The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-08

b0rs, it and the contents burned. When Mr..
! Byrd reached the burning building it was TOO
late 10 save anything, even the innocent babe,
Tor the whole was "a mass OF burning tmbers.
The floor of a farmhouse near New Philadel-
delphia, o., in which a large company was gath
cred. gave way on Saturday preciptanng all
into deep cellar. Several persons were injured,
at least one of them fatally.
The oldest living graduate OF West Point Mill
tary Academy is ex-Goveror Joshua Baker, OF
ty-four years DID, and who served on Jackson's
staff at New Orleans, in 1915.
1t is reported that the Duke of Newcastle has
made large purchases of Southern California
lands. The Duke being minor makes the state
ment doubtful. He says he will remain several
days in Chicago on his way East.
The Massachusetts House adopted under srs-
pension OF the rules, without debate, Senate
resolution recognzlng the ability, services and
integrity of Cakes Ames, and asking for like
recognition on the part of Congress
A bill was introduced In the New York Legis-
lature making the Brooklyn bridge free to pedes-
trians, and when final action was to be taken on
IT, on the closing day of the session. the bill could
not be found. Il was mislad or stolen.
A Lexin gton. KY. special says the stable OF
j. A. Grinstead, containing six thOroug hbred
yearlings, all by imported Thunderstorm, was
burned, and all the animals consumed. Loss,
$4,000. IL was the work Of an incendtary,
The Chebucto Marine Insurance Company, of
Halifax, has decided to call on it's shareholders
FOR 5000 each on the business OF 1881 and
1882. Nearly 81 900 lie required to make up
1882.
The body of the elderly man picked mp float
ing in San Francisco bay on Sunday remains un
recognizable, but a memorandum book identified
him as John Arnheim, German farmer, lately
arrived from Detroit, Mich. The suicide is at
tributed to financial difficulties.
The wife of John Cary, a saloon-keeper at But
Ter Station, KY, who Is troubled in her sleep,
got up on Saturday night and got hold of her
husbands handkerchief, which had 5000 or
500 in 1t, and threw it upon the fire. She then
tainted and fell in the fire, receiving quite a
painful burn.
Mr.. Jefferson French. of Jackson county, Ohio
while engaged in splitting log, struck axe
with double bit into 1t, and then with a hand
spike endeavored to turn it over Tile spike
slipped, and Frenoh's whole weight fell upon the
axe, imbedding the blade in hla right breast, al
most completely seVering one lung He died on
Sunday night.
The death is announced of an aged negro
named Jordan Blizzard, at Centerville, O., who
was probably OF the Oldest citizens in the
United States, although his exact age cannot he
ascertained. The Information that can be OBJ
tanned from the most reliable sources places the
year OF his birth at about 1853. He was, there
fore, at the time of his DEATH 125 years old. He
was born in Essex county, near Norfolk. Va. He
lived the last eighty years in Ohio, hav-
ing come 10 the State in 1900, even before
ONO was State. The last few years of his life
he was partially blind and deaf, and it is thought
his death resulted from sheer exhaustion.