The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-20
BREvIrIEs.

Three miners were killed by "black damp" in
Cumberland county, N, G.
The Yanktou county bond bill has been passed
by the DakatO Legislature.
Miss Kitty O'Toole died suddenly at the Office
OF Dr. c. H. orion, of Milwaukee,. The Doctor
was to marry her on Saturday next.
A man named Thomas Welsh, living on the
Westside, Chicago, in a fit OF drunken fury, beat
HIS VIE TO death, yesterday morning.
At Lansing the vote for senator yesterday gave
FERRY u, Newton (Dem) 80, and the balance OF
taken.
The freeze following the lale thav has rem
dered the Wisconsin pineries in the finest condi-
tion Tor operations that they have been in this
season, . ~
The Catholic mission building at DEVILS Lake
agency, Dakota, was burned on Saturday. Nine
ty-slx Indian children were receiving instruction
at the hands of the sisters.
William Patterson, a well-known citizen Of
Louisyille, dropped a pistol from his pocket in
a stable: The weapon as discharged, sending
a bullet into his left breast.
Near Wallingford, Conn, on Sunday, two Young
men and a young woman were Killed, ana
another young woman fatally wounded, by their
sleigh being struck by a locomotive.
Major ]. C. Wall, an associate Of u. s. Grant,
jr., and General John B. Gordon, in Alabama coal.
mines, drowned himself in the Tennessee river,
probably on account of losses by speculation.
Francis Wardell, special pension agent, was
round guilty of forging the name Of the pension
agent at the post OF Detroit, yesterday, and sem
fenced to four years in the House Of Correction.
John A. Curtain, foreman, and William Taylor,
labOrer, on the Northern Pacific railroad, in Ore
gon, were killed by an explosion of giant pow
der, and John Gilmore, labOrer, was fatally in
jured, yesterday.
The Little Church Around the Corner, in New
York, has been robbed OF a silver fagOn, o gold
lined ehalice and other valuable articles. Rev,
DR.. HOughton had befriended so many thieves
that he felt secure from their derredations.
T. P. Sheldon e Co.'s bank at alamaz was
robbed on Saturday by a man in a buggy calling
a member of the firm TO the door on alleged bust
ness, when a confederate sneaked in and apprO-
priated 81, 800. The loss was not discovered fI
some time, and the thieves escaped.
At Kansas City, Charles Harris, a colored por-
ter, who arrived on the Pullman car San Fan
cisco, attached to "A Rock Island train, Monday
morning, was shot and severely, II not fatally
injured by Ben Carpenter, another negro. The
atfray occurred in a low c0lOred dive near the
Bluff street bridge.
Two young daughters OF John Butler, q farmer
residing near Findlay, o., were fatally burned.
The flames from "a CRATE ignited the apron of
one, and the other attempte to eXtinRuish the
blaze, in order tc protect her sister. The mother
of the girls was away at the time, and when she
returned both of her children were burned ia =
horrible manner.
During the storm at Monis, MIMI, Mary Glib
son, eighteen years of age, started from tho
house of one of the neighbors to her home, which
was only a short distance away. IL was found
on Sunday morning that she had not reached
home, and search was Immediately made, which
resulted in finding her in u small clump OF
bushes so badly frIzeE shat she died very soon
after being taken 10 her fsther's house.