The Indianapolis journal., 1884-07-17
TELEGRAPHIG BREYITIES.

G. G. Cochran, one of the associate editors Of
the Chicago Current, has retired
The Atlantic Cotton Mills at Lawrence, Mass,
will shut down on July Is till Aug. IL.
Bourne, Scrymser & Co.'S oil refinery, at
Elizabeth, N j. burned yesterday Insured.
At Louisville, yesterday, Mike Taggart, a
workman, fell from the new Ohio river bridge
and was drowned
General Sheridan has been designated by the
President to act as Secretary Of War in Secre
tary Lincons absence.
A heavy fow of gas has been struck on Mil
lers farm, near Washington Pa two miles from
the McGuigan we'll at depth of |, 100 feet.
Body y-snatch hers carried off the body of John
May, of Conshohocken Pa, who murdered his
daughter and then committed suicide last week.
The manufacturers of boots and shoes at Gin
cinnati have refused the demand Of the heelers
and lift cutters for an advance Of 10 to 15per
cent
Miss Emily j. Leonard, Of Meriden, Conn,
died yesterday, aged forty-six She was widely
known as botanist, classical scholar and writer
on political economy.
According to the assessment rolls returned to
the Texas State Comptroller, the taxable value
of the State this year shows an increase over
last year of $50, 100000
The strikes of the journeymen plasterers and
Knapp 4 Co Is shoe hands at Philadelphia, have
ended. The plasterers got the advance asked
ANU tlH SH0eIdAk6rS compromised.
w. H. Watson, an employe Of R. H. Page, a
Nashville, Tenn, druggist, has been arrested on
the charge of sending obscene circulars through
the mails, advertising rubber goods
At Cooperstown, KY, William Faulkner was
fatally shot by Ben Miller yesterday. The
shooting resulted from revival of an old diff
Guilty. Miller has not yet been arrested
The postofice at Swanton, Vt, was burglar
lied on Tuesday night and the safe blown open
The work was evidently done by experts. The
thieves secured $500 in cash and 81, 900 in notes.
At Athens, Ca, Police lieutenant Arnold shot
dead Sam Taylor, eolored, who was resisting ar
rest. A large crowd is in town. and trouble is
feared. The jury rendered verdict Of justifa-
BILE homicide.
Texas, in a quarrel Bud Zeigler cut Peter
Marsh in the abdomen, causing his intestines to
drop OUT Zeiglef was arrested Marsh is in a
precarious condition.
The body of G. b. Abbott. physician of Kan
sas City, who disappeared from home five weeks
ago. was found in the woods, near town. to-day.
The remains were much decomposed. The man
ner Of his death is unknown.
Although the Canadian courts have refused to
extradite John G. Emo, and have ordered his lib
GRAFTON, American detectives are still watching
his movements, and this former millionaire can
not walk the streets without being shadowed
Acollison on Tuesday night on the ton of
cisco railway, between two freight trains, re-
suited in The death of William Harris fireman
Another fireman, name unknown, was fatally
nhixrsd-
Charles Putty who for the past eight years
has collectad bridge fares on railway trains
Dressing the river at St Louis. was knocked
from the bridge yesterday by a Chicago & Al
ton train, and before assistance could reach him
he drowned.
Cincinnati cigar makers arc out with an an