The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-13
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Saint vitus dance has appeared ia Duquoin
- IN endemic. number of persons having
been affected With the strange mxlady within
the last few days.
At New York 10 the suit OF Miss Minnie Tar
~ against the wife Of DR.. Peripe for $4,000
damages for libel, the jury brought in . sealed
verdict awarding the plaintiff twelve cents
damages.
The forty-eighth annual session Of Fox River
Universalists Association opened yesterday at
Eeiu with . sermon by tho Rev. ID. ID. Reed
of Rockford. The convention will close Thurs.
day afternoon.
The police department hiss just finished TAX
ing census of the population OF Baltimore. In
GLIDING the newly annexed sections. The re-
suit shows the number of inhabitants TO- DO
4l6 805, of which GA, 500 are colored.
DR.. Withrow. of the Third Presbyterian
Church. OF Chicago. preached the baccAlaureate
sermon 1T Monticello Seminary, Godfrey. on
Monday night. Yesterday the semi-centsnnial
of the seminary was celebrated by reunion Of
its pupils.
Sensational scenes are reported from the
faith-cure canp-raeeting at Oakland Park, De-
catur conducted by Mrs. Maria Woodwork.
the trance evangelist -Four young persons fell
to the ground in frances, remaining unconscious
over an hour. and others professsd marvellous
cures.
Tho executive committee OF the Western
Union Telegraph Company met yesterday in
New York apd decided TO recommend . divi-
dend of II per cent out of the earnings for the
current quarter The directors will 2t on the
Recommendation to-day. President Green
says the statement to be published to-day is .
splendid one
dispatch from Tallahassee. Fla, says that
Dennis Wiliisms, colored. who shot and seriously
wounded Supern tendent Mccormick, at Ella
ville Saturday, was taken to the woods by .
mob aud lynched yesterday. His body was
afterwards found in the river The negroes are
greatly incensed 1t is reported they will try
to avenge Williams's lynching.
Peter Alt. proprietor of the Arlington House,
near ths Pimlico race-track. Baltimore. was
shot and almost Instantly killed, Monday night.
shooting took place in the kitchen OF the resi-
dencs and was tho outcome of . family
quarrel Ats wife says the shooting was done
In her defense. Young Alt was arrested
An italian tragedy was enacted yesterday
morning in tenement At No 2l7, Green street.
Now York. Philip Gastoni, thirty years old,
shot Mrs. Louisa Marri ia cold blood in her own
apartments. and then blew out his own brains.
Mrs. Msrri was not dead, but when taken 70 the
hospital her condition was found to be so crit
ical that the coroner was called in to take her
ante-mortem statement
Anna L. bower. female convict made her
escape from the Iowa peuitentisry at Anamosa,
Sunday night by saving of an iron bar over
her window ir the top tier Of cels and letting
herself down by means Of bed-clothes then
climbing up rope and scaling the wall She
was sent from Cedar Rapids for eighteen years
for murder in the second degree, she having as
sisted man 10 killing her husband She after
wards away with her paramour. She had
served five years She 10 the first female that
has eyer escaped