The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fire at Greenville, S. c., destroyed property
valued at $50, 600; partially insured.
Amandas Bayer, superintendent of Hennin-
gers mine, at Allentown, was killed by a cave-in
on yesterday.
The faculty of Dartmouth College has refused
to adopt the regulations proposed for the govern
ment of intercollegiate sports.
Singer, Minick & Co, steel manufacturers
Pittsburg, have notified their employees of a re-
duction in wages, to take effect on March 10.
The widow of A. It. Stewart yesterday sold
the Stewart building, Broadway and Chambers
streets, New York, to Judge Hilton, for s., 100,
GOO.
Barrit & Co. g shade factory, Brooklyn, was dam
aged by fire last night 800, 600. Insurance
small. Over 100 men are thrown out of employ
ment.
At the Whitcomb House, Rochester, yester-
day, Mrs. Bussey, of Troy, shot another woman,
who was her husbands mistress. The wound is
not fatal.
A false alarm of fire at the Royal Theater,
Montreal. during the matinee, caused a panic.
Women tainted, and were trampled on. Several
were badly bruised.
George w. Wilson, of Detroit, who, two
months ago, shot and killed Policeman Billiard
while resisting arrest, was yesterday convicted Of
murder in the second degree.
A west-bound passenger train on the West
Shore road came in collision with a wild freight
near Utica, N. Y. The engines, baggage car
and three freight cars were wrecked. Two pas
sengers were slightly injured.
Articles of incorporation of the Kansas City,
Des Moines & Northern Railroad Company have
been filed. The object is to build a road between
the cities named. The incorporators are chiefly
residents Of Missouri and Iowa.
VIM. H. Haigh, of Port Hope, Ontario. a pas
senger on the Circassian, from England, was
robbed on the passage of SO, goo worth of iewelry
and other valuables The theft was not dis
covered until the passagengers had landed.
Elevator men of st. Louis held a meeting yes
terday, and decided to post grain the moment it
is discovered to be damaged, and make the
owner responsible, thus putting the elevators of
that city in line with those of other grain centers
Of the country.
Great excitement prevails at Erin, Tenn, over
the discovery of a gold mine. While out hunt
ing, l.. H. Bernathy found a cave with evidences
Of gold. He took a lease of the land and is sell
ing lots at big prices. Over S., 900 worth of
nuggets are on exhibition at a store. Miners and
railroad men are locking in.
South Kentucky College, at Hopkinsville, for
many years under the control of the Christian
denomination, was burned to the ground on
Monday. The fire broke out at 8 o'clock P. NJ,
originating in a flue. The college was one of the
largest and best constructed in western Ken
lucky, costing originally $40, 900, being a high
three-story building, and situated on the highest
eminence in the town.
There is a prospect that the body of Salmi
Morse, which was given a Jewish burial yester-
day, may be disinterred that Christian ceremo-
MES may be performed over it. Morse was born
of jewish parents, but he had long since aban-
doned that faith, and, although he had not pro
fessed Christianity in the sense of joining a
church, he was devout, and his manner of life
and utterances were rather Christian than Jew
iSh.