The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-06
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

The Hayes Valley Athletic Club of Cal
ifornia announces that it will offer a purse
of $4,000 for a twenty-round contest be-
tween Corbett and Jeffries.
Antonio Jappo was killed and two other
laborers injured by fall of timber in the
New York Rapid Transit tunnel at One
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. street yesterday.
Dominick Marlowe, George Davis and
Frank Bruchette fell 600 feet to their death
yesterday in the Windsor mine at Hurley
Wis. The men fell off the car while being
lowered into the mine.
When the Baltimore & Ohio passenger
natl yesterday morning the body of fe-
male colored child, wrapped in old skirt,
was found hanging to the brake rod under
the rear platform. 1t was dead but still
warm. The post norton showed that it
was healthy and died from exposure.
Mrs. Ella Gallagher, indicted two months
ago on charge of perjury growing out of
her trial for the murder of her husband, re-
turned to Iowa City yesterday and surren-
dered. She stated that she had been visit
ing relatives at Kankakee. Ill. a hired
jointly with Mrs. Gallagher with COM
hitting the murder, was given life sem
tence.
Judge Boyd, of Cumberland, Md, has de-
cided that the principals in prize fights can
be punished under the law of assault and
battery, and that those who attend or bet
on the result of such contests are indicta-
bic and can be punished as aders and abet-
against pugilistic sports by the clergy OF
the city has proven effective, and that no
more sparring exhibitions will be given in
Allegheny county.
Northern trains from the east have arrived
at Tacoma from Portland with hundreds of
passengers for Seattle and other northern
points. Owing to the abandonment of the
Northern Pacific and 'interurban trains be-
tween Tacoma and Seattle on account of
the flood these passengers are flocking to
| the boats. Many tons of mail from the east
are stacked up on the docks awaiting trans
| portaton by water.
Garrett Boor, whose protracted absence
| from home reuslted in the arrest of "A. w
| Newcomb, manager of the Zion Publishing
house, at Chicago, and W. III. Reeves
| janitor. on the charge of kidnapping, walked
| into the Harrison-street police station
| shortly before the case was called yester-
dismissed and the boy was arrested on the
| charge OF disorderly conduct. He had been
visiting at the home of his sister.
DR.. J. f. Loves, of Dayton. on Monday
| forwarded to the attorney general of Ohio
a check for $4,000 representing the bonus
received by him on land which he held
| under option and sold 10 the trustees OF
| the Dayton State Hospital. IL had beer
claimed the price paid for the land was ex.
cessive. DIR. Loves stated he had been ad.
| vised by counsel the State had no right
of action against him. but he did not desire
] to keep a penny concerning which any
| question had been raised.
| gift OF 1880 TO the Harvard astro
nomical observatory from the income OF
| the Carnegie endowment fund has made
| possible an exhaustive research on the par
| or Harvards authorities among the vas
| collection of Photographic plates which tn,
| university has in stock. The gift although
| small. will undoubtedly be succeeded b,
| larger ones In case the research is success
| full, so that IL promises to result in some o.
| the most important disclosures, perhaps
that have been made in astronomical cir
| cles in many years.