The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Two young sons Of Commissioner La Claire,
of Anoka, Mimi, were drowned in Italian lake
while skating.
George F. Moolie catcher of the Lawrence,
Mass, base ball club last year, has signed with
the Chicago club.
Ncolo g. Lacaze of New Orleans, produce
commission merchants, have suspended. Their
liabilities are $54, 900; assets, $685. 900.
Bruce & Co., of Cincinnati, carriage manu-
facturers. made an assignment yesterday to
Thomas Maddux. The assets are estimated at
$1,000 to $l5O0O liabilities, $4,000
Montreal has established quarantine against
the suburb ST. Cunegonde. and all the streets
leading thereto are guarded by health officials.
St Cunegonde refuses to carry out the regula-
tions imposed By the central board of health
A meeting of the stockholders of the Queque-
chan print mills at Fall River, Mass, has been
called for the 9th inst, the company being I'M
able to meet its obligations. The liabilities are
unknown. The company has a capital stock of
100000
Pittsburg, who have been out over a year. com
promised yesterday, by accepting 10 per cent
reduction in wages. The strike was against
20 per cent reduction, and the men held out
firmly until yesterday.
The jury in the case of William and Hum
phrey Best, charged with the murder of William
Bailey. colored returned a verdict of not guilty,
at Lancaster, KY. last night. The father of the
Best boys killed seven men, and always man
aged to escape punishment
At Chester; Pa, John Carpenter, the sus-
pected murderer of the late John Sharpless. was
given hearing yesterday morning, and at the
request of Chief of Police Williamson, who
stated that he was unable to find anything
against the prisoner, he was discharged.
The fund for the relief of sufferers by the late
Galveston fire now amounts to $11S 158 of which
$lO2, 296 has been paid to the relief committee
~
900. Twelve hundred applicants have received
aid, the majority of whom are heads of families.
Seven hundred clergymen embracing He
brews Roman Catholics, Friends male and fe-
male preachers, and all shades of Protestants.
including coored clergymen of all denomina-
tons, were present at the reception given to-day
at the Aldine Hotel, Philadelphia, by Mr.. George
W. Childs to the venerable Archdeacon Farrar,
d. D.
The freight brakemen on nearly all the roads
in Pittsburg and Allegheny, are joining in large
numbers the secret organization known as the
Brakeman League which was recently estab-
lished in the West Branches are being estab-
lished in all parts of Pennsylvania The object
and aims are to advance and protect the inter
ests of the brakemen.
Henry j. Terry, of the class of 80 of Yale Col
lege, and for seven years professor of law in the
University of Toxic Japan, has been elected
professor of municipal and international law at
d.
Phelps, now minister to Great Britain. Edward
g. Bourne. of the class of '83, has been ap-
pointed instructor in medieval history
An explosion took place in the chemical labo-
ratory of Tufts College, at Boston, yesterday
afternoon, several large sealed tubes, filled with
poisonous alkaoid, bursting while at tenn
perature of 300 degrees centrigrade. furnace
was also blown to atoms, one piece just missing
Assistant Pamer's head. The poisonous vapors
escaping from the tubes rendered the building
uninhabitabe for the rest of the day.
At Medina. Orleans county, New York.
woman named Miles, between sixty and seventy
years old, was murdered yesterday morning by
some unknown person by cutting her throat
The crime was first discovered by her husband
when he went to his dinner from his work A
basin of bloody water showed that the murderer
had washed his hands after killing the woman
He stole about $1l5 that was in the house