The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15
SUNDAYS NEWS IN BRIEF.


Two stores in Norfolk. Va, were destroyed by
fire. Loss, 1884,
A fire at Johnstown. o., damaged several
stores Loss $3OO
Herbert Crawford, of Cecil, o., was crushed to
death by falling tree.
The depot of the Philadelphia Traction Com
pany burned Loss, $4,000.
Iron mills, at Bay View Wis, will resume,
giving employment to ], 400 men.
Albert PEBBLES, of Miler's Station, O., was
fatally injured in an attempt to board a freight
train st Cadiz Junction
Bach Bros, leaf tobacco dealers, at Chicago,
were closed by the sheriff on a confessed iudg-
ment for SO, 500. Assets, So, OOOi liabilities
$35 00O
While crossing Barren river, near Bowling
Green, Ky, John Strauser with wagon and
! team, was washed from the regular ford and
drowned.
Brown Howard & Co., of Chicago, have been
| awarded contracts amounting to so 29l, OOO IN
| connection with building a new aqueduct for
/ New York city.
Geo. E. Wingate cashier Of the North British
/ and Canadian Investment Company, of Toronto,
has been arrested at New Orleans, charged with
| embezzling So, 400.
The imports at the port of New York for the
| week ended Saturday aggregated IS, 733, 900, OF
|
81, 763, 900 dry goods
The entire property of the New York Graphic
! Company has been purchased by j. w. Hinkoy.
| On Tuesday last it sold piece by piece, and
it is now said Mr.. Hinkleys title is bulet-proof.
A fire at ST. Marys, Kan, destroyed eight
stores, causing total loss of $67 500. The police
! judge of the town, who had an Office in one of
the buildings is missing, and is supposed to have
been burned to death.
Six convicts, working in the coal mines at Coal
! Creek, Tenn, made a dash for liberty The
guards fired, killing Samuel Music and Joe Will
son. John Presswell and Hugh Stafford were
fatally wounded. The other two were recap
tured.
Peter Hansen, twenty years of age, hange d
himself with halter strap, near Extra, Au-
! dubon county Iowa, on Saturday morning. The
| only known cause is hereditary insanity. Three
of the family have previously met death in the
same way.
The students in the dental department of Van
derbilt University at Nashville, witnessed, on
Saturday, the first application of the new local
dentistry. Several patients were operated on
with success.
Four white men of Albany Ga, attacked the
| house of a colored man who had voted the Re
publican ticket and set it afre. 1t burned, and
an aged negro and two small children persisted
in the flames The men were arrested and in
dicted for murder
1t is understood the liquidators of the Montreal
Exchange Bank have instructed their solicitors
to institute civil proceeding against the directors
of the bank for 00,000, embracing the over
draft of the ex-president for $240, geo, over
draft of Mr.. Beard, a focal dealer for $3.50, 900,
and other overdrafts.
Mrs Dora Stolpe claiming that she rendered
services and incurred expenses in returning Vic
toria Hulskamp, nee Morosini, to her parents
shortly after the young lady eloped with the
coachman, has began an action against Giovanni
| MoroSini to recover $780, Mrs. Stolpe saws these
services were performed at the request of Mrs
Morosini Morosini makes a general denial
From the LIST of January to the Both of No
vember the total arrivals of immigrants in
Canada aggregated IA, 900, against 172. 900 for
were arrivals of persons intending to settle in
Canada; the remainder were passengers for
the United States. During the same period last
year there arrived 103, 600 immigrant settlers for
! Canada.