The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-03
NEWS In BRIEF.
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wife were found dead suffocated by coal gas.
The wife of John Spelneyer, jockey of New
York, who was jealous OF her husband, shot her
self on Saturday night.
The steamer Daniel S. Miller and barge are
fast in the ice in the Highlands Of the Hudson,
with passengers and freight on board
Nearly 200 laborers at the eastern end of the
Blue mountain tunnel, Pennsylvania struck on
Saturday for an increase of twenty five cents per
day
Saturday morning Mayor Bartlett. of San
Francisco, forwarded So, 100 to Mayor Jacobs. of
Louisville, KY, for distribution to the food sui
ferers.
At Port Jervis, N. Y, on Friday night DR.. D.
F. Robertson dropped dead on the street, of
! heart disease. He was the inventor of the flying
machine
The New York Society for the Prevention of
Crime has caused the arrest Of the manufacturers
of confectionery who prepared the Easter prize
packages.
The total production of iron and steel Fails in
this country last year was 800, 694 tons, fall
ing off Of 20 per cent. compared with the produc-
ton of 1882.
Near Centralia, Pa, party of Hungarians en-
camped at Roaring creek, engaged in a fight, and
Shupsh Lowenthalsky stabbed fatally ten men
and one woman.
The stockmen in convention at Sweetwater
Tex, passed a resolution favoripg the division of
the State of Texas and Fort Worth as the CAPT
tai Of the new State
A telegram signed by some of the most promi-
nent men in Hot Springs Ark, denies the ex-
istence of any such civic affairs as related in
| the dispatches from there.
sEs. Minnie. Gill was arrested at Williamsburg
N. z, on Saturday charged with kidnapping
her own child Mrs. Gill resides in Chicago. Her
husband had left her taking the child with him.
Twofreight trains on the Panhandle road col
lided near Bowerstown, O., on Friday night
wrecking both engines and number of cars, and
killing about seventy five sheep. The trainmen
escaped uninjured.
Suits have been entered against the Connells-
vile Iron and Coal Company by five of the wild
ows whose husbands were killed by the recent
! explosion at West heisening shaft The dam
| ages are laid at Sl5, COZ in each case.
! warrant is issued for the arrest of Francis
j. Smith, city treasurer of Bayonne, n. J. An
expert accountant, it is alleged, has discovered
| deficit of over S37, 900. The complaint only en-
bracesa deficit il the bond account of $4,000.
Two negroes on Thursday camped rear the
| depot of New Branford Fla. On Friday both
We're discovered dead IN the camp. One was shot
through the head, and the other was terribly mu-
| tilated HaA OF his head was chopped off with
an AK.
The Kennedy prohibition bill, which is the
same as the Donnan bill with the exception of
J one word, passed the Iowa House ~ vote OF
o. 10 Il. Al hepubllcanS and one Demoefat
voted TOR II, aud tIe DeniOorote oad GroonharS-
ers against it.
The new American ship Rainier, from Phila-
delphia for Hiogo, Japan, was wrecked on Jan
| 2, within one weeks run of her destination Her
cargo $780, 00 gallons Of refined oil, valued at
$71 900, insured The vessel was valued at $780,
900, and was uninsured.
| The funeral of the Van Ripper family, FIVE per-
sons, destroyed by the burning of the tenement
house in New York, in which they lived, took
place ON Saturday from tho Sixth-street Baptist
Church. The fire marshal finds that the fire was
caused by heat from the chimney of an adjoining
house. -- a.fl.5
Since the passage of the restriction act there
has been q continual strike of Chinese fgar-
makers at San Francisco. The manufacturers
in retaliation, have organized, and ordered a
lockout, Cd Monday, of all Chinese 3, 800 en-
ployed in cigar making Tho whites are re-
tanned.
The management of the New York new Park
Theater attached the stage properties of Mrs.
Langtry. The attachment was granted in a suit
begun by the p4opretors of the theater, in
which they claim 81 800 damages because of the
failure of Mrs Langtry to give matinee per-
fsrmance on Tuesday last,
Remonstrants. whose claims aggregate between
So OO0,0 600 and So, 100000, ask the New Haven
courts not to authorize the winding up of the
American National Life and Trust Company and
the American Mutual Insurance Company. 1t
seems that the committee, in winding up the
business, rejected about LOCO claims because
they were not accompanied by the policies they
represented, and other proofs