The Indianapolis journal., 1883-05-02
TELEGRAPHIO BREVITIES,

AT Philadelphia, during April, 6,356 900 pieces
were coined, valued at 81 ,575,6oS.
Chicago has been chosen by the supreme Coun-
Gil, Royal Areanum, as It's next meeting place.
The removal of the big Boston organ is en-
joined. The original subscribers are the petit
touers.
The city council of Fremont, O.. has taken 755
ballots for city clerk, ana the ballotlng is stln
going on.
The meeting of the Southern Historical Society,
called for Nashville, May %, has been postponed
Till autumn.
A soda water fountain exploded at Syracuse,
N Y. yesterday, fatally injurEng one and seri-
ously injuring two.
The City Council of Danville, Ill, last night,
raised saloon license from S400 TO 5000. There
are forty saloons in the city.
Mrs. J. W. Clarke, of Cincinnati missed from
her room on Monday a satchel containing 81 800
in cash, and Jewels valued at ST 200.
Joseph W. TopIitz, book keeper and cashier Of
Solomon Ruthkoph, OF New York, has been ar
rested on II charge of embezzlement.
AT Morton, Neb., Constable Dryden was shot
dead by Constable Sleeves while attempting his
arrest for the illegal seizure of IA horse.
The Newark, O., glsss-works have shut down
until next fall, on account of strike of union
men against the employment of nun-uniOn men.
About 100 vessels cleared from Chicago yes
terday. Half OF these were grain laden for lower
lake ports, with AL estimated average cargo of
10, 600 bushels.
An incendiary fire destroyed the stables on ].
II. Wolfolk's Potosi plantation, near Yazoo City,
Miss, on Monday night. Thirty five mules were
burned to death.
| II is stated that John erowell, the absconding
| collector OF the Lowell Manufacturing Company,
Erie, has gone to Terre Haute, His wife is ex-
peeted to follow
| Marshfield Plains, at Marshfield Mass, are
aolaze, and 200 men unable to check the
| spread Of the flames through the forest. Dwell
lngs are 1mperiled
A fire on Sunday night at Waxahatcbie Tex
destroyed five buildings, including a grain ele-
vator Loss, $4,000; insurance, S22, 500. In
cendiarism is charged.
AT Youngstown, O., Mrs. Mary Clements, born
| in Tyrone, Ireland, is celebrating her one huE-
dredth birthday. She is qIte feeble, nearly
| deaf and almost blind.
DR.. A. S. Todd, one of the oldest physiciane
| and prominent citizen OF Wheeling, and the
| proprietor OF Il number of well-known patent
medicines, died yesterday at an advanced age.
The assisted emigrants" from southwest Ire
| land arriving at Philadelphia, yesterday, are
very poor, They number nearly 300. Nine hum
dred Scandinavians and Germans also landed.
At Atlanta several Southern theater managers
| yesterday considered their interests. The prin-
clpal object Is to unite against the erection of
opposition houses Nothing definite was done.
Marshtield, small lumber town on the Wis
consin Central railroad, was visited by fire this
morning. Nine houses were burned, with a
loss of $1,000, and fifteen families made home
less.
James A. Madden, employed in the lace depart
ment of the house 0t Muser d Brothers, New
York city, is charged with stealing $23, 900 worth
of goods. Receivers of the goods were also ar
rested.
Schedules of the assignment of Isaac Sippili, of
New York, the merchant recently arrested on IA
charge nf swindlng, have been filed Liabilities,
S236273 nominal assets, $572,533; actual as
sets, Sl47,76S.
The body Of an unknown man was found in
Bear Grass creek, in Louisville, last evening
He had in his eieDched right hand an unopened
bone-handled knife. He is a stranger to all who
have seen the body.
j. d. Latham, who absconded with ST Z, 900 be-
longing 10 the Central railroad of New jersey,
While clerk, and captured in Tennessee, pleaded
guilty, yesterday, and was sentenced to the State
prison for four years.
at Boston, for robbing the hard house in
which he WAS employed. Three other youths
were arrested for rObbDg the safe of n lawyer
by means of false keys.
The Board of Aldermen unanimously request
the trustees OF the Brooklyn bridge to change
the date of formal opening from the 24th.nst
the anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria
to the 30th, Decoration Day.
The dissatisfied Orangemen of Toronto have
decided to form third, or Protestant party
The chief plahks of their platform are to he the
abolition of separate schools and the use of the
French language in Parliament.
Al Zdnesvle, o., on Monday, Della Barton at
tempted To stone the house OF Clara Winn, when
Cara replied with pistol, shooting Dolla across
the head, inflicling wound winch may prove
fatal, and was locked up. Both are women of
the town.
The first annual commencement of the Wn-
mems Medical College, of Baltimore took place
yesterday. The matroulatres number ten from
maryland ana one each from Illinois, Nebraska
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Canada and
Germany.
The west-hOund express train early yesterday
morning, struck an obstruction near QuiDn-
mont, W, Va, and the engine aud leuuer
plunged down an cmbanBment into the New