The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-02
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1883.

owns 80 600 acres IF coal land-more than any
coal company in the world-and Will mine 4'ooV
tons OF coal per day.
Rev. L. Dewitt Talmage has been invited to
speak one day at the Mitchell oamp-meeting,
which commences In August.
John Waleott, David MCGOWAN and William
Barnes were suffOcated by black damp at well
near Lackawanna, Pa, on Saturday.
Henry NierliEg shot and killed by his di-
vorced wife, Mary j. Nierling, on Willow CREEK
near New Chicago, NJ. T., on Saturday.
The conference of the New Brunswick ana
Prince Edward Island Methodist Church adopted
the basis of union by vote OF 40 to %.
The strike of the printers continues at Omaha.
Newspapers are issuing regularly, and the offices
are filling up slowly with non-HniOn men.
Patsy Burns wants TO stand up before John L.
sullivan on the same terms as were given Mltch-
ell HIS friends offer to back him for S1.oOo.
Paul Strobaeh, United States marshal OF the
Montgomery, Ala, district, has been triumph
antly acquitted Of the charges brought against
him,
Charles Atwood, while Intoxicated. shot jus
tice John f. Parker in Fulton. N. Y, on Satur-
day. "arkers condition is critical Atwood es-
capped,
Libel suits aggregatins $4,000 have been
brought against the Cincinnati News Journal by
the prOprietors and two bOarders ct the Madison
House.
August WEEKLY, aged ten years, while swim
ming in the river at Plymouth. on saturday
afternoon, got beyond his depth, and was
drowned.
A man and wife are on trial at Scranton, Pa,
ing them upon a hot ooOking-stove to cure them
of stealing.
Dugald Mckenzie, living on farm near Mid
land, Mich, shot his wife in the head on Satur-
day. She is badly injured, ert not fatally. Fam
lily trouble.
Martin Moran, aged nineteen, was struck by
| lightning, on his fathers farm, near Edgeheld
| Junction, Tenn, while shocking oats, and was
instantly killed.
! The machne-shops OF the Boston & Maine
Railway, at Chariestown, were burned, on Satur-
| day, with eight locomotives. The loss iS eStl-
| mated at 5000
| A fire in Cottonwood Falls, Kan, consumed
twenty bindings, including all the business
| houses in the town except seven. Loss 800, 600;
| insurance, SIS, 900.
| Thieves entered the residence of George
Askns. a merchant at Forest Hill, on Friday
night, and took away $500, which they found in
| Mr.. Askins's vest pocket.
| Stephen s. Price, of Philadelphia has been
held 10 answer embezzler for losing in
| speculati0ns $S00,00 intrusted to him the
| executor of the Richardson estate.
W. c. Merritt, penniless Young man of Bati-
| more aged twenty, fell heir to 81 500 600 and
married blooming Washington widow old
| enough to be his mother all in one week.
| Miss Nellie Hale, daughter of the Rev. Ed
| ward Everett Hale. whose dangerous illness in
! Paris summoned her parents thither few
| weeks ago, is rapidly regaining her health.
| The directory of New York shows that the
greatest increase of population for the year was
| in the territory above Six.feth street, on the
east side. Westchester county Is rapidly being
I
| Between the hours of 2 and 8 on Saturday at
! ternoon tfty-siX boats, carrying 23.O00000 feet
of lumber, left Bay City. Mich. for Ohio and the
East being the largest fleet that ever left that
| port IN one day.
| The steamship Nevada brings $50 Mormon
| converts in charge OF twenty-five missionaries.
The converts are from Sweden. Denmark, Wales,
England and Norway. The number of men and
| women is about equal
Two children of John New. OF Elkhart. died on
| Saturday of diphtheria. There five more
| cases in the family 1t seems very malignant.
| Charles Hoover also lost two children by the
same disease. II is battling the best skill.
The cracker factory of Goldsmith & Winter. a
new enterprise, at Dallas, Tex, burned to the
ground on Saturday. Loss, $50, 600; insurance.
1 500, 600. boardIa g-house adjoining was also
| destroyed Loss, $500; insurance, s., 800.
Major Ellis p. Phipps, ex-superintendent of the
Philadelphia Ios-nOuse, recently convicted Of
forgery, was sentenced on Saturday To FIVE years
imprisonment In the county prison in separate
and solitary confinement with hard labor. An
appea! to the Supreme Court will be taken at Its
session In November.
News comes of probably fatal shooting at
Myers Station, on the Kentucky Central road. in
Nicholas county, Kentucky. DR.. John Bowman
was shot by his brOtheT-in-law, John Smart, at g
O'Clock this morning. There has been feud
between the parties for some time, owing to a
scandal in the family, Bowman having charged
Smart with improper relations with his wife,
who is Smart's sister.