The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREYTIES.

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Farley's stave factory, at Paducan. Ky.
/ burned on Saturday. Loss, $1,000; insurance,
! 1000
A Bloomfield Pa. dispatch says disastrous
/ forest fires ragged on Limestone ridge all day on
Saturday.
Judge Miner, county iudceof Garfield county,
Colorado, committed suicide by drowning.
Cause family troubles.
Edward Halleck, New York and Brooklyn
agent OF Lautz Bros, soap and starch manulact
urers Of Buffalo, was arrested yesterday on
| charge of embezIement
A freight train on the Flint & Pere Marquette
road went through a bridge over tass river at
Bridgeport on Saturday evening. Twelve
loaded cars were totally wrecked
The large Bay Shore mill of the Ludinston,
Wells q Van Shairk Lumber Company. located
at Menominee, Mich, burned on Saturday night.
Loss, 500 600 insurance, 100000
VIM. J. Phillips. Of the New York Produce Elk
change, who failed on Friday, has absconded.
He had forged warehouse receipts for large guam
titles Of -four and done other fraudulent acts
Two Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western
| trains collided on Saturday morning at HooSac
Junction. Fourteen freight cars and two engines
were wrecked, A brakeman was seriously in
jurcd.
On the oath inst band Of twelve Kickapoo
Indians surprised and killed two Mexican sheep.
herders, at San Buena Ventura, Mexico. a par
" IS III pursuit OF them, Out, at IaSO accounts,
have not overtakcn them
Julius Columhian a bank robber whom the
| New York police arrested on Saturday with the
assistance OF Mrs. L. Peck was arraigned yester-
day The magistrate turned him over to the
authorities Of Staten Island
George L. Ewing, aged fftyfve years, we'll
known sculptor, with studio in Philadelphia.
was found dead at the Brcvoort House. New
York, yesterday. with gas jet partly turned on.
He was engaged on busts of Henry Irving and
Miss Terry.
An old white man named Milledge Vaughn
was murdered near Chunky Station, Miss.
Clarke Sutton, colored, admitted the crime but
resisting arrest was shot dead. Naughns re
mains were horribly mutilated The head and
feet We're separated from the body.
The bolt aud nut manufacturers of the United
States have formed pool for the purpose of re-
strcting production and establishing profitable
selling rates. A meeting will be held at Pitts
burg about May to revise sales and discounts
and limit the time fixed for the pool agreement.
Otto Nube, an alleged insurance swindler,
arrested a month ago in New York city on a tel
cgram from the chief of police Of Chicago. but
discharged on account of non arrival of reQuisi-
ton papers. was e-arrested Yesterday and turned
over to detective Monaghan. of Chicago. who
Immediately started West with his prisoner.
Two suits have been brought in the United
States Circuit Court at Pittsburg by Martha
Pier and B. F. liverliug against the New York,
Lake Erie d Western railroad for damages In
the sums Of $25, 600 and $50, 600, respectively.
Martha Pier was injured by a train going through
bridge near Salamanca n. Y Liverling had
his spinal cord displaced in a collision while en-
| route to New York city from Meadville, Pa
On Saturday morning Mrs Amelia Barnett,
of Easton, Pa, locked the door of her house,
threw her two children one aged two years the
other five months, ON the bed and cut their
Threats with a razor She then gave an alarm,
and, as the neighbors rushed in, drew the razor
abross her own throat and threw herself beside
her children All three are mortally wounded
The Barnett family came here from Pittsburg
Pa, several months ago