The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Matthew Arnold sailed, on Saturday, for Eu
rope.
The Norwalk o. grand jury has indicted Var
Fleet, the Ascending treasurer.
The pawn-shop of Isaac Myer, at Boston, was
robbed, on Saturday, of five trays of iewelry and
watches.
The steamer Mark Winnett sunk three barges
containing &c, 1000 bushels of coal, at Pittsburg,
last night.
The Home Companion Publishing Company, Of
Cleveland, has made an assignment, with liabili
ties of $15, 900.
General Grant held a reception at Old Point
Comfort on Saturday. Fortress Monroe fired d
salute in his honor.
Freeman Willis, proprietor of the Eagle Hotel
Laconia, n. H., was probabled fatally stabbed
on Saturday night by Fred Dow while drunk.
The f~oot-race, 12O yards, between Skates
Graham and w. H. Hough, for $500 a side. az
Pittsburg, on Saturday, was won by Hough by
four feet.
By the premature explosion of a blast, at the
Cornwall Furnace, at Reading, Pa, on Saturday
John Eek was killed and Milton Ech mortally
wounded.
At New Haven, Conn, Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis
ana daughter, aged sixteen, were found dead IN
bed from suffocation by gas, the burner being left
half way turned on.
Rev. j. s. Cantwell, D. D., pastor Of the Uni
v~ersalist Church, at North Attleboro, Mass has
resigned his charge to accept the editorship of the
Chicago Universalist.
The strike of the Amalgamated Union nailers,
a 1.-THE Pacific Iron and Nail Works, Oakland, Cal.
ordered by the union of Pittsburg, Pa, is over, and
200 returned to work.
The Duxbury & st. Pierre section of the An.
glo,American cable, interrupted for over three
months, was repaired, on Saturday, by the com
panys steamer, Mira.
Two leading glass works of ST. Louis have
lighted their fires, and others will follow in a
snort time. Ihe works at Alton. H., have been
started. This gives employment to more than
one thousand men, who have been idle several
months.
Some papers have been publishing articles to
the effect that Mr.. Charles Leland, the well
known hotel man of New York, was insane.
MIR. Leland replies to these by saying that the
report of his being in a lunatic asylum is false in
every particular.
A syndicate of New York has taken So, 900, 900
of the bonds of the Henderson Bridge Company,
and the Ohio river at Henderson, KY, will be
bridged and the railroad connection made con-
tinuous from st. Louis and Chicago to Nashville
and points in the South.
In the libel suit brought against the New York
Times by Captain Duncan, of the steamer
Quaker City. the jury, on Saturday, endered a
verdict for plaintiff upon two statements, award
ing six cents in each. On ali other charges the
jury found for the defense.
The Consolidated Paper Company, of Chicago,
manufacturing coarse wrapping papers, has
made an assignment. Liabilities, $97. 600; assets,
$l25, 600. The latter consists of bills receivable
and open accounts of $25, 900; and the wrapping
paper stock, valued at 500, 900.
c. D. Sharp, who, last August, was found
guilty of assaulting Amanda and Emma Clark,
aged sixteen and twelve, with a penalty in the
first case of fifty years in the penitentiary and in
the other of death, has been sentenced to hang
at Gainesville, Tex, on April %.
a large force of men are row in Mitchell
county, North Carolina, pursuing Ed Ray and
Wrlghtsil Anderson, revenue officers, who re-
Gently murdered three men. The State, county
and private rewards aggregate 81, 300. Al the
people are very indignant at the murder. More
deaths are expected before the capture.
Prominent labor leaders organized a National
Homestead Association at Pittsburg. on Satur-
day, by e~lecting the following officers; President,
A. G. Rankin; vice-president, d. B. Sturgeon;
secretary, NJ. II. Smith; treasurer, John Jarrett.
The object is to secure homes for workingmen
and to establish a more harmonious relationship
between labor and capital.
Negotiations have been completed for the
transfer of a controlling interest in the New York
Commercial Advertiser. Isaac II. Bromley re-
signed the editorship Of the paper last night. 1t
is said that he will be succeeded by Henry Sed-
ley, now on the editorial force of the Times.
Mrs. Hugh j. Hastings has parted with her in
terest. Fifty-one and one half shares of the
property are understood to have costParke God
win and Henry G.. Marquand 5000, 900.