The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-15
TELEGRApHIc BREvITIEs.

LYNCHING INVESTIGATED. The
lynching of David Wyatt. the negro school,
special attention in the charge of Circuit
Judge Burroughs TO the ST. Clair county
grand jury. delivered Monday. Judge Bur
fortunate. Illegal and fl-advised" and he
urged that the utmost effort be made TO dis
cover. indict and convict those who were
that their business interests must not be al
lowed to interfere with their duties as grand
Jurors
MINERS SURRENDERED dispatch
from Novfnger, Mo-. says that the strik-
ing coal miners held a mass meeting Mon
Gay night and voted TO return TO work this
morning. This action was taken I'm ODE
dfence to the order of the convention of the
miners OF District No. 25 which met yester-
day. Immediately after President Mitchell
and the other mine leaders heard of the de-
vised the mine owners that they were ready
for a Joint conference and the conference
was called at once for Kansas City.
TO BE TRIED BY CIVIL COURTS
Upon request of the War Department the
attorney general will direct the United
States district attorney at Pittsburg TO de-
fend the sentry OF the Ninth Infantry who
shot and killed William II. Crowley near the
Allegheny arsenal grounds last Thursday.
AS the shooting took place outside the mill
tary reservation IL is conceded by War De-
partment officials that the case is one for
the civil courts The sentry has been turned
over to the civil authorities for trial.
RUSH OF WORK.-The Reading Rail-
way carshop employees were notified Monday
that. beginning at once. they will work thir-
teen and one-duarter hours day instead of
ten and one-quarter hours. This increase is
due TO the rush or work in the repair de-
partment at Reading. large number OF
the company's coal cars are said 10 be in
bad condition and in order TO keep them in
the trade the order was issued. Similar
notices were posted In the repair shops of
the company elsewhere.
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dead body OF a young white man was dis
covered I'm a freight car loaded with water
melons in the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
skull was fractured and the pockets of
his clothing turned inside out. indicat-
Ing murder. with robbery motive.
From papers found IL is thought his name
II isabold. The car had been shipped from
. point IN Virginia near Richmond
NO ONE TO BLAME.-The coroner's
| jury at Milwaukee returned a verdict TO .i.e
Menect that no one 10 blame for Chauf-
keur. Frank II. Days death I'm an automo-
bile accident at the Wisconsin State fair
grounds on Saturday. Testimony brought
out the fact that the State fair officers
demanded no faster time than mile i'm
that
TWO KILLED; EIGHT HURT.-Frank
Peterson and Johnson Nelson were killed,
two others fatally injured and about six
more severely injured by the collapse of a
wall Monday at the plant OF the United Gas
Improvement Company I'm the southwest
ern section Of Philadelphia. The men We're
mas0ns and laborers working upon a new
extension TO one OF the buildings at the gas
works
WITH S000.oo0 CAPITAL.-The Interna-
ffonal Air-brake and Steam Connection
Company was Incorporated at Trenton, y.
J.. Monday with an authorized capital OF
<5.eo0o0o- The company Will make metallic
tubing for air-brakes and steam-pipe con-
nectloas for railway cars The incOrpof-
stors are II. n Doll. Richard B. Pointon
and James Neil. tr.. all OF Newark.
STEAM ENGfNEERs.-The International
Union of Steam Engineers is in session at
Wheeling. w. Va, with III delegates pres
eat from al parts Of the United States and