The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

several large manufacturing firms. 1t is be-
heved that deposltors will realize nothing from
the wreck.
At Fulton, N. Y, John W. Lyon, conducting
Tree Methodist meetin gs, has been arrested on a
charge OF forgery.
The husband OF Mrs. Alfred G. Inman, OF
Augusta. Ga, has been found guilty Of her MUIR
der and robbery.
Valentines Uniting mill at Bennington. Vt,
was destroyed hy fire on Monday night, making
a loss OF 100000.
At Laredo, Tex, Patriece Scharles has been
convicted of the murder of a jew named Niger,
and given fifty years.
An old gentleman named Neason was fatally
injured by the cars at kenosha, Wis. He was
walking on the track.
A singular and fatal disease among swine has
appeared in WinOna county, Minnesota, where
II has swept off over 300.
A militia company in New Mexico captured
three cattle-thieves at La Mesa, and killed "a
fourth, a noted desperate.
Robert A. Packer, sou of the late Judge Asa
Packer. of the Lehigh Valley railroad, died at
Jacksonville, Fla, OH Tuesday.
The Arkansas House has defeated the bill max
ing the maximum passenger fare on railroads
longer than 100 miles three cents.
The estimate of expenditures of the Mexican
national government for the next fiscal year is
S27,OOO,OOO; receipts, $35,0O0,000.
The New York Assembly has passed a bill to a
third reading prohibiting political assessments
OF ohlceholders and candidates for office.
raul Is. la CnalIlu mas brought suit against
Messrs. Harper Il Bros. in connection with the
sale of his book of travel in Scandinavia.
Stockholders in western Texas report a con-
siderable loss of cattle and the death of 10 per
cent. of their sheep by the recent cold weather.
Francis Rardell, formerly special pension
agent at Detroit, was convicted of forgery and
sentenced TO four years in the House of Correc-
tion.
The residence of Mrs. o. B, Cotton, at Lisbon,
Me-, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday after
noon, and her charred corpse was found in the
ruins.
ID. Orton, Of Milwaukee, accused of causing
the death of Kitty O'Toole by abortion, has been
arrested on the coroner's warrant, and held
without bail.
Williams College, and president of the hiassa-
chnsetts Agricultural College, is dangerously i'll
at New York.
Senator David Davis will vacate the chair in
the Senate before the expiration OF the present
session, and allow the election of a new presI-
dent pro TEN,
Up to Saturday night last S25O,0o0 had been
obtained in subscriptions to the stock of the ST.
Louis and Art Hall the
amount required.
ia. Curtain, foreman, and William Taylor,
laborer, on the Northern Pacific front, at Port
land. Ore, were killed by an explosion of giant
powder, and John Gilmore, alabOrer, was fatally
injured.
Charles Martin, a Central railroad brakeman,
attempted to shoot an inmate of a disreputable
mouse at Albany. \. Y, on Sunday. The girl fed
and Martin placed the pistol TO his own temple
and fired, %lntlicting a mortal wound.
The Rev. Edward Ellis, the Baptist local
preacher, from Maine, who was sentenced to one
years Imprisonment for adultery, at st. Johns,
n. B., has had his sentence quashed, because
the marriage la VS. of Maine were not proved ON
his trial.
The commissioner of railroads reported the
floating debt of the Union Pacific road as &c.
751,S9l, while the officers of the company in
slst that it is only So, 775, 772. The government
directors state that the affairs of the road have
been ably and honestly administered.
A party of five Iowa Indians, on their way
from Nebraska to the Sac and Fox agency in In
dian Territory, became intoxicated when six
miles below Arkansas City, Kan, and got into
q quarrel, when one stabbed another 10 the
heart. This enraged the others, who sat upon
the assassin and cut him with knives so that he
died soon after.
Mrs. Ezra Douglas, the wife of a printer at Ne
Oraska City, Neb shot herself through the back
part of the head, on Monday evening, with SUI
cldal intent. Her husband saw her in time TO
strike the pistol partially away. The wound ia
very palnfnl. but is not necessarily fatal. She
declares that she will repeat the act at the first
opportunity. Cause, family troubles.
A fire in the grocery and spirit warehouse Of
D. Mason & CO., of Montreal, followed by nu-
nlerous explosions, caused II loss of $l20, 900 and
the manning of Two firemen. This was speedily
followed by the partial destruction of the pro-
vlncial reformatory for boys, causing damage TO
three more members of the fire department.