The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

The exports of specie for the week were 1892,
600, making a total, since Jan. ], of $48, 093, 600,
against $12, sos, 900 last year.
The President has appointed Stephen F. Will
son, of Pennsylvania, to be associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of New Mexico.
The imports at the port of New York for the
week ended on Saturday were $S,007, 900, of
which So, 010, 900 were dry goods and 1896 900
general merchandise.
Jacob Raber, a single man, and Thomas Jones,
married, both of Locustdale, Pa. were struck by
a fall of coal, while working at Merriam colliery,
on Saturday, and fatally injured.
Willie Webster, a bootblack, fifteen years old,
was arrested at st. Louis on Saturday. He says
he was one of a party of six boys who lighted
the fire which resulted in the great lumber-yard
confiagration at Cleveland.
The Oak Park dummy, in charge of a young
boy, running between Chicago and the village of
Oak Park, ran into a rapidly moving train on
the Bedtime railroad. A passenger named
Dickey was killed, and others had narrow
escapes.
B. c, Bangs, agent for the Perkins-Lyons
Company, liquor dealers, st. Paul, Mimi, was
arrested at Williamsport, Va, on Saturday, on
a charge of embezzling 81, 500 from his employ
ers, and placed in jail to await a requisition from
Minnesota.
Michipicoton, on the north shore of Lake Su-
perior, is reported to be in the possession of a
gang of roughs and whiskey sellers. The re-
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tice to quit the town. On Friday night last the
Canadian Pacific railroad office was riddled with
bullets by a band of masked men.
At St. Louis, Yesterday, Mrs. Zerelda Samuels
the mother, and Mrs. Jesse James, the widow of
the famous outlaw, were awarded damage of
Company for violation of the contract under
which royalty was to be paid them for the pub
LEGATION of the Life Of Jesse james"
On Saturday afternoon an engine on the Phila-
delphia 81 Reading railroad, in which VIM. M.
Katchner, superintendent of the signal towers
Of abe company, was riding, ran into a mixed
passenger and freight train near Exeter. The
car and engine were partially wrecked and
Ketchner instantly killed. Several persons were
slightly hurt.
When the steamer Fdraday was starting RATS
with the cable to shore, with two miles of cable
coiled upon the RATS on Thursday night, at
Manhattan Beach. the RATS, by the cables shift
ing, were capsized, and about a quarter of a mile
of cable went overheard. The cable was crap
pied for but WAS not recovered. 1t is expected a
landing will be made to-day.
Young Kerns, the night operator of the Chi
cago Dc Northwestern at Winnebago, was
knocked down by some unknown parties, a huge
cash being cut in his head. 1t is believed
he cannot recover. He has been unconscious
ever since. Friends think that a man whose dis
charge was obtained by Kerns for insulting a
woman in that village committed the assault.
The public health convention closed it's SEES
sion in st. Louis yesterday, after electing the
following officers for the year: DR.. James E.
Reeves, Wheeling, w; Va: president; Hon
Erastus Brooks, New York, first vice president;
DR.. Henry P. Baker, Michigan, second vice.
president; DR.. j. B. Lindsey, Tennessee, treas
urer, and DR.. Ii. p. Walcott, Massachusetts, sec
rotary. The next meeting will be held in Wash
ington, D.. c., in 1885.
The steamer San Marios, which arrived at
New York, yesterday, from Galveston, reports
that on Oct. 16, off the capes of Virginia, she
was boarded by a boat from the steamer Rio
Grande, hence for Galveston, which brought a
young man named Franklin, taken from the
sinking yacht Bonit, the same morning. Frank
lin was on board a half-sunken boat from We'd
nesday morning, at which time the yacht cap
sized, until Thursday, when he was taken off.