The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-07
BREvIrIEs.
Pennsylvania will have an extra session OF the
Legislature, which meets to-day,

Pennsylvania will have an extra session OF the
Legislature, which meets to-day.
The Texas land fraud board expects to recover
for the State at least 1000, 900 acres.
The Grand Lodge r. and A. NJ. of the State OF
New York elected j. Edward Simmons grand
master.
The Grand Lodge of the Canadian Orangemen
Is IN session., considering the refusal of the Do
minlon government to incorporate their order.
A storm at Albany, N, Y, yesterday afternoon,
caused damage estimated at $4,000. Houses
were undermined, cellars flooded. streets torn
mp, etc.
The Cincinnati boot-makers have gone to work
under an agreement that two months notice
the rates.
Mr. William Henry Hurlbert, who has just re
tired from control of the New York World news
paper, was entertained last night at the Manhat-
tan Club.
DR.. Alex. Means died in oxford, Ca, yester-
day, aged eighty-fiye. He was one of the most
prominent divines and leading practical SCENT
lists In the South.
VIM. Collins, aged fifty, of Chester, Pa, who
nVeS In a hsherman's hut along Crum creek,
while under the influence of liquor, on Tuesday
night, trampled his wife to death.
The body of Mrs. John Geiger, of Cincinnati.
VINO with her husband was accidentallyd row ned
ABOUT ten days ago, was found, on Tuesday, in
the ONO river, in front of the city.
A large tank OF the Tidewater Pipeline Com.
parry, at Muncie, Pa, containing 5000 barrels,
was struck by lightning, and the oil fired. Two
Va hAC ouiluingol III hauncl0 were also STRUCK.
Congressman Phil. Thompson has been offered
S15O,O0O for his one-third interest in a mine in
ummlt county, Col. He has gone to New York
to see about it, as well as about some valuable
patents in which he is interested.
A gravel train on the New York & Northeast
ern railway jumped the track at Qulncy-street
bridge. Dorchester district, Boston, and four or
nye cars went down the bank. One brakeman
was killed and another train hand seriously in
jured.
Adelaide 8. Smith,, of Brooklyn, brought suit
under tho civil damages act in Brooklyn against
Patrick Dempsy and Cornelius Clark, liquor
liquor and causing him to become a drunKard.
Yesterday the jury gave her a verdict for
$500.
Fred. Fifield, son of ID. G. Fiheld, of Milwau-
kee, who was lost In the woods near Ashland,
Wis, walked into Engineer SeweiPs camp at
noon on June a, having been without food or
coat for three days and nights and being ex-
posed to a continuous northeast storm. He will
recover.
The compositors of Trow's establishment in
New York struck, yesterday, for an increase in
the rate from 81 TO 40 cents a thousand ems. As
the strikers were interfering with the business
of the house, and refused to move on when re-
quested by the police, the latter drew their
clubs, charged and drove the strikers out of the
neighborhood.
Near Roanoke, Va, on Sunday night, John Ed
wards, coiored, was attacked, it Is supposed, by
a rival for the affections of a young muIatto
girl, and beaten to death with an az. His body
was found in the outskirts of the town, with the
neck almost severed aud other fearful wounds
about the back and shoulders. The affair has
created great indignation, especially among the
upper crust of eolared society. II the assassin is
caught he Will possibly be %lynched.