The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07
%TELEGRAPHIC BREvlTIES.

TELEGRAPHIc BREvlTIES.
SayIor and Clark, Green county, Penn
~sylvania, murderers, will be hanged on the
26th.
Parties from South Dakota and Mime
sofa are looking for settlements in Virginia
and western Maryland.
John A. Preston, Mayor of Creston. Ia, is
charged with the wrongful conversion of
$1,000 of public money.
Influenza has the logging camps of Wis
consin in its grip, and. as a consequence.
work is almost suspended.
Allison L. Gorday, who has, for some time
past, been terroriZing the people of Center
willie, La. was shot and killed by N. Allen.
The executive council of the National
Board of Trade Will issue a call for a meet
ing of the board in New Orleans, Dec. 8.
next.
Mayor Grant, of New York. has made his
secretary. L. &. L. Grain, a young lawyer,
city chamberlain, at $25,OOO salary p,r
annum.
John Gallagher, of Philadelphia, assault
ed a fifteen-year-Old girl, and was yester-
day sentenced to prison fifteen years Tor
doing so.
ton yesterday. decided that If a colony OF
bees swarmed, it did well; if it did not, 1T
| did better.
Frank M. Clark, a lawyer of Chicago.
has commenced proceedings IN Duluth,
Mimi, to recover S2.OO0.00 worth of prop
erty in that city.
Five hundred Birmingham (Ala.) miners
have struck. not because of poor wages,
but because they think they are not prop
erly waited upon while at work.
+. A. Walton, who, it is alleged, robbed
the Pacific Express Company at Dallas,
Tex, of S35 ,000, was in Kansas City on
Tuesday. but has not been seen since.
1 H. CN.krcl Earco~c, Ic,xo 80 n.
tariO have carried motions in favor of corn
being admitted duty free and the cultiva-
ton of twO-rowed barley for English brew
ers.
portrait of his face painted to be hung in
the Council room. The aldermen pOked
fun at the picture, and the Mayor, in anger
thereat, pOked his foot through it.
Rev. w. +. Nichols was yesterday elected
assistant bishop of California by the EpIs-
He is at present rector of st. James Church
in Philadelphia.
David Dudley Field, at the Williams
College alumni Inner In New York last
night, wanted to know why they did not
print their bill of fare in English, and they
cheered him good.
The Rev. NJ. H. Harris, for ten years pas
tor of the First Universalist Church in
Worcester, Mass, has received a call to the
passionate of the Church of the Redeemer
III Chicago, at a salary OF $1,000.
The evidence in the libel suit of Rev. DR..
Ball for $4,000 damages against the New
York Evening Post, growing out of the
campaign of 1884, was closed yesterday at
Buffalo, and the counsel began summing up.
Under a bill passed by Virginia's Legisla-
ture,. yesterday, twenty persons may de-
mand the inspection of fresh meat killed
more than one hundred miles from the spot
where sold. 1t is aimed at Chicago inter-
ests.
The late President Claassen, of the Sixth
National Bank of New York, is yet in Lud-
low,street. jail awaiting bail. His wife has
qualified in $4,000, but he needs $4,000
more. The LenOx Hill Bank was not opened
yesterday.
Mr.. Hughes. Familiarity known as "Jakey"
Hughes, a veteran fireman. late assistant
fire marshal, was yesterday elected chief
ment. to succeed Lewis Wisby, retired on
account of age.
tx President and Mrs. Cleveland at
tended the wedding of Wilson s. Bissell
and Louise Sturges, which took place at
Geneva. y; T., last evening, The bridal
couple will accompany the distinguished
guests on the return trip to New York.
The auction sale of street-ra.lway fran
chise for a cable and electric railroad to
gridirOn the city of Buffalo III all direc-
tons. occurred yesterday. A Rochester
company was awarded the franchise. Their
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Car No. 2. of the United States Fish Com
mission, in charge of w. A. Huntington, is
on its way to northern Michigan, where
several hundred thousand trout will be dis
tributed iii the streams of that district.
Before going there, however. 500. 900 white
fish will be let loose in the Detroit river.
General Master Workman Powderiy has
instituted a suit for criminal libel
against the Hon. Edward Caliaghan, of
Scottdale. A warrant for Callaghan's ar
rest will be issued to-day. This case grows
ont of matter written by Callaghan during
his recent trouble with POwderly.
Wednesday night an armed mob took
possession of the Jail at Lexington, Miss.
and liberated Eugene Story. who had been
convicted of murder and sentenced to be
hanged. The case was on appeal to the Su'
preme Court. Other prisoners were re-
leased at the same time.
Governor Fifer has refused to pardon
Michael Leyden, one of the Chicago Doodle
commissioners now in prison. Leyden's
prayer was that the time he spent in Jail al
Court hould be applied to his sentence
The Governor declined to take that view.
The coroner's inquest in the Tracy fire IL
closed. and the jury's verdict is: THAI
Josephine Morel came to her death by the
burning of the Tracy residence. and that
the cause of the fire is to the jury unknown
and that the loss of life at the fire wa
largely due to it's exceptionally rapid
spread"
About six thousand people attended a re-
ception in Rev. Il. Dewitt Talmage's homo
at Brooklyn, last night. Mayor Chaplin
Generals Sherman. General Barnes and many
prominent clergvmen and other citizen.
were present. Speeches were made wei
coming DR.. Talmage home. and the rever
end gentleman responded eloquently.
Miss Charlotte Dunlap. of Susquebapna
Pa. who committed suicide. by takin,
poison Wednesday evening. was engage,
to be married on next Wednesday to
young man whom her parents favored. bu
her affections had been given to another
She left a note requesting that she be buried
in her wedding dress, and stating that sh'
would rather die than marry. She wa
only twenty years of age.
Mr.. ii. w. Longley. of Cincinnati, who's
mysterious disappearance has been noted
is still missing. His physician asserts tina
he was undoubtedly insane, as he had ap
piled to him only last week for treatmen
for scrOfula, saying he feared it was con
tagious and his family would be affected
The physician assured him he had no sucl
disease. His family refuse to believe tina
he has committed suicide.
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