The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Harvard University crew has accepted
the challenge of Columbia.
Sixty-two new pupils for the Indian training
school have arrived at Carlisle, Pa.
The Di Cesnola libel suit. in New York, re.
suited in a verdict for the defendant.
John A. Kline, one of the founders of the
Vicksburg and Mississippi Valley Bank, died
yesterday.
Torrances Touring mills and Deans planning
mills, at GOwanda, N. Y, burned. Loss, $35, 600;
insurance, $4,000.
Rev. William 7. Chase, pastor of the Central
square Baptist Church, Cambridge, Mass, has
resigned, to accept a call to Minneapolis.
The Winter Carnival, in Montreal, opens on
Monday night. The ice pulace was lighted last
evening, and presented a grand spectacle.
In the suit at Auburn, N. Y, of a boy against
the New York Central railway for the loss of a
foot, the boy recovered a verdict of $40, 800.
delegation from Robert Z. Lee Post, Rich
mond, Va, is in Baltimore making collections to
build a home for INDECENT confederate soldiers.
-Four prisoners in Jail at Monticello, N. Y, at
tackled the sheriff and attempted to get free.
Two were secured, one shot dead, and the fourth
escaped.
The Merchants Marine Insurance Company
has made a call for twenty-five dollars per share.
owing to the large amount lost in marine under
writing the past year.
Suit has been brought by the Pittsburg Ex-
position Society against twenty-one insurance
companies to recover $23, 900, the amounts of the
policies on the burned building and contents
Nine small boys were coasting on the Schuyl-
kill in a large sled with John Hogan, aged nine
teen. The ice broke, and all were thrown into
the water. Hogan went m~anfully TO work, saw
ing eight. One, James Donnell, aged ten years,
was drowned.
A messenger from Oposura, Sonora, reports
the Apaches numbering and ravaging in that
section -Four men were killed since Jan. 20.
I 1G f1n1 1~hf ! y hn - ,NA,f,AA n &c
band, for which Captain Rafferty,, with troops,
Is on the lookout.
Fowler Bros, of Chicago, have sued MeGeoch,
Everingham & Co, for $500, 900 on account of
the assertions of that firm regarding the purity
of the lard the plaintiffs had placed upon the
market, which led to the memorable Board of
Trade investigation.
1t is asserted at St. Louis that the Toledo
-narrow-guage, which runs into the Wabash ele-
vator. at Toledo, will officially announce to-day
for New York at IA cents per 100, a cut of Is
cents, or over so per cent. less than the regular
rates.
The Central Centenary committee of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South has been in
session for two days past 1t is anticipated that
a monumental fund of not less than s., 900, 900
will be raised during the present year for educa-
ton missions and church extensions. Plans are
being prosecuted to realize this end.
Negotiations between the Belknap Improve
ment Company and the Northern Pacific rail
road resulted IN a contract by which Belknap is
made the principal point of debarkation for the
Coerdalene mines. A wagon road is now com
pleted twelve miles and will be pushed on to the
mines. a distance of twenty-eight miles, and a
line of stages put on at once.
Mrs. George H. Evans, of Des Moines. Ia,
died on Friday. Mrs. Evans was one of five
women who, in 1861, 1862 and 1868. strewed
flowers on the graves of soldiers and established
a custom which extended into the national
Decoration Day. She served as a nurse during
the war, and was an honorary member of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
The river coal miners of the Pittsburg district
inst, to discuss the expediency of making a
united demand for an increase in the rate for the
spring run of mining. A particular effort will
also be made to organize the miners of the Ka-
nawha river 50 that they Z nay make concerted