The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

John Dillman was hanged at Easton, Pa, yes
terday.
The striking nail makers of Wareham, Mass,
have voted to return to work at reduced wages.
A carriage factory and several adjoining build
ings at Churchill, Nd, burned yesterday. Loss,
$15, GOO.
j. Robert jenkins 6 Sons, of Baltimore, deal
ers IN provisions, have suspended Cause, pork
speculations.
At Waverly. n. j., Yesterday, the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad engine and sand house were burned.
Loss, $2O, 000.
Pittsburg s~treet-car conductors have formed a
secret protective association, and it is reported
that all conductors in the city will strike for a
10 per cent. advance.
At Huntsville, Ala, yesterday, Frank James
was arraigned before Judge Bruce for the Mussel
Shoals robbery. He pleaded not guilty. The
case is SET for April 16.
John Hackett, of Toronto, Canada, who was
shot last week by Horace Allkinds, an artist
while in company with the latter's wife, died at
the hospital yesterday.
The Canadian government inspector of live
stock reports four fifths of the sheep in La Prai-
RE county as affected with disease. The affected
districts have been quarantined.
Hogan & Billings, bankers, of New York, have
made an assignment. 1t was with this firm
that Carol, a clerk in the eomptrollers Office,
negotiated duplicate coupon city bonds.
Suit by the New England Iron Company, for
damages for breach of contract, against the New
York metropolitan Elevated Railroad Company,
is begun. Nearly 5000, 600 is involved.
David c. Keller, pilot of the Sciote 1.-THE time
OF the famous collision with the Tomas, July 4,
1882, has been sentenced to pay a fine of $500
ana serve two years in the penitentiary for man
slaughter.
The suspension Of Lee, Potts & Co.. pork
pscbers, of Richlaond- Va. is announced The
liabilities are reported at 100000. The failure
is due to speculation in pork. The bulk of the
indebtedness is in Chicago.
The Supreme Court of the United States has
decided that not only apparel that has been
worn, but whatever is for the use of the person
who brings it, during the season following his
arrival, may be imported free of duty.
Eolom Hoffman, of gainesville. Ohio, regis
tered at a hotel in Buffalo, March q. The fol
lowing day he left to visit a friend across Buffalo
river, and has not been seen or heard of since.
A trunk and valise bearing his name remain at
the hotel.
Tom Moores harp is 10 be exhibited in New
York, on Tuesday night of next week. when Mr..
Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, who own it,
will take it to that city to grace the musical fes-
tval of the Society for the Preservation of the
Irish Language.
General n: T. Denahoe has resigned the New
England travelling passenger agency of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, to become
New England agent of the Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati & Indianapolis and the indianapolis
& st. Louis roads.
J. j. BrittOn, a notorious rough, drew a re
volver on a police officer yesterday, at Port
Huron, and fred twice without effect. The of
hcer returned the fire, killing Britton instantly.
Britton had threatened several times to shoot
this particular officer
Fire at Hubbardston, a small village in Ionia
county, Michigan, on Sunday morning. destroyed
ten buildings, including a 4iyery stable and thir-
teen horses; also, several stores and buildings,
all wood. The loss will aggregate about $780,
600; insured for SIG, 900.
At the inquest on the body OF John Young, who
died at Philadelphia, on Saturday, from the eff
fects of injuries received in Chicago, three
months ago, the ante norton statement of the
deceased was read. that he had been stabbed in
the head with a knife by Henry Deener, in Chi
cage
Dr.. McCosh, president of Princeton College,
has started on a western trip. He will DE pres
sent at the banquet of the Cincinnati Alumni
Association, at Columbus. on the Sth, at the ban
quet Of the Chicago alumni, on the 10th, and will
be in Omaha on the 18th to form an Omaha
alnmni association.
The Butler county, Kansas, corn train for the
benefit of Ohio valley flood sufferers arrived at
st. Louis yesterday afternoon, by the Missouri
Pacific railroad. and left last night for Cincin-
matt via the Ohio 81 Mississippi the train was
visited by large numbers of people wbile it re-
NAMED in st. Louis.
Mrs. Jennie Thompson Jones. pastor of the
christian Church. Beloit, Wis. has severed her
connection with the church because of failing
health She met with abundant success the
past year as pastor and evangelist, and hopes,
after resting, to resume the work of the latter.
She willmoHe to Fort Wayne, Ind, her hus-
bands home.
The men at Sambro signal station told to-day
their story of sighting the steamer Daniel Stein
mann as she was approaching The
rocks. One witness said: Had there
been a life-boat on shore it would have been
manned, and the steamer warned of her danger"
All the men seem TO have had a good look at the
steamer close in shore before they started the
whistle to warn the ship OF her danger.