The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

John Miller, leading merchant of LARA
bee Ia, was burned to death, flames COM
municating to his night clothes from
kerosene lamp.
Decker mines at Pittsburg, Kan, Miles
Bleat was killed, Jess Barnes was fatally
injured and Walter Vendlee suffered the
fracture OF leg.
George II. Trumble thirty-five years of
age, superintendent of a gold mine i'm Yad-
kin county, North Carolina, was instantly
killed by the overturning Of hosting ma
Was in Milwaukee. Wis where he leaves e
family.
John B Oakley, former assistant post
master at Hager City, Wis, has been con-
victed in the Federal Court of embezzling
and sentenced to six months in the House
of Correction and fined the amount of his
shortage, $26S.9.
AT Shawnee, o., Thursday George Worth
fngton shot and killed his brother Alex
ander Worthington, the result of a quarrel
over game of poker. Five shots were
fired by the former one taking effect in the
heart. During the excitement the murderer
escaped and has not been apprehendd.
Lee Stratton, a Southern Railway engi-
neer, was shot and killed by Bob Nixon, a
negro brakeman, near Barnell, Ca, Thurs
day, and posse with bloodhounds is on
in the neighborhood of the crime and vio-
lence Is feared If the negro is caught.
Replying to an inquiry regarding the reT
ports circulated in the United States that
w. G.. Hunter, jr., had been tried and ac-
quilted of the murder of Fitzgerald, the
Associated Press correspondent at Guate-
mala City has cabled as follows: IF there
has been a trial il was a secret one. All
mystery here"
The fire that has been threatening to
destroy the Great United Velde copper mine
at Jerome A: T.. for the past four months.
a mt ha
mine heavy carbonate gas, which displaced
the oxygen and finally smothered the fire
in the ore and timbers of the mine.
Herman Borchers. of Columbus, Neb., a
and killed his stepfather, Gerhard Borchers,
and with the assistance of young brothers
burned the body in strawstack, was ac-
quilted by a jury. There was no denial of
the crime. the plea of the defense being
the moral responsibility Of the boy.
The Rev. Shelby Munson Griswald d.
D., of Hudson, N. Y, was yesterday con-
secrated Episcopal Bishop of Salina, Kan,
at All Saints Cathedral, Albany, in the
presence of a brilliant gathering of bishops
priests and laymen. Bishop Doane of AL
bany, was consecrator being assisted by
Bishops Seymour, of Springfield, ILL.,. and
Hall, of Vermont.
The steamer Empress of japan reached
Victoria, b. c., from Yokohama yesterday
bringing no news of the overdue liner
Pleiades which is now thirty-six DAYS out
of Yokohama for Puget sound The head
winds which the Empress encountered
would favor the passage of the Pleiades
rather than retard it, and officers of the
Empress say the Pleiades must have been
broken down.
One hundred Democrats were present at
the Jackson day banquet at the Grand
Hotel, Cincinnati, Thursday night. NJ E.
ingalls,, president of the Big Four Railroad
and James Z. Kilbourne. of Columbus, were
the principal speakers. Henry Watterson,
of Louisville, who was invited, was unable
to attend on account of illness. Democrats
in other cities also celebrated Jackson day
with banquets.
A. Wettermark. head of the banking firm
which was forced into liquidation by alleged
extensive forgeries. was yesterday arrested
on his arrival at Houston, Tex, on a war
rant charging him with having received de-
posts after he knew his bank to be insol-
vent The warrant was sworn out at Hen
derson, where there q branch house.
1t is claimed at Nacogdoches that the for
gerleS viii exceed 100000.
Maj. Gen. Adna Chaffee made a denial
yesterday of the cabled report that any
act. order or any instruction of his while
in the Philippines could be construed into
authorization of the application of the
water cure for the purpose of extracting
information from the natives General
Chaffee made this statement when his at
tention was called TO a dispatch from Ma
Mia giving an account of the court martial
of Major Glenn. of the Fifth Infantry.
Joseph o. Thompson, recently Amounted
collector of internal revenue for the district
of Alabama, is i'll of smallpox at a hotel i'm
Washington. His brother Representative
Charles W. Thompson. of the Fifth Ala
bama district, is quarantined in the hotel
1t was not regarded by the health author
tiles as necessary to quarantine the hotel
or other guests. Mr.. Thompson was taken
i'll last Saturday, but il was not deter
mined until yesterday that his illness was
smallpox.
With the fund recently received from the
Carnegie Institute in Washington the de-
partment of experimental Psychology at
Yale University will continue experiments
on the human voice, which were begun
more than a year ago. Plans are being
made for collecting dialects all over the
United States by means of a car specially
equipped with voice recording machines
A feature of the collection will be voice
records of various tribes of North Ameri-
can Indians. 1t has been decided to send
Mrs. Laurena Stackhouse was arraigned
before United States Commissioner Leeper
at Marietta, o., Thursday on the charge of
using the mails for fraudulent purposes
and held under 81 500 bond for preliminary
examination on Jan. Is. Frank Stackhouse
her husband, was held an accomplice
under $1,000 bond. 1t Is alleged the woman.
under the names Irene Mousell and Laura
Miller, advertised for gentlemen correspond
ents and secured from them money to pur-
chase a wedding trousseau. after which the
correspondence was dropped. She claims
New York as her home.