The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-24
T~EhEGRAPHIO BREvITIEs.

The contribution of Philadelphia for the Ger
Tnan. suffers aggregate 10000 marks.
Wilmington, Del, reports thirty eases of small
pox, nine of which have proved fatal.
The residence Of Senator Frye, at Lewiston,
Maine, was damaged $1,000 by fire on Monday.
The Marquis Of Lorne visited Fort Sumter on
Monday, the Princess Louise remaining AT the
hotel.
william Brimhle. an Eughshman and saloon
keeper, at Hartford, Conn, killed his wife and
Self on Monday.
The Hon. H. Dockey, a Republican, will con
test the seat Of S. j. Bennett. co-ngressman.at-
large of North Carolina.
a large steam mill near Saratoga, belonging to
the A. !: stewart estate, was burned on Monday.
Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
Gus Meyers, mate Of the steamer i. s. Rich
ards, was probably fatally assaulted by a col
ored deck hand at New Orleans.
In a riot at a dissolu.e house in Waco, Tex. on
Monday, WI; Wright, a white man, and Hugh
houston, a eolOred man, We're killed.
The judiciary committee of the Maine House
OF Representatives will sOOu report a bill estab-
ilshlng the death penalty for marder.
DR.. C: L. Blood, charged with extensive swim
dies IN Massachusetts, has been arresteuin PhH-
adelphla and held for a further hearing.
Patsy Early, confined in the St. Lonis jail,
committed suicide by jumping from the upper
TIER OF cells 10 the stone tagging beneath.
Rebeun l.. Young, OF Fulton, n. Z. escaped
from the Onohdoga penitentIary on Monday. lie
was serving u ten years term for burglary.
Captain John B. Offers committed suicide in
1titlIupFe Ou mUnldN. nc was wei Known as
the commander of various German steamers.
Jennie Bodman, a NorristOwn. Pa, recluse,
was found dead Ia her house on Monday. 1t is
supposed that she wac suffocated by coal gas.
Herman Dahlman, a discharged soldier. ont Of
WORK aud friends in st. Paul, shot himself dead
on Monday morning at a cheap clearinghouse.
Four revenue officers OF Louisville penetrated
the moOnshine region at Galloway, Kentucky,
and in a daylight raid destroyed two Illicit stills.
Sullivan and Coburn have been kept under po-
lice surveillance ever since their arrival at To-
ronto, and their glove fight will probably be pre-
vented.
The Cleveland Rollinglnill Company's steel
works and rail-mill resumed operations yester-
running as usual.
Seth Page, justice of the peace at Ophir. Col,
attempted to cross the range without snow-shOes
at S~llverton last Tuesday. He was found by q
inaii-earrier, Saturday, frozen TO death.
+. c. Anderson (colOred), distributing clerk In
the postof1ce at New Orleans. has been arrested
for the larceny OF letters. Twenty opened and
unopened letters were found with Anderson.
Paul Wiegert, whose name appears among the
missing Of the steamer Cimbria. resided at Sagi-
nav CITY, Mich, ana went to Germany in Sep
teinher last to look after a small inheritance. He
wrote home that he shonld sail on the Cinbria.
On Sunday evening an old lady named Mary
Clark, living at Houston, Tex, was pronounced
in n dying condition. Preparations were made
for preparing her shroud. About II o'clock, her
attendant being asleep, The building caught fire,
and Mrs. Clark was literally roasted. The female
attendant barely escaped with her life.