The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-25

THE DAILY JOURNAL.
BY JNO. c. NEW & son,
FSr Rates of Subscription, etc. see Sixth Page.
THURSDAY, JANUARY %, 1888.
Ex-TRrAsuREE Polk, of Tennessee, has moi
yet been able to file his bond for 100000.
Tue Western Union company is going to
make the experiments of putting its telegraph
wires under ground in New York city.
ANOTHER disaster must be placed to the
credit OF 1888 The whole central portion oil
the Russian seaport Nikolayev has been de
Btroyed by fire.
COLONEL JOHN a. BRIDGLAND is to be ap
pointed consul to Barcelona, and an effort
will be made to raise it to the rank OF con
Snl-generalship.
THE cable monopoly has been broken up,
and the French and Direct cable has opened
ia New York city for general business. The
public will be the gamer
TWENTY acres OF land at Wilkesbarre
Pa has settled from depth of from six
inches to two feet, and occupants of houses
In the district have abandoned them. K
JUSTICE GRAY, of the United States Su
preme Court, holds that Professor Bell is the
original patentee of the principle OF the tele-
phone transmitting sound over an electric
wire
'GovERNoR PATrIsoN's Inauguration cost
Pennsylvania the modest sum OF SOS. So ''-Ex
change. Ea
And If we are to believe what even the ire
form" newspapers say, the Governor is likely
to prove dear at the price.
The United States Court at Boston has
granted an injunction against the Peoples
Telephone Company using Dolbear's patent,
la favor of the Bell Telephone Company.
The stock of the latter advanced $25 per
share yesterday.
THE London Times of yesterday says
There can be little doubt if statesmen con
tinue to be wanting, that the French repub
lie will 60 to ruin" The Bourse in Berlin i;
greatly disturbed by the unsettled condition
OF affairs in France.
THE Miss Scott who makes a demand fol
500, 600 is either lunatic or a Matchmaking
adventures Senator Lapham thinks she
Is insane. Her use of the name of the late
ex- Senator Lane shows her to be either the
one thing or the other.
SPIRITUAL ADVISER HICKS wants the gov
eminent to pay him $1,000 for the bones o
the CHASTITY Guiteau. What in the name o
decency and common sense does the govern
ment want with anything of this wretch? We
have had enough OF him, in all conscience.
JUDGE WILLIAM WHITE, of the Ohio Su
preme bench, has been appointed United
States District Judge to succeed the late Judge
Swing. Judge White is in his sxty-irs
year, and resides at Springfield. He is 6
brother-in-law by marriage of Speaker Keller
Mr.. ]. G. SHANKLIN, Washington CORE
spondent of the Cincinnati News. and who
has strongly opposed the Pendleton civil-ser
vice bill, frankly confesses that because OF
that measure Senator Pendleton is the only
possible presidential quantity for the Demo
cratic party in 1884.
THERE is a report that John r. Mclean, o
the Cincinnati Enquirer has bought the
New York World, and that George ALFRED
Townsend will be the editor. The bust
It Ioc H.
during the past year. and Mr.. william
Henry Hurlbert desires to make a change
There is room in New York city for West
ern newspaper.
AMONG the startling accidents OF the new
year must be chronicled the wrecking OF 81,
locomotives in New Mexico. They wer,
moving in pairs. The first two went off in
confused heap. Two more were sent to tn,
rescue, and in the binding snowstorm thei
prevailing ran into the wreck. Two NOR,
met the same fate in exactly the same way
making pile of six locomotives together
GENERAL HAZEN, the present cold Proba
bility," has spent good deal of his valuabl,
time denouncing Vennor and Virgins
Iet ueneral uaZen propneSleu InaC Cnl
would be mild and open winter, while the
others said we should experience winte
full of storms and billiards. 1t would seem
that General Hazen has rather the worst OF it
in view of recent events, meteorolog cally
speaking.
A RIOT occurred at the barracks" of the
Salvation Army, at Pittsburg.
party Of twenty young men, evi
IDENTIFY bent on mischief, were denied admit
lance, and when the door was opened they
rushed in. A fight ensued. amidst the great
est confusion and excitement, during which