The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Maj Gen. Henry Lawton has assumed
command of the Fourth Army Corps at
Huntsville, Ala.
A reduction of 1-16 of a cent in the price
of numbers r. 13 and IA refined sugars has
been made by the American Company.
The last detachment of the Tenth United
States Infantry has left Huntsville, Ala,
for Charleston, S. c., to take transport
for Cuba.
The London Daily Mail this morning says
1T credits the report that Australia Will join
with Canada in defraying the cost of Pa
cific cable.
Two trainloads of troops, consisting of
five companies of the First New York Vol
unteers, arrived in Chicago yesterday over
the Burlington road from San Francisco en-
route to New York.
The Brown County Banner, published by
James S. Guthrie at Nashville, has been
sold to Alonzo Allison, publisher of the
of the Banner will be discontinued.
''Forefathers' day" was celebrated by the
New England Society, of St. Louis, with an
elaborate dinner at the Southern Hotel last
night in commemoration of the landing of
the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1920
The United States Court of Private Land
Claims has restored to the public domain
the Estania land grant made in 1S45 and
claimed by Joel Parker Whitney. 1t con-
tains 100000 acres in New Mexico.
Alfred Sims, discharged soldier, killed
Robert Norton at dance near Town Creek,
Ala. Last night mob attempted to lynch
the murderer, but the officers, at midnight,
We're successfully guarding the prisoner.
The work of getting jury for the trial
of Mrs. Fayne Strain Moore, co-defendant
with her husband William A. E. Moore,
convicted of "badgering'' hotel proprietor
in New York city, was not completed yes
terday, nine men only having been accepted.
Mayor Simrall, Police Commissioners Geo.
Land, w. III. May, j. B. Rogers and E. b.
Ellis, of Lexington, KY, have been indicted
for failing to enforce the law regarding Sun
day closing of saloons. Over one hundred
saloon keepers are indicted
At Greenville, S. c., yesterday, Private
Murgridge, of the Second West Virginia
Regiment, was shot and instantly killed by
Private John Mattice, of the Two-hundred-
and-third New York Regiment, who also
shot and wounded Private Hart, of the Sec
ond West Virginia.
The report that a new steel combination
/ Is to be formed as a result of the uniform
price of SIS per ton demanded by the steel
manufacturers of small billets is denied by
Plttsburg manufacturers, who claim the
condition of the market has simply caused
uniformity in the demands.
In order to avoid possible dispute over the
corpus delIct" and to save repetition of
the Luetgert experience, it is probable the
body of Mrs Theresa Rollinger, for whose
alleged murder and partial cremation her
husband is under arrest, will be exhumed
by the Chicago police and complete identi-
fcation established.
Thomas NJ. Avory, for over thirty-one
years president of the Elgin National Watch
Company, has resigned. Charles l. Hurl-
burt, vice president of the Equitable Trust
Company, has been elected his successor
Mr.. Avory's resignation was on account of
his advanced age and his desire to retire
from active business.
Five indictments have been returned
against Frederick c. Harrington, treasurer
of the late Young-Harrington Coal Com
pany, Cleveland, on the charge of embez-
zling $4,000 from that concern Harrington
was one of the upper society set i'll Cleve-
land. He has been in the West for some
time; and is believed to be now at Seattle,
Wash.