The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-10
BREVITIES.

Fourteen Mormon priests are holding meet
inGs in Minneapolis.
The forest fires in Mas. achusetts destroyed
over 700 acres of valuable timber.
10. Bagby was probably fatally shot near
Greensburg by some one iii ambush.
Mrs. Bertha Hoppe committed suicide in Lou
isville yesterday 10y jumping into the canal.
There was a heavy frost in northern Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota on Friday night. Corn was
damaged.
Constantine Mundi, charged with numbering
his wife, hung himself in the Stanford, Ky, jail
on Saturday.
Hanlan has cabled to England that be win
row Laycock australian on the Thames course
for So, 600 a side.
Rev. Thomas A. Oakley, general delivery clerk
in the Cleveland postotfice, has been arrested for
rObbing the mails.
Naval Cadet Rumsey, of the third class, is SEN
fenced to seven days solitary confinement for
attempting TO haze.
The Harvest Queen four-mills. Miles City,
Platte river. burned on Saturday morning. Loss
100000; insurance $4,000.
H. T.. Vanderburg & Co, of Denver, Wholesale
llquOr-dealers, have assigned. Liabilities $16,-
600; nominal assets $4,000.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley bought in her fathers
farm. which was sold under decree of court, at
Chappaqua, N. Y, for $4,000.
James Brice, formerly book-keeper for Henry
Ferris 81 Sons, New York, has been arrested,
charged with em0eZzling 21,0O0.
Rev. DR.. John Z. Barr, a Baptist clergyman of
80 -HAA &C. 1LNoF ~ hhht'A Al AAo HONb III
a b. IL q. train, near Grafton, W. Va.
The Elkhorn taDnery at Stroudsburg, Pa.
owned by Michael d. Klstler, was burned yesteT-
day. Loss, $15O,000; partially insured.
The Mort western Railroad Company have
been fined $3.50 by a Chicago judge for using
switch engines which emitted volumes of smoke.
Trouble is feared from the numerous bands of
Indians in northern Wyoming in consequence of
the present scarcity OF grass and game in that
region.
The City of New York arrived at San Fran
cisco, on Friday, from Australia, and brought
$4,000 in English gold, consigned from the
colonies.
Bishop Ryan, of ST.. Louis, has been presented
with a purse OF $4,000 TO defray his expenses to
the conference VI American bishops, soon &c be
held in Rome.
sued for $3.50 in Philadelphia for the work of
painting his advertising sign en- the Pyramid of
CheOps in Egypt.
A boiler in IA portable saw-mill a few miles
west of Marietta. o., exploded on Friday, killing
Chas. Palmer and Martin Ellison, and severely
lnjuring two other men.
A Milford, jefferson county, Wisconsin, dis
patch says that N. S. Green & Sons mill was de-
stroyed by fire, with 5000 bushels of wheat.
Loss $4,000; insurance $35, 600.
Jennie Lamb, aged seventeen, of South Charles
ton, O., has brought suit against Jack MallinsOn,
an old farmer living near that place, for breach
Of promise, in the sum of $25, 600.
General }. S. Negley, president of the National
Union League, has called a special meeting of
the national executive committee at the Aston
House in New York for Thursday next.
Henry Dickinson, col0red, was hanged at
Plaqueminr, La, for the murder of Henry
Steele. Frank shelton, a negro, was executed
at Greensboro. Ala, for killing his wife.
AT Jersey City, N. j., John Supple. butcher,
WAS killed, on Saturday, by James and Thomas
Hearu, brothers. supple was the aggressor, and
during the struggle had his neck dislOcated.
S. J.. Kennedy, the defaulting hook-keeper of
the Commercial National Bank, of Youngstown,
Ohio, has voluntarily returned FROM Canada, and
is engaged in making restitution, with the aid of
friends.
An incendiary fire, yesterday morning, at the
village of Deep Creek, Norfolk county, Virginia,
on The Dismal swamp canal, destroyed every
thing on the west side of the canal. Loss esJi-
mated at 100000,
During a dance in Pierce county, La, Miss
ROXie Wilson resented the com n ents of her
aunt, Miss Smith, and attacked her with n knife
furnished by her brother. she fatally stabbed
her in the breast ana stomach.
The fourth annual encampment of the New
Jersey department of the Grand Army of the
Republic, at Camp Olden, Princeton Junction,
ended on Saturday afternoon. The encamp-
ment was a failure financially to the extent of
$4,000.
william j. Melvin, one of the men who took
part in the Manchester rescue of 1867, in which
Colonel Kelly and Captain D-asy were fOrcibly
taken from a prison van ana Police Sergeant
Brett killed, was buried at New York Yesterday.
Many Irish Nationaiists attended the funeral.