The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Teemer is going to Australia to row Beach for
the champ onship of the world.
There are reports of severe storms in Dakota.
At Cummings several houses were blown down.
The propeller Cuba. OF Buffalo, was damaged
by fire to the extent of $1,000 at Chicago yester-
day.
Peter Burke, wholesale dealer in tobacco and
cigars at Mobile has assigned. Liabilities, $780,
600; assets, 100000
Yesterday the mercury rose to $50 in Mil
waukee. the hottest Of the summer But few
cases OF pr0stration were reported.
j. K. Huston & Co., coffee dealers, Philade-
phia. have made an assignment. Liabilities
100000; assets onefourth as much.
Fire in Robert Whites dye works establish
ment. Boston. caused a loss of between $4,000
and $4,000 1t was partly insured.
The Marine Hospital Bureau is informed that
up to July 16 there have been twenty-four cases
and four deaths from yellow fever at Havana.
John A. Benson, San Francisco contractor,
has assigned His liabilities are $50 000 with
assets, in real estate chiefly, equal in amount.
The President has definitely decided that he
will not modify his order concerning the removal
of the cattle men from the Indian Territory with
in forty days.
kilograms from the Northwest report excess
sively hot weather yesterday. At Rock Island
ILL.,, and Burlington. Ia. shortly before noon,
the mercury rose to 100 degrees.
The chief Postofice Inspector has received a
dispatch stating that stage. conveying fhe
United States mails, was robbed near Hanshaw,
A. t., on Monday. =. NJ Peters, a passenger,
was killed.
| A cabegram from Lima, Peru, from Minister
| Buck, says that Lieutenant Nice, who is under
! orders to bring home the remains of Minister
Phelps, is i'll, and that the time of his departure
| Is uncertain.
Chauncy S. Cotton, the original protector of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, and
fort ntv nhap of ifCh hoo Of
ors, died on Monday, at his home in GaleSburg,
aged eighty-fve years.
The ship John Da Costa, owned IN Freeport
Me-, from Melbourne for San Francisco with IA
valuable cargo of horses, wrecked off Crooks
| town, Australia, on the 18th. Vessel aud cargo
a total loss. Fate of the crew unknown.
At meeting of the Paramount Park Art Asso-
| citation, of Philadelphia, yesterday, resolutions
| were adopted, providing for the creation of a
| fund for the erection in Paramount Park of a
suitable memorial statue of General Grant.
| AT meeting of the passenger committee in
| Chicago, the Bee-li reconsdered it's notice of
withdrawal, and agreed to stay in the associa-
ton until the committee in charge of complaints
against the present chairman had reported
| The Chicago Lumbermens Exchange has de-
| termined to organize for insuring lumber yards
In that city at rates one quarter less than those
given by the Board of Underwriters. They
| Will also put IN service a number Of fire tugs.
The towns of Truii!lo Camanan and BARGE
Iona, Venezuela, are IN arms: also, the States of
| Nirgua and Andes, besides many other towns.
| The government expects to have within week,
| six steamers ready for operations against the
| rebels.
The Democrats are assembled in force at
| Richmond for the Democratic nominating cen
| venton. Indications are that the contest for
the gubernatorial nomination will lie between
Fitzhugh Lee ana Philip Mckinney, of Primo Q
Edward county.
Strowbridge & Taylor, counsel for Edward
Cooper and Abram S. Hewitt, have brought suit
against the Pennsylvania Steel Company, claim
ing 800. 900 damages for alleged infringement of
patent for an improved process for refining and
converting cast iron into steel.
Simon Oppenheimer was arrested at Chicago
yesterday, charged with having robbed his
former employers Rothschilds & Co, of New
Orleans of about SIS, 900. He returned with the
officers to New Orleans without requisltion. 1t
is said the money was expended at cards and on
women.
In the collar and elbow wrestling match be-
tween Mclaughlin. Of Detroit, and McGeer, of
Chicago, which took place at Detroit last night,
the former was an easy winner. In the match
between Mcmahon, OF Detroit and Faulkner
of England the former the first and last
falls-GrRco Roman; while in the second
catch as -catchcan-Faulkner was the winner
The hot weather of the past few days in the
Northwest has been succeeded by severe storms
At Minneapolis, yesterday during severe
electrical storm, the Foss NJ E. Church was
struck by lightning and badly damaged. The
old residence of Congressman Washburn was
! also struck A team of horses was killed in the
street, and the staging about the dome of the
main building at the fair grounds was blown
down. badly inluring three of the sixty men
engaged at work on the building.
At New Orleans on Monday night, Joseph
Casey Toney Seibert aud Fred Wilson quarreled,
made up, and after q few minutes conversation
proceeded to effect reconciliation. when, while
Wilson was shaking hands with Seibert, Casey
numbered his artillery and began firing. The
first shot struck Wilson in the neck and another
struck Mrs Housners in the side After
emptyine his pistol Casey reloaded and went
down the street, firing at every one he met He
was finally arrested. None Of the wounds in
ficted will prove fatal.
Died from Eating Salt.
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