The Indianapolis journal., 1903-05-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Callao and Pisco. Peru have been offici-
ally declared infected with the bubonic
plague.
A. Calvin was killed and M. McSweeney
and Frank Riley. Of Buffalo, We're severely
hurt tonight In a street-car collision on
the road to Euclid beach, Cleveland.
Judge Law, of Port Huron. Mich, has
decided that the Supreme Tent of the
Maccabees must open Its books for the
benefit of the Port Huron Savings Bank.
Prof. It. F. Hunt, dean of the College Of
Agriculture of the Ohio State University,
has accepted the professorship or agron-
omy in the College of Agriculture of Cor
nell University.
Great Northern system as to whether the
general committee shall be sustained In its
position on the .double-header question has
ever refuse 10 make known the result until
after a conference with General Manager
Ward, which will probably be held to-day.
Three archbishops. FIVE bishops. one mon
signor and score % or more priests partiei
Catholic Church, Chicago, on Sunday in
honor Of the recent conservation or the
structure. Archbishop Quigley pontificated
at the mass, and Bishop Spaulding, or Pc
oria, preached the sermon.
Chas. w. Sherrerd, of Scranton, Pa, a
student in the senior class of the Rennse-
laer Polytechnic Institute, was drowned at
Troy. n. Y, Sunday in the Hudson, while
canoeing. There was party of four stud
ents two In canoe. A sudden squall upset
the craft. Sherrerd tried to swim to the
shore, but with his clothes on this was too
much and he was drowned. The others were
rescued.
George Sprague and Homer Maham, two
prominent farmers near Williamsburg. o.,
was worstel He Immediately repaired to
his home and secured a shotgun, followed
Maham into the barnyard. and shot him
The two men had formerly been friends, but
owing to some trouble the past year or two
had engaged In several fights. Sprague
was arrested.
A portion of the kitchen of the state
from Birmingham Ala, was burned Satur-
day night and nine convicts escaped. Going
to the railroad ssation near by. the con-
left him tightly bound. The signal light
was turned, causing the next train south,
on the Southern, to stop. The operator was
found and released. One or the c0nvictS
has been CAPTURED.
Patrick Moore, a flagman at the New
urswick-avenue crossing of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at Railway, N. j., found on
Wednesday check for $1,000. which fiut-
tered out of a window of the Long Branch
express as ii passed through Railway. The
check was drawn on the Merchants Nation
al Bank of Chicago in favor of Mrs. Isa-
bella Stewart, but the name of the maker
was undecipherable. The check was turned
in to the lost property department of the
railroad.
The twelfth annual convention of the gen.
eral society of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution was opened at New York
Sunday with special service held in st.
Paurs Church. The Rev. Robert Morris
Kemp. who preached the sermon, pleaded
for the perpetuation of the highest tradi-
tions of patriotism by the women of Amer
lea, and protested against the establish
ment i'm this country of aristocracy of birth
or wealth and the marriage OF American
women with titled foreigners.
A man whose name is withheld has sent
$4,000 to ]. j. Mahoney, OF the knights of
Columbus of Iorain, o., to be offered as
reward for the detection OF the murderer Of
Agatha Reichlin, which occurred a week
ago Thursday night. This sum will be add
ed to the 1.000 already offered by the coun-
ty More money will be asked of the friends
of the Reichlin family, both in Lorain and
elsewhere. to make a larger fund. and
thereby IL Is hoped to induce experienced
detectives to work upon the case
The Greek Orthodox Mutual Benefit So
ciety OF the United States began it's annual
convention Sunday in the picturesque Rus
sian Church on East Ninety ninth street
New York. Bishop Tychon. of Alaska The
head of the Russian Church for North
America presides at the convention. Other
distinguished priests. arch priests deacons
and archdeacons and monks from MANY
aitiss in the United States are present "a