The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The total imports of dry godos at New York during
the past week valued at 81, 4S6 473, and the
amount thrown on the market at s ,422, 979.
AT Akron, o., yesterday, two freight trains the
New York Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad collided.
Both engines and number of cars were demolished
The loss will be $50, 600. No one was hurt
John III. Weber. of Cleveland O.. formerly an officer
in the English army stationed at Gibraltar broke
OF his wites ribs yesterday, during drunken frenzy
and then swallowed desertspoonful of arsenic He
will die
The contract for building the Canada Pacific rail.
way bridge at Lachine has been awarded to Robert
Reed, of Cue ph Ontario who built the International
bridge over the Niagara river. The tender amounts
$4,000, 600
AtMontgomery, Ala, last evening a negro man shot
negro girl with whom he in love, because she
would not consent to marry him. He then turned
the pistol himself and fred four shots one of which
in the neck, is fatal
One of the wells recently drilled at Findlay o., for
natural gas, was torpedoed" yesterday. and stream
flowing at the rate of 800 barrels per day, and to
heighth of forty feet There is great excitement in
the town.
Mary Glanfort, fifty years DID, was found dead in
bed in a house in Newton, L. l.. Thursday At the
beginning of Barnum she figured of his
museum curosties being only forty inches in height
There are circumstances in the case which suggest
foul play
J. r. Hagle, who claims to be travelling salesman
in the employ of G. M. jackson e. Co., wholesale
grocers at Pttsburg, Pa. was arrested at Chicago.
yesterday. and locked up suspicion of robbing d.
Q. Sterling merchant from High Point Mo-, of
eral hundred dollars.
John D. Spencer, ex-deputy postmaster of Mexico,
town In oswego county. New York was arrested,
yesterday, for robbing the mails while in office Spen-
Ger was moved from office last summer. He is al
ready under indictment for larceny and is charged
with opening letters belonging to another person
On the recommendation of a committee of investi-
CATION the board of managers of the Maryland House
of Correction has decided to dispense with the
ices of Gen. r. A. Bond the superintendent, for un-
necessary cruelty and brutal treatment of prisoners
by whipping and loading with chains, and for general
mismanagement, and the admission of politics into the
| institution.
The deputy coroner. at Wilmington Del, yesterday
| received telegram from Mrs. Voight. of Austin.
Tex. leading Hold clothing and other things that
belonged to the man who committed suicide at the
| Clayton House M Weight; l am positive he is my
husband" Examination shows that the suicides sig
nature the hotel register looks as much like M.
Voight as NJ. Hoyt, which latter it was first taken
| to be.
| The New York subtreasury Yesterday continued
the work of exchanging greenbacks for the outstand
ing certificates issued by the manager of the clearing
house for subsidiary coin at the time the banks sold
the government nearly So, 600, 900 in gold, last
mer All OF the outstanding certificates except about
| 5000 which were not presented until after bust
ness hours, taken in. The remaining certificates
! will be bought to-day.
John Knen with his family consisting of wife and
three children, were found at their home ST. Mary
street, Baltimore, Yesterday all apparently dead,
affected by escaping gas. Elizabeth aged thirteen,
the second daughter is Dead Mary the eldest daugh-
ter, is IN precarous condition. but Mr.. Knell his
wife aid the boy are likely to recover When found
the father and mother both supposed to be dead
Thomas Walraven judge, and Thomas Butler and
Thomas Kelly, inspectors at the Second precinct of
the Seventh district of Jersey City Tuesday were.
on Thursday night arrested charged with violation of
the law forbidding adjournment after of
ballots had begun, Court Officer Kilburn alleges that
the prisoners repeatedly ceased to canvass did not
complete their labors until o'clock Wednesday
ing: The gave 81 900 bail each for examination
| to-day
Failing in attempt to outrage colored woman
| named Harriet Menort, West Haven Conn.
Thursday night, Michael Lachy half-wi tramp.
stabbed her seven times with pocketknife One
cash across the abdomen is likely to prove fatal Yes
| terday morning Lachy was arrested and locked up.
The woman, who is married, walking along a rail-
road track when the assault made. She fought
desperately, and was thrown down a twenty foot en-
bankment.
Thomas Pugh recently disappeared from Youngs-
| town, o. and thought to have been murdered
and robbed of $4,000. He returned without the
money and was lodged in jail a peace warrant.
| Reflection in cell caused him to remember where he
placed the currency when drunk. On being released,
yesterday he recovered his treasure from an old boot
| hidden in stump. one mile from his home He has
instituted suit against his relatives for false inn
| prisonment.