The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

T. P. & S. S. Smith, shoe dealers, of Philadel-
phia, have failed. Liabilities, $4,000.
George Parsons, New York dealer in toys has
assigned. Liabilities, $50, 900; actual assets 800,
Mexico has appropriated $50 900 to represent
Mexico at the Worlds Exhibition at New Or
leans.
The well-known trotting horse compton
Boy dropped dead in its stable at Quebec yes
terday.
The National Wrapping and Packing Com
pany, st. Louis, has assigned. Assets estimated
at $4,000
The report of the Minister of Marine and
flsherles places the total value of fisheries in
Canada at $17,0000O0.
Glessner q Ross cracker and candy factory
Kansas City, closed, yesterday, by the sheriff
on an attachment suit for 1928 900.
NJ j. Herman, of Toronto. accepts the challenge
of ). {. Bittle. of Cleveland to spar with gloves
any l5Opound man in Canada-six rounds.
The Philadelphia Record says the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has about consummated ne
gotiatlons to lease the Lehigh Valley railroad.
Three attendants at the State Lunatic Asylum,
Utica, N. Y, were arrested yesterday for caus-
ing the death, by violence, of Evan d. Hughes,
patient
The Troy police broke up a prize fight after
TWO rounds because of an attempt to use hard
gloves The fight was between John Powers and
James Cooney.
S. Howard, wealthy merchant of Evansville.
Ont, was arrested at Montreal Yesterday on his
bridal tour by Ann Howard, to whom he had
been engaged since 1872.
In the case of the United States vs. Auffurandt
& Co., of New York, for the recovery of $3.50, 900
customs duty on importations of ribbons YER
dict was returned for the defendant.
While crossing the Monongahela river at Port
Perry, in a skiff. yesterday morning, Frank
and, a dor
coal-fat by the strang current and drowned
Tom Allen, the ex-pugilist, was discharged,
yesterday, by the judge of the st. Louis Crimi-
nal Court on the ground that the charge against
hlm was made simply for the purpose of collect
ing debt.
Judge MeKennan, in the United States Circuit
Court at Philadelphia yesterday filed an opinion
that the wages certificates issued by the Reading
Railroad Company in 1879 and IS80were not sub
ject to a tax of 10 per cent
Cracksmen went through safe in Unger g.
Gales store at West Alexandria, o. and GOT
away with about 81, 900 and lot of notes. They
abandoned their buggy at Notes Station, on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad. and it
is now in the hands of the chief of police and
identified by Clinton Young as his property.
The Supreme Court yesterday settled the APP
peal of the Pennsylvania railroad from the decis-
ION OF the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny
county, Which affirmed the right of Pittsburg to
tax the real estate of the company used for the
transaction of its business. The motion for a
reargument was refused also for a stay of pro
ceedingS.
E. N. Rowell recently acquitted at Batavia,
where he was tried for killing Lynch, the Utica
lawyer, has begun proceedings for divorce, and
expects to retain the custody ofhis two children,
very pretty little girls aged SIX and eight years.
Their mother has returned to ClaVYille to live
with her parents, who are poor. Interested
parties have tried to effect reconciliation be-
tween Rowell and his wife, but without result.