The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-10

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Governor Nash las issued proclamation
Jan. - with exercises in all schools, col
leges and universities, commemorative of
the sixtieth anniversary of McIkinleys
birth.
Sol Dunn, a negro, was hanged at Angus
Ia, Ga, for the murder of young white
man, Will Springs. The prisoner was IN
such a nervous state that he had TO be held
up the entire time until the rope was at
tached.
The sale of the Warren collection of pic
lures was concluded on Friday night.
total of S235, 900 was obtained for Sixty-two
paintings. Millet's ''Shepherdess'' was sold
for $4,000 TO S. p. Avery, of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts.
The executive committee of foreign mis-
sions of the Southern Presbyterian Church
has elected Dr. n. r Williams, of Nash
vile, editor and business manager of the
missions of the church, TO succeed DR.. ID. Z.
Rankin, who recently died in Korea.
Consul General James McNally, of Guat-
emala. arrived at New Orleans last night
his way to Washington He denies any
expression or act in connection with the
Hunter-titzgerald tragedy, and believes
the killing was duel between enemies.
George Worthington, who shot and killed
his brother Alexander the result of quar-
rel poker game, and escaped, sur
rendered to the authorities at Shawnee,
o., on Friday, and at preliminary hear
bond.
AT dinner given to the clergy of Denver,
Bishop Matz announced that the Pope con-
ferred upon Father Henry Robinson, vicar
general of Colorado, the title of monsignor.
This is the first time this honor has been
conferred upon priest OF the Rocky Noun
| tain region.
II. A MacNiel. New York sculptor, has
| been selected to design the Mckinley me-
mortal arch to be erected at the entrance
to the Capitol grounds in Columbus, 0.
The memorial will cost $4,000 the expense
| being borne equally by the State and citi-
| zens of Columbus
The Arapahoe Indians are in a starving
! condition. Not day passes but a band is
/ in Lander, Wyo., begging. The Indians
raised crops this season. They have no
rations issued to them by the government
as their treaty expired last year. If they
get desperate they will, it Is feared, kill
! follow
Mrs. Mary Morse, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
accused jointly with William Leet of the
murder OF Mrs. Nellie Leet last April was
! yesterday set free, a nolle pros being enter
/ ed by the prosecutor. Mrs. Leet was struck
down in a drunken quarrel and then set
on fire, oil being thrown on the body. Will
| liam Leet was convicted and sent to jack
son for thirty years. The woman has been
| in Jail since her arrest.
| Andrew Overick, proprietor of a Polish
boarding house, broker and money-lender,
| was found unconscious in Mulberry alley,
Pittsburg, Thursday night, with his skull
! fractured. He never regained consciousness
and died at West Penn Hospital Overick
always carried large sums of money with
| him, and as his pockets were riffied, watch
| gone and jewelry missing, the police are in
| clined to think his murderers made a rich
haul.
Willis Hawley, secretary Of the Young
Mems Christian Association of Hamilton,
| o. left his home there on Wednesday morn
ing without notifying his family Of his
! purpose and has not since been heard from.
l ~ a hQ6 wit i'm @ Qlnr
| Yesterday morning Mrs. Hawley received a
| letter from Cincinnati. signed Pohler-a
name she does not notwithstanding that
her husband asked the writer to inform
| her that he had been robbed. The matter
was reported to the police and effort
has been made to find the missing man.
| The Cincinnati police department has no
report of such a robbery.
President John p. Haynes outspoken
against the unrestricted practive of vvisec-
ton in his address at the thirty-seventh
vention Of Cruelty to Animals, at the So
| cietys rooms. New York. He urged that
the bill introduces in the United States
| Senate by Mr.. Gallinger for the reasonable
regulation of vivisection should receive the
unqualified support of the society. II be-
leve that vast majority of our members
| hold as L do, that vivsection is essentially
immoral" said the president. land further
that 1T is hideousiy cruel when experiments
| with living animals are performed without
| the use OF effectual anaesthetics.
| Ih6 supreme Court OF Minnesota has held
that bequest for masses and education of
priests is trust not authorized by law in
the case of William Shanahan and Bridget
| Walsh against James c. Kelley and others,
| appealing from the District Court of Hous-
! ton county. Father Phil Shanahan died
| over a year ago and left a will giving $500
for masses, $1,000 TO Father Fitzgerald for
the education of priests and about $4,000
to Bishop Cotter, of Winona, also to be
| used for the education of candidates for the
priesthood. Relatives of the deceased priest
ii mill rl,D
Houston county sustained the will, but the
District Court declared it invalid The de-
| cision of the Supreme Court sustained that
of the District Court.
George F. Baer president of the Reading
Railway has realized the supreme desire of
his life, says dispatch from Philadelphia
| Within few hours he became the grand
father of two bouncing boys. Often has he
| been quoted saying: II would rather
| have grandson than any other honor that
| is possible TO have conferred upon me in
this world" While Mr.. Baer was at the
Lancaster, Pa. Before she arrived their
daughter, Mrs. William n. Apple, had
given birth 10 a son. Mrs. Baer scarcely
band when there came message from
Reading. The second message stated that
another daughter, Mrs. Frank l.. Connord,
had given birth TO son.
Mrs. Anna It. Miller. convicted of con-
spiracy and misuse of the mails in an al
legged attempt to blackmail certain promi-
nent business men OF Columbus, o., was
sentenced TO thirteen months in the peni-
tertiary by Judge Thompson in the United
States Court yesterday. Thomas E. Steele
her attorney. convicted on the same
charges, whose motion for a new trial was
to have been argued, did not appear In
court. MIR. Steele, who is under So 900 bond
has been absent from Columbus for more
than a week, and his most intimate friends
say they have no information of his where
abouts. Mrs. Miller's husband. Joseph p
Miller, and his attorney, Ivor Hughes. are
also under indictment on the charge OF
using the mails TO defraud-
Extraordinary accuracy in Workmanship
cut short the heavy gun practice at the
Preside. the government reservation. The
Pinch guns were TO be brought into play
and the target was a wooden structure
pyramdal in shape, twelve feet long al
each case line and about eight feet high
| Ii was lowed oceanward by tug with a
| long tow line, and while moving at seven
miles an hour was TO be fred on. When the
] target was about three miles from shore
and under tow ii appeared TO be about the
size of a mans hand. Ii was then that
Corporal Regain fired a 12-inch gun. The
shot struck about eight yards astern OF the
moving mark. Carefully Regain aimed the
second missile ard scarcely had the roaI
of the discharge ceased when the target
| Sisappcarad The shot had hit ssthe enen1v