The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hynds cotton warehouse burned yesterday.
Loss $50, 900.
Robert Haekaby was MORALLY wounded by
John Smith in an affray i'll Carroll county, Geor-
gia.
The Arctic and Quidnick mills. at Providence,
X l., have been sold to the Union company for
$780, 900
Democrats of the Twelfth Massachusetts dis
trict have nominated Colonel A. l.. Woodwork
for Congress.
The Apostolic Commissioner has begun an in
quiry into the religious troubles in Laval Uni
verSity, Montreal
Oscar L. Blaney and Mrs. Balrows, of Bidde-
ford, Me-, have been indicted for the murder of
the woman's husband.
Wesley Posey the negro rapist, sentenced to
be hanged at Birmingham, Ala. to-day, has been
respited for thirty days.
. The burning of the main building of the E,tna
Match Company, at New Haven throws out of
employment seventy-five hands.
Buckley & Co, dry goods, Utica, N Y, have
assigned. Liabilities about 5000, 000 assets about
$230, 900. Preferences aggregate $l30, 600.
Edwards's Opera-house, Selma, Ala, burned
last night. Loss $4,000; insurance, $1,000,
Two fremen were injured by falling walls.
Charles D. Holmes and Henry Jackson of
Freehold. n. J., have been indicted for starting
the last three large fires at Red Bank, causing a
loss of upward of $780, COO
the Schuylli river, caved in by force of the cur
rent and the entire mine was submerged. Much
valuable machinery was damaged.
The water is so low in the canal at St Cathe-
line's, Ont, that the Welland Vale Manufacture
ing Company is obliged to shut down. One hun
bred and fifty men are thrown out of employ
ment.
People having friends buried in the cemetery
at Fostoria, o., are agitated over the story of a
wild animal of an unknown species which bur-
rows in the ground and devOurs the contents Of
the collins.
AT Weisser, 1. T., masked mob took Charts
Dieterd, the murderer of Buck Bozie, from his
jail cell, shot and beat him, then dragged him a
half mile to a siaughter-house, and hanged him
to a windlass used by butchers.
The catarrhal disease is raging as an epidemic
among the horses of Dubuque and vicinity. A
large number are affected and several dying.
Every precaution will be taken by the livery
men to prevent the disease from spreading.
At the annual meeting of the Union League
Club. New York last night officers were elected
as follows: President William NJ. Evarts; vice
president, Hamilton Fish. The report of the
Committee on political reforms was adopted.
The Morocco Dealers National Exchange held
its thirty7eighth semi-annual meeting at Viii
mington Del, yesterday. Frank w. Nor
cross read a paper on the manufacture of mo-
rocco in this country, claiming this is the center
of trade.
The Ohio commission on convict labor report
that the present system has an unfavorable eff
feet upon the wages of the free labOrers They
recommend the enactment of a law which will
permit the changing of thesystem and the estab-
lishment of ''State shop
In the suit of Lucy A, Brinckerhoff, of New
York, to assert her right of dover the Court di-
rected verdict in favor of the plaintiff holding
that she was not barred by the Connecticut di
vorce Mrs Brinckerhoff learned after the death
of her husband that he had obtained divorce i'll
Connecticut ten years before.
Frank James's case has become alarming. and,
consulting physicians have been called in. James
in answer to a question, said Il feeling
miserable, but if the weather gets better think
[ will get through His wife is a constant at
tendant at his bedside and anticipates every
wish. 1t is the general opinion here that he will
not recover.
The Mormon Church organ, of Salt Lake City,
raises new cry, to boycott the gentiles. In
a long article calling ON the Mormon people to
quit all dealings with their demonstrated enc
mics. it says: IF this proper policy strict
~ adhered to the power of the would-be OPP
pressors would be greatly curtailed. If they
could only realize the fact the people have in
this connection a powerful lever for their own
protection within their grasp 1t will he cold
day in business for some who feed and fatten on
their substance when they sense the important
fact"