The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-01
TELEGRAPHIG BREVITIES.

The Irving Fire Insurance Company, of New
York, closed its business yesterday. It is rein
surfing It's risks in an English company
At dance, at Tilden, Tex, last night, David
Martin was called out and shot and killed by
Eugene Murphy Murphy was jealous Of Martin.
The murderer is at large
In quarrel, last night, at Fort Worth, be-
tween John Galloway, a saloon keeper. aud
Police Officer William Rushing, Galloway was
shot and instantly killed. Rushing was ar
rested.
During performance at Charter Oak Parke,
Hartford Conn, yesterday afternoon, by Buf-
falo Bills show, Major Frank North, a leading
member Of the company, was thrown from his
horse and had seven ribs broken
Secretary Chandler arrived at Portsmouth, N
FL, yesterday morning on the Tallapoosa He
has received letters from the mother of Lieuten-
and Greedy and Samuel J. Randall, saying that
they will be present at the reception. The wife
OF Commander Schley has arrived.
The prize-fight between Jim Dillon and Ned
monaghan. Pittshurg pugilists, near Browns
town, on Wednesday night resulted in favor of
Monaghan, in the twenty first round. Both
men were terribly punished The mill was wit
messed by several hundred persons
In collision between a freight train and a
horse-car, at streetcrossing Of the Fitchburg
railway, in Charlestown, on Wednesday night,
j. H. Wiley was fatally injured. The horse-car
was demolished, but the load of passeng gers,
mostly women and children, escaped with slight
bruises
Cantineny, the murderer of Officer McEaugh-
lin, of Minneapolis, was taken from the st. Paul
jail to Minneapolis, yesterday, where he waived
examination and was held over to the grand
jury. His present whereabouts is a mystery,
and it is believed he has been taken back to st.
Paul to prevent lynching.
Pittsburg capitalists are reported to have sold
the great McGurgan gas we'll, with large natural
gas rights in Washington county Pennsylvania,
together with their pipe line to Pittsburg which
is almost completed, to the Westinghouse Gas
Syndicate, The sum paid is not positively
stated, but is said to be about So 200, 000
A gas tank on ferry boat exploded yesterday
at Manhattan Beach Thstexplosion was caused
by the carelessness of the workmen. Ed
ward K. Odell was probably fatally injured,
and Samuel Farley was badly burned. Farley
was engineer of the steamer Garden City when
it took fire, one year ago, and was burned then
in similar manner.
The condition Of the cotton and wooden trade
IN Montreal is causing great anxiety in com
mercial circles. A gentleman conversant with
the matter says trade is very much worse than
it was twelve months ago. The production of
cotton and wooden goods more than equals the
demand. while the large stocks of a year ago
have not decreased.
The Bartholdi statue committee has decided
that the laying of the rner-stone of the pedes-
tai shall take place August 5, at 2 P. NJ The
ceremony will be performed by the Grand Mas
ter of Free and Accepted Masons of the State Of
New York. Bishop Potter viii make the prayer
and pronounce the benediction. The orator has
not yet been selected
There is much excitement in Barry county,
twelve miles north of Battle Creek Mich, over
the discovery of the alleged cremation Of new
born child by its mother, an unmarried
girl belonging to a respectable family 1t is
supposed the child was dead, when the mother
deliberately made funeral pyre and burned the
child, but whether it was born alive or not is at
present unknown