The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

r. Fl. KIlby, Wholesale hardware, Montreal,
has failed. Liabilities, $125,ooo.
Jim. Brown has been sentenced to death at
Walhalla, s. c., for burning a Clubhouse and
cOrn-crib.
Eight bodies of drowned persons have been
found along the shores Of Staten Island during
the past eight days.
Attachments for S14o, 600 have been secured
against the thread-works Of Samuel Semple &
Sons, of Mount Holly, N. J.
James NJ. Witford was arrested at Wexford,
X. J., yesterday, on charge of numbering
Michael fully on the 18th inst.
At Darien Ca, yesterday, Toney Jones (col-
oredl, who shot Prince Anderson in a drunken
brawl on the 9Th of January, 1882, was hung.
Charles Mitchell, an English pugilist. ard his
trainer are at Kansas City, arranging for fight
with Mace's Maori, in September, for So, 500 a
side.
Five Cinnamon, who conspired against Long
Poy for eating down laundry prices were SEN
fenced to pay $500 and costs, each, at Paterson,
N. j., yesterday.
An Improvement Is reported in the condition
of General II. H. Sibley, of St. Paul, who for
some time has been at the point of death from
sclatic rheumatism.
At WIlkesharre, Pa, the accounts of ex-
County Treasurer John I. Gritfiths are found TO
be $1,000 short. lis believed that John Pol
lock, chief clerk, is the guilty party.
Saul Stern, a New York Hebrew, twenty-eight
years old, was arrested for forging his fathers
name TO checks for several Thousand dollars
The money was spent on frail woman.
Morris Greenwall, of Melbourne, Australia,
has concluded arrangements with Mrs. Langtry
for a sixteen weeks engagement at a weekly
salary Of $500. She will open in Melbourne in
July, 1884
Albert Akers, formerly Circuit Clerk of Da-
wilson equity, Tenn, an Thursday obtained
judgment for 81 600 against his brother, George
F. Akers, once prominent tobacco merchant of
Nashville, for SANDER.
BY accident the Summerville Is. c.
road, near Charleston, Thursday morning,
one man Twas killed and another fatally hurt.
The engineer remained ut his post, aud by that
means saved many lives
Nearly all the business men of New York, in
Guiding liquor and cigar dealers, to-day refused
to take trade dollars. 1t is expected that this
general action will drive the coin out of tue city
within very short time.
j. K. Deering was killed recently at Bowling
Green, KY, by falling circus billboard. His
widow on Thursday received verdict Of S1O,-
900 against Sells Brothers, the circus prOprie-
tors, and Forbes Brothers, who erected the
board.
During last week large number of counter
circulation in New Orleans, both evidently
manufactured there. The counterfeit dimes are
brass, heavily plated with mic el, and bear date
1882, while he nickes are pewter.
The commissioners of immigration at New
York furnished Collector Robertson with the
names of twenty-eight new arrivals who are I'M
able to support themselves. The collector sent
the list TO the office of the Anchor line with a
request that the immigrants be taken back TO
Ireland,
A company has been formed in London for the
purpose of laying two more cables between Eng
land and the United States. The stock has been
subscribed. The new company will have all the
of the cables will be laid before the close of the
present year.