The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Wilber & Sons shingle mill, at Plaquemines
La, burned yesterday. Loss $20,0 900; insurance
$12 000
Gerald Thomas Tulley, cashier of the Preston
Bank, Of Preston, England, is held at New York
for eXtradltion upon charge of forgery.
Hutchinsons lumber mill, at DouGlaston, N
B., burned yesterday with 100000 feet of lum-
ber 1t was owned by r. W. & J. Stewart
During drunken row at Bromley, KY, op-
posite Cincinnati, on Sunday Red Morris was
fatally stabbed by Jake Free and John Bittner.
Fire yesterday morning at Souix City Iowa,
destroyed eight frame buildings on Fourth
street, occupied as business houses Loss $685.
OOO insurance, $25, 900.
Captain John J. Downs, of Toledo, for many
years captain on the lakes, committed suicide
yesterday by drowning. Ill health and mental
arrangement were the causes
Judge Sedgewick dissolved the injunction re.
straining the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany from erecting poles and wires on Second
and Eleventh avenues New York city
At McCoy's Station, o., Sunday, Hiram
Wier shot and fatally wounded Samuel McDon-
aid. The latter was stoning Wiers residence
when Wier opened fire upon him with the above
effect.
The Woodvale Woolen Mill at Johnstown Pa,
suspended operationl yesterday for an indefinite
period, on account of lack of orders. Three
hundred employees are idle in consequence of
the suspension.
A suit in admiralty involving $3.50, 900 has
been begun in the United States District Court
at New York by the owners of the steamship
Lepanto The owners sue to recover damages
for collision with the steamer Edam
W. H. and A Leonard, of Mt Leonard, Mo-,
yesterday sold to Governor Hadey and Stephen
w. Dorsey, of star-route fame, herd of fifty
three Angus and Galloway cattle, which will be
placed on their ranch near Rattan, New Mexico
Advices from Southern New Jersey say that
the thermometer at sunrise, yesterday morning,
marked 39 degrees. There was considerable
frost in the meadows and low places and much
damage, it is feared, has been done tender crops
Bridge Beach & Co.. extensive stove manu-
facturers of st. Louis, having notified their en-
ployes that they would be obliged to reduce
wages 10 per cent, about three hundred of the
latter refused to accept the reduction and quit
work
The funeral of thelate Rev. Dr. Baird took place
in New York yesterday, services being conducted
by Rev. Dr. Henry NJ. Baird, cousin of the
deceased The body will be taken to Nashville,
where other funeral services will be held and the
body inferred.
Roland Lee claiming to have been at one
time wealthy citizen of Louisville, Ky, has
been arrested at New York charged with stealing
a large quantity of tools from machine shop
Lees wife and five children appear in desti-
tute condition.
S. Sommeric e Co.. of New York, wholesale
millinery dealers have made an assignment
They have been in business over thirty years.
failed in 1861 and compromised at % per cent
and failed again in 1875 for liabilities of $S9 000
and compromised at 35 per cent.
At the funeral of Hester Clymer, at Reading
Pa, yesterday afternoon, Senator Bayard G. A
Nicolls president of the East Pennsylvania rail
road, and DR.. Diller Luther, of the State Chari-
ties Board, were ameng the pall-bearers There
We're many mourners from Philadelphia and
Washington.
The mills of the Volta Iron Company, at
Apollo, Pa, which have been closed down some
time, because the manufacturers refused to sign
the scale, will start up to-day with non-union
men. The firm, fearing trouble have applied
to the sheriffs of Westmoreland and Armstrong
counties for protection.
The depression in the iron trade has caused a
falling off of orders for ore from the mines in
Williams township Northampton county, Penn
sylvania, which supply the Glendon iron fur
naces, and yesterday the mines of Sampson, Mer-
warth, Bennett, and others shut down. A large
number of men are thrown out of employment.
The Haines mines and others have had their
orders reduced from eighty-five to ten tons a
week.