The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-11
BREVITIEs.

A ten-acre field of oats, near Mason City, la. =,
thrashed $50 bushels.
A boiler explosion at Fort Williams. Ont, yes
terday. killed P. Caldwell and L. Hawiek.
At Tahleduah, /. II, Running Bird was hanged,
on Monday, for The murde; of Running Water.
A death has occurred at Ocean SPRINGS, eighty
miles from New Orleans, which Is thought to
have been caused by yellew fever.
A deaf. dumb and blind colored girl named
Ada Bayard, was murdered by unknown parties
In her fathers house at GuysbOro, n. 8.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the Society of
the Army of the Tennessee will be held at Cleve-
land, O., on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. II
and Is.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Gloucester, said to have
been the wealthiest colored woman in America.
died at her residence in Brookly q, on Wednes-
day.
The steamship City of Rome arrived at New
York from Queenstown on Thursday, six days,
twenty hours and thirty minutes out, the fastest
time on record.
The following Indiana postmasters were COM
mtssiOned on Thursday: William c. StoLe, Su-
gan; Joseph II C%recroft, Darwin; Charles Dun
can, Maplewood.
The Bartholdi statue committee adopted the
design for a pedestal offered by Richard NJ.
Hunt. Its description will not be made public
until it is copyrighted.
The New York Tribune fresh air fund sent
forty children to shenango Forks under the
supervision of a clergyman of that place. They
Will be gone two weeks.
At St. Catherine, Ont. the fremen's demon
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kind ever seen in Canada. Fifteen hundred
fireman took part in the procession.
Seven Wilkes colts persisted in a burning stable
at Lexington, KY, on Thursday. They belonged
to Mr.. James Shackleford, of Richmond. and
were valued at from ST. 500 to $1,000 each.
On Thursday a train on the Cleveland, Lorain
& Wheeling road was wrecked by an open
switch, and the engineer and fireman killed.
The switch had been opened by some scoundrel
for the purpose.
At Shenandoah, Pa, Thomas Williams was
fata1lu anA nurb H. xro GnriA1alu bnrna1
by an explosion of fire damp, yesterday morn
ing, at Packer coiliery, No. 4. of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company.
At Detroit, Mich, Yesterday afternoon, the
large barrel factory belonging to Wm. Sauer
was burned to the groQnd; also, three or four
dwellings and several barns. Total loss about
$50, 600; insurance light.
Alderman Hill and saloon-keeper Genau, of
Cincinnati, have had a set-JO. which resulted in
a mallet, and the beer vendor receiving n dan
gerous stab in the neck.
A boiler exploded in a saw-mill ct Liberty,
KY, on Thursday, killing Friend Ray and "a
young man named Morrison. Ex-County Judge
Andrew Govener and his two sons and three
other persons were wounded.
AT Huntsville, Ala, Blair Banister, aged four
teen, son OF the Episcopal minister of that place,
yesterday accidentally shot and killed James
Matthews, aged nine, son of City Clerk e, Il.
Matthews. The boys were playing with an old
musket thought to be unloaded.
AT Boston, yesterday morning, the staging on
the fourth story of a building being erected on
Washington street, gave way, prectpitating four
masons to the ground. Frank Roberts, foreman,
Will probably die, and the other three are serl-
ously but not fatally injured.