The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

Secretary of the Navy Moody, with
party Of officials. left Charleston, 8. G, on
Wednesday on the gunboat Dolphin for a
cruise of the West Indies.
Anthony FiaIa, who is to command the
Ziegler expedition in search OF the north
pole, was a passenger on the steamship
Oceanic. which sailed from New York On
Wednesday.
of the invitation to attend the dedication
ceremonies of the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position on April 80 was received at st.
Louis on Wednesday.
After two futile attempts at suicide in
the county jail at Detroit Wednesday, ia
cob Boyer, farmer, killed himself Wednes-
day night In the county asylum at Eloise,
where he was taken during the day. His
skull was crushed by dive over the third
floor bannister to a hardwood floor forty
feet below.
In the Missouri House, on Wednesday, by
a vote of IS to 20, the separate railroad
passage. 1t was introduced by Williams
of Scott, and applied to all railroads and
common carriers. All the Republicans
voted against the measure, as did several
Democrats.
The general committee of the manage
ment of the G. A. r. has sent to President
Roosevelt an invitation to attend the thir-
ty-seventh annual National Encampment
of the order to be held in San Francisco
next August. 1t is expected the President
will accept the invitation IL he does not visit
the coast carrier In the year.
A bill re-enacting the nuisance clause
of the prohibitory law recently declared un-
constitutional by the Kansas Supreme
Court has passed both houses of the Legis-
lature and was sent to the Governor for his
the most important In the act, had, accord
ing to the court, been repealed by the Hur-
rel law. a measure that grew out of the
Carrie Nation crusade.
Preliminary tests of a wireless telegraph
system between the harbor forts in New
York harbor were made Wednesday under
the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Dun
woody, signal officer United States army.
and in future the wireless system will be
used regularly for communicating between
Fort Wadsworth on Staten island and Fort
teen miles of the lower bay.
Thomas Byrnes. one of the men arrested
in the recent raid on get rich quick con-
Germs at New York, has been sentenced
to years imprisonment As the police
could not get any of Byrness alleged VIC
tins to appear against him he was charged
with doing business under an assumed
name, pleaded guilty and was sentenced.
Byrnes's business was one OF the smaller
ones broken I'D by the police.
Episcopal Bishop William Hall Moreland,
of the diocese of Sacramento, Cal, Is to be
placed on trial in San Francisco April %
to defend himself against large number
of specific charges made by Rev. DIR. Will
liam Bollard, of Vallejo. The charges in
clude many matters incident to troubles in
the Vallejo parish, where Rev Bollard al
lexes Bishop Moreland intruded and secret
ly started another branch of the church.
Charles Dalton, whose family lives in
Cincinnati, was acquitted at Cleveland
Wednesday by a jury on the charge of MUIR
der Dalton was on trial for having killed
Morris Katz. a bartender. in a saloon a
year ago. The testimony disclosed that the
killing OF Katz was not Dalton's deed. Dali
tons father was present during the trial,
which continued for several days. Char
acter witnesses for Dalton included Judge
Howard Ferris, Col w. L. Bunday and
James r. Foraker, the latter brother OF
Senator Foraker, of Cincinnati.
Under the direction of Captain Ballen-
tine. of the United States engineer corps.
a force of men has gone to Mile rock at
the entrance to the Golden Gate, and be-
gun the work of preparing for the erection
OF lighthouse on the jagged peak. Since
the days Of the discovery OF San Francisco
bay Mile rock has been regarded as one
OF the most dangerous Instructions TO navi-
CATION on that part OF the coast The con-
struction of lighthouse will not only re-
move the element of danger from the rock $
existence, but will serve as a guide to
sliDS.