The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

AT Grand Jervolse, Fortune bay, man named
Martin strangled his wife and then killed HIM
self.
j. E. Cook & Co. of Morris. N. Y, have made
an assignment Liabilities, $4,000; assets un-
known.
Marx & Rowellas glyce1ine factory New
York, was damaged by fire $40, 600 yesterday;
partially insured
A certificate of Incorporation of the Mexican
National Telephone Company was filed in New
York on Saturday.
Luzerne county PA delegates to the State
Democratic convention are instructed to favor
Randall for President
Chas. H. Hassler, dealer in railroad bonds at
New York, has assigned. The trouble was
caused by dishonest clerks
At Middletown, KY, Hal Talbot killed Lewis
Lindsay, an old negro. He shot him with a re
volver Cause, an old grudge.
The Stockton Hotel, at Cape May, has been
sold to VIM. B. Kempton, of New York The
price paid was about 1925, 600.
Bunt G. Alno, of Foote county. Illinois, was
arrested in New York, on Saturday, charged
with passing worthless checks.
Mr.. August Belmont suggests Judge Ruger, of
the New York Court of Appeals, a splendid
presidential candidate for the Democrats.
The number of hogs packed at St Louis from
Nov l, 1888 to March l. 1884, is 382, 222, against
327, 004 for the same period the previous season.
1t is thought the foot and mouth disease now
prevailing in Kansas, can be entirely suppressed
within two weeks. Contagion seems to be very
slow.
The Canadian government has entered into a
contract with the Pullman Car Company to use
its cars on the government railroads for two
years.
Lincoln Post G. A. R., of Topeka, Kan, num-
bering five hundred, by resolution will
ask President Arth ur to veto the Fitz John Por-
ter bill.
In wrestling match at Wheeling, between
VIM. +. Clark, of Buffalo, and Alex Gardner. the
colored giant, of the former place, Clark was
victorious.
The Ontario Legislature has passed bill Civ
ing unmarried women possessed of the necessary
property qualifications the right to vote at mu-
nicipal elections
George Brough, a farmer was choked to death
in restaurant, at Pemberville, O.. while at
tempting to swallow an ounce and halfo meat
without chewing.
jesse Lawrence. colored rough, assaulted
d. G. Hilger at Steubenville, o., and inflicted
serious injuries. While trying to escape, he was
shot and killed by policeman.
William D. Gaylord well-dressed young
man, supposed to be the son of wealthy Cleve-
land merchant, committed suicide on public
street i'll Chicago, on Saturday night.
A passenger train ON the Western North Caro-
lima railroad was wrecked near Marion. En-
gineer Knox was killed. and the fireman badly
Henry Ruhl, of Springfield, Ohio, while I'M
Harvesting his horse on Saturday night, was
knocked down with club and robbed. He is
seventy years old He is mortally wounded.
Ii George A Vincent is not convicted in ST.
Louis, the Sing Sing authorities will claim him
to serve twelve years and a half of a thirteen
years sentence, he having escaped from that
prison.
Charles Mooney aged ffty-six grandson of
VIM. Mooney one of the founders of the Tam
many Society, New York, died in cheap lodg
ing-hOuse, where he has been living in state of
abject poverty.
1t is reported that a snow-slide has carried
away the Samson Mining COmpanys concentrat-
ing works, eight miles northwest of Silverton,
Col, erected last summer, at an expense of $780,,
600. No lives lost
The New York Grand Commandery Knights
Templars will, on Decoration Day adorn the
statue OF Lafayette, in Union Square, in honor
of that patriots visit here sixty years ago. and
his being made Knight Templar.
William G. Smith, aged twenty committed
suicide with morphine at San Antonio, yesterday.
Domestic trouble. His parents wealthy and
respectable, and reside at Waco where, last
Christmas, he married Lizzie Mack, who was
then, as now, variety actress.
The police of Brooklyn are inquiring INTO the
burning to death of Mabel Robinson, of New
York, in the Tunison Hotel, on the old COney
Island road The body was found sitting up
except threads of the stockings on the feet
brutal outrage was committed on a Young
woman named Margaret Meehan of Brooklyn.
yesterday, by ruffians, who seized her and
dragged her in stable The police arrested
John r. Savage. Robert T. Baldwin. James Null
holland and Robert Daily, whom the girl ident-
flied.
The efforts of the committee appointed at the
miners convention at Pittsburg to induce the
men working in the third pool at reduction to
gA,, Il
say that they will not come out unless the asso-
citation raises $40, 900 to support them during the
strike
On Monday morning special freight train,
composed of thirty one cars all loaded with corn
for the sufferers by the floods of the Ohio river
valley, will leave Wichita, Kan, for Cincinnati
The corn was donated by the people of Sedgwick
county, Kansas, and will prove substantial
present.
Geo. Ross, colored, of Windsor, Ont, found
another colored man named Scott, with his mis-
tress. Ross threw lamp at Scott, striking him
on the head breaking the lamp. The oil ignited
and fatally burned Scott. Ross was arrested
aftera desperate struggle, defending himself
with an AK.
Early on Saturday morning, while freight
train was backing on siding at Toronto, the
scene of the terrible accident the "a of Jan
uary another freight train ran into it. The en-
gineer and fireman of the latter train were fatally
injured. The damage to rolling stock is esti-
mated at $4,000
The murder of Christine Kett, a girl about
eighteen years of age, which occurred at Day
ton O., on Jan. II, 1867, and which has re-
manned a profound mystery, has been cleared by
the confession of the giri&Amother, on her death
bed, that she Drained her with an ax-handle IN
a fit of passion.
Denis Reilly pointed revolver at Celia Rem
ney, aged seventeen, while visiting friends in
Brooklyn. The weapon exploded, instantly kill
ing the girl, Reilly is overcome by grief. He
did not know ii was loaded. He has been ar
rested. Examination showed that all the cham
bers of the revolver were empty except one.
The silver coinage resolutions passed by the
Boston Produce Exchange have called out letters
to the secretary of the board from Representa-
tives Long, Ranney Morse, Lyman and Senator
Dawes. All agree that something ought to be
done, but think, with the present committee on
coinage, weights and measures, no action slikely