The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-27

The Providence. X. L., election for Mayor,
yesterday, failed of choice by lack of $50
votes.
The United States championship skating
cOtest will occur at Newburg, on the Hud-
son, Jan. Is.
DR.. VIM. W. Warning, a well-known ply
stefan of Atlanta, Ca, was killed by falling
down. stairs at his hOme last night.
g. A. r. posts of Jersey City are raising
funds to secure national flags for the
twenty-one public schools of the city.
Virginia's railroads, in the last fiscal year,
increased their gross receipts over 1888 by
100000. The State has forty-five rail-
roads.
In New York, yesterday. the North River
Sugar Refining Company appealed from
the Supreme Court decision disSOlving the
concern.
A French milliner of New York city was
yesterday made to pay 81 1000 fine for hav-
ing imported a French woman to work in
her shop.
The Court of Appeals in New York yester-
day decided the United States Express
Company must pay taxes to that State
under the corporation tax-law.
Two miners named White and Null were
fatally injured by,a coal car running back
on them in a mine a few miles east of
Washington. Pa, yesterday.
A Major Dalrymple, claiming to be a
brother of the Earl of Stair. has been
arrested at Montreal on charges of defraud-
ing hotel-keepers and lady friends.
Canada's Admiralty Court has decided
the pilot of the steamer POlynesian to be
blamable for the collision with the Gym
thia, on the st. Lawrence river, last sum-
mer.
Two east-bOund trains on the Penn syl-
vania road collided. near Middletown, Pa,
Monday night. Ten cars were wrecked.
The loss will amount to many thousand
dollars.
La Patrie, the leading French Canadian
night, in favor of annexation to the States.
or the formation Of the United States
of Canada.
Judge Magruder of the State Supreme
Court of Illinois. has rendered a decision
reversing the finding of the lower courts in
the quo warrantO proceedings to dissolve
the Chicago Gas Trust.
John King was reelected president of
the Erie railroad yesterday at Its annual
meeting. The board resolved to pay o per
cent. interest on the income bonds on Jan.
15. This is the first interest paid since 1883.
Will Jennings, the notorious Harlan
f FpanEfor Dn1 Kv'' bv was cap aafen n! y ssesGsn ;d I'd
j. X. Scott, detectives of Golden City,
Barton county. Missouri, where he was ar
rested.
At a meeting in Philadelphia. yesterday /,
resolutions looking to the betterment of
Russian exiles in Siberia were passed. and
steps will be taken to reach the Russian
government through the approaching prison
convention at st. Petersburg.
An east-bound freight on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad was wrecked at Falmouth,
Pa. last night, by q broken axle. Fifteen
loaded cars were wrecked and eight thrown
into the canal. Several cars were loaded
with cattle, a number of which were
drowned
The steamship Bonguila, from Tawago.
arrived at New York, yesterday. with
this country with Spanish-madc imple-
ments to oversee the manufacture of so-
called Spanish wine in California. Unless
the cust0m-house authorities interfere. un-
der the law ~forbidding the importation of
contract labor, tho foreigners will start at
| once.