The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

Former Governor Daniel Hastings, of
Pennsylvania, is lying seriously Ill at his
home in Bellfonte, with pneumonia.
IT don't fight for that said Champion
Valley Athletic club of $4,000 purse for
a twenty-round contest with Corbett. JEFF
fries refused to give any reasons.
Miles Johnson. negro charged with
criminal assault, was tried and convicted
at Augusta, Ga, on Wednesday. He will
be hanged Feb. 6. Troops guarded the
courthouse while the trial was In progress.
The torpedo boat destroyer Lawrence. the
first of her class built by the Fore River
Ship and Engine Company, successfully
passed her final government trial yesterday
in a straightaway dash across Massachu-
sets bay, at speed exceeding the re-
quired twenty-six knots an hour.
Thirty masked men released w. p Hop
wood and w. II. Johnson from the Marshall
county, Tennessee, Jail. The prisoners were
charged with lynching a negro named John
Davis and numerousy signed petition to
Judge Houston to grant a special term of
court TO try them had been refused. When
the judges action became known masked
men released the prisoners.
John Capitoz nineteen years old, stabbed
and fatally wounded Mrs Michela Monaco,
at 423 Fifth avenue. Chicago, yesterday. in
quarrel on the front stairs of the house
where they both lived. Capitcz was sweep
ing water down the stairs The woman
protested. whereupon she was viciously at
tackled and badly cut in the neck and
breast. Capitoz fed. but was captured
later by the police. The woman is forty
seven years of age.
Albert King. twenty-five years of age
yesterday at Mount Vernon. N. Y, entered
the home of John Finley his former en-
ployer. and slashed the throat of Mr. Fin
leys four-year-old daughter with razor.
nearly severing the head. The child died
instantly. King then went into an adjoin-
ing room and shot himself dead. The only
person In the house at the time was a
nurse girl with whom King was in love,
and who had rejected his advances John
Finley Is manager of a department in a
large retail store operated in New York
city.
Ii is claimed that the developments in the
failure of the Wellermark Bank at Nacog-
doches and Henderson. Texas, show that
forged notes and compress receipts TO a
large amount caused the suspension. 1t Is
closed $4,000 of fraudulent paper and that
the operations have been carried on for a
long time and many banks In south Texas
are said to have been caught for amounts
ranging from small sums to $1,000 The
depositors offer reward of $500 for appre-
hension of a member of the firm, who IL
Is said has disappeared.
The steamer James A Carney, plying
between Mobile and points on the eastern
shore of Mobile bay. struck a submerged
.deadhead'' in the river yesterday on her
trip to Mobile and stove a big hole i'm her
bow. The boat began TO fill rapidly and the
passengers were ordered aft the upper
deck. She soon began to sink and the
captain ordered full speed on and made
to shallow water, where the Carney was
beached. The passengers transferred
TO tugs and taken 10 Mobile. No lives were
lost, but the passengers were badly fright
ened. The steamer will be raised.