The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30
T%ELEGRAPHfC BREVITIES.

Charles James, a miner in the Garfield collier
les, near Shamokin, Pa, was killed yeterday by
an explosion of dynamite. Several persons were
slightly injured.
Jesse Klingerman and his son, while engaged
In taking out coal from a mine breach near Cen
tralia, Pa. yesterday, were buried under falling
rocks and fatally injured
James Sweeny, a prominent and prosperous
merchant of Houston, Tex, committed suicide
yesterday morning by taking strychnine in his
breakfast coffee. No cause is assigned except
heavy drinking.
Joseph Donohue. of Pittsburg, has retained
counsel for the purpose of entering a suit of
e1s&tment against property owners Of Detroit
for 300 acres of property located in the heart of
the city. and said to be valued at $50, 900, 900.
A fashionably dressed young man attempted
suicide, last night, on the sidewalk in front of
the Princeton flats, in New York, by shooting.
He gave his name AS Harry Sanford and said he
was a broker of Plainfeld, N. j. He will re-
cover.
The Harvard Cooperative Society has failed.
The directors have decided to close the society
within a few days, as longer continuance would
only increase the probable, deficit at the end of
the year. The cause OF the failure is lack of
support by the students.
The first edition of the February Century
$50, 900 copies) was sold within q week of the
day Of issue. A new edition Of 20, 900 is on the
press, makinga total of POO, 600, will the pros
pect of a still further demand. A fifth edition
of the November Century was issued on Monday.
John Dennis, a reporter of the Rochester IN.
~ Daily Democrat and Chronicle, was yester-
day committed to Jail for contempt in refusing
to tell the grand jury the name of the person
alleging that certain jurors had been "ixed" in
the trial OF an alderman charged with bribery.
The prisoners were not brought up from the
county prison to the central station, in Philadel-
phia, for trial. at the usual time yesterday after
noon, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals having made a raid on the prison van
and seized the mules, which were declared unfit
for work.
Six dynamite cartridges left on the floor of the
engine. house of the Tay canal works, at
Beveridge bay, Ont, exploded yesterday morn
ing, blowing the house to atoms. A man named
Lewis, IN charge of explosives, and George Mo
Donald, son of a contractor, were fatally in
jured. Another man; named Buchanan, was Sc
verely hurt.
In the suit of George Brooks against j. M.
Stoddard. & Co, which has been on trial at Phil
adelphia for several days, the jury rendered a
verdict in favor of the plaintiff for So, III.
Brooks was for seven years the defendants man
ager for the publication ard sale of an Ameri,
can reprint of English works, and his claim was
for balance of salary and commissions.
The criminal Investigation by the grand jury
into the charges of embezzlement of State funds
byWilliam r. Smith. clerk in the Office of tho
Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts, has, so far,
resulted in the return of fifteen indictments.
Enough papers are already in the hands of the
Commemorative counsel to show that the
number of indictments against Smith will go up
into the hundreds.
A blind man named John Cramer. who claimed
to be a professor Of music, recently met Miss
Rena Hillman. also blind, and a daughter of a
wealthy farmer of Brooklyn, Camden county, N.
j., and induced her to go through the form of a
clandestine marriage. Cramer soon deserted
the girl, and she asks for his arrest The min
lister who, the girl thought, married them, de-
MES that he performed the ceremony.