The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

John Woodsde & Co., liquors, Philadelphia,
have suspended
The weavers employed at the Crescent mill,
Fall River, Mass, have struck.
j. NJ. Jones & Sons, car manufacturers, AL
bany, have assigned, with preferences of $67 900.
Plymouth Congregational Church, Kalamazoo,
was burned on Monday; loss, $4,000 insurance,
$1,000
Memorial services were held last night in New
York and Providence, r. l., in honor of Wendell
Phillips.
AtBiddeford, Me-. Henry Colbreth was killed
and several others badly injured by coasting
accident.
L. Spencer & Co. S carriage and saddlery hard
ware store, Oneida n Y, burned Loss, $780,
600; insurance $4,000.
Edward Bilsbury's Sons, cotton commission
merchants, New Orleans, have failed. Liabili-
ties reported, $l40,000.
Joseph Reilly, of New York, attempted sui
eide by jumping from fifth story window. He
received a fracture of the skull
The Lincoln Club, composed of leading colored
men of Connecticut has indorsed General JohnA
Logan as presidential candidate.
The birthday of Abraham Lincoln was cele-
brated last night in Jersey City where $50 of the
best citizens sat down to dinner.
A Steubenville, o., special says William Der
y, of Wellsburg o., fell from the steamer
ner O'Neil yesterday and was drowned.
IN collision on the. Cincinnati Southern, near
yckwood, Tenn, Frank Burk, q brakeman,
as killed and another person seriously injured.
4 John Alsop, of New York, eighty years old,
Eas found lying in bed with his throat cut and
iope around his neck. He had attempted sui
tde.
J. H. Beale, well-known commercial tray
ieler of Montreal, jumped from the Montreal fast
express train at Whitley, yesterday, and was
killed
A meeting of the Western Nail Association
will be keld tomorrow, to consider the advis-
ability of further prolonging the stoppage of the
nail machines
George Davidson chief clerk of the subsist-
ence department of the United States Army sta
ton at Chicago in 1879 and 1880, was arrested in
New York yesterday, charged with embezzling
SO, 800 during the years named.
The Central Trust Company, Of New York,
has brought a suit against the New York City &
Northern Railroad Company, New York Loan
and improvement Company, and others, to fore
close mortgage for 81 100000 given by the rail
road company IN 1880.
Hon. James b. Davis. representative in the
Texas Legislature from Lamar county, in a wild
frenzy, supposed to have been caused by ex-
cessive drink, escaped from his room at the
Junction Hotel at Whtesboro, and was not
found till yesterday, when his body was discov-
cred. lying dead, face down, in the road a mile
south of the depot.
A writ of execution has been issued against
ten business men of Hanover n H., bonds
for eight of the Dartmouth students ar
rested for alleged participation in the famous
'l'arker riot case, about seven years ago j. B.
Parker. an unpopular BOOKSELLER was paid by
the town about 800 damages for injury suffered
ut the hands OF the students during an auction
The religious statistics of Atlanta show that
there are frty- two organized churches for pop
ulation of $4,000. Sixteen denominations are
represented. Two churches are worth 300, 900
each, while the total valuation of church prop
erty is about 81, ,0000G0. Four churches pay
salaries to pastors of $4,000. The attendance at
these churches at MONDAY services, on Sunday,
was 10000. OF the colored churches, one was
built at cost of $4,000. The colored churches
of the city are valued at $40, 900 One colored
pastor gets 81, 200 year, two get $1,000, and
several get $780,