The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-22
BREVITIES.

Charles Ireland was fined at Nashville
Monday for assaulting a One-year-old baby.
DR.. R. Fl. Ryland, a prominent physician and
planter at Bayou Sara, La, fell from a clubhouse
and was killed.
Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia
Changers are holding their annual meeting at
Harrisburg, Pa.
Three thousand tons of leather are said to he
In the Maine watts OF Shaw d Bros. which. II
finished, would sell for 81 200 900.
A patent has been issued to Juan Jose and
Victor Castro for the Rancho ell Sabrante, CON
tanning 1882 acres IN Contra Costa county,
Nelson Barrere, once a member of Congress
from the old Sixth Ohio Congressional district,
died IN Hlllsboro on Monday, at the age of sew
enty-five.
The construction hands on the Cincinnati,
Delphos & Toledo railway struck yesterday at
F1ndlay, o., because they had not been paid for
two months.
Ike Petite, sixteen years old, while initiating
the execution of a criminal last Friday, acct
dentally hanged himself at SCOTS Bars, Ala, on
Monday evening.
Ezra Douglass, a printer, was killed by his
wife on Monday at Nebraska City, Ne0, the
woman, who was insane, then putting a bullet
through her own brain.
William Barry and Charles Miller have been
arrested, at Buffalo, for the murder of a Swede,
Nelson Odies. whose body was found at West
Valley recently.
The National Telegraph Company was incor-
porated on Monday at Albany, N. Y. The cap
AA wv - hN'o az %@pFOOOF WV @ wv AoAth
that 1t may he Increased to $4,000 ,000.
Two operators, returned strikers, have been
dismissed the Western Union service, at New
York, for calling operators who did not strike,
and with whom they were working, ''scabs."
The steamer Holland, which arrived at New
York on Monday from Havre, brought $50
Percheron stations. This is the largest ship
ment of grown stations ever imported from Eu-
rope.
The George Edgar theatrical combination.
from New York, which opened at Chicago With
some flourish a week ago, is stranded. The ad-
vertlsed star is George Edgar, a member OF the
New York Cotton Exchange.
There were 10000 people on the Ohio con-
ference camp-grounds on Sunday. There was Il
very large attendance also at the Urbana camp
meeting, but the people seem to have been CIV
en- more to mirth than to meditation.
The American Institute of Christian Philoso-
j phy opened its fourth summer school, at Rich
field, N. Y, yesterday, in the Presbyterian
Church. A lecture was delivered by Rev. DR..
Rylance on Counter Currents"
Mr.. William SPEAKER, viee-presldent of the
Cauaioharle National Bank, was on Monday
victlmized by the bunko sharpers of C0ney
Island to the extent of 800 in cash and a thirty
days note on the First National Bank of Albany
for $500.
Ebenezer Marsh, seventy-nine years of age,
took his life AT Providence, r. f., on Monday, by
drowning. He had ueen i'll for Il long time with
a chronic ailment, and was often heard to re-
mark that ne should not be here long, as there
was nothing worth living for.
A recent invention is that of Mr.. Henry
IuOnnds. dGuSInlSb VI OudrusDttS, GOuh.s nav
ing for its object the utilization of scrap tin.
The process Is of a chemical nature, and the re-
suits obtained are said to be highly salts
factory. A company is beng formed to give
the invention Il thorough trial.
A locomotive on the ElizabetEtow n railway
was thrown from the track by running over "A
cow, and engineer Higgings fell under the
boiler, where he was enveloped in scaldlng
steam. leave me-" he cried TO the men who
were trying TO pun him out, land flag No. 2
right away" This was done, and a terrible
wreck prevented. while the brave engineer was
being burned to death.
A young man named Popplet0n, while trying
to capture a burglar near Birmingham. Mich.
was fired at ana slightly wounded. He shot the
burglar in return, and was shot again by him.
The men closed on each other and a desperate
struggle followed, POppletOn finally shooting
and killing him. lie was identified as "a next
door neighbOr named Kennedy, who before had
been considered a respectable citizen.
j. Howard Griffith. one of the largest owners
OF the M9unerchor Garden. of Philadelphia
and AN ex member of the city council, attempted
suicide at his cottage at Atlantic City on Fri
day. Mrs. c. b. MecKe, an attractive woman
whose relations with the wealthy e0ttager have
now become a matter of scandal. was preseul
when her lover took the almost fatal dose. The
cause of the attempt was Mrs. Meeke's alleged
fondness for another man. Mrs. Griffith mas
sued for divorce.