The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Arthur Daggett, of Mimic, d. T., and Henry
Burnett, of Grand Forks, were playing Jesse
James with pistol, when the latter was killed.
A petition is being circulated for signatures at
Oxford In favor of the candidacy of Mathew
Arnold for the professorship Of poetry at that
university.
The chiefs of the northern Minnesot Indians
have held powwow, and agreed to go OF the
White Earth reservation. and allow the land to
be thrown open to white settlers
Owing to strikes in Western nail mills, caus
ing advance in the prices of nails, the naiers
at the Brooks Iron Company works, at Reading,
Pa, have had their wages advanced 10 per cent.
The increase affects about 225 employees.
At Chicago, yesterday afternoon, the members
of Sidney Rosenfelds "Mikado" company held
meeting and decided to leave Rosenfeld. They
will be taken up by A P. Dunlap, who will at
tempt to fill their dates if he can buy the cos
tunes after the court decides who owns them.
At San Francisco, on Saturday. Judge Sawyer
in the United States Circuit Court, granted a
perpetual injunction in favor of the United
Nickel Com pany of New York, restraining the
California electrical works of San Francisco
from using the Adams patent for nickel-plating,
and ordering an accounting of profits made while
using it.
An enthusiastic meeting in aid of the Parnell
fund was held in the old City Hall, at Pittsburg
Saturday night, and large amount of money
subscribed Among the contributions was $500
from Andrew Carnegie. the millionaire iron and
steel master About /. 900 persons were present.
Mayor Fulton presided and addresses were
made by number of local celebrities
Lydia Thompson sails the City of Berlin
tomorrow for New York. She has obtained the
American right to the new burlesque of "Kenil-
worth, and goes to arrange for tour with it.
If she succeeds in making satisfactory engage
ments she will return to London about Christmas
to secure a suitable company of English actors
to accompany her in her American tour.
~, A.
lington. Cedar Rapids & Northern railroad was
thrown from the track near Northwood, Worth
county. Iowa. The engineer Morrille Rice, and
brakeman, Michael Connors, both of Cedar
Rapids. were instantly killed, and the fireman,
James Collins, of What Cheer, badly scaded.
The accident is supposed to have been caused by
the spreading of the rails. Twenty eight head
of cattle were killed
The scandal concerning the late Cardinal
Lorenzo Nina, papal Secretary of State, to the
effect that he had wife in the person of his
concierge, to whom he bequeathed all his prop
erty, upon the alleged ground of gratitude for
her services as nurse to him during long period
of critical illness, is revived by the declarations
of his relatives that they intend to contest the
will, on the ground that the Cardinal was unduly
influenced in making the document.
The Detroit Tribune Printing Company, COM
prising c. A. and w. A. Nimmocks, formerly
publishers of the Minneapolis Journal took pos
session of their recent purchase, the Detroit
Post, on Saturday. The paper hereafter will be
known as the Detroit Tribune, and will be a two
cent morning Republican journal. 1t will be a
four page sheet of eight columns to the page.
Union printers were installed in the Office on
Saturday it having previously been a non union
establishment
At Chicago. on Friday, attachment suits
against Barber & Hartman to the amount of
$28, 900 were begun by John V. Farwell & Co.
These were served on Saturday morning, while
business was in progress, and the place was
closed by the sheriff. Since then sixteen other
attachments have poured in, making the liabll-
tiles far about $51 ,000 All but one of the
creditors are Chicago firms The assets are
equal to the liabilities. The firm commenced
business two years ago on small amount of
capital but has borne an excellent reputation