The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-16
T-ELEGRAPHIO BREvITIEs.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The DickeY House, Bangor, Me-, has been de-
strOyed By fire.
Judge L. B. Harrigan, of Memphis, died on
Wednesday afternoon.
a shooting tournament will be held at Pitts
burg April 3, 4, 8 and 6.
Mary Hughes Groves died at InvOinnes, Que
bee, on Sunday, aged III years.
st. Xavier Church in Cincinnati, destroyed by
hre last April, will be reopened next Sunday.
Fire in Canal street, New Orleans, on Wednes-
day, did $4,000 damage; insurance, $4,000.
George W. Dunbar, of Boston, dealer in rail-
road supplies, has failed. Liabilities about $780,
900.
David W. Mclean. ship chandler, of New York
city, assigned on We dnesday, giving preferences
for over 800, 900.
John Baldwin killed William Watkins at Ro-
anoke, Va, and then himself. Both were colored
ana rivals in love.
AT Liverpool, N. g., yesterday, sixteen build
ings IN the business part of the place were
burned. Loss, $500
At Grafton Station, O., yesterday. the steam
Touring mill of Mander a Smith was burned.
Loss $4,000; insurance $1,000.
Governor Ludlow, of New Jersey, has signed a
bill to compel the stamping of articles manu-
featured in the States Prison as such.
Robert Mahon and Charles NJ. Smith, students
in Columbia College. New York, have been ar
ralgned fer threatening 20 light a duel.
L. G. Schmidt, a stove dealer on Main street,
Cincinnati, died suddenly while taking a sui
phosaline bath on Wednesday evening,
Fogarty & Brother, Wholesale boot and shoe
manufacturers and dealers, of Montreal, have
suspended, with liabilities Of 100000.
During 1882 the gross revenues of the Western
Union Telegraph CompscJ amounted to SlS,-
1913 1868, and the net profits were $7,624,833.
The East Liverpool Glass Manufacturing Com
pany, of Ohio, has made an assignment, The
600.
W. ]. whitman, formerly of Chicago, was muir
dered by a negro at Pearsall, Tex, the tragedy
being the result of jealousy on the part of the
negro.
John Binan, a miner. while thawing out pow
der, for the Lake Champlain Ore Company,
Minerv1lle,N N. Y, yesterday morning, was Instant
ly killed.
The contractors for the $50 miles of the North
ern Pacific railroad remaining to be constru cted
promise that the gap will be closed before the LIST
of September next.
In a quarrel between Sam Murphy and -
Britain, both col0red men, at LecompstOn,
Kan., on Tuesday. Murphy shot Britain twice.
He will probably die. Cause, Jealousy.
A German resident of Philadelphia, acting I'M
der instructions from Berlin, is negotiating for
the purchase of several million acres of land in
Mexico for settlement by German emigrants.
William Walkenbaugh, of Point Kittaning, Pa,
was struck by a train in the outskirts of Pitts.
burg and his body dragged along the track and
gradually torn apart in q most horrible man
ner.
A fatal ARRAY occurred in New Carlisle o. Ed
ward Day had his throat cut from ear to ear
while attempting to eject a drunken loafer
named Spancook from his fathers place of bus
mess.
Fire yesterday morning damaged the hair fac
tory OF HardinGer d. Miller, at Cincinnati,
Spring-works are damaged $4,000; fully in
sured.
The strike for an advance of wages by the
helpers OF the Pottstown, Pa, Iron Company
throws $50 men out of employment. The pro-
p%rietors were only running The mills to give
steady work.
John Meeker, a Hungarian. was killed by
fall of coal at West Lehigh Colliery, near Mahan-
oy city, yesterday morning. His lamp exploded,
and before the body could be taken out it was
burned to a crisp.
The Ohio Supreme Court has affirmed the va
lidity of the Westerville ordinance, closing sa-
looms in that village from 8 in the evening until
z in the morning. This decision gives local op-
ton under existing laws.
Two boys, aged about sixteen, while trying to
cross the river at Cairo, H., in a skitf yesterday,
were carried by the wind and current under a
barge and drowned. Their homes are unknown,
and they were not recovered.
Frank Booker, an engineer in the employ of
the Burlington railway, jumped from his engine,
in Chicago, on Wednesday evening, and, falling
under the wheels, had both his legs cut off above
the knee. He cannot survive.
Manuel Pinheiro, one of the principal rubber
dealers of Para and prominently identified with
the recent corner in the rubber market, has COM
mitted suicide in consequence of the disruption
of the corner, by which lie lost heavily.
A new telegraph company has been formed in
New York, the projectors of which profess an
intention of building a line from the city of New
York through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois to Chicago. The capital stock is $25, 900.
A man in Sumter county, Georgia, has been
missing for several days. Tuesday some hunt
ers saw an object in a tree, and found it 20 be
the missing man, with his legs clutehed around
the trunk OF the tree ana a pistol ball in his
head.
The steamship Andes, which arrived in New
York on Wednesday from South America, reports
having passed a large school of whales about
100 miles east of Cape Henry. The whales
seemed, as seen from the steamers deck, to be
from tiftv-six to ITO feet long.
Billy Thompson was killed at Phoenix, Tex,
on Wednesday,, by a man named Watson, who is
a sawyer in a mill at that place. Thompson ap-
preached Watson in a threatening manner, say
ing: "Now we will have it ont" Watson fired
a load of buckshOt into his body, killing him in
stantly.