The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-19

| Union Church, COvngton; s. G. Pollard, OF
Shinkle Chapel; j. D. Welsh, of Main street, Gov
lngUon u. W. Moore OF West CovlngtOn and
! Ludlow, and +, T. Curnick, OF Grace Church, in
Newport.
| Henry Willard SAYS in letter to the Chamber
| OF Commerce OF Astoria that the estimated cost
! Of a line of rOaf from the latter place to Port
land is So great that the construction is not like
/ ly To be undertaken now.
/ Post Dispatch special from st. Joseph, Mo-,
says a freight and passenger train collided at
Corning, Mo, on the Kansas City, St, Joe &
Council Blufs railroad last night. Fred. X,
johnson, route agent, received severe injuries,
and Others were also injured. The locOmO-
! tlyes were badly wrecked.
| Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, yester-
| day vetoed Il concurrent resolution instructlng
the appropriation committees OF both houses to
report an appropriation hill for pay Of senators
and members up to and including Sept. 10, and
4 to report no other appropriation bill except for
pay OF officers and employees.
In a conversation about spirituaism, at Hyan-
mis-, Mass on last Thursday night, Mrs. Al
phonso Bradford of mediumistic propensities.
got her nerves wrought up to a high tension,
and went into trance, from which she had not
recovered up to Monday evening. She lies cold
and coorless. but breathing is perceptibe.
Mrs. Oscar Rammelsberg, of Cincinnati. has
lost her voice. The misfortune was caused by
laughter at the inimitable sayings of Marie
Stone, of the Boston Ideal Company, whom Mrs.
Rammelsberg met at French watering place.
Eminent physicians in Paris are of the opinion
that her misfortune will not prove permanent.
Christopher Mann, of Independence, Mo, Gel
ebrated his 109Gh birthday Sunday. Mr..
Mann is enjoying good health and apparently
viii enjoy many other anniversar ies of his birth,
which occurred in Virginia, in IVA. at time
when Virginia had not been divided into cnuu-
TIES. In Kentucky he lived and was an assO-
clate of Daniel Boone.
Since May the various steamship lines leav-
ing New York city for Great Britain, France,
Germany, Holland and Belgium have carried
81 ,26l cabin passengers. The greater part Of
| these have been tourists. 1t has required BOG
steamers to carry them. The largest number
/ hp I'D
4,9S7; Guion, $500; North German Floyd, g.
900; White Star, 5000; Red Star, $500
An experienced cotton statistican, who has
personally examined the growing crop in every
State, estimates that the yield OF 1888 4 viii be-
less than five and half million bales; also that
the bales Will be per cent. lighter and the waste
III manufacturing per cent. greater than last
years crop, thereby practically reducing the
crop to about five and quarter million bales of
the weight and spinning qualities of the crop
just marketed.
James H. Vaughan, residing near Mexico,
Mo-, was shot and almost instantly killed, on
Tuesday, by his son, John Vaughan. The old
man was drawing water from spring
where the son was intent killing a squirrel.
The latter walked into the brush with his gun
cooked, and the trigger came in contact with
limb, causing the weapon to be discharged, the
elder Vaughan receiving the entire load In his
body, and dying before he could be moved to the
house.
Between II and u O'Clock on Saturday night
Samuel PAUL, fourteen-year-old boy of Wells
burg, o., started, in company with negro. TO
Walk from SJeuoenVlile 10 Brilliant ON reach
ing Mlngo Junction they were set upon by
party of fifteen rutfans, who assaulted both the
boy and his attendant. The negro finally
capped and the mob tied the boy to tree.
threatening him with bloody vengeance. The
negro reached Wellsburg, and a party was at
once organized for the boys relief. He
found and released, the mob having fed. Young
Pauls hair turned gray during the night, and it
is feared his mind is affected.
At Strasburg, Pa, number of young men
went out on lager-beer spree. During fight
which ensued, u young man named EShenan
was assaulted by Fillmore Hildebrand. After
knocking Eshelman down, HIldebrand followed
up his advantage by leaning upon the
body of the PROSTATE man and stamping upon
his breast and neck with his feet, and beating
him about the head with his clenched hands,
while the others of the party stood around ap-
parently daZed by the suddenness of the attack
and unable interfere. The infuriated young
man desisted a few minutes later and walked
away, while Eshelman, who had made no at
tempt at resistance, lay limp and lireless upon
| the floor and died in fifteen minutes,