The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The imports of dry goods at New York dur
ing the past week were valued at So, SOL 578 and
the amount thrown on the market was So, GIG 724
The New York Senate yesterday passed the
bill ceding to the United States jurisdiction
over the Drexel cottage, at Mt McGregor, in
which General Grant died.
Pat Smith, of Stone City, near Anamosa, Ia,
has been arrested suspicion of having MUIR
dered his wife, who was found dead in bed on
Thursday. He is in the Anamosa Jail.
Hon. Horatio Seymour jr., says that no sister
or relative of his was on the Lake Shore road
on Thursday, reported in the account of q
lady having been blown from a train near
Dunkirk.
Last night while men were putting ore into
a blast furnace OF the Cleveland Rolling mill
Company. the ore, which was frozen on top.
caved in and caught three men before they could
get away William Smith and John Sabot were
killed, and John Rosa TERRIBLY injured.
The jury in the case of Fred Foot, charged
with the murder of Andrew j. Brink saloon
keeper at Fenton, Mich, on the evening of Dec.
20, last yesterday brought in averdict of murder
III the first degree. The prisoner listened coolly
to the verdict, and was remanded to Jail to
await sentence.
Robert Crockett, formerly lieutenant in
Missouri regiment, volunteer. and for long
time resident of Pierce City, Mo-, was assassi-
mated about IL o'clock Thursday night, while on
his way home not over 100 yards from the court
by blunt instrument in the hands of some one
unknown.
N. K. Fairbanks 81 Co., of Chicago are busily
engaged, through detectives ia looking for their
junior okkeeper and collector. who are said to
have absconded with about S., 900. The book
keeper was Frank Elsderee and the collector
Louis Dendit. Both were married men, and had
been in the employ of the company for three or
four years
Two men crossing Salt creek near Lincoln,
Neb, yesterday. discovered the ears of horse
protruding from the water. They pulled the an
imal out which was attached TO q buggy, and it
soon was IN condition to be driven short dis
lance away the body of Lorena George, a young
woman, was found. Her horse had become un-
manageable and jumped over high bank into
the creek.
James Kain, a noted character, on trial at
Pittsburg for the killing of John Wright an
inoffensive colored man, was convicted, yester-
day afternoon, of murder in the second degree.
Kahn, who was intoxicated, met Wright on the
street. ard, mistaking him for another man
with whom he had quarreled. pulled his revolver
and shot him dead. The penalty for murder in
the second degree is twelve years. Imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
Early yesterday morning, as the men were
| changing turns in the finishing department of
the Atlantic iron works, at Sharon, Pa, small
| band wheel broke while in motion. Pieces of
| the broken wheel struck two large wheels, and
| portions of these wheels were hurled through
| the roof and through the mill, breaking ma
| chinery and almost. completely wrecking the
| building A number of employees were at work
at the time, but oil escaped uninjured except one
| boy, who was slightly hurt The damage to the
mill Is estimated at $4,000