The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITTES.

| Benjamin E. Crare, president of the Board of
Trade of Atlanta, died yesterday from blood
/ poisoning
| An elevator and 6, 900 bushels Of grain were
| burned at Big Stone D. t., on Tuesday night.
| Loss, $l4.0O0.
j. D. Weldone and wife, a young couple from
South Carolina, were drowned on Tuesday while
fishing on Lake Minata, near Alloon, Ala.
Charles Tyler foreman of the Lehigh Valley
car-repair shops at Glendon, stepped out of his
Office, as train was passing, andswas killed.
special telegram from Eau Claire, Wis. says
it is reported that Henry Lewis, treasurer of
Mcmillan county, has absconded with s., 900 of
trust funds.
The body of Major Charles B. Brady, late of
the ST. Louis Republican, were incinerated in
the Lancaster, Pa, crematery, yesterday, with
Masonic honors.
A small fire in the dwelling of Abel Ketcharn
at New York, Yesterday burned the owner to
death before he could be taken out. He was
over eighty years of age.
j. H. Pittenger, prominent lawyer of Tiffn,
O., and at one time mayor of the town. died
yesterday, as is supposed, from the effects of an
overdose of morphine, which he had taken to re-
ieve pain.
A combination of cotton manufacturers of
gray or unbleached eottons has been formed. 1t
is reported the Bank of Montreal brought about
the combination, and it is expected will force an
advance in prices.
Rev. Charles f. Thwing, for FIVE years pastor
of the North-avenue Congregational Church,
Cambridge Mass, has received On invitation to
become the successor of Rev. Dr. Magoon as
president of Iowa College, at Grinnell, Ia
William Barclay son of well-known physi-
| clan of Farmdale, O., was killed by the cars
last night. Barclay had been drinking at a
saloon just opened and got on the track. Pub
lie excitement ran so high that the saloon-keeper
took his departure
In the District Court at st. Paul, yesterday
afternoon, d. e. Swan, who took $50 900 from
the Office of the treasury of the Northern Pa
cifc railway and was captured at Sutton's Bay
Mich, last week, pleaded guilty. Sentence was
deferred till Saturday
At Bismarck, D. t., last evening, the new can
itol building was dedicated Speeches were made
by Governor Pierce, ex- Governor Ordway. Pres
/ ident MISSIONER of the council, Speaker Rice and
| others. The speeches were followed by ban
quet and other festivities
During drunken fight at Hungarian dance
at Scrubgrass, Pa, Tuesday, a man named Nc
Greedy stabbed four Hungarians with a pocket
knife. One of them it is thought, cannot re-
cover McCreedy, who has been arrested
claims the act was in self-defense
The heirs of j. o. jennings a conductor who
was killed in July. 1885, by train going through
Mammoth bay bridge, sued the company for
$780, 600. The first hearing resulted in mistria
the jury being equally divided. After trial at
the present term, lastlng one week, the jury ro-
turned verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for ST..
The fourth cremation will take place at the
Lancaster. Pa. crematory today, when the
body of Major Charles B. Brady. of ST Louis,
who committed suicide at his home in that city,
on Friday night last will be iEcinerated. The
body viii arrive here this morning, and be taken
in charge by Lanberton lodge of Masons.
George Travis was hanged in the Jail at Wells
boro, Pa, yesterday for the murder of Martha
Sylvia, in Charleston, Tioga county, Pa, April
3, 1885, and burning the remains in a vacant
barn TO conceal the crime Afterwards he drove
her cattle away, claiming to have bought them.
He was convicted on cireumstaatal evidence
alone