The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Emanuel Burik, aCatholic priest at Baltimore,
was killed by the cars at Adams Station N j.
j. & H. Henly wholesale milliners of Cincin-
natl, have assigned. Liabilities, 0000 assets
small
The Essex county N. J.) grand jury recon-
mend the establishment of the whipping post for
wife-beaters.
The validity of the indictments against Law
renee Brainard, of the St Albans (Vt) Trust
Company, have been affirmed by the Supreme
Court.
The Tug John P. Keser valued at $4,000,
was sursS by the ice at St Louis yesterday. In
sured. She was owned by the Anchor Coal
Company.
President Bartlett announces that the Hall
garten bequest.of $4,000 to Dartmouth College
was an unconditional gift and will be paid as
soon as Che large estate is settled.
Special Officer J. M. Wilson, of the United
States Treasury Department, seized small
package in the mail at New York from Amster-
dam, yesterday. 1t contained diamonds valued
at $40, 900.
Dir. Dorival B. Bruce, of Philadelphia arrested
for criminal malpractice resulting in the death
of Harriet Scholl, acknowledges that the woman
had been treated at his house but denies per
forming the operation
F. G. Detrick, charged with the embezzle-
ment of large sums from his employer, F. II.
Marrons of Cleveland was arrested at Pitts
burg yesterday. He will be sent to Cleveland
in charge of an officer.
The case of the st. Louis G. Iron Mountain
and Southern railway against the Southern Ex-
press Company for 10000 alleged deficit in
settlement, was tried yesterday at Memphis, aud
decided against the Iron Mountain railroad.
Kelly, Gilchrist & Co., wholesale liquor deal
ers, of San Francisco, whose failure was an
nounced on Wednesday, with $40 600 Eastern
liabilities, made an assignment yesterday for the
benefit of California creditors to the exclusion of
the Eastern creditors.
A. J. Rogers and George W. Foster. Pullman
car conductors connected with trains running
between New York and Chicago on the Pennsyl
vania railroad pleaded guilty yesterday to EN-
bezzement of railroad tickets and sentence was
deferred The men sold the tickets TO scapers
i'll New York.
On Saturday, while Miss Matte Slocun, of
Syracuse, was skating in the rink, she came in
collision with man who also skating His
teeth came in contact with her nose and slightly
abraded it. Miss Slocums head is now much
swollen, and she is in IL critical condition Her
physician states she is suffering from blood poi
soning.
The National Cane growers Association has
elected the following officers: President, Nor
man j. Coleman, st. Louis; secretary, +. X. Gil
lespie, Illinois; treasurer s. A. Field, Indiana.
On motion of Mr., Field, of Indiana. the chair
appointed Messrs. Field, Wiley, Webber. Cul-
bertson and Scoville u committee to mature Il
plan to advance the knowledge of planting
growing and manufacture of cane sugar.
Near Mccormick, S. c. on the Augusta &
Knoxville railway, as the engineer of one of the
down trains was running along at full speed he
discovered child on the track He succeeded in
stopping the train when only few yards from
the boy who found te be securely tied to the
iron rails. The railroad men unbound the little
fellow and took him to Augusta. There are sus
picions as to the parties who sought to cause the
chds death.
b,J,t of ,,,,1y,,
years old, was found yesterday ON the top floor of
80 ] 2 Division street, New York. The building
was on fire ON Wednesday night and considerably
damaged. The man is thought to have been suf
located. The body was underneath a bed when
found No person in the house knew him. The
police believe the man entered and started the
Are, when his escape was cut Off The police are
endeavoring to establish the name of the man.