The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-24
NEWS In BRIEF.

Harry Moss, the humorist died yesterday at
New Orleans, of pneumonia
In a negro fight at Norfolk, Va, Lucy Con
way fatally shot William Smith.
A 10-per-cent reduction in wages at the
Cocheco mills, Dover, is announced.
The Pennsylvania railroad earned last year
81, 707, 521 over the surplus earnings of 1882.
Nine cars of a train derailed at New Lumber
ton, N. j., were pushed into the canal to clear
the track.
The Pennsylvania Express Company has fled
a certificate Of incorporation. Capital stock,
SIG, 100000.
Nick Morgan, of Cincinnati, who was shot on
Monday night by James Hayden, died yesterday
in the hospital
The appraisers of the assigned banking firm of
Lamborn q Gray, of Alliance, o., report $20O,-
COO good assets.
Nathan D. Mercy and Lodewick E. Green, of
Saratoga, N. Y, were suffocated by fumes OF
gasoline yesterday.
Willis Duff. fireman, fell from train at
Willimantic Conn, and was beheaded. He be-
longed to Allegheny, Pa.
A fast-freight train was wrecked in Kings
tunnel, on the Cincinnati Southern road, on
Tuesday night No lives were lost.
Roland, Mclean & Co., looking-glass manu-
facturers, Boston, have assigned. They have
offered creditors twenty-five cents on the dollar
Cato J. jerks, a white man of Raleigh, n. G.,
aged twenty three, deserted his sick wife and
three children, and eloped with variety actress.
The lower house of the New York Legislature
yesterday passed bill providing for the burial
of honoPably discharged soldiers who die in pow
erty.
J. G. Patterson of Detroit to-day recovered
a verdict of $ll 900 against the Wabash road for
injuries received in the collision at East Toledo
on March q, 1882
P. Clancy & Co., proprietors of the Golden
l. L (U,san c1o
yesterday. They ALWAYS stood well financially.
No particulars are given
Charles Flynn, aged twenty-one, of Portland,
Me-. died on Tuesday night from stab wound,
supposed to have been inflicted by his brother
John, with whom he quarreled
E P. Tiffany Sc Co., New York, advertised to
sell iewery, guns and watches, sold their bust
ness to j. A Smith, who found himself
swamped with orders already paid for, and was
forced to make an assignment.
Merchants interested in the West India trade
memorabilia the Dominion government TO amend
the sugar tariff so that duties may be charged on
the strength of sugar, and not on the cost, SINH
lar to the system in the United States.
Mrs. Lydia Cocks, of New York, has begun
suit against Cassius II. Read and DR.. Gustave g.
Susdorf, to recover $4,000 damages for theloss
of the services of her daughter, Clara Totem
consequent upon her seduction and condition fol-
lowing an abortion.
An error was made in giving the name of the
nominee of the Kansas congressional convention
held at Fort Scott on Tuesday night. S. A
Riggs. of Lawrence, is the gentleman nominated
Heretofore his affiliations have been with the
Greenbackers but he now claims to be a Car
Isle Democrat The vote stood, Riggs LAT, Hilla-
ker 40.
Cornelius Van Shack, an attorney of Chicago
who, being violently insane, has been confined
for some months in the Riverside Sanitarium at
gainesville, O., forced the lock of his room Tues
day night and escaped. Yesterday his corpse was
found underneath the Nickepla bridge at
Willoughbv, with his skull and both arms
broken. 1t is unknown whether he was struck
by the train or fell through the trestle. His over
coat was found on the track.