The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Democrats OF the Fourth Louisiana dis
trict have nominated N. G. Blanchard for Con-
| gress
| At Cincinnati, yesterday, William K Ilcoyne
was convicted Of voting illegally three times in
| Eighth ward at the last October election.
| j. W. Carey, formerly general ticket agent of
| the Lake Shore q Michigan Southern railway,
| died at the Northern Ohio Asylum for the In
sane on Monday evening.
| The Kansas State Board of Equalization has
| completed its labors. The total amount of taxa
BILE property in the State is $277. 110.68 an in
crease of $2S 265 4O6, or III per cent. over last
| year
| John T, Elkins, brother OF Stephen B. Ell
| kins, died near Sada, Col, on Monday, of heart
| disease He was on a fishing excursion. His
| home was in Kansas City, but he had large bust
ness interests in Colorado
| No will of the late Hubert O. Thompson, of
| New York. having been found. Surrogate Rol-
| Inns yesterday appointed G. G. Thompson, father
| of the deceased, administrator of the estate.
| The personal property of the deceased does not
| exceed So, coo.
The engagement is announced OF J. Augustus
Robbins of Springfield, Mass, and Baroness De
| Marsenbach, of Berlin, formerly lady in wait
| ing at the court of the Netherlands They be-
came acquainted while travelling together through
China, japan, India, Palestine and Europe.
| party of eighteen clergymen of various de-
| nominations, under the captancy of Rev. Syl-
vanus Still, started a bicycle tour from the
| clubhouse of the Citizens Bicycle Club, in New
York yesterday. They 60 to Albany Saratoga
| and Cooperstown. and expect to be gone ten
! days. The distance is 1874 miles
Judge Ingraham. of the Superior Court New
| York city, has granted an order requiring all
| persons interested to show cause why the appli-
| cation of the trustees of the New York naval
| stores and Tobacco Exchange, for dissolution
| of the corporation, should not be granted No
business has been transacted in the Exchange
| for months.
| The national convention of colored journalists,
in session at Atlantic City. N j., elected the fol-
| lowing officers: President. Rev. w. j. Sim
mons, d. d.. of Louisville; vice president, Rev.
! B. F. Tanner, d. D., of Philadephia; secretary
| George Freeman. D. D., of Petersburg, Va;
treasurer. Alexander Clark of Chicago; hstori-
an. w. Calvin Chase, of Washington.
! Carey Her. of Detroit, Mich. aged eighteen.
was bitten by pet spaniel. six years ago. The
! tact had been entirely forgotten by himself and
! friends until recently, when he was taken with
| commissions, frothing at the mouth, swapping
| and barking, together with excruciating pain,
| evidently suffering from hydrophobia. Physi-
| clans were called, and he seems improving.
| There was large area of rain reported in
| Texas and Colorado yesterday, with clouds in
! Nebraska and Iowa. The temperature through
out the country had moderated Clear skies
| prevailed throughout the Western belt.
AT Rome, n. y, there was slight fall of snow.
and at Mount Washington there was fall of
| one and e-half inch. There was q gale blow
/ ing eighty miles hour in the forenoon, the
windows thickly covered with frost and the
mercury in the valley below marking 26o of tenn
perature, whereas it had marked $50 on Monday.
The municipal council of the Irish National
League met in New York yesterday, and letter
from President Egan was read, saying the ar
rangements for receiving the Irish delegates
would be solely under charge of the Chicago
committee, headed by Alexander Sullivan, and
warning them against bogus committees, who
trying to create the appearance of dissension.
| The letter was received with hisses and reso-
luton adopted declaring that all societies that
had furnished financial aid to the Irish cause
should be recognized at the National convention,
| in Chicago. making the convention one of Irish
| people, and not one of the National League.