The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-12-19
TELEGRAPHiC BREvITIES.

Princeton College closed yesterday until
Jan. 2.
Melville f. Stone, formerly editor of the
Chicago News. arrived from Europe yes
terday.
The iron-clad prohibition measure passed
both houses of the North Dakota Legisla-
ture yesterday.
VIM. II. Hanna, a confidential clerk in a
Toronto retail store, committed suicide
with Rough on Rats"
One thousand four hundred and ten dol
lars was snatched. and stolen from the
State National Bank at Pawtucket, yester-
day.
Montreal proposes to send Canada's cham
piOn skater. Rubenstine. to st. Petersburg
this winter. to contest for the worlds cham
pionship.
In the trial Of the Navassa rioters at Bal
timore, Henry Jones (colOredl confessed
that he killed Thomas l.. Foster, one of the
Overseers.
At Cincinnati yesterday the jury in the
case of Bob Day. charged with killing his
father, returned a verdict OF murder IN the
second degree.
A committee of the Virginia Legislature
will visit Mrs. Jefferson Davis, to urge her
to permit the remains of her husband to be
buried in Richmond.
Reube Smith, the Buccatuna train-rob-
Der. was indicted at Waynesboro., Miss,
yesterday, uclu III CO.OUO Ddlk anu Idhtu 10
Meridian for safe keeping.
Alawyer, on behalf of Elizabeth Kinman,
has laid claim to the residence portion of
Hastings, Neb. The present owners have
organized to fight the suit.
At the Queen University jubilee banquet,
at Kingston, Ont. last night, Sir John Mac
donald spoke strongly against any sever
ance of the British connection.
Blast furnace No. 1 of the CoIeraine Iron
Company, at R~edington Pa, was blown in
yesterday. and the employees were given an
increase of 10 per cent In wages.
A hat belonging to the missing Philadel-
phia banker. Joseph G.. Ditman. was found
or the banks of the Schuylkill river yester-
day. His friends now believe he was
drowned.
j.. NJ. Metheany, formerly train-dispatch-
er on the Fort Wayne road, and since 1875
superintendent of the Grand Rapids & In
diana road. died suddenly at Grand Rapids
yesterday morning.
The accounts of Schottenberg. late Sec
rotary of the Milwaukee school board, are
more tangled than first reported. 1t has
been discovered that in two years of his
long term there is a shortage OF S12,O63.
A charitable shop-lifter was arrested at
Kansas City for. stealing. Her name is
Maud Curran. and she was one of the sup
posed most faithful workers of two chart
table associations of that city. She had
stolen 81 900 worth of goods.
The Pan-American delegates attended the
representation of ell T~rovatore' at the
Metropolitan opera,house. New York, last
night. Secretary Blaine and Mrs. Blaine
occupied a box, and in n box opposite them
were Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland.
The jury in the case of Miss Flora Look,
who has been on trial at M~ontezuma, Ia.
on the charge of killing a man engaged in a
charlvari serenade in Chester, Powesheik
county, last August, has returned a verdict
of acquittal OH the ground that the homi-
eide was justihable.
Charles Conway. of Rochester, Mimi.
came TO Dubuque yesterday to see his
cousin. Miss Matte Kelly. TO whom he was
engaged to be married, and who is very
near death with consumption. After see
ing her, he tried to end his life by shooting
himself, but may recover.
Thomas Click was murdered yesterday at
Colfax, WASH, by Benjamin Blanton, O
desperado, against whom Click had testi-
fed. The tragedy occurred in front of the
courthouse Ill the presence of the muir
dered mans wife. Blanton is strongly
guarded To prevent 1ynching.
conference of a number of leading col
ored men from various sections of Virginia
was held at Richmond Tuesday night. at
which a preamble and resolutions were
adopted. memorializing Congress to pass a
general election law which would guaran-
tee them a better right of suffrage than
they now enjoy.
over 1O,UOO people witnessed the natural
gas celebration at Sandusky, o., last even
ing. The illumination was made on the
Miami-avenue triangle wheel. The North
western Natural-gas Company erected o
fifty-foot pipe. a pyramid of twelve lights.
and as many uprights. The exercises con-
sisted of a parade and speeches.
Governor Wilson, of West Virginia, has
issued IL proclamation calling a special ses-
sion of the Legislature TO convene on the
third Wednesday in January. and specify
ing thirty-three matters upon which legis-