The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-17

Gently founded the Bosses Society, of
which he made himself secretary. Sir
Henry Valentine Goold, an Impecunious
Irish baronet. eighty-seven years old. was
the president OF this society. The names
OF the Earl of Mar and Sir Arthur Temple
Clay. bsronet. appear in the society circu-
lars as patrons. They probably never
heard OF the concern. Branches were
started in the United States and in Berlin
TO sell certificates of mem bership and grant
fellowshIps. Each fellow was privileged
to wear hood of black silk lined with
mauve. MT. Labouchere concludes his ex-
pose of the fraudulent character OF the So
ciety BY saying: The guIlibility of the
British public is illimitsble."
Nine Members of a Wedding Party Killed.
MADRID, Nov. 16.-A sad story of the ia
tai interruption of wedding festivities is
reported from Bejar, a town forty-fve
miles south of Salamanca. A young cou-
pie had just been married in the church
there and the wedding party bad gone to
restaurant where q wedding feast was
served. Everybody was in the highest
spirits. After the banquet dancing was
begun. and everything was progressing
smoothly when, without an instanps warn
ing the walls of the building collapsed.
The entire party. together with the en-
pIoyes OF the restaurant. were buried In the
ruins. Nine persons were killed. The IN
Jured numbered thirty. some of whom, It 10
thought, will not recover. Othere will be
crippled for life. 1t Is supposed that the
movements of the dancers were RESPONSE
BILE for the collapse.
Fleeing from an Earthquake.
ROME, Nov. I6.-The inhabitants Of the
island of Ponza are in q state of terror, in
momentary expectation of q disastrous
earthquake. of which they had q Fremont
tion last night and to-day by heavy rumb-
lings and the shaking of the earth. The
inhabitants, with three hundred convicts
from the prison. are encamped in the open
air. A steamer with troops has left Naples
for the island. Ponza Is the chief of q
gronp of small islands belonging TO the
Italian province of CaZertA and IL situated
about twenty mine miles southwest of Ter
racina. and like many other small islands
In the Mediterranean sea is of volcanic or
IGN. 1t Is used for prison purposes. but
has q population of over 5000. governors
house and q commOdious and we'll fortified
haTbor.
Yellow Fever Wiping Out Town.
NEW YORK, Nov. ia letter received
by James Gallagher. of this city, to-day.
from friend in Cordoba, Mexico. gives q
most distressing account of the state of af-
fairs there. Yellow fever has ragged with
an awful violence and carried away almost
one thousand of the people of the town.
Most of the inhabitants have fed to the
mountains to escape the plague. On the
day when the letter was written, the writer
said, the only living beings that could be
seen In the streets were a few convlcts who
had been pressed into service for burying
the dead. Trade has been utterly paraly zed.
Cordoba is a pretty little town In the heart
of the Orixaba mountains. 1t has about
four Thousand Inhabitants.
Cable Notes.
train on the Mexican Central broke In
two on the Sierra Madra mountains and
rushed down the grade ct a frightful speed.
Three men were killed.
Anarchy still prevails'in the province of
Rio Grande Do Sui, Brazil The federal
forces and the revoiutionists have had sew
eral encounters recently in which honors
were about evenly divided.
Queen Liliuokalani of Honolulu, has ap-
pointed the following cabinet to succeed
the one lately ousted by the. Legislature:
Hon. G. N. Wilcox. Minister of the Interior;
Hon. NJ. Z. Robinson. Foreign Affairs; Hon.
Peter Jones, Finance; Hon. Cecil Brown,
Attorney general
The London Graphic says that the En-
glish admiralty has decided not to build
any more guns weighing over fifty tons. Ii
has also decided that every gun must be
mounted In such q manner that it can be
loaded trained and run in and out by hand
power. The guns will have degree OF
elevation that is now unattainabIe, and
the gun screws must be better protected.