The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Preistnan, manager of Bradstreets agency,
Toronto, is Il defaulter
William b. Smith has been nominated for
mayor by the Republicans of Philadelphia
The steamer Toxic, from Hong Kong, yester-
day brought only twenty-one Chinese traders.
Republicans of the Twelfth Massachusetts
district have nominated Frances NJ. Rockwell
for Governor.
The bark Norma which it was thought would
go to pieces Oh the beach west of Galveston, was
got afioat yesterday.
A tramp who burned a barn, and caused loss
of $1,000, has been arrested at. Reading, Pa.
Farmers threaten lynching
Bryan White, of Washington, Ark, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself through the
heart. Whisky and domestic troubles.
David r. Francis was elected President of the
st. Louis Merchants Exchange yesterday, and
Charles W. Barstow first vicepresident
The engagement of Mary Anderson, the act
ress, to Lieutenant Dukes. of Portland, Ore, is
denied. No such person is known to exist.
A crowd of rustlers at Seven Rivers, New
Mexico, fired into nine Mexican laborers killing
four. The murder was unprovoked. The
rustlers escaped.
E. D. Atchison, incareerated for stabbing Sid
ney Ruckman, taken from Monterey, Va,
jail by a mob and hanged. The body was then
rddled with bullets.
The government is seeking the condemnation
Of quantity of goods seized while being SNUG
gled into the port of New York The claimant
is f, Spengler, of st. Louis.
Warrants are out for the arrest of Osmond
Grier and H. Reckenfarge, ex-officers of the
building associations of Reading. on the charge
of conspiracy and ENLIGHTENMENT
La Compagnie de.Pretscet Credit Confres, es-
tablished at Montreal some years ago, will go
into liquidation. A statement of affairs as they
stood year ago shows deficit of $3.50, 740.
AT a meeting of the New York Board of Trade
and Transportation, the report of the committee
on ocean transportation recommending repeal
Of the navigation laws, was vigorously opposed
by John Roach.
Governor Waller, of Connecticut, in his mes
sage, objects to biennial sessions; prefers short
annual sessions; advises against letting savings
banks buy unsecured notes, and advocates
letting women participate in school affairs
The Denver g. Rio Grande railway has filed
mortgage in the clerks Office of Elpaso county
Colorado, bonding all its lines, rolling stock, and
lands to the Union Trust Company, of New York,
for $50 COO 000 to run thirty years. at per cent.
per annum.
Fifty thousand dollars of Milwaukee court
house bonds will mature to-day and will be paid
out of 500 900 borrowed from local banks The
bonds have been running for twelve years at
per cent, making $4S, 900 interest paid on prin
cipal of $4,000.
The trial of w. F. Mechenary, of St Louis, in
dicted for forgery and fraud in connection with
the recent police scandal, commenced yesterday.
Among the witnesses was Governor Crittenden,
who denied positively being in any way con
cened in the alleged blank designations of the
police commissioners.
General Hancock arrived at Galveston from
the West yesterday morning, and was received
at military headquarters with a salute of fifteen
guns He is the guest of General Vincent.
While the troops were being reviewed by Gen
eral Hancock, great throng of people gathered
to catch a glimpse of the hero of Gettysburg.
He leaves to-day for Little Rock.
John Kenebris, the crank who was arrested at
Cleveland for annoying Mrs. Garfield, is again at
large. When arrested he gave his name as
George Washington, and was adiudged insane
and placed in the city nfirmary for safe keeping.
He was given more liberty than the other in