The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The puddlers of the Reading Iron Works struck
for seml-monthly payments instead of monthly.
William c. Howells. American consul at To
ronto, has decided TO resign and retire to private
life.
dispatch from ST. Pierre, Miquelon county
Province of Quebec, says a severe snow. storm
ragged there yesterday.
The Massachusetts, Senate passed bill for the
payment of 81 a ton bounty on beets raised for
| susar-making purposes.
The Pennsylvania excursion party visited the
bnttlefelds about fredericksburg yesterday,
and Is now homeward bound.
The people of Grinnell Ia, the town so badly
wrecked by tornado last June, have sent $500
to the sufferers from the tornado in Mississippi
At New Brunswick. N. J., the grocery aud cigar
mandatory of Jared & Farley burned yester-
day, and 100000 cigars were consumed. Loss
$4,000.
Mayor Stowell, of Milwaukee, yesterday issued
orders that all saloons be closed at midnight
| and that no police officer be allowed to take
liquor while ON duty.
Andy Hawkins crushed the skull of a white
man named Eugene Estis, near Memphis yester-
day. He resisted nrrest and was shot and killed
| by the sherit's posse
| George Fl. Peyton, formerly hotel-keeper at
Richmond shot aud seriously wounded "a negro
| fish dealer in the market early yesterday morn
| ing. Mental alteration was the cause.
| The lasters and heelers OF Montreal demand
higher wages or they will strike The shop la
borers have fixed wages for the season Mt 25
| cents an nour for day, and 30 for night work.
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| Stranger river, Kansas, together with a large
amount of hay and implements, were destroyed
by fire yesterday. Loss, 81 4,O00 insurance, ST.,
900.
The suspension of the Pittsburg nail factories
for two weeks, which tn into effect yester.
day, has been put OFF indefinitely. Trade is re-
ported good, but stocks stll light and i'll as
sorted
| President Walker, OF the New Orleans city rail
road. makes n formal offer of $780, 1000 to the
worlds industrial aud centennial exposition if
the building be located near the lines of that
company
The centennial celebration of Evacuation Day
at New York Will be observed this year.
general holiday will he proclaimed The fall pn -
rade of the national guard will be deferred until
that day.
The factory of the Washington and Ohio Lam
her Company, at BrOughton, o., owned by s. : e.
+. G. Darsh, burned yesterday Loss, 1000;
no insurance. Supposed TO be the work of in
eendiarles.
Governor Butler has sent to the Secretary of
State Of Massachusetts,, without signature, the
resolution apprOprutiug 1854, 900 tor double.
tracking the HUOsao Tunnel line, aud says lie
shall not sign it.
Honolulu advices state that the large Chinese
immigration is the absorbing question. At the
rate the Chinese now arrive they VIII soon out
! number the natives Meetings protesting are
constantly held.
Joseph |. G.. Clarke, of the editorial staff of the
New York Herald, has become managing editor
of the Morning journal. A. Oakley Han, man
aging editor of Truth, says Mr.. Clarke Is the en-
cyclOpedia OF New York.
In Baxter county, Arkansaa, the wife of ]. T.
Byrd, prepared his dinner aud carried it 10 him,
some distance from the house, leaving their ak,
weeks-Old babe lying on the bed. From some
uneN plainable cause the house took fire, and as
II was In an isolated place, without near neigh