The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
LIVE NEWS OF ALL KINDS PRE-
SCENTED In CONDENSED FORM.
Items Of Interest to Business Men,
Workingmen and Others-Minor
Crimes and Casualties.
R;cbmon5 Va mr. Charles IT hubert.

At Richmond, Va, DR.. Charles III. Bubert,
OF Baltimore, was elected supreme medlcai
director fer the Order OF Heptasophs. Thos.
b. Hicks. of Richmond. Va. WAS chosen
grand provost. the only office other than
the medical dictatorship over which there
was contest.
The Board OF Supervisors of Peoria coun-
ty. Illinois. has petitioned the Governor TO
pardon all the habitants. about twenty, OF
the Peoria Industrial School, an institution
for dependent children. This action is taken
that the institution may be dispensed with,
as many of the supervisors do not Ike the
manner in which 1t is conducted.
On receiving assurances from the man
ayers of all lines centering at st. Louis that
railroad traffic to st. Louis would be re-
sumed next week, the committee in charge
of the arrangements for the national Saeng-
erfest announced that there will be no post
ponement of the great musical festival TO
be held in the Liberal Arts building June
IL, Is and Is.
Telegraphic service In New England was
demoralized Friday by heavy bank of fog
and by severe storms. The gale blew down
poles in Rhode Island and caused damage
along the coast. Another blow Of hurricane
Hampshire, cutting off telegraphic COM
munication by carrying down poles and
trees. Other property also was considerably
damaged.
The grand jury at Baltimore has indict-
ed Charles II. Carter William E Porter
and James f. Mcclellan, who compose
the board of election supervisors. They
are charged. individually. while acting in
their official capacity on May ., municipal
election day, with unlawfully and wilfully
neglecting their duty in that they failed
to notice the condition of the seals on Ger
tain ballot boxes turned In at their office
by a number of judges of election.
Robert Neill, a wealthy resident of Los
Angeles, Cal, who was first cabin pas
senger on the White Star line steamship
Germanic, which arrived from Liverpool
.x.1 @1.A~ l. Il
been robbed on Wednesday last, while in
midocean, of drafts and money TO the
amount of about $4,000. Mr.. Neill cabled
the Belfast Bank and Cancelled the drafts
and received reply that this had been
done Mr.. NeillS loss, therefore will be
only $500 in cash and a note for SlS7, which
is not negotiable.
Edward Mcintyre the Minooka, Pa,
hotel keeper, who ended a forty days fast
at noon last Tuesday, died at noon Friday.
Mcintyre began the fast in the hope that
it would prove beneficial in a severe attack
of paralysis He was forty-seven years old.
During the forty days his weight was re-
duced from 167 pounds to lis. In the three
days that he took nourishment preceding
death he gained seven pounds. He became
delirious last night and later lapsed into un-
consciousness, in which condition he re-
manned until death.
A reception was given Friday night to
General Frederick d. Grant and his wife
by ". 8. Grant Post No. 327, c. A. r.,
welcome General Grant made a brief
speech, comprising i'm the main reminis-
cences of the late war handsome sword
and belt was presented to Ulysses S.
Grant, third son of General Grant, who was
graduated from West Point on Thursday.
The young soldier made happy response,
saying he hoped the sword would never be
drawn except for honorable purposes.
The Supreme Lodge, knights of Honor.
in session at Richmond, on Friday handed
down a decision in the appeal case Of A.
s. Branch. of Louisiana, reversing the
supreme dictator and sustaining the APP
pellant. An important matter was a
change in the methods of collecting the
general fund assessment and the lodge
dues. These collections will after Dec. 1,
next be made monthly. 1t was voted to
make George w. Tender. jr., of Indiana,
and Perry Walters, of Louisiana, past
grand dictators for meritorious services.
The Treasury Department at Washington
has received information that the steamer
Vera Cruz, from Cape Verde islands, which
was wrecked off Ocracoke inlet, North
Carolina, last month, with a large number
of immigrants on board, was a smuggler.
an examination of the wreck shows that the
vessel had a false bottom, where was Sc
creted quartity of rum which members
of the crew have since been selling in the
vicinity OF Newberne. Two of the men,
against whom the proof seems conclusive,
will be prosecuted for smuggling and sell
in wit