The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-02
BREy1TIEs.

Mrs. Justice Harlan is not seriously i'll, as was
reported IN yesterdays paper. 1t is the wife Of
ex-senator Harlan, of Iowa.
The effect Of the re-establishment Of the
whisky pool was seen yesterday in an advance In
the price of whisky from ST. to 81. 10.
A Vicksburg, Miss, dispatch reports the kill
ing of 8. O. Scanlon, near Rodney, by w. +.
HALEY. The quarrel originated over a game of
cards.
William L. K~illingbeck. Dook-keeper Of the
New Haven Car-trimming Company, shot him
self, probably fatally, after a brief interview
with one of his employers.
Moore's pottery, at Millhaven. N. J., resumed
work to-day, giving employment to nearly one
hundred men. The rolling-milI is again under
way, and most of the men are at work.
Two prisoners on the way from Port Arthur to
Kingston penitentiary jumped from the steamer
into the lake. One, named Drake, was. drowned;
the other was picked up and taken to Toronto.
Patrick Judge, a 'longshoreman, was arrested
at New York, yesterday, on suspicion Of having
caused the death Of barkeeper Frederick Kopf
who was beaten to death on the laundrymens'
EXCURSION on Sunday.
C. p. J.. Proctor, steward at the Marine Hospi-
tai, at Charleston, S. G., has absconded with
checks belonging to the hospital, to the amount
of $3.50. The checks were cashed in New York
before payment could be stopped.
The Dixon Young Clay Manufacturing Com
pany, of St. Louis, workers of ire-clay, made an
assignment yesterday. They say the assets are
800, 900, but will not give the amount of liabili-
ties. They assert they are only temporarily en-
barrased, and will resume shortly.
Al warrant has been issued for the arrest Of
Marcus McClain, charged with being one Of a
party Of men who. on Saturday night, attacked
the village of Maddoxtown, KY. fred a number
Of shots and mortally wounded Henry Nichols,
colored, who was standing in his doorway.
Deputy At~toyney.general Post yesterday APP
Piled to the New York Supreme Court for the
Bank, in a suit on behalf of the people for dissolu-
ton of the Bank. Mr.. Post says he had no per-
SON to suggest for receiver The depositors will
be paid in full
Jas. Cassidy, of Spuyten Duyvil, while under
the influence of liquor, entered Hoburg's shoe
factory, at 122 West Twenty-ffth street, New
York, and renewed an old quarrel with Robert
McGregor, who was at work. In the fight
which followed, McGregor was fatally stabbed.
Cassidy was arrested.
John L. Sullivan, the Boston slugger, while
going from Boston to Providence, r. H., Satur-
day night, struck an inoffensive young man a
brutal blow in the face and knocked out several
teeth Sullivan was accompanied by a gang of
bummePs, who. on the arrival Of the train at
Providence, hustled him into a hack and had
him conveyed to one Of his obscure and dis.
reputable haunts.
Governor Hoadly has written to the attorney
for Benjamin johnson, condemned to be hanged
at Cincinnati on Sept II, saying that inasmuch
as the Indictment was found after the passage
of the law changing the mode of selecting iuries,
the fact that johnson was tried under the new
law could not be made a basis for repricye, al
though the crime was committed before the
passage Of the law. It is understood there is no
hope for the doomed man.