The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-15
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.


;, heavy fall Of snow occurred on Sunday at
Deadwood, ID. t.
, The trustees of the Brooklyn bridge have fixed
the toll for foot passengers at one cent.
" Richards & Bro, dry goods, at Augusta,
Cal have assigned Liabilities 500, 900; as
sets, $4,000.
The excise commissioners refused a license to
Joe Co6urn. General reputation" was the
reason for the refusal.
AT New York, Edward d. Bassford, importer
OF and dealer in house-furnishing goods has as
signed, with preferences amounting to $37, 302
The yacht Grayling was capsized in the lower
New York bay by sudden gust of wind, on Sun
safely.
The total number of coke ovens in the United
states in 1880 was 1929, employing 3, lao per-
sons and requiring a capital of So, 545, 05S to
carry ON the business.
The marriage of Stella Sinclair to Horace
Smltn, negro, has caused much excitement In
Greenport, l.. [. Stella liz goOd-lOOking white
girl, sixteen years old
The grand jury of Boston, Mass, returned an
Indictment Saturday against Hattie W. Thorn
ton, little girl, charged with maliciOusly set
ting fire to the Hotel Glendon May L.
The auditing board to settle the debt of the
Ola city OF Memphis have agreed upon the
amount of new bonds to be issued for the old
under the recent act of the Legislature.
The Equitable Gaslight Company, of Baltt-
more. mortgaged its property and franchises to
the Mercantile Trust Company, of New York.
for 81 100000, required to extend the works.
Lieutenant Tettin of the Third Savoy caval-
~, Italy, aged thirty, stopping at the Windsor
Hotel, New York, committed suicide because his
love Tor Murray Hill belle was not reciprOeaued.
On Saturday night George Butler colored. was
round murdered in the streets of Powder Springs
Ga; His wife was found standing over him with
bloody knife, aud has been held for his murder.
In a Springfield, o., saloon, on Sunday, Henry
hlltz lred three shots at John Roth, whom he
missed each time. One of the bullets struck
john Farmer, and another Fred. Siegle. Farmer
was mOrtally hurt,
Governor Stevenson will not be able to preside
over the Democratic State convention i'll Louis
vile. The convention meets on Wednesday,
and is likely to be the most interesting held in
Kentucky since Cerro GOrdO Williams was de-
feated eight years ago.
Henry Grosjean, French commissioner of ag-
rlculture for the United States, here for two
years. sails for home on Wednesday next. He
prophes1e5 great future for California, and
5hlnks we cheat ourselves by using foreign
label on our good wines.
On Sunday morning party of eight men rode
up TO the house of Vaughn Hilton, near Jeffer-
sonVlle, nine miles from Mt Sterling, KY, and
awakened, him, saying they were looking for a
morse thief While he was sitting on the edge of
the bed, some of the men fired, killing him at
once.
The Law and Order committee at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, is making an active canvass, and meetings
VIII be held every night this week to create
sentiment that will insist upon the enforcement
OF the Sunday liquor law, The Father Matthew
societies endorse the action of the Law and Or
derkcommittee.
ship Mississippi owned by the Oregon Improve
menJ Company, burned, Yesterday morning
with 100 tons of coal. The fire spread to the
coal bunkers, burning 500 feet. The chief en-
The bunker timbers fell, killing one man and In
juring another.