The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nine buildings burned at Odessa, Mo-, on
Wednesday night.
Giuseppe Gendice has been found guilty in
lew York of the murder of Maggorini Daghier.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company has
purchased twelve locomotives at a cost of $l29,-
$50
Daniel Anderson's steam saw-mills at Water
side, N. B., burned yesterday. Loss heavy; un-
insured
The Maryland Senate has reconsdered its or
der to investigate the charges made against the
mayor of Baltimore.
A fire occurred yesterday morning in three
buildings of the oil-cloth works of Blabon & Co.,
Philadelphia. Loss estimated at $50, 900.
Wash Wilson shot dead man named Taylor,
at Rocky Mount Bossier parish Louisiana dur
ing Democratic primary election, yesterday.
The sentence of Premier Boudoir. of Dover
n. H., convicted of the murder of Grant, has
been postponed, lis son confessing to being the
murderer 81.
Jury Commissioner Andrew Moreland. of Pitts
burg, slipped on an iron grating yesterday,
and striking his head against the curbstone, was
killed instantly.
James Crawford an ex-railroad conductor,
charged by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
with embezzfing tickets, has been found guilty
by Philadelphia jury.
VIM. Harlan, clerk and commissioner of the
United States Circuit and District Courts and
United States shipping commissioner at Pensa-
Howard L. Laing formerly general agent of
the passenger department of the Wabash road,
has been appointed special agent of the passen-
ger department of the Chicago & Alton.
J. B. Cooper wholesale and retail hardware
Of Eau Claire, Wis, failed yesterday. Attach
ments, Judgments and executions now filed
amount to so, 600. The stock will invoice about
$4,000.
Four members of the Salvation Army were
arrested at Bridgeport, Conn, for violating the
city ordinance by paradng the streets, and were
each fined 81 and costs, or fifteen days in Jail.
They Went II jail
In a quarrel, last night at San Leandre Cal,
VIM Scolard drew revolver and shot Aleck
Dietrickson, saloon keeper, dead. When
Scolard's fatherwas told the news he exclaimed
My God, can this be!' and fell dead
Western shippers viii meet in New York next
week to decide how much anthracite coal the
Vest VIII take next year and at what price. 1t
thought the West will take four million tons
Turing 1884. Prices are to be maintained at all
hazards
At the blooded cattle sale at Marshall Mo,
fortyfour short-hcrns belonging to r. W. Owen,
sixteen Jerseys owned by Alex McClintock &
Son, of Millersburg KY, brought nearly four
thousand dollars.
Another Jesse James gang of boys has been
broken up by the Boston police. They had taken
possession of the Concord street school-ho
at the police, without effect. Two boys twelve
and fourteen years of age have been arrested
At meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of
San Francisco resolutions were adopted pro-
testing against the proposed action of the gov
eminent to confseate all duty-paid merchandise
over three years in bonded warehouses. A me-
mortal has been telegraphed to the Secretary of
the Treasury requesting delay of ninety days.
About thirty representatives of barb-wire
manufactures, of New York. Pennsylvania, lii
nois, Iowa and Missouri, held meeting at St.
Louis yesterday. They had long consultation
regarding their interests. The meeting was
secret, but it is learned from a reliable source
that it was decided to advance the price of
barbed wire half cent per pound.
The Board of Trade of Wichita, Kan, few
days since held meeting for the purpose of
taking steps to aid the Ohio river sufferers. A
committee was appointed to canvass The city for
money, and one prominent man named in each
of the twenty six townships of Sedgwick county
10 solicit farm products and money 1t is esti-
mated that thirty to forty carloads of corn alone
win be contributed by Saturday next, or about
10000 bushels, besides considerable amount Of