The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

buildings, inficting a loss of 10000; insurance
| $4,000
The railroad hotel and freight depot at Bowie,
| Arizona, burned on the 3lst ult Loss, $50, GOO;
| no insurance.
Rev. Francis Hawley, father of United States
Senator Hawley, died yesterday, at Hartford,
! aged eighty-one.
The West Shore q Buffalo company has con
| tracted with ear manufacturing filln for the
construction of Loco standard box cars, to cost
| 100000.
Agents of a number of Minnesota flour-mills
are in milwaukee, soliciting orders for American
| flour, in view of short wheat crop in Canada
this year
A block of ice in the St. Charles below Mon
treal has caused the water in front of the city to
rise twenty feet in the past three days, flooding
\ the cellars.
| Some one going under the name of H. H. MIN
! ball Is trying to continue the fraudulent 'Ameri
can and European Secret Detective Agency in
Cincinnati
Rev. K. G. Anderson, of Oshkosh, Wis, has ac-
| eepted the pastorate of the First Presbyterian
| Church, Troy N Y, one of the wealthiest
| churches in the East.
The worllmen employed at the Berlin foundry,
PlttSburg, have accepted 10 per cent. reduction
in wages. Yesterday they decided to strike and
| quit work, but reconsidered
VIM. Thompson, of Homework Pa, brake
man on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne G. Chicago
between Salem and Levtania.
Leon Cronson, salesman of Goldsmith & Kuhn,
OF New York, who disappeared with $4,000
worth of jewels belonging to the firm is believed
| to have gone to San Francisco
The first issue of the Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph, consolidation Of the papers named,
appeared yesterday. The makeup of the new
paper does not differ materially from the old
Telegraph.
A. j. Defossez, manager of the French opera
troupe, New Orleans, made a cesson of his
property to creditors. Assets valued at about
81, Liabilities, including salaries of the
troupe, $4,000.
Justice Osborn, who presided at the trial of
Frank X. Sherwin, at Albany, has granted
stop of his sentence until Jan 8, to enable an
appeal to be taken to the general term. The
case will be argued at CatskilL
The Maryland Legislature organized yester
day. The Senate voted not to allow Hodgson, of
Somerset county, to take the oath, because he
minister of the gospel at the time of his
election, and, therefore, ineligible.
Breckenridge, Mimi, was nearly destroyed by
| fire yesterday. Among the buildings burned
were the Sherman House, Wilkn county offices,
containing all the county records and nine bust
ness buildings. Loss, $4,000; Insurance. $35, 000.
Three of the Southern Pacific railroad train
robbers and murderers are in custody at Silver
| City. The first one caught at Las Vegas was a
| negro, who confessed. The two others were
issexpected to be taken soon.
| j. Snyder, farmer living near Independence,
| Mo-, started to field after his horses He had
| gone but short distance from the house when
! his nose began to bleed in such manner that he
| returned, and died in a very few minutes The
pRyricians say he burst "a blood vessel
FIT. two tumors, varying in size from a wal
nut to tuInip, were removed from the body Of
A. J. Adams, at st. Vincents Hospital, Erie, on
| Tuesday One hundred tumors yet remain to be
l .4,1 ,l.,.4o-
abundance of swellings to the bite of squirrel
1Hreceived when he was boy.
| Mr.. T. G. Anderson, a Georgia man, was
| wounded in the head by bullet from pistol in
the hands of an unknown assassin. Anderson
was seated in the house by the fire, when some
one on the outside shot him through hole in the
| wall. The ball entered through the right eye,
entirely and permanently destroying the sight
| thereof
| Miss Clara Barton, whom Governor Butler APP
| pointed superintendent of the woman's prison at
| Sherborn, Mass, has resigned. M. Hail. whom
she recommended, has been appointed and CON
| firmed Miss Barton has drawn no pay for her
services, which have been of great value. She
i intends TO devote herself solely to the work of
the Red Cross Society.
Edwin Erwin. of Brooklyn a member of the
| Salvation Army, better known as ''Hallelujah
| Ned" and Miss Lulu Wilmington of Trenton,
who is lieutenant in the Trenton corps of the
army, We're married at the army corps barracks,
| o.
sixteen years old. The barrack was crowded
with persons who had paid twenty five cents to
witness the ceremony.
| Samuel Fogerty, of Lockport, O., put heavy
| charge of powder in an old log and then applied
| a slow match. 1t did not 90 off at first, and he
| went back and got down on the log to hammer
the fuse. In an instant the log burst, and Fo-
| eerty was blown high in the air, ahghting in the
canal, His ann was broken in two places, his
| breast terribly lacerated, and he sustained such
| into i,li1 at ha
| Ex-senator Thurman has left Columbus for
| the South. 1t is predicted that his absence dur
ing the senatorial fight will increase the chances
of his being elected Pendletons men are hope
| full, but hardly confident Paynes supporters
| continue to claim everything, but it is unmis
taxable that opposition to the Standard Oil
/ monopoly is growing Bargar has Topped from
| Pendleton to Payne, and now announces himself
as a candidate for Speaker.
| At Batesville Ark, an unprecedented occur
renee at the Baker House threw the town into a
warm discussion of legal questions. The proprie
| tor of the house retained by process of law as
| he claimed, one of Mrs. Linsey's children to Sc
| cure board bill, and at the same time compelled
| Brown, Piller and Yancey-the latter an attor-
| ney-went to the hotel and took the babe and
restored it to its mother, under such circum-
stances as to greatly increase the excitement.
| The famous Case Fish suit at Racine, Wis.
has been decided. The decree gives Case judg
ment for $2l2, 546 and Costs, with interest at 10
per cent from Oct. 10, 1888. This amount the
| defendants are to pay within six months, other
wise the business will be disposed of to realize
| the sum. 1t was also decided that Case was the
owner of the business, subject to the right of de-
| PENDANTS to recover it on payment of the sum
| given above also, that he had lien on the prop
erty originally nortgaged to him by Fish Bros.
| q Co. for certain Improvements made thereon.
| Queueless Cinnamon.
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