The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-06
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

Woburn, Mass. is celebrating the two
hundred and-tiftieth anniversary OF her
birth.
Brakeman G. s. Vaughan. of Gunpowder,
KY. was killed in q railway collision near
Paris, Ky.
IliGero MARITIME. an Italian who was
murdered at Chicago, is said TO have been
a Malta victim.
The nimble g~rasshopper is destroying
acres OF late corn and newly-planted
wheat. near Warrensburg. Mo.
The American Sugar-refining Company
has reduced the price of refined sugar
th-ree-sIxteenths of a cent per pound.
Coughlin and Burke, In prison at Joliet.
ILL.,, both deny that they knew anything
about Geoghehan, the Oregon suspect In
the .Cronin case.
Burton G. Webster, the murderer of
Charles Goodwin. has been sentenced to
nineteen years In prison by Justice lngra-
ham, of New York.
Rev. Father Leander Schneurr was in
Order of st. Benedictine in the United
States. at Latrobe, Pa. yesterday.
T.. G. Miller. Mayor of South Omaha, was
found dead with a b~ullet-hole in his tenn
pie, in the railroad yards of his town. 1t
Is believed he was shot By gamblers.
The cruiser Yorktown reports a violent
volcanic eruption on The Alaskan pc nia-
sula on Sept. 81. Decks of vessels $50 IN lies
away were covered with ashes and cinders.
The University of Wisconsin has organ
lied a university extension department.
and intrusted its management to Lyman
I. Powell. formerly Of the Johns Hopkins
University.
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union
will be held in Memphis. from Nov. 10 to %.
About two thousand delegates will be In
attendance.
Cruiser No. 6. which is being constructed
by the Union iron-wOrks, at San Francisco,
has reached so forward a state OF progress
that the date of her launching has been
fixed for Nov. 8.
The beautiful covers q large portion
of northern New York and Pennsylvania.
Two inches of snow fell yesterday at
SOM places. The peaks of the Catskills are
clothed in white.
The Hitchcock county (Neb.) courthouse
war has ended. The sheriff recaptured the
stolen records from the people of Trenton
ana returned them to CulbertsOn. The
troops have been dismissed.
The great Roosevelt organ mandatory.
occupying All entire block in New York.
and giving employ ment To several hundred
workmen, is to be closed, the making of
high-priced church organs proving un-
profitable.
A. Stanley Pinhorn. a wealthy stock
rancher in the Macleod district of Mani
IONA, WAS lOuuu suOt ueau IN oou mOnuay
night. The affair 10 surrounded with mys-
terry. The deceased was q nephew OF Sir
Stanley Hill. NJ. I. London. ENGLAND.
At Independence, Mo-. Tuesday. George
Parker and deputy county assessor Oscar
Arnold quarrelled over the price of a calf
which Arnold sold to Parker. During
the alteration Arnold drew his revolver
and fatally shot Parker. Arnold was ar
rested.
DE-. Leonard Freeman. q prominent young
physician of Cincinnati, has been stricken
with consumption. Dr.. Freeman ia an en-
thusiastic student of bacteriology, and has
been giving especial attention TO the Koch
cures for consumption. IL is supposed that
through contact with consumption germs
he contracted the disease.
Indictments have been returned at Pitts
burg against Robert j. Godfrey, supreme
treasurer of the Order of Scion, for the en-
bezziement of Sl4. 600 from the order, and
against Godfrey. John NJ. Ball, supreme
president. and A. s. Mudortf. supreme imam
cier. for conspiracy in conspiring to cheat
and defraud the order.
ploy of Coats 81 Co.. at their tin-mill at
Locust Point. Baltimore, has been arrested.
charged with malicious destruction of mill
property. Bowen. it is alleged, threw a
pair of tongs into the rolling-mill, dam
aging the mill. The trouble is said to be
due to the action of the Welsh employees,
who object to American laborers. s
The suit of John HI. Conway against the
Lake Shore ~ Michigan Southern and the
Flint a. Pere Marquette railways for
damages. as O result of the collision be-
tween two trains of the companies in q
tunnel near Toledo, last November. on
trial at Monroe, Mich. has resulted in q
verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $751;
5SS. Suits 70 the mount of 100000 are
pending against the companies.