The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-08
BREvITIEs.

r. r. Hefford has been nominated by the Re-
publicans for mayor of Buffalo.
Cobb Shelton, of Houston, killed his son with
an ak. The murderer has escaped.
An organization Is perfecting at Philadelphia
for the relief of sufferers by the Rhine overflow.
The wife Of United States Marshal sai--ss
Milwaukee,, died in the insane asylum at that
city Friday.
Weavers at the Aquidenck mill, Providence,
r. T., refuse to go to work, and the mill will
remain closed.
The Fall River Iron works Company have
given notice OF a 10 per cent. reduction of wages,
to take effect Jan, Is.
Hon. W. R. Morrison, Of Illinois, declines to
have his name considered in connection with the
speakership OF the next House.
Rev. ]. B. Messiah, a colored deacon, was adj
vanced to the priesthood of the Episcopal
church, at Cairo, Ill, yesterday.
Samuel Darling, a prosperous leather mer-
chant OF New York, was killed on the LoL
Island railway track at Glen Cove.
Ransom H. Perkins, of Washington, Vt, a
farmer, has been committed to jail, charged with
the forgery of a note for over $1,000
Crime is so rampant in Newbnryport, Mass
that the citizens have held an Indignation meet
ing to devise means for it's extinction.
AdOlph Mann, a young student in Philadel-
phia, poisoned himself. He had applied himself
too closely to study, and upset his brain.
Owen Lynch was killed and John MoGoyern
and John McCarty seriously injured, near Glen
don, Pa, station, by locomotive backing. up for
a train.
JdnCS hC1ONcIHy VI NcWdIhy IHt W6ll-huuWu
baseball player, has signed a contract TO play
with the Covington club in 1888, at a salary OF
$l,400.
Alloys Meisel, aged f~fty-one. of rs Douglass
street, Brooklyn, N. Y, a dealer in toys at 81
Chambers street, New York city, killed himself
yesterday.
Thomas Fitzgerald, proprietor of the Phila-
delphia Item, is accused in the Common Pleas OF
the theft of court records from the prothonota-
RVS office.
The sixty-eighth anniversary of the battle <
New Orleans will be celebrated at New York to-
day. Hon. John g. Carlisle, of Kentucky, will
deliver the GRAFTON.
Abort a month hence. Simon Cameron and
Charles A. Dana will leave New York IN a palace
car for San Francisco, to spend two months in
search OF something new.
During the panic caused by a fire on the altar
of st. PatricR's Church, in New London, Conn.
saturday morning, many persons in the congre-
CATION were bruised. No one was killed.
Mary Hartenslein, of New Haven, Conn.,, who
caused the arrest Of Mayor Shelton and DR..
Brown, charged with procuring an abortion
upon her, dieu yesterday of heart disease.
Robert Rose and Jack Moore, two middle-aged
men, while asleep In a house in Webster county,
West Virginia, were burned to death. They had
probably drunk heartily, built a large fire and
laid do Tn.
ReDeeca Gearsley, an aged lady, was found
dead in bed in West Philadelphia this morning,
having beer smothered. She had taken a hes'
brick to bed with her, and, tho bedclOthes taking
fire, she was suff5cated by the smoke.
Captain Herbert F. eye, of the English navy,
was robbed of 800, 600 worth OF diamonds on q
railroad train, near Philadelphia. He is IL
brotherin-law of Madame Albanl, the singer,
whose diamonds are among the stolen property,
Russell Lester went from Muskego, L. T., upSto
Ninita to kill a man named Rutledge, with whom
he had a quarrel. They met, and Rutledge put tho
contents of a double-barreled shotgun Into Les
ters body, and lie was taken back home a corpse.
The body of Moses G. Hanauer, a wealthy
Hebrew and coffee dealer of 10l Water street,
New York, and who resides at POT West One
Hundred and Twenty-eighth street, was found
at Fort Washington last night. Apparently,
suicide.
B. fl. Campbell, of Chicago. representing locat
capitalists, has offered the Secretary of the Inte-
riOr an annual rental of $4,000 for a tract OF
land in Indian Territory thirty miles square, on
which to raise cattle, with the right to cut thu
Der for wire fences.
At W|illiamsport, Pa, ex-County Commission
ers Daniel Carson and William Elmer, pleading
gnilty to emnezzlemant, pay a fine of $3.50 each.
and will be imprisoned in the Eastern %peniten-
tiary. Corson for twenty-one months, and Elmer
for five months,
The stockholders of the Philadelphia Centen-
NAL Exposition are behind to tho amount of
81 100000. On the ground of general benefits TO
the country, New York bankers and merchants
have forwarded to Congress a memorial for an
appropriation to cover the deficit.
MR. T BOARD. JeffersOnyilie. Clarke conn.