The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-09

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Engineer Knight was instantly killed in
q freight-train collision. near Perry, La.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis arrived in New York
yesterday evening. and is now at her regu-
lar winter quarters at the New York Hotel.
At Natchltoches. La. yesresday, Adolph
Peasants. q mail-rider. and William Lacase,
colOred. were drowned while attempting to
cross the river in a flat-boat.
The steamer Danube has arrived at Vic.
toria. b. G., from the nOrt1 with the first
catch of seal-sklns eighteen thousandl, Sc
cured outside of BehrIng sea.
At Red Bluff, Cal, William Nagle, q law
yer, who was shot Tuesday by &. II. Bray
nard, one of the opposing counsel In a prop
erty suit in Judge Tolley's court. is dead.
Palmer O'Neal. president of the Pittsburg
National League Ball Club has succeeded
neapolis club. He. paid the latter club
$1,000.
Summit. Miss. and vicinity was visited
by two tOrnadOes on Monday. They were
abOut eight miles apart. Many houses
We're destroyed, a number of people injured
INT one child killed.
An unknown man last night lifted the
cover of a sewer mauhOle on Third avenue.
New York. and dived in, head foremost,
twenty feet into the conduit. His body
has not been found.
The employees of the Green Ridge iron
works, at Scranton. Pa. are out on strike.
They present ted a scale of wages, which the
owner of the works agreed to. Later the
men repudIated their own agreement.
Congressman-elect p. w. Ryan. while re-
turning from bis office at Springfield, Mo-,
tripped on a defective plank in the side
walk and fell violently to the ground. frac-
turing his right wrist and right thigh.
The Missouri river has carried Out several
hundred feet OF one OF the expensive dykes
built by the government for the protection
of East AtchisOn, Kan, two years ago. The
current also threatened the other dykes.
At Sacramento, CAL, yesterday afternoon
William Arlington, a police officer, was
shot and killed by Annie Manning. After
shooting Arlington the woman turned the
pistol on herself and blew out her brains.
Richard Breeze. confidential clerk of the
law firm of }. Med. Trimble and Charles A.
Bradley, of Kansas City, is a fugitive from
justice. having embezzled from the firms
safe bank stock valued at 5 1000 aud other
valuable papers.
Pete Straugle and j. Speech were drowned
during the gale at Galveston Sunday night.
near North Point. They we're we'll known
citizens, who have been connected with
the fish trade in Galveston for q number of
years.
Henry Kek. of Sandusky, O.. and Joseph
B~raunlich. of Cleveland, went out In the
lake at ~Sandusky in q small boat TO fish.
They failed to return, and q search result
ed In finding che bodies of both men on the
shore of the BAY. Nothing is known as to
how they came TO be drowned. 49, nee
During q quarrel in a restaurant at New
York, yesterday, Minnie Douglas was shot
In the rights side of the head and right hand
by Ferdinand Reinhardt, the cook. The
man was under the influence of liquor.
Having shot the girl, the cook shot himself
three times. Both NAV recover.
at Savannah. Ca. yesterday. policemen
Clayton and Neidlinger were called to q
negro bar-rOOm where q row was in prog
gross. and tried 20 stop il. Phil Green, q
negro. shot apd fatally wounded Clayton
and tried to kill NeidIin ger. The latter got
in the first shot and killed Green.
/ George MacFarlane, half owner of the
Waikapee plantation in Hawaii. has
brought suit against the Hawaiian Com
mercIal Company, of which Claus Spreck-
els is president. for taking forcible and ille-
gal possession of the plantation. One mill
ion dollars damages are claimed.
Four of the members of the worlds fair
foreign commission. Moses P. Handy. A. G..
| Bullock, eX-COngressman BENJAMIN Butter
worth and Ferdinand A. Peck, of Chicago,
accompanied by John Butler, special treas
ury agent, boarded the steamer Columbus
at New York, last night. on their way to
Europe.
The Emmett Guards, of Washington,
have been awarded the prize of 500 offered
by the American Union for q COM
petitive drill by the various companies.
The drill was TO have taken place at South
Beach. Staten Island. but the other COM
panies refused to compete and the Emmett
Guards were awarded the prize.