The Indianapolis journal., 1886-08-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

The Kansas Democrats yesterday nominated
Thomas Moonlight of Leavenworth, for Gov
erner.
The Republicans of the Seventeenth Ohio
congressional district have nominated Col. Jos.
d. Taylor.
The July earnings of the Northern Pacific
81, 120, 865, increase of $l20 854 over the
same month of 1885
Harrison Durkee vicepresident Of the West
ern Union telegraph Company, died at his resi-
dence in New York yesterday.
David OBrien was yesterday convicted at Gin
cinnati of voting illegally in the Eighteenth
ward at last October's election.
The Democratic State convention of Kansas
yesterday adopted resolutions heartily indorsing
the national administration, and declaring their
opposition to sumptuary legislation.
Hull s. Cuzzens, one OF the oldest manufactur-
ing firms of furnaces, ranges and stoveware, in
St. Louis, have assigned. Assets valued at
So. 800 Their liabilities are gil ,00O
The Democrats carried the municipal election
at Portsmouth, ~ H., on Tuesday. electing
every city officer but one alderman. Mayor Ed
redge was reelected by 467 majority
1t is semi officially announced that j. nj. Egan
general superintendent of the Western division
of the Canadian Pacific, has resigned to accept
similar position with the Manitoba road.
New Orleans special to Jameson, Smith 6
Cutting, of New York, says: There is not the
least alarm here about yellow fever. The in
fected vessel was strictly quarantined more than
one hundred miles from the city.
The Democrats of South Carolina yesterday
nominated J. P. Richardson, present State
Treasurer for Governor. His leading competitor
was the present Governor, John G. Sheppard,
who was the choice Of the farmers organiza-
tion.
In New York, yesterday, Judge Brown, of the
United States District Court, decided the case Of
the government against the bondsmen of How
gate, Of the Signal Service corps defaulter. The
court decided in favor of the plaintiff for $l2 900
and interest
John Sweeny, second mate on the river steam
er Hudson shot and instantly killed George Dia-
mond, negro roustabout. on the levee at St
Louis, yesterday. A dispute over some trivial
matter the cause of the shooting, which
Sweeney says he did in self-defense.
The failure of the grain commission firm of
William r. Harvey & Co., OF Chicago, is an
nounced The liabilities are not large. Harvey
is said to about $25, 900 on the regular board
His losses outside If any, are unknown. The
total liabilities may be inside the figures given
above The suddenness of the failure may be
imagined from the fact that Harvey's brokers
had orders on the market up to within fifteen
minutes of the time the announcement was
made.
The annual meeting of Cleveland g. Mahonine
Valley stockholders was held at the office of the
company in Cleveland, yesterday. The road is
leased for q long term of years to the New York,
Pennsylvania 81 Ohio at an annual rental of
2.180, which is sufficient to pay the interest
on the bonds and yield a dividend Of IL per cent.
to the stock The following directors were elect
ed: Stevenson Burke. Charles Hickox and Amos
Townsend for three years, and j. E. Ingersoil
for two years The board organized by re-elect-
ing its old oficers-S. Burke, president; f.. E.
Poppleton, secretary; E. r. Perkins, treasurer.