The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
ne cotton crop this year is estimated at 6, 900,

The cotton crop this year is estimated at =, 800,
900 bales.
A. j. Johnson 81 Co., of New York, have
brought out a revised edition of their encyclope-
dia, at a cost of $50, 900.
Judge F. Goode. of the Nineteenth judicial
district of Louisiana, committed suicide yester-
day. at MS home. by shooting.
The Singer Sc ing-machine factory, by an ar
rangement with the Elizabeth, N. j., City Coun-
ell. will resume operations to-day.
j. r. Murphy, of Cleveland, O., who consti-
tutes the Ohio Oil Company, assigned Yesterday.
Neither the assets nor the liabilities are known.
A movement is now on foot in Baltimore to
procure the passage by the Legislature of a
stringent law against the opium joints in that
city.
At Buffalo, N. Y, at a late hour on Sunday
night, at a christening at Geo. Michaelski's
house, Joseph Mailer had a dispute with Michael
ski and fatally stabbed him. Mailer is under
arrest.
An experienced navigator of the Mississippi
river says that despite the large sums evoended
for its Improvement, it is more destructive to
vessels and property along its banks now than it
was fifty years ago.
While it is true that forged drafts for large
amounts purported to be accepted by the Cam
den Consolidated Oil Company, of Parkersburg,
w. Va, have been negotiated in banks on the
Pacific coast. the oil company will suffer no loss,
and reports that it loses a large sum are true.
At 3 o'clock last Saturday morning the Jail at
Rockingham, N. o., was forcibly entered by
fifty masked men, who secured a white man
named John Lee, took him out of town and
hanged him to a limb of a tree. Lee murdered
Solomon Welsh, three weeks ago, for money.
| The New England Society, of Brooklyn, cele-
brated the sixty-ffth landing of the pilgrims,
last night, with a dinner. Speeches were made
by President Silllman, Henry Ward Beecher,
Rev. Noah Porter, Senator Frye, of Maine, ex-
Minister Astor, George William Curtis. and
others.
DR.. T.. J. Maddox. who was killed in the fight
with Indians near White House, N. NJ, on Sat
urday, is a son Of DR.. Thos. Maddox, of Wash
ington county. Maryland. He was commissioned
as assistant surgeon in the army in October.
1881, and his first assignment to duty was to the
Department of Texas. DR.. Maddox was thirty
three years of age.
On Sunday night Patrick Conley died at the
ST. Louis city hospital from the effects of a blow
upon the head by Henry Peters with a bung-
starter, last Tuesday night. Peters is a bar
tender, and the trouble between the men arose
from tho refusal of Conley to pay for drinks
which were furnished by Peters. The latter is
murder.
w. H. Bowling, who, last spring, shot and
killed a young mar named Gill, who was assist
ing the sheriff to arrest Bowling. was sentenced
to twenty years in the penitentiary yesterday. at
Mount Sterling, Ky. A day or two before the
killing Bowling. who is a desperate character,
had enticed a farmers daughter away from
home. and so great was the indignation that nc
barely escaped the wrath of a mob.
At Sharonville, o., on Sunday. Scott w. Heff-
ner, a carpenter, was shot and killed by Frank
Mullen. a barber. The men lived in the same
building, using the same hall. Heffner defled
with tobacco spit the floor, which Mrs. Mullen
had just cleaned, and they quarreled, about it.
Mullen, upon hearing this, took mp the quarrel,
and Heffner assaulted him with a butcher-knife,.
when Mullen used his pistol, with fatal effect
AT Hannibal, Mo-. three men. Thomas Ashby
John Briscol and James Taylor, were arrested
| yesterday, and, on being searched, were found to
have a lot of cloth gloves. etc, the marks on
which prove almost conclusively that they were
stolen. The goods were all marked the same,
although the men claimed to have bought them
in Canada and Dakota. The mark is a peculiar
one, and may lead to the discovery of the mer-
chant who Lost the goods. The cost-mark on the
articles includes an 20" with two marks through
it and a square with two marks through it. while
the selling price of a pair of a pair of pants was
- Fl Y" and that of a pair of cuff buttons
81 FL Y" The officers feel sure theyhave a trio
of crooks, and are making every effort to find
out from whom the goods were stolen.