The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

mass of earth in a clay bank at Akron, o.
H. Bopp, a convict in the Ohio penitentiary,
died in the BARRIERS chair from heart disease.
The loss to New York city brewers by the
thefts of beer kegs, lust developed, is placed at
$685. 900 ina year.
Mrs. Garfield. widow of the late President. has
been chosen president of the Cleveland branch of
the McAll Mission.
A through train of Pullmans, with fifty dis
tinguished passengers, left Mexico City on Sat
urday. for Chicago.
The Dakota Republican convention will be held
at Huron on April 23d, to select delegates to the
Chicago convention.
The management of the Old Soldiers Home at
Newark, N. j. is such that the cost of each vet
eran is only thirty cents a day.
The Gatling Gun Company has received an
order for ten more guns for the Chinese govern
ment, to be delivered in sixty days.
Colonel Russell Stephenson, brother in law of
Lord Lansdowne, has been appointed Dominion
alde-de camp to the encouragement
The block of granite contributed by the Terri
tory of Wyoming for the Washington monument
has been received by the monument commits
sion
The directors of the Charter Oak Park, Hart
ford, Conn, have votedsto offer a $4,000 purse
for the 2:2O class at the circuit meeting next
summer.
The Yazoo City Herald calls its party in
Yazoo county, Miss, the Recommendations
muscle heart-of-oak steel pointed-never- Say-die
Democracy
In the Harvard Athletic Association exercises,
Atkinson, of 50, in Il two-handed vault, scored
Z feet B "a inches, beating the amateur record
by l 34 inches.
The steamer Thetis, purchased at Dundee,
Scotland, by the United States government for
the Greedy relief expedition, arrived i'll New
York yesterday.
Commander Gorringe has been appointed re
ceiver of the ship building company with which
he is identified. 1t is thought the trouble will be
only temporary.
A patient in the Insane Asylum at Columbus,
Ohio, crawled through the bars of a window on
the fifth story, and leaped to the ground, dying
in a few minutes.
The money stolen on Saturday from the clerk
of the Commercial Bank, Augusta, Ga. was
found yesterday in an out-house of a house of
nl-tame in that city.
Samuel Prayer, convicted at Marysville. Kan,
of the murder of John Pennington and wife, was
taken out of jail by masked men and hanged to
a bridge. He confessed.
Frank L. Chamberlin. of Cleveland, has per
feeted an invention, that charges l.500 shotgun
cartridges per hour. A company for its manu-
facture has been formed.
The ship Bombay, of Bath, Me-, from Phila-
delphia for New Orleans, IS given up for lost,
with a crew of eighteen men. Captain p. Peter
son had his wife on board.
James B. johnson, the druggist and preacher
who was discovered to have been robbing the
drug house of Smith & Co., at st. Joseph, Mo-,
committed suicide at Denver, yesterday.
At Augusta, Ga, while a bank book-keeper
was making exchanges at another bank, he
was approached by two men and engaged in
conversation. After they left, s. 100 was found
missing.
John G Bethune, manager of the Blind Tom
combination, killed on a railroad train, a short
time ago, has left by will his entire property to
his father. He declares his so-ealled wife not his
legal wife.
In a glove fight at Columbus, O., between
Prof. Hurley, the deaf and dumb pugilist, of
Diamond" Hurley was knocked senseless in the
fourth round.
Grand Trunk employees held a private meeting
at Toronto yesterday, to discuss the proposed
reduction in wages. and a strong and unanimous
feeling was expressed in favor of striking if the
reduction is insisted upon.
The up passenger train on the Milwaukee road
ran into an emigrant train at Red Wing. on
Saturday, wreeking two coaches and an engine.
Twelve to fifteen persons were injured, some
seriously, but none fatally.
Wilson Edmundson, for a number of years a
conductor on the Central Pacific railroad, com
mitted suicide at Denver, on Saturday night,
by taking morphine Cause, ill-health His
folks live at Galesburg, Ill.
Helen Ransier, of Syracuse. n. Y, a married
woman the mother of three children, shot and
killed Adam Sutler. The woman claimed that
Satier had been prosecuting her for some time,
but she did not intend to Kill him.
The old church building in Twenty-third street,
New York, transformed by Salmi Morse into a
theater for the presentation of his Passion Play,
was rededicated yesterday to the service of God
and will be known as the Twenty-third Street
Tabernacle.
General o. o. Howard, who sailed on the Bel
genland, for Antwerp, last Saturday, now takes
his first furlough since the war. He goes directly
to Egypt, and thence, if possible, to Khartoum,
to join General Gordon, and witness further
operations on the Soudan.