The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-31
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

Benjamin Atkinson, of Malverne, Ark,
committed suicide at Decatur, ILL.,, on Fri
day by taking morphine.
A DILL has been passed by the Alabama
House of Representatives prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes or cigarette paper in Ala
bama.
The safe in the postoffice at Dodge Cen
ter. Mimi, was blown open Thursday night
and SOC or 500 in stamps and over 500 in
money taken.
Gus Hervey. Henry Phillips and George
Thomas, while working in the Gordon
mine. near Death valley. California, were
buried by cave-in and killed
AS result of an explosion at the works
of the Standard Oil Company in Cleveland,
Thursday, four men were severely burned.
A safety valve on an oil still blew off and
an explosion of gas followed. Two oil
stills were destroyed.
The schooner Three Sisters. which arrived
at Newport News, Va, Friday night, re-
ported the sinking of the oyster schooner
w. III. Smith off Thimble light, near Ocean
View, Friday. Captain John Collier and
John w. Young. seamen and negro sailors
are believed to have persisted.
crusade begun by the Hyde Park Pro-
tective Association resulted on Friday in
grand jury against 121 owners Of slot ma
chimes in every section of the city A large
majority of the indictments was against
cigar dealers and saloon keepers in the
downtown district.
The examination into the affairs of the
bank of Otto, Ia, owned by Cutting & Will
lett has disclosed a shortage of s214 49l
instead of sS4, SOB, as at first reported. OF
this sum So, 500 is accounted for on the cash
blotter, but credited to no ones account
Speculation on the Board of Trade is the
only explanation offered for the shortage.
The spot of the battlefield of Antietam,
where Commissary Sergeant William Nc
kinley stood on the evening of Sept 10,
1862. under fire and served hot coffee and
rations to his comrades, Is to be marked
by an appropriate MONUMENT. On Friday
the Ohio Antietam Battlefield Commission
awarded the contract for its erection. The
cost will be 5000.
Sixteen Chinese held i'm the ST. Lawrence
county New York; Jail for being unlaw-
fully i'm the United States have just been
ordered deported by United States Commits
sioner Gray. During January he ordered
thirty-six Chinese deported. Fourteen
were discharged and thirty-one cases await
the commissioners decision. Appeals have
been taken in all cases where deportation
was ordered.
John ST. Clair. alias Sinclair, was hanged
at the district Jail in Washington, D. c..
Friday for the murder of his sweetheart,
Daisy Maddox, eight months ago. st. Clair
had a wooden leg, which he jokingly said
would be sure to break my neck On ac-
count of this handicap platform was built
from his cell TO tn scaffold. Obviating the
necessity of his climbing steps The trap
was sprung at 1906 and he was pronounced
dead at 12:2O.
Deputy County Clerk James A. Fletcher
lies critically injured at Carlinville. ILL.,
with a cash across the throat. Who cut
the womans throat is not known. but the
wound is said to have been inflicted with
a butcher knife. Mrs. Horton. her husband
and a hired man were alone in the Hoiton
house. Suddenly Mrs. Horton rushed from
the house bleeding and screaming. None
of the three viii explain how the wound
was inflicted.
The will of Amos McCarty, an eccentric
capitalist who oied at Oakland, Cal, Jan.
o. has Just been opened. 1t directs that no
| religious services be held at his funeral,
| but suggests that band of music be pro-
vided for the entertainment of the mourn
| ers The estate, which is left TO his daugh-
| tiers. includes valuable property in Bay
| Farm Island, in California, realty in Kan
| sas City, $1,000 acres of land in Missouri
| real estate in Chicago, besides stocks,
| bonds and mortgages.