The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hanlan, the oarsman, has sailed for Australia.
The Penn Iron Works at Lancaster, Pa, has
reduced wages 10per cent,
J. Q. Savage, q member of the New York Pc
troleum Exchange, has suspended. Liabilities,
$25, 900.
The Sharon Hill divorce case, set for trial yes
terday, at San Francisco, was postponed to
March %.
At Floyd Courthouse, Va, Jacob Dulaney, of
Montgomery county shot j. X DeHart dead.
Dulaney was arrested
Clothing cutters will soon hold national con-
vention to arrange for uniform rates of wages
throughout the country.
William Finch postmaster at Glendale, Oak,
has been arrested on the charge of robbing the
mail of registered letters
Five freight cars were badly wrecked near
LongView Tex, yesterday Brakemen Stout
and Cummins were killed
The Minneapolis Board of Trade passed reso
buttons of sympathy with Henry Willard in his
sickness and financial troubles.
Miss Hammerling, member of family sick
with trchiniasis, died yesterday, at Minneapolis.
Her father is not expected to live.
The Seaconnett Mills corporation, Fall River,
has been organized to manufacture print cloths.
Capital, $4,000 Ring spinning will only he
put in.
Police officer Nicholson, at San Francisco, was
mysteriously murdered while onhis beat on Sat
urday morning. When found blood was oozing
from three wounds in his head.
The widow of Wendell Phillips has declined to
act as eXecutriX of her husbands will ON account
of i'll health and has requested the Judge of the
Probate Court to appoint some one instead.
Patrick MCGOWAN, of New York, fatally shot
Thomas Sullivan yesterday, in a bar-room. The
men are Republican ward politicians. and the
shooting grew out of difference at a recent pri
mary election.
Judge Bruce, of Montgomery, Ala, has de.
cd bach S11cn cd
for lack of confirmation by the Senate, is emit
tied to hold the Office of marshal until the Pres
| dent makes another appointment.
In Chichesterville, N. Y, man named Avery
killed his wife and attempted suicide Avery
says he is willing TO go to prison for life but has
conscientious scruples about hanging. Avery
and wife are about twenty years old
Clarence Shepard & Co. the oldest hardware
house in Milwaukee, established in 1910, made
an assignment. on Saturday, to George Tracy
Liabilities 500, 600; assets, $4,000 No pre-
ferred creditors except the employees.
Governor Robie of Maine, has nominated
| Hon. VIM. L. Putnam, of Portland, and Hon.
Enoch Foster, of Bethel, justices of the Supreme
Court to fill the vacancies caused by the retire
ment of Judges H. Simmond and Barrows.
Herbert c. Aver, of Chicago, formerly pres-
dent of the Brown, Bonnell 81 Co. Iron Works.
of Youngstown, is enjoying himself in the south
| of France, his old friends, the brokers of Chi
cago, having raised purse of 100000 for him.
The Indian Rights Association, of Philadel-
phia. has prepared petition asking for 1908 900
for present use in the establishment of day
schools and manual labor boarding schools, out
of S. 1885, 900 now due under the treaties with the
| several tribes.
j. T. Bethune manager of Blind Tom, was
| killed while attempting to board moving train,
| at Wilmington, Del His widow, with her law
| yer desired to take charge of the body. The
| lawyer of deceased wishes to hold the body until
| the arrival OF the father Of deceased
In the case of Charles Brainard vs. the Hart
| ford Post, for infringement patent device for
| sorting copy in newspaper composing room. a
decision against Brainard was given on the
| ground that the device had been in use many
| years before the issue of the patent.
| The Episcopal mission, at the Santee Agency,
| d. T., was destroyed by fire on Sunday includ-
ing the church and schools and Rev. w. w Fow-
| ler's residence The children were all taken out
without loss of life although quite panic stricken
| and are now CHARTERED at Springfield, across the
| Missouri.
! Gabriel Erb widower, aged sixty, was found
| dead drunk in a field near Hubbard, Ohio on
Saturday night, with his hands, face and feet
| frozen. He died on Sunday Erb was lately sued
| for breach of promise by his housekeeper, and
| since the suit began drinking hard. He was
| wealthy.
Isaac Gatewood and wife, Mile Gatewood,
| pair of work-house reprobates whose children
are in the House of Refuge, engaged in
| drunken quarrel at st. Louis, The woman was
round dead on the moor, with nef skull broken,
while her husband was sleeping quietly on a
| lounge in the same room.
| The family of Albert Hammerlng of Mil
waukee, purchased ham, and were subsequently
taken sick Mr. Hammerling, his wife and three
| children and Mrs. Hammerling's sister were
taken to the College Hospital where the disease
was pronounced trichiniass. Mrs. Hammerling
died ON Saturday after suffering horribly
| A promising young member of well-known
church choir in Chicago is at present in Jail in
New York, awaiting trial, with companion,
upon five charges of burglary. His name is
! Charles Ward and that of his companion Fred
erck Bowers. Bowers is well known to the po-
| lice Ward informed the police where the stolen
| goods were lodged, and nearly al were recov-
cred.
The TsiIIuDs COfton Frauds