The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-06
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The bridge over the Schuylkill river at Rogers
Ford burned on Sunday. Loss 5000.
Blackburn & Rowe's stone and chinaware fac
tory, at st. John, Quebec, burned Insured for
$l3, 900.
The sale of season tickets for the May musical
festival at Chicago opened yesterday and realized
a bout $4,000.
Premier Norquay and Speaker Murray, of
Manitoba, passed through st. Paul yesterday, en-
route to Ottawa.
John F. Henry announces that the National
Anti Monopoly convention will be held at the
Briggs House, Chicago, May IA.
Harry Lee, indicted for embezzlement, ar
rived at Cincinnati yesterday from Toronto, in
charge of officers, and is now in Jail.
An assignment was filed yesterday by Henry
/. Hart & Co, upholstery 30 Union square, New
York, TO Ellis S, Yates, giving preferences for
$77, 000.
The suit of Mary f. Booth, daughter of Junius
Brutus Booth, against Agnes Booth, to recover
part of the property left by her father, has been
compromised.
Articles were signed between Jack Dempsey
and George Fulljames, in New York, yesterday,
for a fight, to take place July IA, with hard
gloves, for 81, 900 a side.
Certificate of incorporation of the Universe
| Telephone Company was filed in New York, yes
terday. The capital stock is $40, 100000, divided
into shares of 81 900 each.
Judge Wallace, IN the United States District
Court at New York, yesterday, ordered Shipping
Commissioner Duncan to show cause why he
should not be removed for malfeasance in Of
fee.
On Saturday night a difficulty occurred at
Davenport's store, at Prairie Mango, La, result
ing in the killing of Manuel ~Jenning and the
wounding of several others. Whisky caused the
trouble.
NJ. NJ. French, assistant clerk and agent of the
Gould and Wabash systems, in the vicinity of
MuSROppQ- / ~ has hAp0 arrested Dt 81. IOuiS
for forging names to claims and defrauding the
company.
In Newton county, Arkansas, on Saturday,
revenue officers raided an illicit distillery,
which was dismantled and the mash tubs de
stroyed. A fight occurred and one distiller was
killed and another wounde
John Good, a farmer residing near Morgan
town, o., was mortally wounded, on Sunday
night, by an unknown assassin who came on
horseback to Goods bedroom and fired through
a window while Good lay asleep beside his wife,
Wesley Norton and Marcellus Norton, broth
ers, on an indictment for grand larceny, were
each sentenced by the judge Of the Circuit Court
at La Porte, on Saturday, to one year in the pen
itentiary, disfranchised for two years and fined
$50.
There are now five persons confined in the
Allen county Jail charged with murder. They
charged with the murder of Amos Bockesto.
and Billy Boyle, convicted of the murder of
Casey, the tramp.
George Osborn, toll collector at Portage Lake
bridge, in the Lake Superior copper country,
was shot and instantly killed. on Sunday night,
while attempting to collect toll. He leaves seven
children. The murderers are unknown, but
three suspects have been arrested.
During a violent hail and rain storm yester-
day afternoon, the shed at the old fair ground
at Little Rock, Ark, fell on a large number of
convicts employed in brick making. One guard
was killed, another seriously wounded and sew
eral conyicts injured by falling timbers.
Rowland G. Hazard, of Philadelphia, the
stakeholder upon whose complaint IA receiver was
appointed for the Credit Mobilier of America,
has filed in the United States Circuit Court an
answer to the petition of the Union Pacific Rail
way Company for the removal of Oliver Ames
from the receivership.
The will of the late William H. Fogg, of New
York, has been filed for probate. He bequeaths
his widow 81 900, 900, on condition that she ac-
cepts this in lieu of dover in real estate and of
claims in any share of his personal estate. The
remainder of the estate is distributed among sis
ters, nephews and nieees.
Thomas Simmons, of Turtle Greek, Penn, was
arrested yesterday, charged with numbering his
mother-in-law, an old lady named Catharine
Dexter, who died recently. The information
was made by Il son of Mrs. Dexter, who alleges
that Simmons violently threw his mother against
a door and inflicted other injuries. causing death.
Simmons asserts he is innocent.