The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Philip Catalan. of New Orleans was shot
Head by Antonio BassOn.
A boy named Lamont of Toronto, fatally shot
another with toy pistol.
The Kansas Senate yesterday passed the
domestic animal bill for the extirpation of dis
ease.
The snow is so deep on one branch of the
Canada Pacific that no trains have been sent out
fof eighteen days.
Judge Gardner of Chicago, has decided
against the validity of the city ordinance re-
quiring commission merchants tc pay an an
nual sum Of So
The blanket and wooden mills of John and
James Dobson, at the falls of the Schuylkill,
have stopped, and l, 200 male and female opera
tives are now idle.
The body of Bishop Kavanaugh arrived at
Louisville yesterday. and was quietly placed in
the vault at Cave Hill Cemetery The funeral
will take place to-day.
John G. Daub, cashier and confidential clerk
of Rosenheim, Lewis & Co, wholesale milliners,
of St Louis, has been arrested for alleged If
Irregularities in his accounts
Prentice Tillcr and Geo. McFadden, the Pa
cifc express robbers were arraigned in the Court
of Criminal Correction, at St Louis, yesterday,
and the case was continued until April 4.
w. G.. Wilson. formerly president of the Will
son Sewing machine Company, of Wallingford
Conn. has been sued for 800, 600 by the
pany, which sets forth fraud and misrepresenta-
ton.
Francis w. Whitaker, better known as Pap"
Whitaker, recovered verdict yesterday in New
York against the Harlem Railroad Company for
$4,000 for the loss of arm. He sued for
$l5.0
The extensive rubber works, of the Condee
Rubber Company. of New Haven, will shut
down, at the end of this month, for several
months Over LOCO employees will be tempo
rarily thrown out of work.
r. II. Stoner of Pittsburg Pa, a passenger
on the steamer Belle of Shreveport from Gin
cinnati to New Orleans, died on the boat just
before arriving at Aurora, Ind. He was on his
way to New Mexico for his health.
An explosion of sulphur in the Enterprise
colliery, at Mt. Carmel Pa, instantly killed
Carl Yakubokoskey, Seachery Younger and
Peter Poloskey The brattice work and other
timber in the mine was badly shattered.
While the jailer at Erin, Tenn, was giving
supper to the prisoners, one held him while two
fellow prisoners escaped He then threw the
iailer to the floor and escaped himself One of
the prisoners has since been recaptured.
Rev. DR.. Sprecher, D. D., professor of theol-
ogy at Witteuberg College, Springfield o., and
formerly president of the institution, has
signed on account of advanced age. His resig-
nation was accepted. to take effect in July.
One of the cable cars of the State-street line,
Chicago, while crossing the track of the Illinois
Central road at Sixteenth street yesterday, was
run into by a locomotive. Two street-car pas
sengers were injured but it is not believed
seriously.
Duncan c. Ross has sent to Richard e Fox,
of New York, articles Of agreement for the sig
natures of Jno. l.. Sullivan and Mervine Thomp-
son. to fight under the prlze-ring rule. Accom-
panying this was $500 guarantee of Thomp-
sons signature.
Joseph H. Morse's pottery, at Trenton, N j.,
was seized yesterday by the sheriff on execu-
tions two judgments which aggregate $35,-
600. Work was suspended and a number of per-
sons thrown out Of employment. The pottery
stood high. 1t is reported to be worth $l25, 600
The sanitary inspector of New York accompa-
MED BY squad of mounted police, made an I'M
expected raid on express wagons that carry meat
into that city from New Jersey One hundred
carcases of Bob calves were seized and sent to
the offal dock The raid spread CONSERVATION
among the expressmen.
James J. Rooney, John Rooney, his son, and
Andrew Mcnamara, of New York, have been
arrested on a charge of systematically robbing
the brewers of that city of barrels and beer
kegs Detectives found Rooney and his asso-
ciates collecting kegs during the night and after
erasng the marks upon them, shipping them
out of town. The brewers say the aggregate
losses tho past year from this cause will amount
TO over 800, 900