The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

William Jennings Bryan left Mexico
City yesterday morning for the United
States.
Edgar F. Smith, professor of chemistry
and vice provost of the University of Penn
sylvania, has been unanimously elected
president Of the American Philosophical
Society.
The National Red Cross Society has re-
moved it's headquarters from Washington
to No. 10 East Fifty-eighth street New
York city. Miss Barton already is estab-
lished there
Thomas Dunn, colored. was hanged at st.
Louis for the murder of Peter jackson. a
negro with whom he had quarreled over 81.
The prisoner spent his last hours in prayer
and said he was ready to die.
The London papers announce that the
marriage which had been arranged be-
tween Charles III. Hawtrey, the English
actor, now on a tour of the United States.
and Hilda Hamburg will not take place.
Clifford s. Cook, with the Sharon, Pa,
Steel Company, shot himself In the left
side yesterday. He may die. The shoot
ing occurred in his own apartments in
West State street. His friends say that
the shooting was accidental
With simple ceremony the body of Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Dockery, wife of Missouri.s
Governor, was laid at rest in the Chilli
Gothic cemetery yesterday. The body was
placed in grave close beside those OF
seven Of the Dockery children.
The appraisement of the estate of the
n. -. >,
late president of Morgan's Louisiana &
Texas Railroad shows its value to be $99l.
16S The bulk of this property will go to
the medical department of Tulane Univer-
sity.
w. s. Hopewell. chairman of the terri
torial central committee of the Democratic
party In New Mexico. yesterday announced
himself in favor of admitting Arizona and
New Mexico as one State with three repre-
sentatives in Congress, the capital to be
fixed for ten years al Santa Fe.
Mrs. Leila Mansion and George Wilson,
who have been held In Brooklyn, Conn,
cion that they were connected with the
death of Wilson's mother by poisoning,
were given a preliminary hearing at War
renyille yesterday and remanded to jail
Court next March on the charge of murder.
The Iowa State Teachers Association
adopted resolutions including a declaration
that greater attention should be paid to
moral training" and that, TO this end,
there should be familiarity with the Bible
so that this great book may ever be the
teachers aid and unrivaled agency in the
development of good citizenship, as well
as in the development of a pure literary
style"
The list of fatalities from lockjaw caused
by powder burns from toy pistols at Nor
folk, Va, on Christmas increased by two
on Friday and has resulted in total of
six, while several other children are being
treated. Raymond Joyner, white. five
years old, and Samuel wilkins, colored
nine years old, died on Friday. Mayor
Riddick has ordered the police to confiscate
all toy pistols found in the possession of
children.
The right of the police to keep a mans
photograph in the rogues' gallery is to be
decided by the courts of New York Jacob
Owen has secured from Justice Scott in
the Supreme Court. an order directing Po-
lice Commissioner Greene TO show cause
why he and the officials of the detective
bureau should not be restrained from keep
| ing his photograph In the rogues' gallery
and circulating copies among the different
police precincts.
Certificates OF Incorporation filed with the
New York secretary of state include that
| of the Navy League of the United States
| TO encourage popular interest in the condi-
| ton of the naval forces and equipment OF
| the United States. The directors are A s.
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| Tams Aaron Vanderbilt John Vanderpool
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