The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-18
BREVITIEs.

Thomas j. Leckey, adyer, of Philadelphia, has
suspended; liabilities small.
1t is believed in San Francisco that Henry
Willard has recently purchased several lines of
railway in that State.
Governor Waller, of Connecticut, offers n re-
ward of 81 800 for the arrest and conviction of
Rose Clark's murderer.
After completing his starring tour III this
country, Sullivan will go TO England and give
exhibitions there and on the continent.
The tapestry weavers of Horner Brothers at
Philadelphia. have returned to work, the firm
giving the increase OF wages demanded.
John Meenan was drowned yesterday at Phil
adelphia while bathing. His companions have
been arrested charged with his murder.
All the duck mills at Lawrence, Mass, are in
full operation. One-third of the other mills are
topped and 200 hands are out at the Averett
Mills.
Lieutenant Noyes, of the United States flag
ship RichInoud, died at Yokohama, recently,
from the effects of an accident causing fracture
of The skull.
Fifteen yearling colts, worth S26,375, have
been shipped from Lexington to the Dwyer
Brothers, in New York. They were bought in
Kentucky and Tennessee.
James N. Lipscomb, Secretary of State of South
Carolina, and John p. T1omas. jr., private sec
rotary OF the Governor, had a personal encoun-
ter on Saturday, and a duel Is talked of.
A gang OF cOunterfeiters have been arrested
in Philadelphia who are believed TO have manu-
featured large quantities of spurious South
American coin, particularly that of Brazil.
James Eurney, widely known among horse
men all over the country as an extensive and
successful dealer in fine horses, died at Toledo
on Sunday morning of dropsy of the stomach,
aged f1fty-three.
9. S. Comet, senior member OF the firm of Con-
net Bros. pOrk-paekers, OF st. Joseph, Mo-,
committed suicide about l o'clock on Sunday
morning by hanging himself with a rope hal
ter.
At the Pharmaceutical convention at Wash.
ingto n, the torsion balance, invented by Drs.
Roeder and Springer, of Cincinnati, was much
admired. 1t prevents friction at the point of r-
tation. $50 !
The whites of Longview, Tex, are under arms
on account of reports that the negroes have
Threatened to burn the town. The leading men
est of peace.
Wong Chin Foo, the Chinese editor in New
York, thinks that If the Franco-Tonquin war
continues France will have to fight not only
China, hut every Christian nation havlng resi-
dentsjn China.
Buffalo" Miller, president of the whisky pool.
has refused to suhscribe to the OHIO Democratic
campaign fund. He says the Scott law is a rea-
sOnable compromise. and the brewers are acting
like fools in lighting it.
Al Columbus, o., last night, an unknown
young man, who said he was on his way from
Indianapolis to his home in Dayton, was run
over by the cars and killed. There was nothing
on his person by which to identify him.
The new Tennessee law against gambling is
being made DugatOry by using decks of cards
upon which pictures of animals appear instead
of the usual spots. The cards are designated
by the names OF the animals whose pictures they
bear.
Charley Jones, a colored porter in Rourgine's
Lima House billiard saloon, at Lima, o., was
stabbed in the saloon early yesterday, and
killed. The perpetrator of the deed is unknown,
but Dutch Charley" has been arrested on sus-
plclon.
Yesterday morning, at 2:15 O'Clock, q freight
train ran into another freight near Ashland, O.,
smashing a locomotive, telescoping "A cah0ose,
demolishing a car, and killing a lot of fine
blooded cattle just from Scotland. on their way
to Kansas.
"Buteh" Shannon was one OF a party of Young
men, at Lancaster, Ohio, who climbed q bluff
above a colored camp-meeting and Knocked the
proceedings. on Sunday. He lost his balance.
fell three hundred feet, and met his death on
the jagged rocks.
In a desperate row in n North Toledo saloon
on Sunday morning Ellsworth Prohuusla, a
sailor, was shot by john Tappan. TIE hall en-
tered the right side of the nose and came out
just behind the left ear, producing what must
necessarily be a fata, wound.
AT Delphos, o., on Sunday, fra DESTROYED the
Pittsburg hoop and stave factory, in voiving "A
loss of 800, 900. The remains of the engineer
and night Waterman Ben. .Kefer were found in
the ruins In the engine-rOOm, burned to a crisp.