The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Specie engagements for shipment to-day
! 81, 200, 600.
Mr. Danielson, editor and proprietor of the
Providence (R. L. journal, died last night aged
! fifty-siX.
The Devon cattle breeders of the United
States meet in Pillsbury, to-day, to organize a
| national association
| John McMahon the abscond1ng collector of
! taxes at Hoboken, N. j., 1nisappropriated $66,
| 900 the past three years.
Bracken and Holmes, Americans have been
| indicted at Halifax for having dangerous explo-
! sives in their possession.
| Peter A Jordan, of the firm of MacKel1ar,
Smith & Jordan, proprietors of the johnson
! type foundry, Philadelphia, is dead aged sixty
| two
| George Russell of Brooklyn. in fit of ieal-
| ousy, shot his wife, and then shot himself. His
wound is fatal. Mrs Russell will probably re-
| cover.
The abattoir company has begun suit for
| 100000 against Montreal for not enforcing the
law compelling butchers to slaughter in their es-
| Enlistment
A man known as Hank Smith, keeper of a dis
| reputable house in Deerfeld, n. Y. was shot in
a quarrel by Charles Bird Smiths wound is
/ considered fatal.
Point of Pines, a seashore resort was sold
| yesterday by the trustees under mortgage 1t
was purchased for the bondholders for $3.50, 600
less thar half its original cost.
At Steubenville, o., in row between rail
road laborers. two brothers named joyce were
severely beaten On of them had his skull
! crushed with an and will die.
| J. d. Boyle, of the Connellsville Coke Pro
! ducers' Association, says the combination
| effected few days ago will advance the price of
coke from ninety five cents to 81. 10, on April l.
! The Grand Trunk authorities has accepted the
| tenders of the Pennsylvania and Ohio coal
| owners for supply of 500, 900 tons of coal. saw
/ ing the company $3.50, 600 as compared with last
| year
The wife of ex-Mayor Palmer of Boston, in
! jured few weeks ago by fall upon an icy side
walk, is not expected to live and notice of suit
for heavy damages against the city has been filed
| by the eX-mayor.
! Five of the crow of the steamer Tom Dods
worth were arrested by the United States Mar
shall. at Pittsburg, last night for mutiny. The
men refused to put on coal when ordered to do
| so by the captain.
| Twenty FIVE cars of a Jersey Central coal
! train were wrecked at Annandale by broken
wheel The blockade was so extensive, and
| so many trains held that the derailed cars were
| thrown over the enbankment
| The assessment of taxable property in Nilsson
/ ri, outside of railroads, bridges and telegraph
| lines, just completed, shows a large increase
| over the preceding year The total real estate
is 1892 4S90O0; personal property, $751;, 33S, 900.
Mr. Kelly of Philadelphia, announces test
exhibition OF his motor to the stockholders in n
applied for patent for a method of obtaining
motor power from compressed air water or
both combined.
At yesterdays session of the National Reform
Association at Philadelphia, Rev. s. NJ. Vernon
spoke on Mail Service on the Sab
bath" and declared it had "a tendency to
prevent popular observance of the Sabbath.
Rev. r. NJ Someryille read paper on shall
We Have National SabbathF
Jay Gould arrived at Newport News, Va, yes
terday in his yacht Atalanta. He passed some
time examining the large grain elevator and
coal and merchandise docks of the Chesapeake
g. Ohio Railroad Company, and expressed great
establishment at their magnitude and complete
ness.
Vanderbilt Allen, of New York. whose wife is
seeking a divorce, AYERS in his affidavit that his
wife is estranged from him through the infiu-
ence of mother-in-law and the advice of her
lawyer, He says he ever was and is now ready
to take his wife to his house Allen is a grand
son of the late Commodore Vanderbilt