The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

ing, w. Va.
E. N. Blake has been elected president ON the
Chicago Board of Trade.
New and rich placer diggings have been dis
covered at Mulage, Lower California
Fl. G. Davis has been elected president of the
West Virginia Central & Pitsburg road
The divorce suit of Edith against Frederick D.
Beneville, the actor, has been discontinued.
Francis & Vaughn, shoe manufacturers. at
st: John, N. B., have suspended. Liabilities,
$40, 900.
Samuel Brown, of Freehold, n j., aged sew
enty, hanged himself yesterday in the log house
in which he was born.
At jackson, Miss, Cornelius Ryan was shot
and fatally wounded, yesterday by John Hans
berry, livery stable keeper
Frederick G. TTardtman, who shot at the
Waterman at Mrs. A. 7. Stewards residence in
New York hanged himself yesterday in his cell
in the Tombs
George B. Carhart has been elected president,
and John j. Crane vicepresident. of the Ma
tional Bank of the Republic, New York in place
of Messrs. Ford and Buckley, resigned.
The Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association has
brought suit against Stephen English editor of
the Insurance Times, of New York to recover
100000 damages for libel. The answer alleges
justification.
The Massachusetts Democratic State Central
man, Jonas II. French declining to be "a candi-
date 1t was voted to endeavor to have the ma
tional convention held in Boston.
Goods imported into Mexico in vessels bearing
the flag of that nation by a new law, will be en-
titled to Il rebate of to per cent. of the import
duties and 80 per cent. of the transit charges.
The term of the law is twenty years.
At the funeral of Father Walsh, ex-treasurer
of the Irish Land League of this country, at
Providence, Bishop Hendrickson said: Father
Walsh's death brings grief to every Catholic
Irishman, and he will be mourned throughout the
length and breadth of Ireland"
In the United States Circuit Court at New
Orleans, Fletcher, Weisenberg & Co, the con
tractors who built Lake Ponchartrain railway
filed an action against the Northeastern Railway
Company for 1921, $40, exclusive of interest The
petition shows that the contractors claim for the
entire work, including additions, 81, 232, 900.
The accident to the New York express on the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad, on Monday
night was due to the breaking of a switch frog
which derailed the train causing it to run on the
ties and road-bed for nearly quarter of mile de-
molishing the pilot the engine and smashing the
baggage car. The passengers were well shaken,
but none injured
James C. Townsend and wife am aged couple
of Oyster Bay, Long Island, were found uncon-
scious on the kitchen floor. They had been as
saulted with hammer, and the tJuse robbed
! The lady is a sister to General Winder of the
confederate army, who had charge of Libby
prison during the war. The recovery of the
couple is doubtful \ negro has been arrested.
The condition of Frank James is regarded as
critical He is now at his father-in-laws in In
dependence, confined with pneumonia. His left
lung is said to be gone and his case more hope
less than when he was on trial before a jury
! His release on bail may result in death to him.
as the weather has been more than he could
stand. He goes to trial the 14th if he RECEIVERS
sufficiently,
Mrs Mary Campbell who was we'll known to
old settlers of Galveston island as the widow of
James Campbell the favorite lieutenant of the
renowned buccaneer Laitte. and who landed
upon the island fully sixty-six years ago, and
who has lived sixty years of that time either ON
the island, or in the vicinity of Galveston, Tex,
died at Campbells Point, eight miles from the
city, on Saturday night
Letters postmarlled Memphis, Tenn, have
been received from James 4. Wallace, the late
cashier Of the bank of Hopkinsvlle, who de-
| camped with $4,000 of the banks funds. Wal
| lace says that he knew the defalcaton would
soon be discovered, and feared to face an inves-
! tigation. He would not say what other parties