The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-11

from the vehicle and escaped with Sigh.
injuries. He is the son of Mrs Hannah Nel-
son. who has brought suit TO revoke the
Fair estate settlement.
Surrogate Fitzgerald of New York, has
admitted the will of the late Mary ]. Win
throp who left the bulk OF her S2,5o00o0
estate TO the Princeton Theological Sem
mary. The contest TO the WILL under in
structions of the surrogate, will now be
carried into the Supreme Court. where the
question raised to the legal propriety of
the seminary to accept the gift will be de-
cided.
The immigration authorities have decided
that Henry Thibeouf who was detained a
New York on arrival of the French steamer
La Bretagne at the requs ST of the French
authorities. suspicion of having muir
dered woman at Bots dc Colonies. near
Paris. should be excluded from the United
states. Marie Pietto, young Belgian
woman. who accompanied Thibeouf. was
also excluded. The couple will be sent back
20 France
a verdict of $4,000 damages was returned
by jury in Judge Hanecys Court at
Chicago on Tuesday in favor of Miss Nellie
Sculiy. of Austin, who brought suit against
the Lake-street Elevated Railroad Com
pany. The plaintiff charged that she was
permanently injured in collision which
occurred on the elevated road during a
dense fog Nov. l. 1901, the train on which
she was a passenger colliding with the one
ahead of it,
The largest single bond ever filed i'm the
Surrogates Court of winchester. n. Y.
has been filed with Surrogate Silkman in
the matter of the estate of the late Robert
Il. Hopkins. of Tarrytown: The bond is
given by Mrs. Fanny Hopkins. the widow.
together with a guaranty and surety
company and is for 100000. Mrs. Hop
kins was recently appointed temporary ad-
ministrator of her husbands estate The
latter amounts to about S.0cO0O0.
The annual banquet of the Foraker Club
was held In Excelsior Hail. at Youngstown,
o., Monday night: Covers were laid for
addresses of the evening Were delivered by
Col. Myron I. Herrick. of Cleveland, who
spoke on The Future. and NJ. NJ. Gar
land, of Pittsburg. ex-president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers who responded to Lin
coin from the Working Mans Standpoint"
Adolph Kuhn. former Chicago banker
and real-estate dealer whom the police
arrested him in New York on a charge of
forgery, is now q prisoner in the county
jail at Chicago. The prisoner arrived on
Tuesday In charge of detectives from the
East. The charge of forgery which is
made against him is in connection with
number of real-estate deals said to involve
more than $4,000. Indictments also charge
the prisoner with larceny and swindlng.
Solomon Mokeleison, an educated Rus
sian. who had served five years in Siberia
after getting into trouble through his So
cialfstic ideas, committed suicide on Tues
day In his room on the East Side, New
lack OF familiarity with English handi-
capped him here. and after a struggle to
earn his living in sweatshop he decided
to die. His friends said he was not
Nihilist, but had championed in Europe the
cause of the class he was thrown among in
this country.
Just before ex-President Cleveland went
South for a fishing trip he sat for an oil
portrait, which is to be hung in the his
torical library In the capitol at Helena,
Mont, which was admitted as State in his
administration. Freeman Thorp, of Wash
ington, Is the artist. The ex-president
gave three sittings at Princeton and the
picture is completed. The artist will go next
to Washington to paint the portrait of
which viii include portraits of all of Mon
tana's prominent men.
The estate of Norman Kittsen, valued at
over 5000. 600, has just been closed In the
Probate Court of st. Paul, nearly fifteen
years after that well-known capitalist died
on train between Chicago and St. Paul.
The ST. Paul Trust Company was in charge,
and the estate was divided equally among
the eleven children. Various conflicting
claims have been settled in the courts.
Commodore Kittsen was an associate of
James j. Hill In early enterprises for the
development of the Northwest, and was
one of the beSt-known characters in West
ern history.
John d. Rockefeller. jr.. supposed to be
about the richest young man in America
owes 100000, and has only $4,000 worth of
personal property, according 10 the state
ment filed with the Department of Taxes
and Assessments at New York. Mr.. Rock
efeller was assessed at 100000. From what
could be learned at the tax office Mr. Rock
efeller called there and stated that he had
$4,000 In debts and that his personal prop
erty above his debts was worth only $780,
600. but he was willing to pay taxes on an
assessment OF $4,000. The commissioners ac-
cepted Mr.. Rockefeller's figures.
An Indictment has been returned at Ida
Grove, Ia, against A. o. F. Powers. of
Oklahoma City, o. T., formerly immigrant
agent of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway, charging him with obtaining
money under false pretenses. 1t is alleged
that Mr.. Powers represented to Iowa real
estate men that he had been selected as
the agent Of the Greek and Seminole In
dams of Indian Territory to dispose of their
lands. after the allotment made by the
Dawes commission. According to evidence
presented to the grand jury 5000 worth of
drafts drawn on the First National Bank
of Hutchinson, Kan, have been returned
as worthless. Powers's present where
abouts not known.