The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The WelIand canal opens April %.

On Saturday Boston celebrated the one hun
bred and ninth anniversary of the Concord
! Sight
Private Mooney, injured in boiler explosion
IN the garrison at Brownsville, Tex, few days
| ago, died en- Saturday.
The Methodist Church building at Saginaw
| City, Mich, burned yesterday morning. Loss
nearly $40 0OO insurance, $4,000
| In the United States Court at Charleston, on
| Saturday, two additional indictments were found
against United States Marshal Blythe.
| Wamsleyvlle, Adams county, Ohio, was de-
| stroyed by fire on Thursday night. Nine resi-
| dences, store, the postotice, and four barns
were burned.
AT Xenia, Ohio, Saturday, while charging a
soda water fountain, at Gary Bros. drug store.
George Conner was severely injured by the
bursting of the generator.
Dennis Coffee went to sleep on a railroad
bridge, near, Chattanooga, on Saturday night,
and was cut into small bits When found his
head was 100 Feet from his body.
At Yankton, OAK, on Saturday the grand
| jury in.the United States Court presented two
indictments against Governor Ordway, charging
corruption in county organizations.
About twenty additional bodies were recovered
! from the Pocahontas mine on Saturday, and it is
thought only five more remain. Work in the
| mine will be resumed in about week.
Benjamin +. Lloyd, manager of the Western
| Union Telegraph Company, of Pittsburg, has re
signed to accept the division SUPPLEMENTARY Of
| the Baltimore d Ohio Telegraph Company with
! headquarters at Newark.
| A curious crowd went to the dedication service
of Catholic church. at Easton, Md, and became
frightened at the ringing of the bell, which they
took for fire alarm They rushed for the door,
many being bruised. No fatalities.
The will of the late A. T. Stewert was ordered
to be contested in Springfield, Mass, on Satur-
day, in order that the title to real estate might
be legally settled 1t is contested by parties in
Vermont, who claim to be heirs of the estate.
Rev, F. D. Hemenway, professor of Hebrew
and Biblical literature in the Garrett Biblical In
stitute, at Evanston, ILL.,, and for many years q
and renowned as scholar, died at Chicago on
Saturday.
Mrs. H. G. Fillmore, of Fayetteville, N Y.
who, with her husband, were guests at the Palm
er House, Chicago, and who blew out the gas
on retiring, died on Saturday morning. Her hus-
band, who was also asphyXiated, is unconscious
and is not expected to live.
Three hundred feet of snow-sheds fell half
mile west of Summit on the Central Pacific rail
way. and covered a working train and number
of Chinese. Six dead Chinese have been taken
out and five others seriously wounded A wreck
ing train and medical aid have gone to the scene
of the disaster.
Barrett's circus train was wrecked on the East
Tennessee Virginia & Georgia railroad on Sat
urday. The elephant, several cameis, and J.
o y.
The cages containing the lions and tigers were
overturned, but the animals were secured by the
bravery of their keepers.
Announcement is made of a change in the
management Of the Kansas City Journal. A. j.
Blefken, for four years general manager. retires
having sold his interest slightly less than one
third, to "a company for $4,000. j. b. Lawrence
assumes the duty of managing editor, and j. E.
Mann those of business manager.
A freight train on the Kansas City, Fort Scott
g. Gulf railroad, ran into a washout forty miles
west of Springfield. Mo. Friday night, al
most demolishing the locomotive and nine cars;
and killing one and mortally wounding another
tramp who were stealing a ride in car. The
loss to the company is $l5,00 to $4,000
r. Fl. Turner, defaultng ticket agent of the
Panhandle ana Cleveland & Pittsburg railroads
at Mingo junction, o.. has returned from Cana
da, where he fed with some $4,000 belonging to
the Pennsylvania company. He comes back
of his own free will, and intends effectng a
compromise with the railroad officials by return
ing the funds
Two Italians, dressed in the garb of Turks,
who have been selling bead work. left Galveston
| a day OF so ago on foot, for the city of Mexico
| After passing Renconado, on line Of the Mex
lean National railway, two hundred miles from
Laredo they were attacked and the one who
carried tho money lassoed around the neck
and ierked down procipice and instantly killed.
! His companion escaped by reason Of his fleetncss