The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-09
TELEGRAPHIO BREvITIEs.

The first Florida strawberries have reached
New York.
Eight hundred men have resumed work on the
new capitol at Albany. N. Y
Two men were drowned in the Hover mine at
Greensboro, N. c., on Wednesday.
The loss to stockmen throughout Texas by the
recent cold weather will not exceed per cent.
The Massachusetts, House-107 to s6---rejected
the bill for making election day legal holiday.
Frank Spells, of Fairly, Mo-, fell down stairs at
LeaVenworth, on Wednesday, ana broke his
neck.
At Lynchburg Va, Emory E. Hawks, age
fifteen, a mail-carrier, has been arrested for
stealing letters.
Henry Peck, of Louisville, committed suicide
On Tuesday night by drinking ladle full Of
double extract of I've.
Robert Cochran murdered a man, McDrew, in
Alabama last November. He will be hanged for
the crime on March g.
Ten persons at Santa Catarina Ayomecatia, in
Toxcala, have died from eating mushrooms,
and four more are expected to die.
The sesqui-centennial of the founding of GeOr-
gia will be celebrated at Savannah on the 18th
and 18th insts. with much ceremony.
At Norfolk, Va, was R. P. Voight & Co.'s
Wholesale grocery burned on Wednesday MORN
ing. Loss, 1888. coo; insured for $4,000.
Sergeant Vanderburg, of New York, lost five
blue blooded hantams. He values them SO highly
that he has offered $500 for their recovery.
Edward Murray, 'longshoreman in New York,
beat his wife so badly that she died. He was
committed yesterday on charge of murder.
W. C. Callicott, q book seller of Clarinda, Ia,
horsewhlpped Dr. Reinhold on the steps of the
rostOffice, and then called on the mayor and was
fined S25,
A tank exploded in the ferllizing mandatory
of Amor, Smith & Co., at Cincinnati yesterday
morning, fatally in1uring workman named Au'
gust Dale.
An explosion in Andrew Smiths restaurant at
Norfolk Va. yesterday, killed the cook, injured
several persons and damaged the property con-
sideTably.
The stationary boiler of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company at Lost creek, Pa, exploded.
Barney HellenJhaH was killed and the building
demolished.
Charles Packard, chief of police at Niagara
Falls, was badly pummeed by hackman for
Directing to the extortions practiced by that
class upon winter visitors.
John c. Ralston. foreman of a soap factory in
Milwaukee, claims to be one of the heirs to real
estate in Glasgow valued at $3,O00,00O, which
Is still in the hands of the authorities.
George scheller, of Milwaukee, who is charged
with firing the Newhall House, was on Tuesday
evening taken under guard TO the bedside of his
son who had been badly injured by coasting.
AT Boone, Ia, on Wednesday evening, the
boiler in what is known the Shepard coal
mine exploded, instantly killing the engineer
George Fleming, of Boone, and fatally 1njurlng
another man.
A dangerous gang of thieves and burglars
known as the "Molly Macks," has been captured
at Washington The detective connected the
band with twelve burglaries and recovered
much stolen property.
II is said of Council Bluffs, Ia, that safe-rilnG
is so common that merchants leave their safes
unlocked. One of the leading mills has the com
bination pasted up above the safe, with instruc
tons to burglars TO use it and do no injury tC
the safe.
william Doty fourteen years of age a son of a
prominent farmer, near Nebraska City, Neb.
was shot Wednesday afternoon by the academia
discharge of a gun that he was taking from a
wagon. The sixth and seventh ribs of the right
side were shattered to pieces.
After raising the smoklngcar from the river a,
Reedsbnrg, Wis, where it was thrown by the
wreck of Friday morning last, the dead body o.
a man apparently about forty years OLD, dressed
in the garb of a farmer or lumbermaD, was found
in the closet, though nothing was discovered tC
indicate his name or address. He is supposed to
have been Ed Haspes, of saltwater, Mich.