The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-27
TELEGRAPHIC. BREvITIES.

At Enid o. T., on Monday George H.
Price, carriage maker, formerly of st.
Louis, shot and killed his wife and then
shot and killed himself.
Hunter Taylor, a wealthy young stock
man of Douglass, Kan. was killed Monday
by his mule team running away, the wheels
of the heavy wagon passing across his
body.
(Pa) colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company Monday evening eight men were
severely burned. All the victims are for
eigners.
on Monday shot and killed his father,
Smith Walker, at Jefferson, o. T., while
his father was at dinner. The son was
angry because his father had chastised
him.
At the sale of Oriental lacquers and por-
celains of the Marquand collection at New
York, the highest price paid Monday was
s., 200 for a "Peachblow Amphora,' six
inches in height, purchased by E. d.
Church.
Agents of the United States Internal
revenue bureau on Monday arrested B.
Cassossa New York cigar manufacturer,
and seized about 100000 low grade cigars
upon which, it is asserted, he had paid no
government tax.
Mayor Sam Jones. of Toledo. said on
Monday: II have never been a candidate for
anything unless in my opinion there was a
demand for me. At this time / do not feel
that there is any such demand Therefore,
/ am not candidate.
Emil Turk, arrested in ST. Louis on Sun
day, has confessed to the police depart
ment that he and two other men whose
names he disclosed were implicated in the
robbery and murder, Christmas evening, of
John Moog, a cigar dealer.
The 116th annual report of the regents of
the University of the State of New York,
shows that during 1902 institutions of high
er education, including professional, tech
nical and other special schools, reported
"a, 1854 students, and total net property of
$50. 931. 575.
James Wray, farmer, shot and killed
his sixteen-year-old daughter Bette and
blew out his own brains in his home twelve
miles south of Roanoke, Va, Sunday night
The tragedy is attributed to temporary in
| sanity Wray had also threatened to kill
his wife and five other chcldren
Edward Darling and Thomas Swank
| brakemen, killed. and Harley Ed
kins. conductor, was fatally injured Mon
| day in a freight wreck on the Williams
| port & North Branch Railroad. near Sat
| terfield, Pa. Engineer Steigelman and Lord
| Fairman, a brakeman, also were hurt The
wreck was caused by an open switch.
Andrew Carnegie is an Fernandina. Fla
| on his way to Dungeness, on Cumberland
| island, where he will visit Mrs. Mary Car
| negie. A large party of his friends has pre-
coded him to the island, where he annually
| Hornet and Ascot belonging to the Car.
| negie family, are already anchored at Dun.
| geness.
| An Intellectual attempt was made to rob
! the bank vault at Mocksville, n. c., early
| Monday morning The noise of the explo.
| sion aroused the cashier, who with another
| officer of the bank, rushed to the building
| and were fired upon by the robbers. A mum
Der of shots was exchanged. but no one
| was injured The robbers secured a small
| amount of loose money and were driver
| off.
Rev W. H. Washington, colored. has
/ been sentenced TO an indeterminate term
| in the Chester Ull) Penitentiary for for.
gerry. At the time of his arrest he was
| vice moderator of the Mount Olive African
| Baptist Missionary Association a member
| OF the preachers and the deacons' unions
and pastor OF the Baptist Church. negro
! at Murphysboro. ILL., He was suspended
| from office when arrested.
The Circuit Court at Cleveland ha:
| handed down a decision declaring the sal
| airy law for officials TO be illegal. The de
| cision will result in all county officials be-
/ ing placed under the fee system and viii
| cause a bad muddle in the county offices
| as they have been run on a salary basis
| affects the counties of Cuyahoga, Summit
| Lorain and Medina. and follows a similal
| decision of the Supreme Court last May
| affecting Pickaway county.
Justice Leventritt. In the New York Su
| preme Court on Monday. granted per
| emptory writ of mandamus to Peter ]
| Garvey. former Chief of Police Devery',
4 lieutenant I'm the Ninth Assembly district
| ordering the general committee Of Tam
many Hall to recognize him as q member o