The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-25
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

henry Barnard, late cashier OF the defunct
| City Bank OF Rochester, N. Y, has been ar
| rested, =
The Michigan Central railroad depot and ee-
! yator at Reese, Mich was burned on Tuesday
morning.
| Five members of the sophomore class OF Bow
dom College have been indefinitely suspended
| for hazing.
Fire ut Cambridgeport, Mass. destroyed sew
| eral business houses yesterday forenoon. Loss
49, .000 insured.
| The Mercantile Bank of the city OF Mexico has.
within its nine months of existence. paid diyi-
dends of l l per cent.
Peter Ballantine, the millionaire brewer of
Newark, N. j., died on Tuesday of pneumonia
| aged nlnety-one years.
DR. George NJ. Beard, of New York, who test-
fled expert in the Guiteau trial died of
pneumonia on Tuesday.
The Ohio Republican State committee has
fixed the time for the next Republican State con
vention for June 8 and 6.
The wife and four children of Solomon Bartel-
stein, OF Cleveland, went down with the ship
Cimbria in the North Sea.
The Elk Hill Coal and Iron Company's
breaker, at Dickson City, Pa, burned yesterday.
Loss $4,000; partially insured.
The court has dismissed the suit of Colonel
Jos. NJ. Selover against United States Senator
Jerome b. Chatfoe to recover $4,000,
A freight tram on the Naugatuck road ran over
and killed Mrs George Thompson, OF Campville
at Ihomaston, Conn, on Tuesday afternoon.
William ". Horning was arrested on Tuesday
morning at Toledo. o., for counterfeiting nickel
trial.
o. II. Gregg, tho absconding United States
mailronte agent who robbed registered packages
on the Texas aud Pacific railroad, has been ar
rested at Nashville, Tenn.
Joseph Hiscoek, of Toronto is apparently
dead, but as he predicted that he would go into
trance, he Is now being watched in the hope
that lie Will recover consciousness.
Prof Alonzo Crittenden, LID president of
the faculty OF Packer Collegiate Institute for the
past thirtytwO years, died Brooklyn on Tues
DAY morning, aged elghty-one years.
Stewart Bros, of the Wellshire Mills, Frank
FORD Pa, have made an assignment. Liabilities
S6O,O00 assets not given. The failure is said
to be due to selling goods at less than cost.
Sam Reid's tobacco works, at Louisiana, Mo-.
burned on Tuesday night. Insured for $4,000
the stock was worth $4,000. Some Of the to-
bacco was saved; the works will be rebuilt
The Attorney general of New York has refused
to grant the application suit against the West
ern Union Telegraph Company for forfeiture OF
It's CHARTER on account of alleged illegal issue OF
stock.
= An express train on the Camden a. Atlantic
r~iise~,f' TuesVIay nIoraiug STRUCK
crossing the track, Instantly killing Edward De
Waltz and iDjuring two Others 1t Is thought,
fatally.
William James. fireman a Panhandle
passenger train, when east of Newark, jumped
from the engine, yesterday morning at O'Clock
and crushed in the back part of the skull, dying
Immediately.
Herman Abel, a well-kuow brewer of Hutch
ison. Mimi, borrowed revolver of Robert
Quade, his soniD-aw, and shot himself dead
with 1t, after having told his family the day and
hour he would commit the deed
Newport, VT. dispatoh says SO NJ. Fields, a
prominent citizen and railroad contractor, has
been arrested by the Treasury Department for
passing counterfeit half dollars. He claims he
used the bogus coins inn0oently."
A Boston dispatch saws President Phillips of
the Toledo, Cincinnati & st. Louis railway, says
General Manager Phillips has not left the road
and probably will not. The company has do
cided TO suspend publication ofits earnings.
Conductor Eugene s. Hoseley, of the New
Haven & Northampton railroad who ran the
freight train which collded on Sept. 10 with
wild freight train, killing three men.
reste Tuesday on charge of manslaughter.
Joseph HenOy and son. and Joseph Panec.
wife and two children destined for Cleveland,
were lost on the Cimbria. Heuby lived at Cleve-
land. and induced Panec, his brother-in-law, and
family to leave their home in Cracow and sail for
America
The body of Michael Nel0h was found on
Tuesday near Emmittsburg, Ia. frozen stiff. 1t
is supposed thar Welch started from a friends
house, and was on his way home New Years
night, and in the storm and cold became lost on
the prairies.
Celia Goethe, German cook. employed by
Edward Burling, of Chicago, was instantly killed
by the explosion of a water-back. The stove was
blown into fragments and the kitchen was set
on fire. ply stefan states that the girl died
from concusslOn of the brain.
Lizzie Herman, seventeen years OF age was
standing in front of a fire at her residence,
Louisville, on Tuesday afternoon, with her baby
sister Alice in her arms. Lizze's clothes caught
fire, and in attempting to save herself abe acci-
dentallv dropped her little sister into the CRATE
Her shrieks aroused the neghbOrs, and assist
ance quickly came. Both were probably fatally
burned. lta
A Wilkesbarre, Pa, telegram says an. extern
sive cave-in took place yesterday morning In
the Della ware 81 Hudson mine near the city, On
the surface the cracks are visible for acres in
either direction. number of houses settled
from six inches to two feet, alarming the in.
mates, who fed. The cavern has taken place
under the surface, and no less than twenty acres
have gone down.
Sam Lavery, ayoung telegrapher from Ham.
itOn, Ont, shot himself in the right temple on
Tuesday night at his room in the Union Hotel
Jackson, Mich He had been in depressed
spirits for some days. During the afternoon he
had his picture taken, which he sent to his
mother. He is not vet dead, but surgeons pro-
nOunce the wound fatal. His father is a wealthy
contractor at Hamilton. ~ =
Anna Brown, q neg-ess l04 years OF aSe was
burned to death on Tuesday at her home in Lou
isvills. She deaf aud dumb and also blind,
and was standing in front OF an open fire smok-
ing when her clothing caught fire. She was
unable to shout fer assistance, and as there was
nobody In the room at the time, she was burned
to death The letters &c. L." were found
branded upon her back,
william Weise was fatally shot, yesterday
forenoon, by j. N Hook, at the latter's residence,
in Newport, Ky. Weise came to Hooks house
before daylight, 10 deliver bread, but coming in
at an unusual place, Hook mistoOl him for
burglar. He called to him, but Weise being
flcting a fatal wound. The grand Jury examined
the case and exonerated Hook.