The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-13

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1s, 1888.
D. w. MINsHAL1 Collector of the Terre
Haute district, has resigned.
IT is expected that the civil-service COM
mission will be appointed this week.
A roorPAp has been shot and killed in Chi
cago while in the act OF robbing man.
THE star-route trial will be prolonged until.
june Ex-senator Dorsey is so much better
as to be able to be out.
PIoN P1oY's brilliant future is suffering an
eclipse He is about to start daily, to sup
ply long-felt want.
THE Democratic. caucus last night deter
mined to push all political measures to final
action as soon as possible.
AN army of 10000 men, enough to conduct
campaign in Egypt, was employed in har-
NeSllllS dlOlS thc AAuuoCh'
ACCOUNTS from Mentone represent Mr.
Green, the historian, as having rallied slight
IT, but his condition remains hopeless.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is not to return from Cam
mes at present. In his absence Lord Harting-
ton will be the Liberal leader in the Com
mons. lt.es
SENATOR EDMUNDs is opposed to the con-
e I,,l (Inplnnatl
district on account Of his age, He is sixty
years old as- 49, ~.
EMERY SpEER, the Independent Democratic
congressman from Georgia. is to be appointed
United States Attorney Tor the Northern dis
trict of that State.
The flood in the Ohio still continues, the
stage of water being the greatest ever known,
and the DAMAGE incalculable. Indiana river
towns are suffering severely.
The accounts of the distress in Donegal
are most narrowing; money is most urgently
needed to save the people of that part of
Ireland from absolute starvation.
T. V. VANHEUsEN. JR, of Albany, for
merly a sergeant in the signal service,
furnished the facts on which General Hazen
was arraigned by Congressman Beethoven.
THE fight on General HaZen, to get him
out of the Signal Service Bureau. and to get
the bureau transferred to the Department OF
the Interior, grows in intensity and bitter
ness. e7se -f--e
THE wife of General Rosecrars was stricken
with paralysis Sunday afternoon. Her con-
dtion is extremely critical, and the rites OF
the church for the dying have been admins
tered
DURING 1882 2,577 new buildings 7es
erected in New York city, at cost At a cost
1856. and repairs were mad oaest record made
Of 81, 267. 1871. This is = ''' '-''''0
IN the history of Y -
e. CP,MER, the founder and
edItor-n-chief of the Milwaukee Evening
Wisconsin. who went through the horrors
of the Newhall House fire, is reported as in
very precarious condition.
IT having been impossible to complete the
arrangements for the enthronement of the
new Archbishop of Canterbury before Lent.
the ceremony will not take place until the
first or second week after Easter.
THE text of the call for the Anti-monopoly
National convention, which is to meet in
peared. The siepers of the call, with one
exception. Louis L. Post, of New York. are
from the West and California.
1T is estimated that there are 2O0,OOO vaga'
bonds and beggars in the German Empire,
Including thieves, pickpockets and swind-
ers. and the authorities estimate the annual
ioss to honest people by their operations at
:he enormous sum of $25 200 900.
THE supply of the first two volumes of the
official history of the Rebellion is exhausted.
Copies of volumes 3, and can be obtained
from the Public Printer for rs cents for vol
ur,e 8, and 81 each for volumes and 5. Vol
anne numbered has been issued, but is sold
snly by the War Department at so cents per
Eolune.