The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-04

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shot Plummer dead, There is talk of lynching
William Price, of Oskaloosa. Ia, committed
snlclde at Chicago, on Tuesday, after spreelng
for several days
A st. Thomas, Ont, telegram says Mr.. and
Mrs, Arnold were killed while crossing u railroad
track in a sleigh.
Charles Miller, a herder near Lincoln, Neb.,
shot himself by earelessness, blowing the whole
top OF his head off.
A saw-mill boiler exploded at Montana sta
ton. Kan, on Tuesday, and killed Moses Ratcllh
and William Ladd
james Stamer, aged sixteen. was accidentally
shot and killed on New Years near FraZeysburg,
o., while hunting.
Seven stores md a dwelling at Manistee,
Mich, valued at $50, 600, were swept away by
hre on Monday night.
Al Coolidge, N, M, yesterday s. NJ. Phillips,
justice OF the peace, shot aud killed Huse Brown,
"a notorious desperate.
c. A. Ronnger, one of the oldest merchants of
tlndliy, o., has assigned. Assets, 900; liza
bhues not ascertaIned.
Red Cloud visited Secretary Teller on Tuesday
and demanded $4,000 for horses taken from
HIM six years ago by Governor Cook.
The Tradesmen's Fire Insurance Company, of
New York, HIS retired fran business, its risks
being relnsured in the Standard of Londor.
The widow of Daiano A. Goddard, of the Bos-
ton Daily Advertiser, has declined testimonial
OF $4,000 contributed by friends OF her nus
band.
The grand Jury Of Jefferson, Ky, Circuit Court
indicted Thomas Crittenden for the willful muir
der of Rose Aosby, colored, at Anchorage Dee.
Is, 1882.
Willie Dupose. of Troy, N. Y, a grandson of
General TOombs, of Georgia, was fatally inquired,
and three other students seriously hurt while
coasfsng yesterday.
A llemn pontifcal mass was celebrated at
New York on Tuesday for the repose of the soul
of the late Archbishop Hughes Cardinal Nc
Closkey was present
A Japanese Prince, Arisugawa and suite,
rived at San francisco Yesterday and took up
quarters at the Palace Hotel, pending the de-
parture OF the China steamer.
M. p Kay, clerk in the office Of the auditor
and county clerk of Alameda county, California
has absconded, after forging and hypothecating
warrants to the amount of 10000.
The skeleton of George W. King was found in
the Tolcott Mountains, Conn, on Monday. Mr..
King was carriage manufacturer in Hartford,
and mas been missing since last August.
The house of Professor Miller, of Yale College,
was DESTROYED by fire on Tuesday morning, TO-
gether with his valuable library, paintings and
statuary Loss from $4,000 to $4,000.
William White, residing at Morgantown, Miss,
got mad on Monday and seized his three-yenr-ud
boy by the heels and beat his brains out. He
was arrested, but is supposed to be insane.
At Ada, o., yesterday, boiler explosion in
the saw-mill of Nicholas IL Hesser caused the
death of James Roberts fireman, and fatally
injured j. a, Hesser, one OF the proprietors.
According to the seventeenth animal report OF
the Union Stockyard Company, there were re-
eelyed last year in Chicago f77,237 car loads OF
all kinds of live stock, valued at Sl96,670,O00.
Three veterinary surgeons, after n post-mor-
tenn examination OF four victims of the horse
disease now raging in OskalOOsa Ia, found the
cause of death TO be cerebrO-spnal meningitis.
Samuel Siebert and Robert Wright, at Louis
vile, KY, last evening, aged about twelve years
quarreled, and Sieberu cut Wright on the neck
arm and breast. The wounds are dangerous,
And the boy is in the city hospital SieDert es-
capped arrest.
AT Newark, N. J., trial has begun of suit to re-
cover 500, 600 damages, brought by the admin
istrator of the estate of Cephas NJ. Woodruff
against the New Jersey Central Railroad Com
pany Woodruff was killed in the Parker's creek
calamity last summer,
In a church at Des Moinee. last Sunday,
Bishop O'Connor denounced the Grant policy
of dealing with the Indians, by which Catholic
priests were debarred from visiting the agencies,
and gave Secretary KIrkwo0d credit for giving
all denominations free access to the savages.
A Hamilton, Nevada, dispatch says George
k, MeConkey, county treasurer was found dead
on tine floor of his office, snOt through the heart.
His own pistol was beside him, with one cham
Der discharged. The safe WAS open. His ac-
eountS had Eetyet been examined, 1t is doubt
full whether it is murder or suicide,
The body of J Scandinavian, whose name is
not known, and vino had been in the employ of
the Hayes Bros, dairymen, living just outside
of MINNEAPOLIS, was found hanging by the neck
in the barn. He had been employed there about
He was about thirty five years of age.
W Whitcomb, constable at Friend. Neb, at
mortgaged property. Gridley shot him IN the
back of the head, put him in a wagon. hauled
him to town, and left him at the house OF
neighbor. Gridley drove off, hut captured
AT Wilbur. Whitcomh will probably die There
is strong talk of lynching.
There having been some uncertainty as to the
future plans of the Springfield, H., Iron Com
pany, 1t is now learned that the company will
quit manufacturing rails entirely and begin i'm
prOvements which will cost something over a
quarter of million of dollars, convert the
works for the manufacture of heavy plates of
various sorts of understandable iron and steel.
Henry Noeliman, thirty years of age, met
with horrible death, on Tuesday while at work
i'll the Mead Paper Company's mills at Dayton
o. Ii was shortly after O'Clock, and he
engaged in oing the shatting. He was caught
by the shaft by The NECK, his shirt having
slipped up under his chin and at every turn
frightened yise-ike, about his neck, thus choking
him to death. Tue cloth dug deep into the
flesh, and had the shaft been revolving rapidly.
it would have severed the head from the shout
ders.