The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
SUNDAYS NEWS IN BRIEF.


A FIRE at Myersdale, Pa, destroyed ten small
stores
John Harrington was found murdered and rob
bed in Louisville, Ky.
The imports at New York for tho week ended
Dec. 6 were Sc, 523, 600.
George Schneider was arrested for the murder
of his mother, at Darrtown, o.
G. H. Cheatham was murdered in his bed at
home in Washington county, Kentucky
fire at West Randolph, VT, destroyed sew
eral stores and residences. Loss. $4,000.
Joel Parkhurst. Pennsylvania millionaire
died at his home in Elkland, aged eighty-five.
F. l. Marontate, dry-goods merchant, Bay
City, Mich, assigned Liabilities $780, 900, assets
ST., 900.
The Cummings & Kenney woodworking estab-
lishment, Boston, was damaged by fire to the eX-
tent of $50, 900.
The Elevated Railroad Company of New York
paid into the city treasury, as taxes, on Dec. D.
ST. 2S5, 533
The saw-fnill of Butterfleld & Crabb, at Alpena,
Mich, and 275, 900 feet of lumber were destroyed
by fire. Loss, $35, 000
James Wilson, brakeman on the T., D. & C.
railroad, was killed at Delphos, O., by being
caught between two cars.
The tobocco warehouses of Bosworth & Green
wood and NJ W. Rea, at Marietta and Newport,
o., were destroyed by fire.
A shooting ARRAY at Gatesville, Tex, resulted
in the death of three weknown farmers and
the wounding of four others.
Lowena Monroe, a Cincinnati miss aged ff-
teen, tried to drown herself in the Ohio river be-
cause her mother reprimanded her for losing the
family umbrella.
The American Bell Telephone Company has
decided to petition the Massachusetts Legislature
forAuthority to increase the capital from $40 000,
900 to $20,0 100000.
The New York World notes the arrest, on
charge of ENLIGHTENMENT, of George S. DOler, for
nineteen years in the employ of Miller 81 Co.,
dealers in bronze.
Ida Reicotte a member of Mapleson's opera
troupe, brought suit against him, and obtained an
attachment against his property to the amount of
81, 600, due for salary
Rev. J. P. McClain and wife, of Hamilton, O.,
sued the Cincinnati d. Eastern Railroad Company
for $4,000 each, as damages for injuries sus-
tanned by the Batavia bridge accident.
Governor Hoadly, on Saturday refused to
commute the sentence of John B. Hoffman,
sentenced to be hanged In Cincinnati, Dec. 16.
A reprieve had been granted from Oct. "a
VIM. R. Smith, late first clerk in the Virginia
State Auditors Office, who had been acquitted
several times upon trial for embezzlement, was
arrested, on Saturday night, on charge of steal
ing State funds.
S. E. Curtis, who opened saloon in Bloom
ington, o., but who refused to comply with the
6 o'clock closing ordinance was fined 800 and in
default of payment lodged in the county Jail at
Washington @. H.
Joseph Sims aged seven years, ventured on
thin ice on the canal at Westfield, Mass, Satur
day morning, and broke through. His brother
Charles, aged nine years, went to his rescue and
both were drowned.
freight train on the Ohio Central railroad
went through a burning bridge at McCutchens
vile, and twenty7three loaded coal cars fell into
the river The engine had crossed before the
bridge gave way under the weight of the train.
Notices were posted in five hint-ga manu-
factories at Bellaire, O., in two at Bridgeport,
o., and in three at Martins Ferry o. that af-
ter Dec II all work of pressers and finishers
will be paid by the piece, which means a reduc-
ton.
The Quincy (Ill) Wing states that Fred P
Taylor Democrat, elected to the General As
sembly from that city, is ineligible for the Office,
because he has not resided in the county the
requisite five years preceding his election. Tay-
lor registered and voted at Burlington, Ia at
the November election in 1880. If this proves
true tho Legislature will be Republican on joint
ballot
A passenger train on the Little Rock, Missis
sipp River & Texas railroad, when three miles
below Little Rock, was stopped by five masked
robbers who switched the train, took complete
possession and went through all the passengers.
About seventy-fve people were in the cars, and
great excitement followed. All were ordered to
hold up their hands, and the robbers then went
to work. They broke open the express safe,
and, according to reports, got So 900, and be-
sides obtained from the passengers. in watches,
jewelry and money, s. 600 more. No ndignities
were offered the passengers and, when finished,
the robbers disappe AIRED