The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-23

fell which measured ten inches in circumference.
1t is feared the storm was felt at other points,
but no news can be obtained, the wires be,as
down.
Stanley Waterloo a newspaper man of st.
Louis, and now managing editor of the Globe
Democrat, has been appointed by the mayor
park commissioner.
The next meeting of the Association for the
Advancement of Science will be held in Phila-
delphia, ana Professor j. P. Leslie, of that city,
has been elected president.
Kountze Brothers state that forged drafts
purportlng to be issued by the First National
Bank OF Omaha, Neb., upon Kountze Brothers,
New York, are IN circulation.
Kirkland Fitch. the defauting cashier of the
Second National Bank, of Warren. o., left BOs-
ton for OHIO YESTERDAY, In custody Of Sheriff
H0yt, OF Trnmbull county, OHIO.
A collision of freight trains at Turner Station,
seven miles west of Kansas City, demolished
both engines and several cars, and caused loss
OF $4,000 to the Santa Fe road.
At Nevada, Mexico recently a woman killed
her child, cooked the corpse, and gave it to her
husband food. When the man discovered
what he had eaten he became insane.
The old settlers reunion at Fort Madison. Ia.
tomorrow, will be graced by the presence Of five
Sac and Fox braves, who accepted an invitation
TO visit their former hunting grounds.
Both ends of the Northern Pacific will connect
tomorrow few miles west of Mullen tunnel.
The golden spike will be set on the 9Th OF Sep
TENDER by President Willard and Jay Cooke,
Mrs. Jane A. Madegan has brough suit against
the New York World to recover $40, 600 damages
for libel, growing out Of an article characteriz-
ing her house at Coney Island as a vile den.
The Comptroller of the Currency has author
lied the Corn Exchange National Bank of Chi
cago TO begin business Capital, 81, 00O, 900.
canal boat, loaded with $50 tons OF coal,
both boat and cargo owned by its captain, John
s. Schmadeke, was capslzed and sunk in Go
wanus Cove, New York Bay, on Tuesday. Loss,
SIS 900.
George stephen, director of the Canadian
Pacinc road, has lately erected in Montreal a
9 mansion costing 81 ,00o, Ooo He and Donald
schools.
The sixth annual session of the American Bar
Association has begun at Saratoga. General
Alex. R. Lawton, of Savannah, delivered the
presidents address. Sixty-ive new members
were elected.
Vice-presdent Reid, of the New York. New
Haven d Hartford road said yesterday that the
rumOr that his road has leased the New England
road was an absurd canard, gotten up appar-
emily for stock jObbing purposes.
William Shelton, while attempting to cross the
high trestle work at pier IA, Philadelphia, on
Monday evening, with a sixteen-mOnths-ol
child in his arms, lost his balance and fell to the
ground. Both were fatally injured.
The Comptroller tof Tennessee, in accordance
with recent law, has notified seven railroad
companies that he will at once proceed to assess
them for taxes which accrued prior to 1875.
The amount involved is at least 81, 100000.
At Gates, Tenn, Tuesday. on the Chesa-
peake 4 Ohio railroad, party OF three negroes
beat Wade Sherwood to death with bludgeons
and placed the body the track, two trains
running over it. All were gambling and quar-
relied.
Dr. F. W. P Butler, son OF the South Carolina
Senator, was thrown from his horse while riding
with lady at Lancaster, on Tuesday, and then
the animal fell upon him, causing conclusion of
the brain. There is but little hope for his re-
cOvery.
Another chapter in the dissensions of the
Union College trustees was made public at Al.
oany on Tuesday, it being stated that letter
mot for pubicatIOn) has leaked out, in which
Howard Potter, the New York banker, charges
DR.. Trumbull BacRls, the eminent Presbyterian
clergyman, with dishonest aud illegal practices
In using his position as trustee for personal mo-
uves.