The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-15
TELEGRAPHlC RREvITlES.


Nearly five hundred immigrants were
landed from one steamer at Baltimore yes
terday.
The government of Quebec is trying to
exterminate the lotteries which infest that
province.
The loss by the Long Island City fire.
early yesterday morning, turns out TO nave
been but 100000 instead OF 100000.
from on after SsSn has
mitted f0rgerles TO the extent OF S25 663.
To prevent tie-up the street-car compa-
MES of New Orleans have reduced the hours
of their employees from seventeen to twelve
q day. at S1.65 per day.
Louis Grant. acting sheriff of Shelby
county. Alabama. spent SIC; 600 of other peo-
pies money in puts" ard calls, ana then
sailed for South America.
Mary Stanton. of New York. was In the
habit of smokin q q dozen packages OF Gig
arettes n day. Mary is now dead. Her
former home was in Cincinnati.
Mrs. Martin Falkerski was arrested for
Indecency at Iron River. Mich, and sent
burned and the woman persisted in the
flames.
Poet Whitman's remains, which, since
the day of the funeral. have laid in q casket
on the floor of the tomb. were placed In a
prepared crypt yesterday and the place
Dramatically sealed.
Old Fort Dearborn is to be reconstructed
and made one of the attractions at the
worlds fair. 1t will be located on q lagoon
near the agricultural building. The OrIgi-
nal timbers Will be used.
Charles +. johnson. of Marshall. Mimi.
has been squeezed" by PardriGge. the Chi
cagO wheat manipulation. to the extent of
$4,000 Mr.. johnson was com PEELED to turn
over his property to his partners.
At Peoria the Whisky Trust reelected
the following officers: j. b. Greenhut,
Peoria, president; l.. Ii. Greene. Cincinnati,
vice. president; Z. j. Hennessey, Chicago.
secretary; w. n. Hobart. Cincinnati, treas
urer.
William Maier who killed his young wife
at Wheeling. w. Va. nine days ago and ran
away. has been captured. He was found
standing at his wifes grave in o starving
condition. having been without food for
six days.
Because the prohibition law has been on
forced at Sioux City, Ia. the saloon keep
ers propose to stop all kinds of business on
Sunday. IL their threats are carried out
Sioux City will be as quiet on Sunday as a
graveyard.
Harry and Howard Hoyer and Lewis
Bright. all under fourteen years, are In Jail
at Reading, Pa. They attem pied to wreck
turning three switches Full confessions
were made.
William Shaw. who was individual book
keeper of the United States National Bank
of New York up till November last. is said
to be short S32.O'2 in his accounts. Ex-
perts discovered the defalcatIOn, which has
been kept secret until now.
A shortage of $50 0O0 in the funds of the
Kings Building and Loan Association, OF
Philadelphia. mas teen discovered. Thomas
+. Clegg, the secretary. in whose books the
shOr tage is said to have occurred, could
not. it is reported, account for the deficit.
The New Highlander. a monthly periodi-
cal published in New Haven. Conn. for
several years. has suspended pu blicatIon.
IL will be succeeded by quarterly maya
zine to be called the Yale Review. The
editors Of the new magazine will be Yale
IN n.
The residence of Mr.. Erickson at White
Oaks, n. NJ, was destroyed by fire yester-
day. A boy four years old and babe
were In the house. The eldest child was
burned to death, but the babe was saved
by its mother, who rush her0ically into
the flames.
The eight-year-old son of Joseph Swayne,
wealthy resident of Admission. Ala. was
stolen from his home by a tramp and
carried into tho mountains, where he was
found unconscious by some hunters later
on. He had been badly beaten and was
tied to tree.
| So mote it be. George WASHINGTON Fuller.
the oldest Mason in America" is dead at
Staunton. Va. He rode the goat IN 1928.
! HIS father was brought to this country
| from Ireland by General Washington to
teach mathematics at Fredericksburg, over
| q century ago.
Until few days ago Jefferson Weaver
| lived IN Center. Ala. He doesn't now. He
| proceeding the neIghbors objected to, and
| because he wouldn't desist they gave him
one hundred lashes and told him to leave
| town. He went
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst has written an open
| letter to the citizens of New York. in which
he defends his action in visiting houses of
| ill repute. He says it was to gain knowl-
edge In order to be a BILE to say II know.
concerning the evil things charged against
| the police of Gotham.