The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-04-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

A movement 10 provide for General Banks
In his old age has taken definite shape at
Boston.
The Western White Sash. Door and Blind
Association. which was formed at Chicago
some weeks ago, il said to be defunct.
The Bos ton Herald says it is almost def
nitely settled that the next pastor of Ire
mont Temple will be Rev. George G. Lori
mer, of Chicago.
Good Voice. Sioux prophet. predicts
two wet seasons, and has put in q one
hundred-acre crop. Other Sioux are fol-
lowing his example.
An elaborate dinner was given Wednes.
the Brooklyn Standard Union. in honor of
NJ. Fl. De Young, of San Francisco.
Black leg has put in an appearance among
stock IN Marion county, Iowa. One farmer
who had one hundred head of cattle ready
to ship will lose most of the bunch.
AT Lyons Ia, Earl Britt, aged eight
while playing with some other boys. fell on
an open knife which he was carrying pierre
ing his heart and causing instant death.
The Reading collieries, near Ashland.
Pa. which have been working but four
days week, have received orders to work
every day until further notice. The order
gives great satisfaction to 5000 workmen
and the business community.
w. I. PierrOnnet. O retired Board of
Trade member. took q room at McCoy's
Hotel Chicago, on Wednesday. Yesterday
IL was discovered that he had committed
suicide with poison. He had been drinking
rather beavily and was respondent.
Owing 90 the reduction. by the Wiscon-
sin Ises1 al .ture. of the worlds fair appro-
priaIloD,rom 100000 to $4,000 ID. Nj. Ben.
jamin. Of the national commission. sent his
resig nation to Governor Peck, yesterday.
with s. caustlc letter relative TO the matter.
Corcelius Vanderbilt. Chauncey NJ. De-
pew and party passed through Kansas City,
last evening, en- route from Omaha to ST.
Louis. MS. Depew. in interview, said
that the Fanderbilts had no intention of
paralleling the Union Pacific, as had been
reported.
The South Dakota National Guard build
ing. at WATERFOWL, structure $50 feet long
by so wide. valued at $4,000, fell with o
crash last evening. Water had under
munitlou and supplieSo of Company II were
In the building at the time of tho collapse
and were destroyed.
The Cincinnati Presbyter has. by vote
OF "a to H. adopted q report asking the
General Assembly to take such action with
Charles A. Briggs, of Union theological
Seminary. as shall in its judgment be best
| adapted to preserve the peace. purity and
prosperity of the church.
A proof of Washin gton's farewell address,
| which is particularly valuable because of
| the corrections written on IL by the first
| President himself has been presented by
| Mr.. George w. Childs TO the Mount Vernon
| Association, and in a few days it will be
| placed among the other treasures ut Wash
| ington's Old Veteran Home.
| About five weeks ago George Scott, of
| Chicago, lost 81, $50. About the same time
| hsroom-mate, William Lewis disappeared.
| Wednesday night Lewis was arrested at
| Cincinnati in company with a woman. He
| claimed that Scott had given him the
| money to go into the horse trading busl-
ness. He gave up $500. all he had.
| James Mccarthy. living near Dexter. KY,
| was at work on his farm yesterday morn
| ing when he discovered his residence on fire.
| When he reached the building nothing
| could be seen of his wife. Her body was at
| last found in well near by. into which it
| is supposed she had fallen while getting
water to extinguIsh the fire. She as sixty
years old.
| The st. Louis Presbytery yesterday voted
| unanimously in favor of a negative reply
| to the overture from the General Assem- bly,
| providing that One-tbird of the presby-
| teries could compel the General Assem- bly, to
| consider any question which they may
| force upon it. The Presbyt terry also disap-
| proved of the overture concerning the
| method of amending the Confession of
| Faith.