The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

during the year.
| g. Fl. Chappel, of the Chicago & Alton, who
| was offered the general managership of the
Wabash railroad, has declined the position.
The Young Women's Christian Association of
San Francisco, acknowledges the receipt of a
check for 81, 600 from G. p. Huntington, Of New
York 800
The semicentennial celebration of the incor-
poration of the city of Toronto, Canada, contin-
ued yesterday. -Four hundred wheelmen par
| ticipated in the bicycle race.
| Owing to depression, the Waltham Mass
Watch Company suspeuds every Monday and
Saturday, and all employees are notified to take
two weeks vacation in August
| Yarnall & Co.. of St. Louis manufacturers of
pickles, jeilies, etc, have assigned to John T.
Donavin, for benefit of creditors. Liabilities re-
ported at $62, 600; assets $50, 900.
| A girl named Labourche was burned to death
last night in a house of i'll fame, at Ottawa, Can
| ada, during drunked carousal, the house catch
ing FIRE by the upsetting of lamp
Senior Ramon Barrento, chief of the Supreme
Court of Cuba his nephew AIonzo Barfento
and Francisco Figurrea were arrested ON Monday
night, in New York, for disorderly conduct and
yesterday fined $40 each.
The new Columbus, o., Board of Trade was
formally opened Last night, with large attend
ance- Judge Thurman, the first and only hon
orarg member, delivered an address, which was
mostly Of local application.
EuWlu q. 1SttdcS JODEer IN QlanlOnQS, a.
Maiden Lane, New YORK has been held for trial
on a. charge of sTindhng diamond merchants
he obtained goods to sell and pawned them,
after which he made an assignment in bank
ruptcy
DR. G. c. Fife retired from the secretaryship
Of the State Board of Health of Tennessee yes
terdaY, and Dr. j. Berrien Eiendstey was elect
ed his successor, and DIR. j. d. Plunket, presi-
dent. The board will issue an advisory circular
in regard to the cholera
An east bound passenger train ran over and
horribly mangled a track-walker named James
Lefeyer, one mile west of bennington. w. Va,
yesterday morning. He was cut and mangled
beyond recognition and was only Identified by
his clothes and the surroundings
The EXPERT examining the accounts of John
Mcmahon the fugitive collector of internal rev
enue at Hoboken, N. j., has completed his work.
The amount of his deficiency is said to be
$57, 900. McMahon's peculations extended over
several years. He is said to be in Canada
At st. Louis. yesterday, d temporary injunc-
| ton was granted John McCaun in the State
Court against Charles q Ford, restraining him
from producing any opera under the title of
Nell Gwynn.r Ford was allowed to give bond
and continue his performances until the final
hearing.
The employees Of the New Jersey Central Rail
road Company are discouraged on account of
diseontinuance of payment of May wages The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers yesterday
telegraphed Chief Engineer Arthur to come to
Easton, Pa, at once, A strike is threatened,
but nothing will be done until his arrival.
Charles Spurlock, who was implicated with
the Hill boys in the murder of young Alvin
| Woods, and the serious shooting of Jack Woods
in the latter part Of May last, appeared in the
Circuit Court at Charleston w. Va, yesterday
morning. and confessed to murder in the first de-
gree. The Hills were lynched This leaves
| Spurloeks case in the hands of Judge Guthrie
Death or penitentiary for Life will be his lot
DR.. Herbert S. Bailess well known dentist
of New York, and prominent member of the
dental saciety, was arrested yesterday, charged
with grand larceny and held for trial He had
rooms in a fashionable boarding-house, and the
other boarders complained that they were
robbed. Bailess was arrested, and number Of
pawn tickets were found on him. In court he
admitted his guilt and declared that if he had
weapon when told of his arrest he would have
ended his life.
A young man named Jno. Donaldson while
walking along Ohio street. in Allegheny City, on
Monday night was suddenly attacked with all
the symptoms of hydrophohia. He was removed
to the Central station, where it took five men to
hold him. All night he howied and barked like
a dog frothed at the mouth and exhibited de-
cided aversion to water. Yesterday morning he
was no better and the physicians have no hope
of his recovery Two years ago, in Portland
Ore, Donaldson was bitten by a dog supposed
to be mad but as the wound rapidly healed, no
alarm was felt and the victim thought no more