The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-23
TRLEGRAPHTG BREFITIES.

The immense wheat crop of the Red river val
ley is being rushed forward to Duluth and Min
neapolis, despite the low prices prevailing.
A special reports that hog cholera prevails
hogs out of a herd of two hundred from the dis
ease
The Philadelphia Baseball club returned from
Havana on the steamer Cienfuegos. which arrived
at New York yesterday, quite Disguised with
| their Cuban trip
Henry George says he will probably furnish
to the press reply to Archbishop Corregan 8
! argument in regard to land tenure, contained IN
| the recent pastoral letter.
The advance sale of tickets in ST. Louis, yes
terday for the American opera, which is tor open
| there In few days. amounted to nearly 5000,
about i've times as much as last year.
A freight train on the Baltimore g. Ohio rail
road broke In two near GAINESVILLE, o., yester-
| day, AS result, thirteen cars were wrecked,
causing loss of $4,000. hetrack was blocked
for several hours.
| Mrs. Lucy Parsons delivered another address
last night at the Pennsylvania Incline Resort,
in Pittsburg, to an audience of 200 persons. A
condemned Anarchists.
Charles Ross, the horse-thief who killed Off
! Henry and fatally wounded Marshal Mcclure,
| at Albuquerque, N. NJ, on Saturday, was can't
ured in Mexican dance-house and jailed. His
| companion Kid johnson. is still at large.
[ An Oshkosh dispatch says that Carlton, Eos
| ter 81 Co. yesterday made voluntary assign
ment to FL. A. Jewell for the benefit of their
| creditors The firm has been one of the princi-
| pal sash, door and blind manufacturers in the
| Northwest.
| The creditors of Charles Worth & Co., boot
and shoe manufacturers, Toronto, have declined
| to accept compromise of 40 cents on the dollar,
and the firm has assigned. The firm state that
their direct liabilities are $l27 000 indirect, $685.
600; nominal assets, 500, 600.
In the hearing of the Hoke extraditon case, at
Montreal, yesterday, the assistant district attor-
| ney OF Peoria, H.. presented evidence to prove
that the accused was guilty of forgery under the
| Illinois statutes. and that the common law of
| England was in voguein Illinois
| Ameeting of the South Pittsburg Railway and
| Iron Company was held yesterday to complete
the purchase of 81 900 acres of land in the north
western part of Alabama. The company is to
issue stock and bonds of ST. 900, 900 each, and be-
| gin the erection of furnaces at once.
| Asher & Co., wholesale druggists of Mem phs,
| were attached yesterday for debts due banks in
that city, amounting to $4,000 They owe about
Sc. 600 additional TO merchants in New York,
| Philadelphia and st. Louis. Their assets are
! stock, 81, 600, and a similar sum in accounts
| ST. GATHERINGS, Ont. is considerably agitated
over Sunday work meeting" held recently, at
| which it was decided to petition the government
| against opening the Welland canal on Sunday.
Yesterday summonses were issued for the arrest
|
for working and passing vessels through on Sun
| day.
| Mrs. Kate Cuttin G, the divorced wife of A. K.
| Cutting. of Mexican notoriety, was married at
Kansas City last night to Sterling Matson. resi-
| dent of that city. Cutting and his wife were
married in 1869, and lived together eleven years.
| During that time they had nine children, three
| of whom are alive, and under their mothers
charge.
| A case of smallpox the first of the year. was
| reported to the Plttsburg board of health yes
terday, the victim being Frank Green, middle
| aged man living on Van Broom street There
| are four persons in the family, but as vet none
of them have developed any of the symptoms.
| The patient was at once removed to the munich
| pal hospital
| A special from Minden. La, SAYS About
| midnight, last Saturday. Elias Simmons good
| law abiding ard peaceabe negro, was most foul
| ly murdered in his own house, two miles from
| that place. A party of masked men broke
| open his door and shot him to death while he
| was sleeping in his bed. The whole affair is
| wrapped in mystery.
| Coal operators report a number of mines
| along the Monongahela river and also on the
railroads which are not running full, because of
| the scarcity of miners. Many of the diggers
have become discouraged at the low wages and
| frequent strikes, and have left for other coal
| fields and accepted employment in mills and
with the various natural gas companies
The steamer j. NJ. Bowel ran aground at
Horsetail Rifle, just below Davis island dam. In
| the Ohio river, yesterday morning. 1t had
| tow of three boats and two barges One boat
| and one barge were sunk. The boat belonged
| to Musgrave; the barge was the property of
| O'Nel & Co. The loss is something over So, 900
So, 600 on the boat and 81, 900 on the barge.
|