The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20

2o3. and assets amounting to Sfo7,2 POO The
deficit is due in pas To Mr.. Wicks, who admits
using $4,000 OF the nrm's money for private
purposes.
A gas explosion or Appleton street, Boston,
Saturday, tore up tine street and sidewalk, diIli-
aged adjacent property 20 the amount OF nearly
$4,000, and seriously injured several passefs-
by.
At Houston, Tex. NJ a late hour Saturday night
Police Officer Rice Snow wenuintu negro dance
house to quiet IA disturbance. Henry Campbell,
negro, suddenly attacked him shooting MN III
the right eye,
The body of Joseph Belette, a glass-blower
recently arrived from Belgium, was found in che
Licking river near GAINESVILLE o., on Sunday. He
committed suicide on account of love affairs IN
his native land.
Near Clinton, Ia, misplaced switch derailed
q stock tram, the locomotive and ten cars being
dlched. The engineer aud "A brakeman lost their
lives, the fireman was wounded, and many head
of stock were killed.
Mrs McMinimy. an al eyed "herb doctress,"
last Friday gave Thomas Greenleaf, Of New
Durham N. j., capsule and five pills for the
expulsion OF tapeworm, and the man died i'll
great agony on Sunday.
Fred Kardo, boss of the repair shop OF the Chi
cRgo, Milwaukee d st. Paul read at Dubuque,
Ia; was run over by a freight train Saturday
and almost instantly killed. Iii thought that
his FOOT caught in frog.
The cut of logs in northern and central Wis
consin for the season just closing win, accord
Ing to careful estimates, be about % per cent.
below the average. amounting IN the aggregate
10 something IKE l,0UO,OOO,OOO rect.
Fire at Sheridan, Montcalm county Mich on
Sunday, destroyed an entire block including
Daviss Hotel, Stebbn's jewelry store, Rieh ard's
drug store, Haynes general store, and Pitchers
saloon Loss, $4,000; Insured for $4,000.
SUIT has been brought against the Philadelphia
d Reading railroad to recover SILT, 600 on GER
ufcates held by forty persons for material and
labor used in the construction of the Schuylkitl
9S Rehlgh railroad, now controlled by the Read
ing company.
Henry Gilbert, n shoemaker, OF Fair Play, Ia.
went hunting on the river last Wednesday. He
broke through the ice and was drowned. Search
was instituted resulting in finding his body.
Ills gun and several ducks were found near the
hole in the ice, which led to the search.
Squire Dangerfield, of Delta, La, issued writ
for the arrest of negro named John Holmes
While assisting the officer TO execute the writ,
he was attacked in a desperate manner by the
negro with pistol aud brier-hook, and forced
TO retreat To his horse, He secured a rife and
Killed the negro. He was acquitted by a coro-
Hers jury.
Mrs. Baker was fatally burned at East Tawas,
Mich, on Sunday morning. her clothing catch
dressing child. She ran out doors and was I'M
able TO exrnguish the flames before ali her
clothing had burned off Her husband ia re-
ported as crippled for life by having both hands
burned trying to extinguish the flames.
Fire At Hutton Station, on the Allegheny Val
ley railroad. yesterday morning at . O'clock,
totally DESTROYED a three-st0ry building. the
nrst loor OF which was occupied by James Cad
wailder as u drug store. and by Godfrey Brennan
as "A grocery store. Two families, named Speer
and Pointer, living up-stairR, barely escaped
with their lives Loss, $4,000; partially covered
by insurance.
The people of Findley Lake, near Erie Pa.
are greatly incehsed over u ghuuiish outrage by
which the remains of an honOred lady have been
disturbed in their last resting place. A year
ago Mrs. Ftndley fell and broke her right leg.
She never fully recovered, and as her friends
were dissatisfied with tue defOrmed condition of
the limb, action for alleged malpractice was
Drought against the attending physician two
Mrs. Findley died and was inferred in the faIni-
ly lot. On Saturday last the grave WAS found
TO have been disturbed, ana in consequence of
certain suspicious the grave was opened, and to
the horror of the family il was found that
ghouls had taken up the body of the lady and
chopped off the injured leg. Near the caskeU
were discovered the disseeted parts of the leg.