The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-23
BREVITIES,

In Opeltk, Ala. riots have been renewed. and
the Montgomery military are under orders.
The proposed visit of the Prince of Wales to
canada III March next meets with general Hu-
prevail.
Near Gretna, La, on Tnesday, Paul Coudier.
aged eighteen, shot and killed his father during
a dispute about a pair of shoes.
Charles Nelson, stepscu OF A. j.. Linn. of Chi
cago, cut his throat at Rock Island, Ill Satur.
DAY evening, but ut last reports was still living.
General depression in the petroleum business
forced the failure OF j. ". Humphrey IL Co, of
Bradford, dealers In Oll-weil supplies, with liabll-
lttes of T90. 900.
Henry Smitn, forty-fve years old. n bridge
tender at Rochester, \. Y, shot his wife aud then
himself. He died instantly. Mrs. Smith will
probably recover.
Rev. Arthur Little, OF Chicago, was summoned
rom MS pulpit on sunday morning on account
of the critical condition of his wife, who was
dead when he reached her bedside.
A telegraphic messenger boy named Barnes,
aged fifteen, drowned at the Nashville wharf
boat SUNDAY night by falling from the boat,
where he had been To deliver a message.
the Rev. Robert Weightman, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and deputy grand master of
Odd-fellows of Shenandoah. Pa, dird on Sunday
morning, at that city, after q brief illness.
In q row ar "A dance-house at Waco. Tex, on
saturday night, Bill Houton, a negIO musician
or the establishment, was killed, and W. T.
wright, a white visitor, MORALLY wounded.
Michael Baron. nineteen years old. recently
from Cleveland, o., shot himself fatally. at Bal
timore, on sunday. He first ATTEMPTED to rake
hIS sweetheart's life, but the pistol failed to go
Louis Trempe, of Sault ST. Marie. attempted
to cross the Straits of Mackinaw. on Friday
morning, with a team, carrying The mails, ana
no trace OF driver, cart or horses has been seen
since.
Repairs being completed, the Cleveland Rul-
ling Mill CUmpany's sreel works and rail mill
Will resume operations tomorrow morning. The
remainder OF the works will continue running
as usual.
A CHATTANOOGA dispatch says the Roane Iron
Works have shut down for two weeks. A redur-
ton of wages of from 10 to i25 per cent, Is an
nounced, and the union Is now negotiating IL
compromise.
A farmer named John Welty, near Wooster, o.,
was discovered Sunday, two miles from home,
frozen to death. He was intoxicated. ana tell
asleep. He had been missing three days, and
was aged fifty years.
John NJ. FalcOner. of New York, for the past
twenty-five years treasurer of the artists fund,
is a defaulter for SIS 900. A ht is sixty years
or age and has two maiden sisters to support, he
Will not he prosecuted.
Mayor POwderlev, OF Scranton, has resigned
the position of grand master workman OF the
knights of Labor of the United States. He will
be succeeded by the Grand Worthy Foreman ,
Ralph Beaumont, of Elmira.
Two freight trains were in collision, on Sunday
morning, near Pennypack station. on the Penn
sylvunia railroad. A score or more of ears
were thrown from the track. The engineer Of
Que train was seriously injured.
An attempt was made on Tuesday to burn a
s~iX-story building in New York used for offices,
stores and dwellings. The fire was set near the
principal exit, but fortunately was discovered
before 1t had made much Roadway.
At Brinkley, on the Memphis & Southwestern
railroad, at 3 o'clock yesterday morning, a fight
occurred IN a saloon between two strangers
named H0lconbe and John Alien, IN which the
latter fatally stabbed the former with Il bread
knife.
The tow-hOat /. n. Phillips, while on her way
down the Ohio river to assist the steamer j. n.
Bigley, which was laid up at Dangerous harhur,
was struck by a large cake OF ice on Sunday
evening, and SUNK. The officers and crew es-
capped.
Claus Spreckels, the sugar king Of The sand
wIch Islands, talks of establishing Il refinery in
Baltimore. He claims that his presence in
Hawaii kept Kalakaua from making a treaty
with China, by which the islands would have
been ovcrrnn by coolies, He prefers that the
Americans should he the next race TO take pos
session.