The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
%INDIANAAND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings Of
all Kinds in the Two States.
Bayless Hanna and the Charlottesville Post
office-A Probably Fatal Stabbing ARRAY
at EvansviIle-cut to Pieces by aTrain.
INDIANA.
The Charlottesville Postofice and the Bar
gain Made by Bayiess w. Hanna.

AhO SoAhS onU ehc
gain Made by Bayiess w. Hanna.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
C-RAwFoRDsvILLE, June 15.-The p~ostofice
warhas siackened. BUTT is not over by any means.
Col John Lee has been to Washington on a
pleasure trip. and yet there seems to be an air
about him which would indicate that his trip
was more for business than pleasure. Colonel
Lee will probably be the next postmaster. Al
though Colonel Lee would likely fill the position
creditably, John A. Booze would suit the Democ-
racy better. and also be more palatable to the
Republicans than either Lee or Hanna. But 5.
NJ. Robinson should be permitted to serve his
time out. He has come as near pleasing every
body as could be possible. However, Robinson
is an Offensive partisan though not by half
as offensive" to the masses as Lee or Hanna.
Bayless w. Hanna has denied the reported sale
of the postmastership here to John E. Hanna
an adopted brother. OF course he would deny
it. But there are a few circumstances in con-
nection with this reported ice-brokerage that
it may be well to state. In the first place, S. Nj.
Robinson offered to prove to the p~ostofice
inspector that an agreement was drawn up and
signed by t. B. Collins and John E. Hanna, the
purchasers of the Review, to the effect that if E.
w. Hanna secured the postmastership for j. E.
Hanna, then 81, 900 was to be paid b. w. Hanna,
by each of them. This was to bessworn to by
Paul Mcdonald, James III. Watson and A. F.
Ramsay. The inspector would not admit the
evidence, as he said he had nothing to do with
anything like that. Paul Mcdonald is a nephew
Of ex- Senator Joseph E. Mcdonald, and was
employed as local editor on the Review by
Bayless W. Hanna up to the middle
of last September, when he was unceremoniously
turned off, presumably because of his knowing
TOO much. James Ell. Watson is the Democratic
ex-auditor, and when the inspector would not adj
NIT the evidence, Watson spoke out in meetin'"
and told him of the entire transaction. A. f.
Ramsay, a Republican, is of the firm of Ramsay
& Schultz, investment bankers, in whose hands
said contract was said to be placed. If there had
been no such contract Postmaster Robinson
would scarcely have proposed to undertake to
prove there was. and the witnesses would never
have been found to testify to such an alleged
state of facts. Bayless W.. Hannais not popular
with his own party here, and they are waging a
war against him with rather a fair prospect of
success.
Two Men Seriously, Perhaps Fatally, Cut.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
, EVANSVILLE, June ia cutting ARRAY oc-
Cured in Independence, early this morning,
which will probably result in a double murder.
Between Lamasco and Independence youths
exists a deadly feud, and whenever one side is
caught intruding on the others boundary a
fierce fight is generally the result. It the time
mentioned, Charles Brickner and VIM. Me
meyer were over the creek in Independence, in
company with two young ladies. They were
met by VIM. Montgomery and Chas. Wright,
and a fight ensued. The two young ladies fed,
and what followed is not known. Passers-by
found Brickner and Niemeyer lying unconscious
on the pavement and covered with blood. They
were removed to residences in the neighborhood
in the neck, one in the stomach and a deep stab
in the back. His death is momentarily expected.
Brickner has three wounds, one in the neck and
two III the stomach, and is very low. Wright,
one of the assailants, was arrested this morning,
but refuses to talk of the affair. Montgomery is
still at large, but will be arrested before to-mor-
row, as he is known to be still in tf city.
Wright has a stab in the left arm, which was
probably accidentally cut by his partner during
the ARRAY. Niemeyer and Brickner were 18th
unarmed.
Charged with Attempted Train recking.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SH~ELBYvILLE, June 15.-Sherif Magill this
evening arrested Clarence Riggs and Thomas
Splitter, of Prescott, charging them with at
tempting to wreck the Saturday afternoon ex-
press train on the c., L., S. L. g. c. railway, near
Waldron, this county. The boys are not over
fifteen years of age. They placed a cross-tie
between the rails at the bridge this side of Wal
dron, in a position parallel with the track,
with one end raised and pointed from the tnsin.
Within a few hundred yards of that place an
other tie had been similarly placed, with the
end pointing toward the train, but this was dis
covered by an old lady, and the train tagged.
The boys hid in a fence corner, expecting to see
| the train wrecked.
Charged with Cattle-Stealing.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, June 15.-This morning Sheriff Wal