The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

The New York Union League club last
night adopted report of its political re-
form committee in favor of a high-icense
law.
George B. Swift, of Chicago, commission
er of public works In that city, yesterday
resigned his office. He says he is out of
politics, and has better opening In private
business.
VIM. Brow, ranchman at Mud Creek
Town, l. T., was assassinated by party OF
outlaws. Deputy United States Marshal
Carroll, of Fort Smith, Ark, has started for
the scene of the tragedy.
The farmers of Warren and Sussex coun-
ties, New Jersey, are turning over their sod
fields, something unparalleled for the
middle of January. The weather is sOmild
that the trees are beginning to swell their
buds.
At meeting of. the, New York Union
League Club, last night, Chauncey M.
Depew was reelected president. President
Depew presented the club a life-size photo
graph of General Harrison, with his au-
tOgraph.
Thomas B. Hidden and Edward III. Rey-
nolds have been appointed a committee of
the estate of Charles +. Reynolds, of the
paint firm of G.. L. Reynolds d Co., of New
York, who was recently adjudged a lunatic.
A bond of 81 ,06O, 900 is required of the COM
mittee.
Oscar Mcbride, an exemplary man, of
Berwick, Pa employed as head clerk
in jackson q WOOdin's car-shOps, was
found, with his throat cut, on country
road yesterday morning. Hewas still alive,
but will die. tits case of suicide, because
of love affair.
AT Paris, Tex, yesterday, Mrs. Louis
Hancock, aged eighty years, was fatally
burned, the result of an explosion of some
cartridges she was removing from mantel-
piece. The victim was among the first set
tiers of Lamar county, and was highly re-
spected.
The Chicago syndicate yesterday took
railways, recently purchased. The old Off
GERS retired, and G. b. Holmes, of Chicago.
was elected president. julius Walsh, of
ST. Louis, was elected vice-president. The
syndicate proposes to make radical i'm
prOvements in their lines early in the
spring.
The Baltimore News says it is understood
| that an English syndicate proposes to pur-
chase the Bayview, Darby Park, National,
Brehm and Bauerschmidt breweries, of
| that city; that the financial consideration
is about 81, SOC, 600, and that the present pro-
| prietors will, under the new rule, person
ally superintend their individual plants as
| ut present.
Ward McManus, of st. Louis, a we'll
known capitalist and real estate owner,
was called to the door of his residence yes
| terday by Henry Kriz, and shot twice. The
wounds are not serious. Kriz had invented
car motor and applied to McManus for
| financial aid in bringing his invention be-
| fore the public. McManus declined, and
the shooting is the result Kriz escaped.
VIM. r. Foster, the father of VIM. r. Fos-
ter, jr., who recently robbed the New York
Produce Exchange gratuity fund of S19S, 900
| and then decamped, yesterday sent check
| for $4,000 for the benefit of the gratuity
| fund. In the note Enclosed the old nan
said that he had intended to divide his
| fortune among his children, but he had
| concluded to give his sons share to the
| gratuity fund, as partial payment of his
boys stealings.
John Huges, an old miner and soldier, &C
| cording to his story, from Scranton, Pa,
went to the Jefferson Market Court, in New
York, yesterday, and asked to be sent to
the work house, as he was needy and had
walked the streets three days after coming
to New York, in fruitless efforts to find his
son Robert, who was to get pension fOI
him. He had served three years. He had
been blown up in a mine explosion, and had
| lost an eye. He was sent to the work
| house and his pension claim will be consid-
cred by the commissioners Of charities.