The Indianapolis journal., 1883-08-06
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Reports from Ohio Indicate that the Scott law
| continues To grow In favor.
Milton H. Sanford, the noted turfman of New
New York, died at Newport. on Friday evenin 9.
George W. Clements, shoe-manufacturer in
| Dover, N H. has failed, with liabilities esti-
mated at $5O0,0O0. He employed 1000 hands.
President Peabody. of the Cincinnati Expo
sltlon board, says the coming exposition will
| given
Mrs Mary E. Hughes, of St. Louis, committed
suicide at the residence OF her OrOther-in-lsw W
IN ID Baltimore, on Saturday. Domestic trouble
Is the alleged cause.
Intelligence from Red Fork, T. T., the present
headquarters OF the Oklahoma invaders. says
! that at this time there are about 600 people To-
! Gated at that point.
Three hundred and seventy-fve Indians, being
| the remainder OF the Northern Cheyennes, ar
rived al Dodge City, Kan, on Saturday, on their
way to Pine Ridge, ID. T.
The coroner of Philadelphia has refused to
commit to prison the eight-year-0ld boy, Edward
Trodden, who Ia charged with murder, on ac-
count OF his tender years.
The annual meeting of the American Society
OF Microsoopists will be held in Chicago, begin
nlng on Tuesday next and lasting four days A
large number OF papers Will be read.
! Laycock, the Australian scuiler, has issued a
challenge TO Hanlan to row "A race for the cham
plonshlp or the world on the Paramatta New
south Wales) course; stakes 8 900 a side.
Officer John Wall, of Chicago, who seriously
wounded yonne man named Edward Faulkner,
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crowd of r0ughs, com mitte suicide on Saturday
Prof I. w. Tohn, well known through the West
as u sclentist. and whose lectures on the explo-
etOns in -four mills have attracted wide interest
uled at Louisville, on Saturday, of consumption.
G. W. Karns, en- route from Kansas City to his
nome In Venango County, Penn, committed sui
clde on the day express of the Panhandle rail-
road, on 5atudary near Pittsburg, by shooting
| himself.
A company has been formed in Amsterdam
with capital of $10,O00,O1O, for the purchase
OF 100000 acres of land in the Winnipeg region,
where a colony OF thrifty Hnlanders will be set
tied The agent OF the company is now in Wash
| Dgton.
man named Barker, living on Hurricane
\ creek, in the center of the State OF Arkansas,
Killed mis- daughter upon the announcement of
her Intention 10 marry certain young man
asainsthis wishes. NeighbOrs hung Barker in
his front door
| Governor Blackburn, OF Kentucky, on Satur-
day pardOned from the penitentiary Clarence
Rutherford, sent up for life from Logan county,
| for murder committed In 1881. Rutherford
was converted when Rev. George o. Barnes con-
ducted services in the prison last year.
Theophilus Abare, living near Peru, Clinton
| County, n. Y, was found dying in bed on Thurs
! day morning with three knife wounds in his
neck His wife has fed. II is believed she in
sSue from jealousy The coroner's jury found
That the wife probably committed the deed.
The exact number of places in Cincinnati ac-
| cordlng to the Scott law returns, where the
drinks can be had is 2,534. The saloon-keepers
watch each other so closely that there viii be
little need of efforts upon the part of the author
tiles to discover those who have not paid the
tax.
| G. II. Clark, James Hill, Harry Davis and
Charles Nichols of gang of railroad car thieves
who have been operating along the line Of the
| Iron Mountain railroad, have just been con-
vlcted at Burne, Clark county, Ark, of rObbing
cars, and sentenced to fve years IN the peniten-
| tlary.
The Citizens Association, of Chicago, will, It
Is SAID, begin action in quo warranto against the
leading saloon-keepers of that city to determine
the question of the validity of the Chicago
saloon license issued by authority of council in
! order to avoid the operation of the State high
| license law. This course Will be taken in order
TO force the issue speedily to the Supreme Court.
Leading Irishmen of Kansas City believe that
| the man who killed Informer Carey is Captain
Thomas Phelan, of that place. He left for Dublin
about two months ago, and the description given
| by the cable is exact AT Cape Town, being
| held for wilfnl murder, the prisoner gave his
name as Patrick O'DOnnell, a native of Goodsall,
| Ireland, now laborer, but formerly a butler.
There were found on his person some papers ex-
| ecuted at Toronto in 1876.