The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-12

tirely accidental and said he visited a shooting.
gallery with Carney who is his friend and a
member of the Produce Exchange
George William Curtis will be assisted at the
Wendell Phillips memorial meeting in Boston,
next week, by Miss Belle Cushmail Eaton who
is grandniece of the late Charlotte Cushman,
and who viii read poem the occasion.
The attempt in Georgia to preserve Liberty
Hall as permanent memorial of it's owner, the
late Alexander H. Stephens, is afailure, and the
property is likely to go to citizen of Craw-
louisville, who proposes to make it his private
residence.
The strike on the Cincinnati Northern division
of the Toledo, Cincinnati & st. Louis railway
has ended, by the issuance of an order by Re
celver Craig for immediate payment of wages
out of current receipts for February, to be fol-
lowed.b by payment of March dues
Fifteen hundred miners of the Westmoreland
and Pennsylvania Gas-eoal Company, at Irwin
station, Pa, are out on strike They are willing
to stand reduction of 10 cents per ton, but OBJ
Ject to the onefourth inch change of screens,
which is equal to reduction of 20 per cent. in
wages.
A man who broke into Pickerine's hardware
store at Cincinnati, during the riot, has been in
dicted by the grand jury, but not for riot. The
charge is burglary. Judge Matthews directed
the grand jury to hold indictments for murder
in the first degree, until pending legislation af-
feeting capital cases is disposed Of
A fight occurred yesterday morning between a
gang of sixty Italians and number of Irish Ia
borers on the Canada Southern railway, caused
by the Irish Directing to the employment of
Italians. The police, with the assistance Of citi-
zens, succeeded in stopping the fight after sew
eral on both sides had been seriously wounded.
The sale of the property of the Allentown,
Pa, Iron Company will be held in a few days.
The company was incorporated on April u,
1851 with capital of 5000, 000 divided into
shares of $50 each. Large dividends were paid
hE no pn1l until fba apia Of
which time it has gradually lost trade, and for
the last few years has paid no dividends at ALL
The charges made against F. B. Mott and
George Phillips, of Dayton, O., colonel and
Ieutenant-colonel, respectively, of the Fourth
Regiment, o. N. g., in regard to their actions at
Cincinnati during the recent riots, have cul-
minated in an order by Assistant Adjutant-gen-
eral Dill, which relieves them from duty with
their regiment and places them under arrest A
court martial will soon be appointed, to try the
deposed officers.
The Missouri department of the Grand Army
of the Republic met in annual session, yesterday,
at st. Louis nearly three hundred delegates
from all parts of the State being present The
report of the assistant Acknowledgement shows
the order to be in a very prosperous and grow
ing condition. The delegates, escorted by
Frank 2. Blair post had street parade TO-
night, and wound up with grand campfire at
Turner Hall, at which they had royal time
Yesterday morning, while eight men were EN-
ployed in Blair's brick-yard, Pittsburg, digging
sand from hillside, the bank caved in, buryiDg
Samuel Reehn, aged twenty one, and William
Shearod, aged nineteen, under several tons of
earth. Notwithstanding the large amount OF
loose earth which threatened to come down,
others went to work with will to rescue their
companions, but they were not reached until
fully an hour after the accident Both were
dead The bodies were badly crushed, and it is
thought death resulted instantly. Both men
were unmarried.