The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-24
SUNDAYS NEWS IN BRIEF.



Walter &c Wood hardware dealers Battle
Creek, Mich, failed. Liabilities, $25 900
California official vote: Blaine, 100. SIG; Cleve-
land, "a, 307; st. John, 2. Gao; Butler, ,915.
The Bremen steamers Werra and Oder
brought to New York 81, 900 900 in gold coin.
Samuel Stewart, Of Pittsburg, in a fit of jeal-
ousy assaulted and fatally injured his sweetheart
Katie Hobson.
Alba Armstrong. who killed his wife and para
mour, was tried for murder at Newaygo, Mich,
and acquitted
Clement Hierdt & Co., importers of wines,
| New York assigned. Liabilities, $l63, 600; &C
tual assets, $1,000.
Mrs Wollem, of Breakdown, KY, refused to
take food, and died on the sixty-ffth day Of her
fast, of starvation.
Snowdon & Semu1ler, dealers in carpets and
| upholstery, Cincinnati, assigned Liabilities,
| $45 900; assets, $25, 600.
| Charles Bodkin shot and killed negro desper
! ado, named Steve Russell, who had threatened
his life, at Biandville, Ky.
| The official plurality for Blame in Iowa is 49,,
! 803 over the joint Democratic and Greenback
vote, or the Fusion ticket.
young man named Will Jones was struck by
skyroeket, at Democratic jollifcation at
jamestown, o., and instantly killed.
A shock of earthquake was felt in South
| America, November 30. Another shock extend
ed along the south shore of the St. Lawrence.
| Lloyd Breeze has bought the Detroit Times, a
morning daily, for $l2, 500 The paper may be
| published as heretofore, but drops the United
| Press service.
At Democratic iollifcation at New Castle
| Pa, explosion of skvrockets and Roman can
dies occurred Many persons we're injured, some
of them fatally
Clement Hierdt g. Co.. importers Of wines and
liquors, New York, made an assignment yester-
day Liabilities, $l63, 900; assets nominal, $780,
600; real ST., 600.
Two men who sailed from Victoria, B. c., in a
| soop with nineteen Chinese, whom they intend
ed to smuggle into Washington Territory, were
capsized and all drowned.
The heavy demand Of the Pension Department
is such draft upon the United States Treasury
| excess that the contemplated bond-call will have
to be postponed for while.
Illinois official vote: Blaine $40, 494; Cleve-
land, 3l2,314; Blaines plurality, 70, $50. Oglesby
| (RepubicanD, for Governor, 334 l81, a plurality
| OF IL, 532 over Harrison Democrat.
The proprietor Of the Police Gazette, New
| York, and other sporting men, have been ndiet-
ed by the grand jury for aiding and abetting
the Sullivan Greenfield boxing match.
JEFF Chandler, who defended Dorsey in the
late star-route trials, has entered suit against
Dorsey in the Circuit Court at st. Louis for
| 81, 800, balance of attorney fees due him.
A man giving the name of VIM. Bateman, ar
rested in Saginaw City for forgery, has been
| Identified as a person who has been passing
lOEpea uOJeS III u nufuUeF OIL nllcHlSdu Clues
The Supreme Court of New York granted an
attachment against property in that State of
| Adams & Leonard, of Dallas, Tex, in an action
begun by the Texas Pacific Railway Company
| to recover $50, 900.
Pennsylvanias official vote: Blaine highest,
474 26S; lowest, All, 004. Cleveland highest, 1898
SO; lowest. 800, 434 st. John, highest 10, 1903;
lowest. IA 342 Butler highest, 16 $685. lowest,
| 7,l34 Belva Lockwood, 3.
Joseph Moses Behrendt was arrested in New
York city. upon advices from Prussia, charging
him with carrying on for years systematic
business of swindling and forgery that, it is es-
tlmated, will reach one million marks
Two freight trains on the Richmond G. Dan
| vile railroad were in collision Friday night, at
| Keysville. c. V. Marshall jumped from ca
boose- car and was killed Marshall was sheriff
| of Charlotte county, and son of Judge Hunter
IL. Marshall of Richmond
By an order from the Pope Laval University,
at Montreal, is designated as the only one in the
province of Quebec, and all colleges ordered
to affiliate with it. The Jesuit College refuses
to obey the order declaring that the Jesuit order
is under such rules regarding education that
even the Pope cannot change them.
Thomas Price a working man of Chicago was
assaulted by footpads early Saturday morning
one of whom, named Pat McDermott, notori-
Gus character, was captured by police officer
upon refused to halt. The officer fired at him.
inHcting fatal wound He told the name of
his confederate, who was also arrested.
A telegram from Reading Pa, says: ''Rep-
resentatives of the State Board of Charities to-
day discovered that Nicholas Seidel. an insane
man, seventy-eight years old was confined in a
log hut on a farm near Reading, where he has
been kept chained for period of thirty six years
by naphew who lives on the farm. The latter
refused to permit visitor to see the unfortunate
man. The case will be reported to the State Of
fcials, and the man will probably be removed to
an asylum"
Foreign.
The cholera is dying out in Paris.