The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

Fire at Appleton Wis, on saturday, destroyed
property Of the value OF $l5,OOp.
d. P. Beattie, a merchant of Montreal died on
Saturday while reading newspaper.
On Saturday fire DESTROYED the works % the
stave company at Depbos, o. Loss $4,000
Archdeacons Hotel and Dodd's stable at New
ark, N, j., were burned Saturday. Loss $4,000
At Jackson, Tenn, on Saturday, the compress
and $50 bales OF cotton were burned. Loss $lS,-
600.
Charles Dougherty entered a New York shoot
ing gallery on Saturday, seized a large target
pistol and blew out his brains.
C. N. Is. Evans, editor of the Milton, N. G.,
Chronicle, died Saturday morning. He was the
author OF the "Fool-Klller" letters.
Isaac S. Waterman, a prominent business man
OF Philadelphia, and for sixty years wholesale
grocer in that city, died on Saturday.
The BODY of william A. Burdics found in
the ruins OF the Cincinnati Southern depot on
Saturday. His wife is insane with grief.
s. B. Paige, president of the Paige Lumber
Company, Duluth, and interested in business
enterprises in Davenport, Ia committed suicide
yesterday.
Charles P. stillman, miller of Zumhrota.
MINI, son of prominent Cmcago merchant,
was found dead in his room in a st. Paul hotel
on Saturday.
ing the name of Dorsey county to De Soto 1t
was named for ex-senator Dorsey during the re-
construction era.
Frank Dougherty. superintendent of the Col
umbus, o., water-wOrks, and one of the best and
most favorably known citizens of that city, died
on Saturday night in the fifty-ifth year of his
age.
william McKinnon q well-known STOCK man,
of BellefOntane, o., was thrown from his horse
and dragged over the frozen ground on Satur-
day He is badly, aud it is feared fatally,
injured.
A fire at Grove Station. on the Baltimore e.
Ohio railway, near Pittsburg. on Saturday, de.
stroyed two farn-houses, in one of which two
children, aged five and three years. were burned
to DEATH
At Pittsbnrg last evening, George Kirsch was
found dead in his house on Brownsville avenue,
with TWO stabs in his face. Two brothers named
Williams are accused of the crime, and the police
are searching for them. The cause of the muir
der was an old grudge.
The roundhouse of the AtchisoD, Topeka e.
Santa Fe railroad, at Dodge City, caught fire on
Friday night in the oil and burned. Two
locomotives were destroyed. Through the eff
forts of citizens nine other engines were saved.
The total loss is about $4,000.
While Policeman Louis Walters, of New York,
was escOrtng woman named AuH Lehy, up the
stairs of the Ftty-seventh-street Police Court,
on Saturday she eluded his grasp and threw
herself from a second-story window tn the
ground, receiving injuries from the effects OF
which she died IN short time
A MandaH, d. r., dispatch reports that Peter
J. Book shot and killed Stephen Walsh on
claim in Little Heart Valley The latter at
Book to leave the same at the nuzzle of a gun.
Yesterday Books was engaged on his claim,
when Welsh fired upon HIM. Book returned the
fire, killing Walsh Instantly,
In Hart county, Georgia, a man named Her
ring came bone drunk His wife, seeing ner
husband coming, and noticing his condition,
stepped out OF the hOase TO avoid him, leaving
an infant in the building. Hearing the child cry
she went back and looked through a crack, and
saw the father with the child lying on the
hearth, andlhe standing over 1t with shovel
pouring hot ashes on it. The mother raised an
alarm and the father fed The child was dead
When ee mother reached II. The father made
his escaoe,