his demands for
money.
FIRE ENGINEERS ELECT OFFICERS.
The international Association Of Fire En-
gineers at Atlantic City, N. j., on Friday
elected the following officers:
President, Captain w. r. Joyner, Atlanta;
second vice president. George Kellogg,
Sioux City, Ia; secretary, Henry A. Hill,
Wyoming, o.; treasurer, d. c. Larkin, Day.
ton, o. Chattanooga, Tenn, was selected
as the next place of meeting.
BOYS WRECK A TRAIN.-Paul Murphy
and Ernest Smith, boys of Ration. n. NJ,
have been arrested by Special Agent Rudd.
of the Santa Fe road, charged with wreck
ing a train. Last Sunday evening No. 2
passenger train ran across a rail which had
been placed across the track near Hillside,
just below the Ration tunnel, derailing both
engines. The boys have confessed that they
placed the rail on the track.
TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.-According to a
coroner's verdict Richard w. Taylor, who
was found in a semi-conscious condition in
Wade Park, Cleveland, Thursday evening,
and died within a short time in a police
station, took his own life. Evidence of car
bolic acid was found In Taylor's stomach.
An officer of the Berkshire Life Insurance
Company came to Cleveland Thursday to
look over Taylor's accounts.
|. TUSKEGEE WILL GET ITS MONEY
The bill introduced last week in the Ala
bama Legislature, taking from the Tuske-
gee Normal and Industrial Institute, Of
which Booker T. Washington is principal,
a portion of the appropriation made yearly
by the State has been considered by the
committee of education, which will report
adversely on ii. The appropriation now be-
ing made will be continued.
SHOT HIS LITTLE SISTER.-Stewart
Johnson, aged eight years, shot and killed
his sister Mabel, sixteen years old, at
their home in Chicago Thursday night. The
boy had been given a rifle as a birthday
was discharged, the bullet entering his
sisters heart. Stewart was overcome with
grief. The police made no arrests.
COTTON MILLS RESUME.-One million
more cotton ~spindles will run in Fall River
next week than ran this week. 9,4OO more
operatives will work; $4,000 more will be
paid out in wages; 400 more bales of cotton
will be used, and 126,0oO more pieces of
II the greater part of the season of cur
tailment in Fall River was over.
KILLED BY Observation-Disclosures
Lindsey and Joseph Dougherty were shot
and killed at Camden, Tenn, Thursday
night. by two deputies who were trying to
arrest them on the charge of assaulting
Daniel ~Stockdale. an aged white farmer.
Stockdale is in a precarious condition. Lind
say and Dougherty quarreied with Stock
dale over a family matter.
PEACE AT CRIPPLE CREEK.-Peace
prevailed throughout the Cripple Creek dis
trict. The water supply of the La Bella
Power Company, which was shut of tenn
p~orarily Thursday night by order Of the
water commissioner of Goldfeld, is now
guarded by officers and the plant is fur
nishing power to mines which are operating
with nonuniOn men.
SUICIDE OF AN ARTIST.-CIine Wilson,
a young artist, committed suicide early
Friday IN his studio at New York by in
haling gas. Wilson was a native of Rus
s~ellvile, KY, where wealthy relatives Gre
said to reside. Dependency over failure IN
his chosen work is supposed to have
prompted the suicide.
CANNOT COLOR BUTTER.-W. w. p.
Mcconnell, Minnesota State dairy commits
sioner, has issued an order effective Jan.
! next, forbidding the use of aniline
or coal tar colors for butter making. This
action is taken under the new State pure
food law. it being held that such colors
are injurious.
TROLLEY LINES CONSOLIDATED
The Missouri secretary Of state has issued
a certificate of consolidation for the cleo
trio company of st. Louis with a capital
stock OF $40, coo. 900.