The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

Produce exported fr0rn New York last week
was estimated at $7,349000.
Extensive gold and silver deposits have been
discovered on the northern end of landowners
Island.
Frank, the twelve-year-old of Jacob
Gearing. of Canaan, N. Y, committed suicide
by hanging himself No cause for the act Is as
signed.
Thomas WaldrOn brother FranR), late president
Of st. Joseph Catholic College, for Outraging
little girl
John Snyder, OF Philadelphia, was arrested
yesterday morning, charged with Wandering his
wife Alice The woman has three knife wounds
in her breast.
The Chicago city Democratic convention yes
terday nominated Carter II. Harrison for mayor,
John Dnmphy for treasurer, and Julius 8. Grin
nell for city attorney.
Cope Snapp, late clerk for Back-tax Collector
Ferguson, OF Louisville. was acquitted OF the
charge of appropriating money belonging to the
city TO us own purposes.
All the schools, churches and public resorts in
the city of Harper, Ia, have been ordered closed
in consequence Of an epidemic OF scarlet fever.
Seven deaths in one family occurred Sunday.
Tie Vermont Central railway litigation, which
has been in the courts for thirty years. was
ended on Tuesday by the DEGREES OF oreclosure
being withdrawn. The company will now be re-
organized
warrant is ont for the arrest of Mrs. Belle NJ
| Burchi postmistress of Fort Worth, Tex, who
is charged with unnecessarily OBTAINING mail
matter and with other Irregularities IN the con-
/ duct of the office.
| The centenary of Bishop Seabury, who was
elected first American Episcopal bishop March
! %, 1888, was celebrated on Tuesday Wood
| bury, Conn. Bishop Williams and twenty clergy
men were present.
| The Legislature of Arkansas has enacted a law
That invites competition from anv part of the
Union for the State printing, there being no
! provision, even, that the work shall be done at
| the capital OF the State.
In the New Orleans election fraud cases, yes
| terday, deputy sheriff William Buckney, who
was "A supervisor of election, swore he could not
| identify his own signature a tally-sheet, and
WAS arrested for perjury.
| A city ordinance compels the Lincoln, Neb.,
saloons to close at 10 2. NJ. There promises to
be lively time at the approaching municipal
| election between the liquor element and the peo-
| pie In favor OF the present law.
train on the Bound Brook railroad, drawn
| by a locomotive burning "coal-dlrt," arrived at
| Philadelphia, on Tuesday, after q 12O-mile TRIP
on time The "coal-dirt" consumed cost 1.05,
one-seyenth the usual expense.
Asa F. Leopold, treasurer, of the town board
! Of Crystal Falls, Mich, charged with having
| left the town, two weeks ago, with 5000 of
town funds and 81 900 short on old account,
was arrested in Chicago on Tuesday night.
| Arguments are being heard by the Massa.
| chusetts Supreme Court on the injunction
pray for by the Union Pacific Railroad Com
| pany to restrain the Credit MObtler from pros
ecutng suit to receive ST. 1896, 900 for the con-
structOn OF 246 miles Of its road
]. P. Walker, a sporting man from Louisville,
was found dead i'll bed yesterday morning at
| Liuck'5 Railroad Hotel, Nashville. The coro-
ner's jury returned IL verdict that the cause was
| an overdose of morphine, probably taken to re-
| heve rheumatism, from which he was SUFFERER.
| A colored Baptist clergyman of Des Moines,
| Ia, has brought suit for $4,000 damages
against the Iowa State Register, of that city,
| which published an alleged libelous statement
| that the preacher had not accounted for sum
| of money collected in Omaha for the benefit OF
| his Des Moincs church.