The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.

T: R. Butler, President of the Sixthavenue
Railroad Company, New York, died yesterday.
McHugh, the Cincinnati wife murderer. has
been denied fourth trial, and sentenced to be
hanged May 3
Mrs Paige has brought suit against the Com.
mercial Gazette of Cincinnati, for $3.50 0OG dam
ages for alleged libel.
Joseph Roemero of North Monroeville, O. had his
| right hand cut off by his father Anthony Roeme1
while chopping wood.
A gas explosion in Boston demolished a large
building, carrying the roof across the street.
| There were several injured
Michael CahilL of Chicago, white and Tene
| Scott, colored, of Greenvile. Tenn, mar
ned at Cairo ON Saturday night.
Conductor Holman, who had been running on
the Little Miami road for thirty years. died sud E
denly In Columbus on Saturday.
The National and Mercantile banks of the City
| of Mexico, are to be consolidated. Their com
| bined capital will be 500. 600 600.
The explosion of the Eagle Oil Works, at Will
lialnsburg n. Y, caused damage of only about
| $1,000 Gottleib Coil was severely injured.
Stephen Grant, of Great Falls, N. H., while
! trying to separate two men fighting, struck
IN the temple with a kettle by one and killed.
Leroy Donovan was hanged on Saturday at
| Rawlins w. r. He was the first white man
! ever executed in that Territory by process of
| law.
General William c. Plunkett, of Adams,
-itdso'' trOullll6ub ana pOUGlCldn,
died on Saturday morning at the age of eighty
| four.
Reeder, Of last years Springfield H., base
! ball club, and E. G. Pendleton, of the Kentons,
have been engaged for the Cincinnati reserve
| team.
The bricklayers' international convention ad-
! journed on Saturday evening The eight hour
! system was referred to the subordinate unions
! for action.
1t is stated that the earnings of the Pennsyl-
mia railroad for December win be a disappont-
ment to the bears" as the exhibit will be a
! favorable one.
Daniel Donovan has been arrested. near Balti-
more, and identified as the person who beat
| Joseph Rynear to death with billiard cue in a
Newark saloon.
| In an ARRAY with young man named Hack
ney, at Bedford, Ky, Judge Perry Gillum was
| seriously cut across the stomach with a knife in
| the hands of Hackney
| Sam Powell, a crazy negro whose strength was
sufficient to break a halfinch rope with which he
was being secured, was placed in Jail at Cairo,
| Ill, on Saturday night.
| Ezekiel Ross of Cincinnati, died on Saturday,
! in the eighty sixth year of his age. He was a
member of the board of trustees of Lane Semi
nary for forty nine years.
M. NJ. Lewis, prominent physician OF Alex
andria Va, died on Saturday night, aged sew
enty nine. During the war he division sur
| geon in the confederate army.
The Citizens League, in Chicago, formed for
the purpose of preventing the sale of liquors to
minors, has challenged the right of saloon
| keepers to sit on the grand jury.
At St Johns N F., Head Constable Doyle
| and six Orangemen were taken before court yes
| terday and charged with the murder of Patrick
Callihan in the Harbor Grace riot
| Edmund Happen, charged with the murder of
! the Maybee women has made a supplementary
confession, in which, it is said. he acknowledges
| that he and not his brother John, committed
| the crime,
| Minnie Haut and her husband Wartegg were
arrested in Pittsburg for assaulting the singers
waiting maid, Madam Auburtin. They put
Auburtin out Of their room. The court held
that they had sufficient cause.
In fight last night in New York among a
party of drunken Italians knives and pistols
were freely used Joseph Reeo received five
stab-wounds r. Ferro was shot in the abdomen,
and Giovanni Philippe in the side.
The Mechanics Bank, of Brooklyn has secured
judgment of $3.50 900 against the Brighton
Beach Railroad Company, A receiver friendly
to the company is expected to be appointed The
money was loaned to furnish the Brighton Beach
(Coney Island) Hotel.
The Pittsburg & Western, Cleveland y Tor
ledo and the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
Companies in trust, last week, closed a contract
with the Lima 81 Youngstown Car Company for
the construction of LOCO freight cars to be used
by a new freight line.
The new beard of arbitration to settle the
troubles between the Delaware. Lackawanna &
Western and the trunk lines will be composed of
three members, one chosen by the D., L. & w,
one by the joint executive committee ana the
third by the other two.
The father of Bertha E. Clear, secretly mar
ried few days ago at Philadelphia to j. B. Gar
rison the living skeleton" has filed bill in
equity, praying that the marriage be declared
null and void, as his daughter was lunatic, and
incompetent to enter into any contract.
Mr.. j. E. Emerson an old resident of Cincin-
natl, bears testimony to the fact that the first
crucble steel manufactured in this country was
made where the Lion Brewery, Cincinnati, now
stands, in 1892 Pittsburg has all along claimed
to have made the first crucible steel in 1916.
H. J. Kendall, merchant at Valley Station,
KY, and his family, consisting of his wife, faith
en- George Kendall, Bobbie Kendall Mansfield
Kendall, Miss jamie Deel and George Lamb
Kendalls teamster, were poisoned seriously by
the accidental mixture of Rough rats ia
flour, of which bread was made.
At Pilot Knob, Mo-, ON Saturday, remarka-
BILE wedding solemnzed that of Henry
Johnson, aged thirty, to Charlotte Cooper, aged
1903 The bride seemed as coy and bashful as
brides usually do, though her posterity to the
fourth generation attended her wedding, those
of the third generation being older than the
groom.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has given de-
cision in the case of A. NJ. Wright ct al against
the Chicago Board of Trade. which holds that
courts have no jurisdiction in where the
arbitration committee of the board votes to ex-
pei a member for failure to pay differences fixed
by the committee. The litigation grows out of
an alleged corner" in wheat in July, 1882.
Albert Stevenson, of Chillicothe, at the point
of revolver, compelled J. E. Goodrich, of Cat
tlettsburg, Ky, to sign an agreement to go with
him to Ohio without warrant, and then guard
ed Goodrich to a skiff, in which he took him
across the river. Goodrich is charged with the
seduction of Stevenson's sister The brother
took this method of compelling Goodrich to make
amends
The Journals New Departure.
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