The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Southwestern Kansas is so dry that cat
tie are perishing for the want of water
The engagement of Henry George jr.. to
Miss Marie Hitch. of Chicago, is announced.
Exercises in celebration of Louisville day
were held in the Kentucky building at the
Tennessee centennial exposition yesterday.
Schuyler BARLEY. sixteen-year-old boy
of Carl Junction, Mo, was killed by run
away team Thursday.
Archbishop Lopez, of the State Of Sonora,
Mexico. has issued an edict excommunicat-
ing all Catholics who are members of the
Masonic order.
The Iowa Supreme Court has decided that
certificates in fraternal insurance orders,
like the Ancient Order of United Workmen,
cannot be assigned.
The cruiser Philadelphia, which has ar
rived at San Francisco, from Honolulu, will
go out of commission at once, and her
crew will be transferred to the Baltimore.
A jury has awarded Mrs. Lang $40 900
damages against the city or Victoria, b. G.,
for the death of her husband, Dr. Lang, in
the Point ELY bridge disaster OF May, 1896.
At Huntington, w. Va. last night, Frank
Wolcott shot and killed William Webb.
Webb was the son of DR.. J. W. Webb, who
was presiding elder in the M. E. Church
for twenty years.
The steamship Campania to-day will take
out from New York TAO 900 ounces of silver.
The shippers are Handy q Halman, j. and
w. Seligman & CO., M. Guggenheim Sons
and Zimmerman & Forshay.
The trial of Martin Thorn, accused with
Mrs Augusta Mack of the murder of Will
liam Guldensuppe, a Turkish bath masseur,
whose body was found scattered about New
York in June last, has been postponed until
Nov. s.
Another remarkable shipment Of turquoise
has been sent east from Santa Fe, n. NJ.
1t consisted of five cuts the weight of
which respectively is 70, 90, 30, % and %
karats, the combined value of which is
$500.
Two million dollars. the agreed purchase
price, was yesterday paid over to the old
stockholders of the j. l. Case Threshing
Machine Company, of Racine Wis, by
John I. Fisk, Frank G. Bigelow and H. ].
Aupham, of Milwaukee. Wis.
James w. Oliver, the old army veteran
convicted of attempted murder in connec-
ton with the dynamite outrage al the house
of Governor Smith. of the National Soldiers
Home at Leavenworth, Kan, has been SEN
fenced to six years Imprisonment.
Baron Koutsky, who attempted suicide at
New York last Thursday by inhaling gas,
Counsel for the accused said that friends
stood ready to care for the baron, who re-
GREETED the attempt he had made on his
life.
The Southern Textile Association has
formally accepted an invitation to meet with
the New England cotton manufacturers at
a meeting to be held in Philadelphia Oct.
q. The motive for the meeting is the
propagation of the cotton manufacturing in
dustry in the United States.
Now that the criminal cases against ex-
Collector of Internal Revenue o. NJ. We'll
burn, of San Francisco. have been disposed
of. the government will prosecute civil ac-
tions against the sureties on his official bond
TO recover the amount of the defalcation Of
his former cashier, Isaac Norton. who COM
mitted suicide dur ing the Investigation which
led TO the discovery of his shortage, about
$40 600