The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-12
SUNDAYS NEWS IN BRIEF.
Domestic.

Domestic.
Fifteen firms were burned out by fire in Sioux
City, Ia Loss, 100000
Daniel A. Holcomb was acquitted of the muir
der of Jacob Crouch. at jackson. Mich.
Dan Coleman was brutally and fatally cut by
Taylor Fountain, at Parkersburg, w. Va.
Several buildings on the south side of the
public square, Hamburg, Ark, burned Loss,
$50. O0o.
closed Liabilities $4,000 Depositors likely
to lose heavily.
The Cedar Rapids tIowaI Insurance Company
will retire from business because the stockhold-
ers And it does not pay
Rev. G. w. Miller, D. D., of the NJ E. Church,
South, died at his home in Lexington KY, at
an early hour Saturday morning.
Norman Lock is under arrest at Eaton, o.,
charged with forging orders on the County Audi
tor for witness fees amounting to $500.
The total cut of lumber in the Northwestern
region last year was g 534 $50 900 feet of lumber,
l.659, 354, 300 shingles, and $50 090, 600 iath.
The Sunday Creek Coal Company and the Sun
day Creek Mining Company, both of Toledo, o.,
have been consolidated under the former name.
An attempt is being made to have the Miller
Arthur factions combine on Evarts in order to
defeat Morton In the contest Tor senator in New
York.
The Secretary Of War has decided not to order
Q court -martial for the trial of Lieutenant
darlington, on charges preferred by General
Hazen.
The National Tube Works, McKeesport. Pa,
will resume Monday giving employment to
twenty live hundred men, at ten per cent re-
duction
A Ere in half tenement half store building,
Cincinnati, caused a total loss Of about $50 600
Thirty families were driven out A defective
fiue was the cause
The Louisville g. Nashville depot, at Nash
vile, with all the freight stored there, and about
one hundred loaded cars, also, a hotel, adjacent,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $l50, 600 on depot;
81, 500 on hotel
Two freight trains on the Chesapeake & Ohio
collided, Saturday, near jackson river. The en-
glneer and fireman of one train were killed
Three brakemen were severely wounded. Both
trains are total wreck
The committe appointed by the court of Wise
county, Virginia. to investigate the condition OF
the sufferers by the late plague report more des-
tltution than at first supposed, and outside
assistance heretofore declined, is asked for.
Secret-service officers of the Treasury Depart
lnent turned up the plates and $l03, 900 of coun-
terfeit money, upon the confession of Miles Ogle,
the celebrated counterfeiter. Thirty eight thou
sand dollars was found near Cincinnati and the
rest near Louisville.
The will Of the late Andrew Erkenbrecher of
Cincinnati, was opened by consent in the Pro-
bate Court. The Geeman Protetant Orphan
Asylum is bequealhed $40, 600. and the remain
der of the estate, which is estimated at $1,000,
O0O goes to his heirs.
j. G. Archibald, of Minneapolis, of the firm of
McCalum g. Archibald, railroad contractors,
disappeared Dec. %. and his present wherea-
bouts is unknown. His wife is nearly distracted.
1t is said he had s. 900 of his wifes money, and
81, 500 belonging to the firm.
Some members of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture, anti Cameron politicians, are endeavoriug
TO persuade Major A. NJ. Brown, lawyer of
Pittsburg, to run for senator against Cameron.
Mr.. Brown has not decided, but promises to
give definite answer on Monday.
The United States commissioners to the
worlds exposition have unanimously adopted a
memorial to the Legislatures of their respective
States speaking of the difficulties which beset
the great enterprise, and the impossibility, I'M
less relieved. of the board to do what they in
tended.
Charles Simmons, storekeeper and heavy
slate dealer, at Portland, Pa, mysterously dis
appeared from that place Monday morning. 1t
has been discovered that he is defaulter TO the
amount of $4,000. His heaviest creditor is d.
G. Patti. of New York city, to whom he is in
debted to the amount of $4,000. Simmonss
whereabouts are unknown