The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

John w. Gates and Mrs. Gates sailed for
England on Wednesday on the steamship
Oceanic.
Police Inspector Cross of New York, has
been dismissed from the force by Commits
sioner Greene. Cross was tried recently on
charges of neglect Of duty.
DIR. s, H. Rice, prominent physician of
Memphis, committed suicide on Wednesday
at his home by shooting himself through
the roof of the mouth. No motive for the
act is known.
Emile Boutheller, a miner in the Cam
brja mine at Butte, Mont, met a horrible
death on Tuesday. being slowly crushed
between the side of the shaft at the top
of the cage until life was extinct.
DIR. Harold H. Haas. an army surgeon.
who shot himself in the head at Staunton,
Va, several days ago with suicidal intent
and who was operated on by a Philadelphia
specialist, Is dead. He will be buried at
Herrisonburg.
The Vailsburg. N. j., Common Council
has voted not to permit any more Sunday
bicycle racing on the board track. This
puts an end to the sport that has afforded
amusement for thousands every Sunday
during the season for many years.
Joseph Trepani, the alleged head of a
New York gang of Italians who defrauded
insurance companies by bogus deaths, was
sentenced Wednesday to not less than two
years and not more than four years and
eight months in states prison at hard Ia
boz.
Gen. John C.. Black, Of Chicago has been
Endorsed as a candidate for the position of
national commander-in-chief of the G.. A.
r. by the Illinois division, now holding the
annual state encampment at East St.
Louis Resolutions to this effect were
unanimously adopted.
Alexander Winton in trial run with his
gasoline automobile Bullet III has covered
a mile at the Chenille track, Cleveland
I'm one minute and two seconds or one
fourth of a second better than the world s
record. Winton will enter the 300-mile race
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international cup in Ireland July next.
The forest fires that have prevailed in the
Adlrondacks for several weeks have caused
losses aggregating several hundred thou
sand dollars and several hundred acres of
forest lands have been more or less dam
aged. The fires are said to be practically
under control, although the danger will
not be past until heavy rain has drenched
the forests
Charles Jacobs, shoe salesman, repre-
serting A. ]. Bates & CO., of New York,
Is said to have been chloroformed i'm his bed
at the Hotel. Francis. Ponce Porto Rico.
dollars, clothes and jewelry by a man who
was hidden in his bedroom. The sum of
$SOe in checks was subsequently found in the
street. but $500 in gold and other property
are missing with the thief.
\ monument erected to the memory of
Josiah III. Drummond, who was a past
grand master of the General Grand Chapter
and General Grand Council of the United
preme Council of the Nothern Jurisdiction
OF iMasons Of the United States was un-
yelled by the Grand Lodge of Maine at
Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, on Wednes-
day. Subscriptions for the monument were
received from many parts of the world.
Senator Thomas c. Plat at New York
on Wednesday announced that he would
exercise his influence with the Republican
county committee to prevent that organiza-
ton being represented at the Citizens
Union conference next Monday night The
proposed conference is for the purpose of
considering an anti-Tammany candidate for
mayor. The senator considered 1t too early
to begin holding conferences. He also de-
clared he never had said he favored the re-
nomination of Mayor Low.
Twenty-three survivors OF the crew OF
twenty-six OF the French fishing brig lie
de Terre Neuve, of St. Servean, France.
arrived at New York on Wednesday on the
German-American Petroleum Company s
steamer Phoebus from Hamburg The lie
de Terre Neuve was swept by a hurricane
on April 70 and seven of her men washed
overheard. OF these four were rescued and
three drowned. On the 18th the wreck was
sighted by the Phoebus and the survivors
were taken on board the steamer with much
difficulty and the brig was set on fire.
Ludwig Sedlazyk. prisoner in the coun-
ty jail at Cleveland. o.. charged with the
murder OF Anna Heffner and the serious
wounding of her husband, committed sui
eide In his cell early Wednesday by