The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-10
TELEGRAPHIo BREvITIEs.

A severe snow storm was raging at New York
last night.
Herr Most, the Socialist, delivered lecture at
Louisville last night.
Professor Adolf Wedeles, the pianist, died
Sunday, at Adrian, Mich
James B. Grant Governor-eleet of Colorado,
was inaugurated yesterday.
President Gowan, of the Reading railroad, de-
MES that he intends to resign.
The Ohio Swine Breeders Association elected
o Ulcers at Columbus yesterday.
john Cody died at Manstee, Mich, yesterday,
after fasting lob days, aged sixty.
Parsons & Son, insurance agents at Dubuque,
Ia, are short In their accounts s., 200.
Clark Mills the well-known sculptor, is dan
gerousy ill with an affection of the heart.
Charles L. Kohl committed suicide at Chicago
on Monday by shooting himself in the mouth.
Ludwig Bamay, German tragedian at New
York, is suffering from arsenic taken by mistake.
Tine English and Australian mail was sent from
New York last night via the Pennsylvania road.
The vice regal party, Lorne and Lonise and
suite, passed through Tucson yesterday morn
ing.
Jem Mace's protege, slade, appeared In
gloVed smuggling match at San Francisco yester-
day.
The California Legislature was inaugurated
Yesterday, The Governor will be inaugurated to
day.
day morning registered from loo to 800 below
zero.
II is rumored that the Canadian Pacific rail-
road directors are negotiating for direct line to
Boston.
Within tho past twenty-four hours it has
showed fully six inches, on level in the vicin-
lty of Des Molnes.
In the litigation between Engineer Melville
and wife several OF her nelghbors testified TO her
Incorporate habits.
lanes Watson has been arrested in New York.
charged with forgeries committed in Buffalo
amounting to Sd, 900.
The board of managers of the Washington Sol
diers' Home met yesterday and transacted rou-
tine business merely
f. j. Dixon, grocer of Milwaukee, made an
assignment to p. Van Vechten, jr., to secure
debts of about $4,000.
John seuf, a Brooklyn saloon keeper, was IA
tally stabbed by John Redding, with whom he
was scufl1ing, last night.
William Saunders and Pat Gibride, the coun-
terfeiters, were held in 3d. $40 bail for further
hearing in Philadelphia.
Wel-known citizens of Boston have forwarded
a letter to United States Senator HOar in the in
terest of Fitz John Porter
II. A. Wilson, yardmaster at Chattanooga of
the Cincinnati Southern railway, was murdered
and robbed Monday night
Mrs. Caroline II. Walker widow of Colonel
Walker, of OHIO, dropped dead in Twenty-third
street, New York, last night.
Luke Landry and Laura Bright, of Baton
Rouge, La, have had their death sentence com
muted to life imprisonment.
Three hundred molders of Pittsburg ana Al
posed reduction of their wages.
Ex-Canal Collector Gilbert of Syracuse, died
of apopiexy on Monday. After the shock he fell
Oh stove and was badly burned.
The Rood Iron Works of Chattanooga, employ
| ing LOO men, has given notice of a reduction
OF from 10 to 20 per cent. in wages.
Masters OF incoming vessels at New York re-
port an almost continuous succession OF storms
for the past few weeks on the Atlantic.
Nearly 5000 coal-miners along the Monon-
gahela river are idle, on account of the suspen-
sion or operations in seventy-fve mines.
well-known merchant of White county,
Tenn, first swallowed laudanum and then
drowned himself in pond, on the 9th inst.
| subscription was taken up yesterday at St.
Louis, on Change, for the benefit of the suffer-
ers by the German floods, amounting to So, 200.
The failure of four small firms on the open
Board of Trade at Chicago are announced
day, with aggregate liabilities of about $4,000.
| Charles II. Schad, who was interested in va
rious enterprises IN Niagara county, New York,
| has confessed insolvency, with debts of $780,
| 900.
A temperance mass meeting was held at To-
peka, Kan, last night under the auspices of the
State prohibition convention in session in that
city.
The Nashville Blood Horse Association have
| determined to hold the usual spring meeting in
May, aud viii bring out a programme in a few
| days.
for the Fourth district of Virginia, has been sns-
pended, and special agent is examining his
books
The Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen OF Pennsylvania convened at
Pittsburg, in their thirteenth annual session,
yesterday.
James Cronkhire a freight conductor on the
Wisconsin Central road, was arrested at Phillips
for completely in the murder of II. c. Mead, the
Waupaca banker.
A boiler exploded at Waugh's stove factory, at
Bismarck station, Mich, Monday. The watch
man was fesrfully scalded, and nine Others were
trightfully injured.
The North Star Touring mill, owned by j. G.
Croswell, of Minneapolis, located on the east
side of the river, burned last nig ht. Loss, $780,
900; insurance, S32, 000
A terrible boiler explosion occurred at blast
furnace at Bethlehem, Pa, yesterday, resulting
in the death Of four men and one woman and the
INJURY OF several others.
The debt of Brooklyn is 49, 165, 051.19. The
Mayor, in speech Monday, urged many i'm
provements, and says rapid transit still remains
the greatest need OF the city.
henry Berg has called the attention of the
New York police commissioners to The existence
or border gang from whose depredations
neither life nor property Is safe.
The auction sale of pews OF Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, Melted 1897, 900. The highest sum
paid was 1928, decrease of more than 81, 900
compared with last years rentals.
AT Elizabethtown, Pa, the Fidelity Mutual
Society does business. The officers have been
asked to appear and show that the concern is
solvent aud is not a graveyard scheme.
Matson, the bank sharp, who has been opera
ting on erased drafts III Cleveland, Buffalo, and
else where, and who has made number OF rich
hauls, has been captured in New York.
A large school of whales was seen on Sunday
off Southampton, l.. l., but fishermen feared to
go to sea because of the new penal code, under
which they could be arrested for Sunday labor.
An employe of the Patent Office at Ottowa re-
moved a model of wire-twisting machine for
the benet fit of "A rival inventor. The model has
just been returned and an investigation ordered.
The professional politicians of New York are
alarmed and surprised because Mayor Edison
has nominated Mr.. Sherman, a worthy New
York merchant, for the vacant police justice
ship.
| G. p. Dittmer, the embezzling messenger of the
| Davenport National bank, wGs arrested Monday
and sent to jail in default of $1,000 bail. New
evidence of his thefts has been received from St.
Including lat1era Which be nffarins,