The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Philadelphia painters accept q eompro-
mise at the rate of 81 rs per day.
Orrs g. Co.'s Mount Vernon paper mill, at Troy,
n. Y, is burned. Loss, 100000; insurance,
The striking iron-workers at Reading, Pa, ac-
eept a reduction in wages, and the mills resume
Tuesday.
John G. Whittier has written letter strongly
urging the education of the Indians at govern
ment expense
The deficiency under the new twO-cent postage
law is now expected TO be considerably larger
than the first estimate
1t is probable that two Judges will accompany
Lord Chief Justice Coeridge on the latter's forth
coming visit to America.
Mowbary's lour-mill, at Stockton, Mimi burn
ed yesterday morning. Loss estimated at $780,
coo; insured for $4,000.
Henry Kraemer, well-known German citizen
of Parkershurg, W. Va, WAS drowned in the Lit
tie Kahawha river on Saturday.
The Iowa State Agricultural College has tenn
porarily closed in consequence of the breaking
out of scarlet fever among the students.
L. L. Polk & Co.. agricultural implements
Raleigh, N. c., assigned. Assets, $1l 900; liza
bilities, $4,000. The business will be con-
tinued.
The losses by the fire at the Hotel Berkeley,
Boston. on Saturday, aggregate $4,000, of
which $4,000 is in personal property and $780,
600 on the building.
The switchmen in the Erie freight yard at Buff
falO, who struck against the new rules and
duction of wages, were paid OFF Saturday and
new men employed.
The trial of Mrs. Jane Werner, at West Bend,
Wis, for the alleged poisoning of her mother and
brother with doctored soap, ended Saturday in
verdict of not guilty.
A number of genuine Bedouin Arabs arrived
in New York on Friday. They We're engaged
by the agents of prominent circus man, and
are said TO be born acrobats.
AT Reading, Pa, Saturday, Police Sergeant
William Becker was probably fatally shot by
Martin Merrick, whom he was taking in car
riage to Jail. Merrick was arrested.
The striking tobacco operatives at Lynch
burg, Va, have divided, one party fayoring o
turn to work. Manufacturers will open the fac
tories Monday at the old schedule prices
wrestling match between Joe Acton and
Tom ConnOrs, at Philadelphia on Saturday, for
$1,000, was won by Acton in two straight
throws. Two thousand people were present.
Elizabeth Reas, maiden forty years of age,
of Meriden, Conn, is defendant in "a breach of
promise suit for $4,000. John Guth, of Der
by, the plaintiff, was farm hand for defendant.
The Dominion government will have the chan
mel of the ST. Lawrence river3 between Montreal
and Quebec deepened, to admit vessels
drawing twenty seven feet and six inches of
water.
The Society for the Protection of Destitute
Roman Catholic Children, at Buffalo, has
been sued for $1,000 damages by Peter Eos
slit, former inmate, who alleges false impris
onment.
The contest for the Democratic nomination
for Governor of Georgia is growing very heated.
The principal candidates are Messrs. Bacon and
Boynton. The convention meets at Atlanta to-
morrow.
| Robert Rankin was killed by lightning at Jas
per, Tenn, Saturday afternoon. All his clothes
were burned off, but his body appears uniniured
Dave Kelly was knocked from a chair by the
| same shock
| The engine of freight -train on the Covington
Southe astern railway, through a trestle,
eight miles east of Flemingsburg, KY, yester
day, and is now In six feet water. No persons
were seriously injured.
On Saturday, near Clinton, Jones county
| fifteen miles from Macon, Ca, nme-year-old
son of Buck Jordan accidentally, while playing
with an old gun, killed Mrs. Wheeler, an old
lady. ana wounded her daughter, Mrs. Allen,
and baby.
A passenger train on the Gulf Colorado &,
Santa Fe railroad was wrecked Saturday near
Cedar Hill, Tex. Most Of the ears were badly
damaged. Two express messengers had limbs
| broken, and the baEgage-master was seriously
hurt internally. ...
The religious question has come to the front in
| the Order of United Workmen. prominent
member of the society at Erie, Pa, who has
hTOwed athlstie views, contrary to the ritual of
the order, has been arralg1ed, and is threatened
with expulsion.
A prize fight took place Saturday morning,
near Naniicoke, Pa between Tom Slavin and
Nike Cavanaugh. The fight was a long, bloody
one of twenty-five rounds. Slaven was knocked
down twenty one times. Cavanaugh was win
ner Both men were terribly disfgured.
A boy, fourteen years old, giving the name of
! Joe Harrigan, and saying his home was in Balti-
| more and that his uncle is comptroller of that
| city, was found guilty of the burglary of "a
| freight car and sentenced to tine State Reform
Farm by Judge Johnston, at Cincinnati, Satur-
| day.
In an ARRAY in house of ill-fame near the vii
| age of Grayling, Mich, Friday night. John
France was fatally stabbed by James Egan,
! keeper of the house, EGan was shot in the head
| twice by France and severely injured The par
! ties were arrested. The quarrel arose about
money paid for nights lodging.
| Mrs. Miranda tn Hook, of Washington, treas
! urer of the Ladies' Aid to the Garfield Memorial
! Hospital, has received many 81 subscriptions
| from ladies in various parts of the country, in
| response to u letter written by Mary Ciemmer,
recently published in the New York Independ-
! ent, suggesting such contributions.
The prizes in the great Chicago billiard tour
nament were distributed as follows: The purse
| of 81 200 ana gold miniature billiard table, en-
/ blematie of the worlds championship were
given to Jacob Schaefer; second prize, $500 to
Maurice Vignaux; third prize, $500, to Morris
DAILY; fourth prize, $500. t0 William Sexton; fifth
prize, $500, to AlOnzo Norris
! Mr.. Parnell has definitely decided that he will
not attend the Philadelphia Land League con-
vent1on. His position as member of Parlia-
ment forbids his attending meeting at which
treason to his government may possibly he dis.
eussed. II is announced that resolutions an
proving the dynamite policy will he introduced
and AT least negatively approved by the cvnven-
ton.