The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-01-29
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREvlTIES.

Under the new syndicate manipulation
rubber at Para has advanced 90 cents per
pound.
lilly Meyer. a Huntington. L. l., h~eiress.
has eloped with q married blacksmith, who
leaves two children and his wife.
At the brick-layers and masons' interna-
tional convention. held at Toronto, Ont.
John Hearth, of Denver. was reelected
president. sT
William Gay Ballantine. professor of
Greek at Oberlin tO.) College, has been
elected president of the college to succeed
Charles s.. Fairchild.
A prominent doctor of Castor, Ark, ar
rived in New York yesterday, bringing his
son to be treated for hydrophobia. The
boys face is terribly torn.
It is said that A. G.. Brandt, while drill
ing q we'll on his farm, near Fairport, Ia,
found, at the depth of $40 feet. q vein of
silver sixteen inches thick.
The Cunard Steamship Company will
build two new fast boats within two years,
to cost q. .OOO. Higher speed engines
will be put in the Umbria and Etruria.
The mother of Guy Butler. correspondent
in the Indian country for q Duluth paper,
received. at Mount Kisco, N. Y, yesterday,
a dispatch from him disproving his report
ed death.
At Saltillo, Tenn. the safe OF Craver &
Williamson. merchants. was Cracked" by
dynamite and several thousand dollars
stolen. The burglars escaped in . skiff
down the Tennessee river.
At Springfield q license of incorporation
was issued yesterday to the Chicago Con-
struction Company, capital $1,000, 000. The
company. it is understood, is intended to
take the place of the noted, but illegal,
Chicago Gas Trust.
The Mercantile Telegraph Company. with
capital of 100000, has been licensed at
Chicago. The incorporators are mere figure
heads. who decline to make known the
names of their principals. Where the lines
are TO be run Is also kept secret.
The Consolidated Coal Company. of st.
Louis, has sued its Chicago agent. Stephen
w. Gilman. for $4,000. Gilman il charged
with extensive frauds in connection with
sales to Overman IL Co.. the Chicago, st.
Paul 81 Kansas City road and the Wiscon-
sin Central.
{ Leland. Miss, yesterday morning, as
Town Marshal Ward was returning home,
he was hred upon by an unknown negro,
the ball passing through his body. After
firing the shot the negro retreated. Ward
bred two shots at him. but without effect.
The marshal cannot recover.
Yesterday morning while c. A. Hoy. the
night operator of the Kansas City & South
orn road at Holiday, Kan. and his wife
were on their way home they were strnck
by q passenger train. Mrs. HOY was in
stantly killed and her husband W as severely
injured. They had been married only about
a month.
Six Cinnamon and two white men were
arrested In Buffalo last night charged with
violation of the Chinese exclusion act. One
of the white men. James Miller, is believed
to manage the Canadian end of an under
ground railroad that has been running
Cinnamon into the United States by the
Wholesale of late.
Peter Provenzano and others having been
tried and acquitted at New Orleans on one
of the three indictments found against
them IN the matter of the shooting of the
Matranga party. the assistant district at
torney yesterday entered q nolle proseaui
In each of the other cases. and the pris-
oners were released.