The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-01
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.


for England Saturday by the Etruria.
President Diaz has received the Boer gen
erals cordially, and said that Mexico would
welcome the Boer colonists.
Cornelius Vanderbilt: who has Just recov-
cred from severe Illness, left New York
on Saturday for Garrett, S. c.
Adam Reichert. aged fifty, died at Halle
ton, Pa, Saturday, as a result of bullet
wounds inflicted late Friday night by his
wife during quarrel. His wife is under
arrest.
The postoffice at Brico. a village six
miles east of Columbus, was dynamited by
robbers Friday night and $50 in govern
ment money 500 in stamps and SIS of Post
master Springer's money stolen
There is a strong current of feeling at
Mexico City favoring the encouraging of
Chinese immigration on a large scale and
securing an outlet in this way for a con-
siderable share of Mexico's silver output.
After night of comparative comfort
in improvised shelters the fifteen persons
who were cast on Fish Rock, off the Cali
forTia coast. as the result of the ground
ing of the steamer Crescent City, were TAX
en- off Saturday morning.
The Illinois State Register has purchased
the Lewis block, at Springfield across the
street from the federal building i'm Monroe
street. The building. when remodeled. will
be occupied by the Register.
General Gordon, commanding the United
Confederate Veterans, announces that the
thirteenth annual reunion OF the Organ1Za-
ton will be held in New Orleans May 10,
90 81 and q, 1903, Tuesday. Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, respectively
The freight steamer Gulf Stream, which
went aground on Friday near Avalon, n. j.,
is a total loss. She has broken in two and
is full of water. Captain Swain and some
of the crew who remained aboard the YES
sci, in the hope that she might be saved,
were landed by the lifesavers Friday
night
xy;ll;oro r r,rra, mill ottand tbe hor
to be given at Columbus, o., on the even
ing of Feb. u under the auspices of the
Observation-Disclosures Lincoln League. Others
who have accepted invitations TO speak are
w. r. Hearst of New York, Mayor john
son of Cleveland and Clarence n. barrow
of Chicago.
DR.. Otokar Persch of New York, was
+ sentenced to Sing Sing prison on Saturday
for eighteen months. DR.. Persch and his
son, Joseph Z. Persch. members of the
Persch Chemical Company, were convicted
on q charge of defrauding the government
by making false affdavits concerning the
value of chemicals which they imported
Sentence was suspended in the case of the
younger Persch.
The house of Dan Nolan, negro mill
hand at Kingsland. Ark, was burned Sat
urday morning. After the fire Nolan s
daughters body was found in the ruins OF
his home. Her head had been cut off with
an ak. Her mother was found some dis
lance from the house, unconscious from a
His wife has not recovered sufficiently to
give an account of the affair.
At Frankfort, KY, Circuit Judge Can
trill on Saturday entered judgment in the
cases of the Aetna Life Insurance Com
pany and twenty others against the State
Board of Valuation and Assessment &c
restrain that body from assessing them fol-
the payment of franchise tax. Ii Judge
| Cantrill is upheld by the Court of Appeals
| about S5VOOO in taxes will be collected
| from the companies for the years the fran
chise law has been on the statute books
Charles Ballard shot and probably IA
| tally wounded Robert Mcnamara at Chi.
cago Friday night, fearing that his owr
| life was in danger from his victim Bal
| lard persisted in remaining at work witt
the Burlington Railroad during the freight
handlers strike last summer and believed
| his life was to be forfeited for this rea
| son. He has gone about armed since thai
time. and when he was followed and at
| night, used his pistol.
! President Scott Bonham and Secretar,
Elmer c. Biddisen have issued the officia
call for the state convention of Ohio Re
publican clubs in the Board of Trade audi
forum at Columbus on Feb. II and for tn,
| Lincoln day banquet at the Hotel Hartman
on, the evening or the same date. Among
| those who will address the convention arr
Hon. j. Hampton Moore, of philadelphia
| president of the national league, and tn
| speakers at the banquet Will include tn
| senator's from Ohio and Indiana, Governo
| Nash and others.
Clarence Mccoy and William Guterman
/ the two Columbia, Pa, boys convicted o
murder in the second degree were giveI
! the maximum sentence. twenty years. b.
| Judge Lands. who stated he was sorry h
could not make the punishment more Sc
| we're. The prisoners are each twenty year
! old and the crime for which they were con
| victed was the murder of Jacob III. Bostick
| a trackwalker on the Pennsylvania Rail
| road. After shooting and beating him owe
| the head, the murderers placed the bod,
on the track. expecting that a train woult
/ run over It and hide the evidence of muir
/ der. The body was discovered few min
| utes before the passage of train.