The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-11
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Mrs Palmer wife of Ex-Governor John NJ
Palmer, OF Illinois, died yesterday afternoon.
Composer Solomon and Lillian Russell the
actress, were married yesterday in the Lutheran
Church. in Hoboken
George S. Barber, VINO killed a man at Akron,
o., thirteen years ago was arrested at Bellevue
that State, yesterday.
The Crittenden trial at Taylorsville. KY. re-
suited IN a hung jury, ten being for acquittal
and two for imprisonment
The base ball club of Columbus, Ga, won
game from the Memphis club at Memphis, yes
| terday. Score five to four.
A. w. Adlete, railway postal clerk ON the run
between Dallas and Texarkana, has been ar
rested, charged with robbing the mails.
Fire at Willow-street wharf PHILADELPHIA last
night caused aloss of So, 000-partially insured.
Ten or twelve horses were burned to death.
Girado, charged with completely in the Caru-
SO murder, has been discharged. The depot
employees at Pittsburg failed to identify him.
III. A. w. Walkemeyer prominent business
man of Harrisburg Pa, killed himself yester-
day. The sheriff had levied upon his property.
The six day go-as you-please roller-skatine
contest was begun in Madison Square at 1905
yesterday morning. At o'clock, Small, Mad
dox. Wilton, w. Boyst and O'Melia had scored
twelve miles each.
Shortly before / o'clock yesterday morning
Edwin Moritz, of North Fourth street Phila-
delphia, killed his wife. Moritz has been ar
rested.
Another Traces between Orangemen and Cath
olics occurred at Conception bay. Some of the
combatants were severely wounded. Knives
and other deadly weapons were freely used.
The master in chancery in the case of the
Houston 81 Texas railway, recommends the
court to grant the receivers of the company
power to borrow $147 900 to settle traffic balances
and pay employees for February
The alleged thieves friends of Abe Buzzard,
captured In the WEIGH mountains, dis
charged from arrest, yesterday, on condition
that they leave the mountains. Martin Springer,
however, was taken to Lancaster, to answer
for horse stealing
Edwin Bell, ST., and e. L. Wilder have been ap-
pointed receivers of Arms, Bell & Co., nut and
bolt manufacturers, at Youngstown. The firm
has been financially embarrassed of late, and
this action was taken by the court, with the con-
sent of all the creditors.
Father Chapele has purchased site for the
new Catholic university. 1t lies between Wash
ington and the Soldiers Home 1t is known as
the Middleton estate, containing sixty-fve
acres. and on it IS the spring which furnishes
the Capitol building with water.
The miners at Cumberland, Nd, demand of
the operators of the Georges Creek region an ad-
vance OF ten cents per ton for mining, the fixing
of ten hours days work, reduction in
charges for smlthing of from one to one half
cent per ton, and semimonthly payment of
wages
At fire in Philadelphia, Saturday night
frame bridge connecting the second stories of
two wings of a buildings fell while seven fremen
We're on 1T, and they were buried under mass
of burning timbers. By great exertion they
were all got out, but not until three of them had
received serious injuries.
Row. j. E. Todd, pastor of the Church of tho
Redeemer, New Haven, has asked to have his
relations with the New Haven Central Associa-
ton dissolved, because OF dissatisfaction with
the associations method of licensing Yale the
illogical students for the ministry. 1t is said
other prominent preachers will follow his ex-
ample
The New Foundland sealer Young Prince,
came in collision with an iceberg in the Gulf of
St Lawrence the 10Th ultimo She sank
almost Immediately, barely giving the crew
time to save provisions and clothing The crew
of thirty-two men lived on an ice foe nineteen
days. subject to the rigors of the weather. until
picked up by French brig, and all landed in
good condition at st. Pierre.
The trestle on the Savannah, Florida &
Western railway, about fifty. miles
Saturday. A train ran upon the
trestle. and the locomotive and fifteen cars were
burned No lives lost Yesterday an
attempt was made to burn the trestle short
distance north of Saturdays fire. All the tres
ties on the road are now guarded.
An explosion occurred last evening in the
Stanton air-shaft, operated by The Lehgh Val
ley and Wilkesbarre Coal Company. No one
had been at work in the mine for several days
past, and gas had collected in such
large quantity that it forced its way to the top of
the shaft and into the boiler house, where IL ig
nited. 1t will be some time before the fire boss
es can enter the mine and the extent of damage
be learned.
The winners in Lexington races on Saturday
were as follows Selling race, one mile and
quarter Wonderment first Athlone Sec
ond, Compensation third. Clay stakes, one
mile and a quarter: Ten Booker first,
Biersan second, Ultimatum third. The handi-
cap for all ages. ve-eighths of q mile: Pearl
Jennings first, Hayward second, Dudley third
Fourth race, one and three sixteenths mile:
Tax gatherer first, Favor second.
i Commissioner Colman has just established in
the Agricultural Department a bureau to in
vestgate all questions affecting the interests of
the day. 1t is said that the Commissioner will
probably recommend to the next Congress the
passage of some restrictive measure which will
better protect the farmers and the public from
the sale of spurious butter. 1t is stated the de-
partment has discovered a simple method of de-
tecting oieomargine in butter.
The national convention of the Alpha Delta Phi
college fraternity will be held at Ann Arbor and
in Detroit during this week. On Wednesday
public exercises will be held in Ann Arbor, and
the convention closes with banquet at the Rus
sell House. in Detroit, Thursday.
of Chicago; Andrew Shuma, of the Chi
cago Evening Journal; Hon. G. V. n.
Lothrop, of Detroit, recently appointed min
lister to Russia: Hon. j. Hubbe of Michigan;
Theo. Roosevelt, of New York, and Senator AL
lison, of Iowa.
Steamship News.
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