The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-15
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Governor Tanner of Illinois. has signed
the bill preventing the coloring of butter
Inc or imitation of butter
The commercial tourists from Mexico and
the republics of South America visited
Lynn, Mass, yesterday, and later went to
Boston.
The ninth international convention of
printing pressmen opens at Detroit to-day.
reception was given the visiting press
men at the Griswold House last evening
Acting Governor Worthington of Ken
lucky has commuted to life imprisonment
the sentence of billiard Rainey, who was
to have been hanged at Winchester to-day.
Johnny White, on behalf of Billy O'Don-
nell, of Memphis, has posted $500 with Sam
Dixon or Solly Smith. White says unless
Dixon or Smith comes forward to make a
match ODonnell will claim the champion
ship.
The entire force of employees of the APPS
ley Rubber Company, at Hudson, Mass.
returned to work yesterday and trouble at
the factory appears to be ended; They &C
cepted the prices offered by Mr.. Apsley.
which are considerably lower than prices
formerly paid
The woman who committed suicide in the
vestibule of Calvary Episcopal Church,
New YORK, Saturday afternoon. has been
identified as Mrs. Josephine Doriat She
was native of Bordeaux, France. about
forty-lfve years of age, and was a divorced
woman She mad been a ladies' maid.
A bill was filed yesterday to foreclose a
trust deed for $l9O.934 on the property of the
Cheltenham Beach Company of Chicago.
The deed is dated June 25 1891 and was
given to secure a loan. The conpany was
organized in 1891 to create q summer re-
sort and bathing beach on Lake Michigan.
just south of Jackson Park.
The five hundred operatives at the Me
thune Company's cotton mill at Methune
Mass. were informed by the firm yester-
day that they would be given the choice
of accepting a reduction of wages in order
that the mill may be kept running during
the summer months or be dicharged at
once and have the mill suspend operations.
The union plasterers of New York en-
ployed all buildings where the contrac-
tors refused to nominate foremen to be
elected by the union struck to-day Among
the buildings affected are Barnard College,
Carnegie Music Hall, the Astoria Hotel the
Commercial Cable building and the New
York Life building
On the announcement yesterday of a 10
per cent. general reduction of wages at the
Worcester cycle shops in Middletown.
Conn. one hundred men went on strike.
There was a reduction of wages some time
ago at the shops. which give employment
now to about four hundred hands and to
about seven hundred when running on full
time.
The Barlow Corn Planter Works, of
Quincy. H. We're closed yesterday by cred
itors who secured by mortgages on the real
estate and personal property of the COM
pany. The claims of the secured creditors
exceed $35 000 while those of the unsecured
creditors aggregate about $50. 0oU. The COM
pany expects to reorganiZe and resume
business. The firm is capitalized at 500 600.
While Superintendent O'Brien, of the Or
egon Railway and Navigation Company
returning from inspection tour of
the road, his private car, ahead of the en-
CINE, ran into a handcar, near Rooster
Rock, Ore, and killed Charles A. Rath-
bone, brother of Port Captain Rathbone, OF
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany and six-year-old son of r. Dunn. a
section foreman.