The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Herbert Penfield, carriage maker, at Ober1in
o., has failed. Liabilities, $25, 900; assets
nominal
N. B. Haynes, wholesale milliner of Chicago,
has made an assignment. Liabilities, $40 000;
assets, $l5 00O
The O'Neale & Stevens Company, booksellers
and stationers, at Little Rock. have failed Liza
blities, $4,000 assets, nominally $l5, 600.
Frank G. FELTON,. an operator on the Chicago
Board of Trade. shot himself at his residence
yesterday afternoon. No cause is assigned.
The trial of Thomas Crttenden. was called
yesterday, at Taorsvie, KY, but was continued
till May z, on account of absence Of witnesses.
Stanbro & Watkins, commission merchants on
the Chicago Board of Trade, failed yesterday af-
ternOon. Their liabilities are placed at $40 000
The advance in the price of corn is given as the
cause.
The body of a Mrs. r. w. Taylor of Louis
vile, who died six years ago. was removed to a
new cemetry yesterday. and was found to be
completely petrifed Every feature was we'll
preserved and lifelike.
New Castle, Pa, dispatch says: ",The
daughter of A. III. Cunningham, farmer of
Neshannock township, was fatally burned while
lighting fire. Her dress took fire and her en-
tire body was frightfuliy burned
A special to the Louisville Courier-Journal
says the Cumberland river is raging at and above
Williamsburg. KY, and many thousand logs and
was drowned in trying to save logs.
At the Cathedral, at Cleveland. Sunday
evening Bishop Gilmore invested Monsignor
Felix NJ Bof, vicar general of the Cleveland
diocese with the title and insignia of domestic
prelate to the Pope. The ceremony was of
much interest.
The firm of Corwin G. Mills, cloak manufact-
urers No. 1853 Canal street, New York, assigned
yesterday Preferences were given to the
amount of $2l. SAL. NJ. Fl. Lewis & Company,
of Cincinnati, preferred creditors to the
amount of So, 264
o. D. Cracker. president of the Copper King
Mining Company, of Mexico, was bound over to
the Common Pleas Court at Cleveland yester-
day, on the charge of obtaining IL, 300 shares of
the stock from D. A. Bennett, of Tombstone, A.
T., under false pretenses.
Auditor of State Kiesewetter was arraigned
before the mayor Of Cofhmbus, O., yesterday
charged with shooting with intent to kill W. j.
Elliott, at the Neil House, last evening. He en-
tered a plea of not guilty, and the preliminary
hearing was set for next Monday
The jury in the against Harry G. Bell
charged with robbine the mails while acting as
messenger on the Greensboro s. Nashville road
rendered a verdict of not guilty The defense
was the insanity plea, and the grounds on which
he was freed was that he was kleptomaniac
AT New Castle Pa, Sunday night, William
Graham came home intoxicated ard because his
wife refused to give him money to buy more
liquor, he knocked her down and then beat her
until she was insensible. She is still alive, but
unconscious. and no hope of her recovery is en-
tertainea. Graham has been arrested
A Pittsburg paper states that the Baltimore
81 Ohio Railroad Company which has claims
against the government for several hundred thou
sand dollars for transporting troops and supplies
to the Army of the Potomac. during the late war,
is making preparations to have Congress appro-
pirate sufficient sum of money for the payment
of the claim in full.
The fifteenth annual convention of the Grand
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of West Virginia
was held in Wheeling yesterday. There was a
large attendance of officers and delegates. The
otilcers elected for the ensuing year were: Grand
high priest. o. S. Long. of Charleston; grand
king, W. Bennett; grand scribe, Joseph Hall, of
Wheeling; grand treasurer, Hugh Sterling, of
Wheeling; grand secretary, w. Ell. Riggs, of
Martinsburg
The Globe Hardware Company, of New York
yesterday filed bill in the United States Circuit
Court at Chicago against Rodney NJ Whipple,
Chicago capitalist Isaac NJ. Daggett
Horace II. Thomas and the Sovereign
Mining Company. of New York, seeking an
accounting and discovery 1t is charged that
Whipple appropriated large amount of the
assets of the company in lands, and bills and
notes, and that he invested large amounts of the
proceeds of the company in speculation particu-
larly in the Sovereign Mining COMPANY. of
New York.
Collector Wood of the Greensboro fKv) dis
trict, yesterday notified j. G. Roach &, Co. of
Louisville, that Mr.. Roach's claim for a rebate
of $40, 3S5. 80 in taxes on whisky burned at his
Uniontown distillery, year ago. has been re-
Jected by the government, and the collector has
been instructed to have suit brought for the re-
covery of the amount unless paid at once. The
firm says the of the rejection is on account
of some techIicality not being complied with in
making up the papers. Mr.. Roach will file sup
Elemental papers, and says the claim will doubt
less be allowed
Arrests at Tacoma, w. T.
TACOMA W. T., Nov 9-IJnited States Mar