The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-14
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

Wellington r. Burt, of the Michigan Salt
Association, is reported to be about to
squeeze outsiders, who Will not enter the
syndicate, by dropping prices 10 cents per
barrel.
Fred Brady. twenty-six years old, recent
ly from Chicago, was drowned i'll the st.
Joseph river. at Benton HarbOr, on Sunday,
while fishing. 1t is believed his friends
live in st. Louis.
The marriage of Miss A. M. Lathrop, sis
ter of Mrs. Leland Stanford, and David
Hews. a capitalist of San Francisco, was
solemnized in that city on Tuesday at the
residence of Senator Stanford. The couple
left for San Jose In the afternoon.
A report has reached Tucson, A. T., that
two white men were killed in the Sierra
Madre mountains, $50 miles south of Herme-
cello. Sonora, by Apache Indians. Four
Indians were seen, but the band is thought
to be larger.
The final exercises attending the gradua-
ton of the first class of cadets, at West
Point. were held Wednesday. GENERAL Sher,
man presented the diplomas. When the old
warrior arose he was greeted with a storm
of applause long continued.
William Atkinson, a wealthy and prom
inent citizen of ~IrOnwOOd, Mich, committed
suicide by jumping into the shaft of the
Ashland mine. His mangled body was
found at the bottom of the fOur-hundred-
foot pit. No cause is assigned. He leaves
a widow.
The newspapers throughout Alberta Ter
ritory are warning the Dominion govern
ment to watch the Mormon colony founded
near Macleod. The new colOnists are
practicing polygamy, and are becoming SO
numerous that they will shortly control
the electorate.
A gravel train en- the P%ittsburg, Cincin-
natl, d st. Louis railway collided with a
south-bouDd passenger tram tuesday
afternoon. near Cumberland, w. Va, kill
inc Charles Rnd0ers and fatally ynundInQ
William Brown, both engineers. Five cars
were demolished.
George l.. Firmier, of Indiana, is the only
member of the first class at the Annapolis
Naval Academy that did not graduate. An
unfortunate love affair and certain eXcesSes
are given as the reason. He is now con-
fined in the prison ship Santee, pending the
disposal of his case.
The body of ]. Fl. Beatty, of Southwest
City, Mo, was found concealed in a clump
of bushes, n riddled with bullets, near
Okmulgee. |. l., on Monday. He was
Oklahoma City, from which place he was
returning when killed.
A struck jury in the Cincinnati police
court on Tuesday returned q verdict of guilty
in the case Of Frank Rudolph. q baTkeeper.
last Sunday. The jury was out only half
an hour. The defense made a motion for
a new trial, which the court granted.
While bathing in Gold creek, near
Grantsdale, Missouri county, Montana Ter
large nuggets of gold. He returned to
town and showed the find to his friends,
and in less than three hours every man in
the place was searching the bed OF the
creek.
Drs. Irwin. Ferguson and Hance. the three
physicians indicted at New York for ille-
gally performing an autopsy on the body of
Washington Irving Bishop. the mind-reader
on Tuesday pleaded not guilty in the Court
of General Sessions, and were held in $500
bail each for trial. The bail was promptly
furnished.
An explosion occurred in the Carbonate
mines. thirty miles from Tacoma, w. r.,
on Tuesday, resulting in the death of David
Evans. the fire boss. and in the caving in
of part of the mines. The explosion knocked
down about two hundred feet of one of the
tunnels and seventy chutes, and killed
Evans outright.
Michigan dedicated hermOnuments on the
Gettysburg battlefield, Wednesday, with
appropriate exercises. General Alger was
Oh the platform, but took no part in the
exercises. All the monuments are made of
granite, splendidly cut, and, on the whole,
are equal to those of any State on the field.
That of the cavalry brigade is the largest
cOstliest yet erected.
A cowardly and unprovoked murder was
committed at Aberdeen, Miss. on Tuesday.
Alphonso Webb, q well-knOwn citizen, be-
came intoxicated. and was taken to his
home by policeman Ed Mccoy. AS the
officer was passing through the gate he was
fired Upon by Webb. and almost instantly
killed: He managed. however. to exchange
one shot with Webb. inflicting a slight
wound.
Cole Younger, the notorious outlaw. who
is in the penitentiary at Saltwater, Mimi,
with his two brothers, was somewhat
amused to hear of his own death out in
Wyoming, and was at a loss to account for
the report until he remembered that Chey-
enne has for some time been the head
quarters for the modern Joe Mulhatten."
He thinks he would be willing to run the
risk of being drowned if he could be re-
leased from State prison.