The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-30

benefit of the common schools by Arunha Hunt
ington, of Brantford, Canada. Huntington was
native of Vermont, and died in 1877.
In the hurdle race. at Forepaughs circus, at
louisville, Pa, on Saturday night, Mrs, Cookies
horse fell and she is thought 20 have been fatally
injured
poor old widow was allowed to starvo
/ nearly TO death III Millersburg o. She with
ont food for ten days, and cannot speak above a
whisper.
George Lake, colored, was convicted at Balti-
more, on Friday, of felonious assault on Mrs.
Clara Simmons two weeks ago, and sentenced
to be hanged.
At Norfolk, Va, the United States tugboat
Jane Sands was in collision with the steamer
Manhattan yesterday. The tugboat sank, but
no Ire was lost.
The saw-mills at Bangor, Me-, and the great
works of the Milling and Manufacturing Com
paly were burned yesterday Loss, $4,000; In
surance, $4,000.
Colouel c. d. Uiiue, a prominent citizen of
Creel CITY, Mum. Is held In $1,000 bail to
answer to u charge of nanslaughter III the case
OF the Ward brothers.
The directors of the new Whisky Export Asso-
citation are still hoping that the Canadian laws
Will be so modified that bonded whisky can be
sent into the Dominion.
At Jersey City. Saturday, Joseph Delzer
was showing revolver to his friend Herman
Schmidt, when it was accidentally discharged,
killing Schmidt almost instantly.
Reports from Battle Creek state that all the
wounded victims of Fridays accident on the
Grand Trunk are improving, except II T. Budd
OF Chicago, the cotored porter, who will die.
The Cigarmakers Union at WesttiiIa, Mass,
ordered an advance of from 81 to So per thou
sand. The American Cigar Company refused the
advance, so lao employees struck, on Saturday.
The driver of Uncle John Robinson's six-horse
taoleaux wagon drove over an embankment at
Sidney o., on Saturday, and demolished $4,000
worth OF trapplngs. He immediately decamped.
Twenty-Five of the owners of property in
which saloons kept In Cincinnati have
notified their tenants that on account of the
passage of the Scott law they must quit their
premises.
On Saturday night man named Valquette
went into a Toledo saloon and ordered lunch,
Among other things he served with piece
OF beefsteak and in attempting to eat the same
choked to death.
Governor Sherman, of Iowa, on Saturday
evening announced the appointment of L. $.
CONN, or Fort Dodge, as railroad commissioner,
Mr. Coffin has been known only as a successful
farmer
A fire in the Revere House, Buffalo, at mid
night on Saturday, frightened about 100 guests
out of their rooms and into the street. The orr
gin was In a concert saloon on the first tloor,
and this was entirely destroyed, No lives lost,
Loss 1nconsequenta
tanooga train was nearing Anderson, forty five
miles below Chattanooga, running at tAlI ty-fve
miles an hour, James Hawkins, q passenger,
arose and shot Bob Reener through the heart.
Hawkins the jumped then train, and it is thought
his neck was broken.
rio Society of Baltimore, assisted by THEODORE
Thomas's orchestra, closed on Saturday night
and was most successful. Thomas continues a
series OF seventy-fOur performances, all with
Ohio valley and Northwest, terminating at San
Francisco,