The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-06
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
MISCELLANEOUS DOMESTIC NEWS
CONDENSED TO BARE FACTS.
Minor Crimes, Casualties, Fires and
other Observation-Disclosures
DisregarGed by Jury.

SMUGGLING DEFINED.-In the trial
of the case of the United States against
Mao /. Nanamatsu, who is charged with
smuggling, Judge De Haven, at San Fran
cisco. delivered instructions to the jury
which, in substance, said the landing OF
goods was necessary to constitute the crime
of smuggling. 1t is commended by the of
ficials charged with the capturing and
conviction Oh ihiS class of offenders that IL
the opinion of the judge is right 1t Will
be a difficult matter TO punish evaders or
the customs laws. Judge De Haven posi-
lively Instructed the jury TO bring in a
verdict of not guilty on the first charge,
that of smuggling, giving as his reasons
those as above stated. Despite this the jury,
after being out six hours. disagreed.
NAM INDICTMENTS.-The special
grand jury at Denver, in its final report to
dieting Thomas Maloney on the charge of
bribery in connection with a contract for
transcribing county records, indicted CITY
and County Clerk julius Aichele on the
charge of receiving a bride. Eighteen
members Of the Smeltermen's Union also
were indicted on a charge of riot in con-
nection with the beginning of the strike at
the Globe and Grant shelters, but only
two of them have been found. The grand
jury's report condemns the entire city gov-
eminent, especially the Council, for laxity
OF its methods and costly carelessness that
Is apparent in many of its acts"
HARTMAN IMPROVED.-On board the
White Star steamer Cedric which arrived
at New York Saturday from Liverpool
WCIt lDOUldS Il. f1dulCy, lTlSn representa-
tive TO the st. Louis exposition, and III. 5.
Souhami, in charge of the Oriental exhibit,
Lynden MacasSey, secretary of the royal
commission for London traffic, who comes
to study American methods, and L. II.
Hartman. Mr. Hartman was accompanied
by his family. Just before sailing for Eu-
rope he underwent an operation for APP
pendlcltlS and the trip abroad was for the
purpose of recuperating his health. He said
that he comes back much improved and
confident that ne had fully recovered from
the effects of the operation.
BODY FOUND IN THE NARROWS-
The discovery of the body of NJ. A. Sed-
dens in the Narrows at New York Saturday
seems to end all doubt about the death of
young Seddens and his friend, Charles F. A.
Hinrichs, of Brooklyn, who started out
from the Brooklyn Yacht Club in a TWEEN
ty-foot launch just before the storm of a
week ago. The young men did not return
and the swamped launch was found latter
OFF Sea Gate. Seddens's body was identified
by articles found in the clothing. What
were at first taken TO be bullet wounds in
the body were later found to be decorations
caused probably by contact with rocks.
The body of Hinrichs has not yet been re-
covered.
WANTS REWARD PAID.-The an
nouncement of Governor Sparks. Of Ne
vada, that he will not e~xtradite Miller and
Woods, the escaped Folsom convicts cap
tured recently at Reno, until the reward
onered by the State of California is paid,
has been taken up by the executive depart
ment of California. The reason assigned
by Governor Sparks for the action is that
he does not wish the arresting officers to
be put to the trouble and expense of hav-
ing to sue for the money and he is de-
termined. he says, that unless a check
comes for the amount due, the men will not
be surrendered.
Baldwin, commanding the Department OF
the Colorado, with seventy-fve troopers
from Fort ID. A. Russell, has just returned
from a practice field ride in an unsettled
country The general and tho frAnnz rnla
100 miles in the Medicine Bow Forest Reser-
walton in less than six days and establishing
a new record. General Baldwin rode the
horse which was ridden by President
Roosevelt from Laramie to Cheyenne and
which he pronounced the best horse he had
ever ridden. General Baldwin is over sixty
years of age.
SCHOONER SUNK.-The German freight
steamer Schoenfels, Captain Groot, which
arrived at New York Saturday evening from
Calcutta, via Boston, Saturday collided with
and sunk the fve-masted schooner Jennie
X. Dubois of West Mystic, Conn, Captain
Sneed, bound from Philadelphia for Boston
with a cargo of $500 tons of coal. The col
lision occurred off Block island during a
dense fog, the steamer striking the schooner
| amidships with such force that she sank
within five minutes. The Schoenfels lowered
her boats and rescued the crew of eleven
men.
VESTA TILLEY ARRIVES.-Vesta Til
ley, who is to star this season under the
management of Liebler & Co.. arrived ar
New York Saturday on the Cedric. She is
to appear in a new comedy. entitled "AIev :"
which George c.. Tyler has had specially
written for her and in which she will make
her debut in a feminine role. Miss TilIey's
ompany is entirely American. Rehearsals
of the piece will begin at once. The pro-
duction will be made at the Garrick
Theater in Chicago on Oct. 4.
KILLED HIS NEIGHBOR.-William La
fare. a cattle man whose range is on the
Dolores river. forty miles south of Grand
Junction, Col, rode into that town FRIDAY
night and informed the sheriff that in a
tight he had shot and killed T.. T. Massey,
d neighbor. Lafare said that Massey fired
three shots at him, placing his own child
in front of him TO protect himself. Finally
Lafare got an opportunity TO shoot and
did so. killing Massey. He says the killing
was in self-defense.
Willy "CHINEE' SCHEME.-A coach
ing letter concealed in the inside of a cake
! was the undoing of Gee Fook. a Chinese
lad, who endeavored to establish his right
to remain in the United States on the
ground that he was native born. The bows
father wished 10 present his son with a
quantity of cake. The Inspector ordered
the cake dissected and in the center of one
was discovered a thin sheet of paper with
Instructions to Gee Fook written in Chinese
characters.
j. j. HILLS WORK LIMITED.-In re-
gard TO numerous reports connecting him
with various new projects on sea and land
in the West, James j. Hill, the railroad
magnate, who has just returned TO New
York from a weeks cruise on his steam
Yacht. says: 81 shall never undertake any
work of magnitude in a new field. My in
terests are limited by the lines | have al
| ready drawn for the development. of the
great Northwest They will never Be ex-
tended"
COAL COMPANY MERGER.-The Pitts.
burg Gazette says contracts have been
| signed under the terms OF which George I.