The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-13
TELGRApHlC BREyITIES.

Jules Celestin Jamin, the eminent French
physician, is dead. He was sixty seven years Of
age
The total imports of dry goods at New York
during the past week were valued at So. 464 $40,
and the amount thrown on the market as 49, 528, )
9S6
Archbishop Elder. who brings the pallium for
the Archbishop of New York, telegraphs from
Paris that he will leave Liverpool for New York
on the Goth instant
John Cokeiy, the self-confessed murderer Of
John Sharples. who was arrested in Allentown,
Pa, on Thursday was serving term in the Del
aware county Jail at the time of the murder. IL
is thought he wanted to get free transportation
to Chester.
The front wall of the Keystone Brewing Com
pany's building. in course of erection on the
South Side, at Pittsburg, fell out shortly before
noon Thursday, crushing Frank Souders to
death and iniuring another workman, but not
dangerously. The damage to the building was
$4,000.
Edward O'Brien formerly of the wholesale
-four firm of O'Brien & Pierce, in Portland Me-.
and since then in business in Chicago and Bos-
ton hanged himself at Cornish, Me-, on Thurs
day. His suicide was probably caused by bust
ness reverses.
C. G. Contant editor of the Garden City Kan
Sentinel, states that the Leavenworth dispatch
regarding losses by recent storms is greatly ex-
aggerated. The number of persons frozen to
death within a territory 140 by 100 miles
sixteen The losses of cattle he thinks within
20 per cent only quarter of the estimate cited
At Boston, yesterday, Ernest f. Ward, who
lost $780, coo by the burning of his furniture store
in the great Chicago fire, was held in 900 on a
charge of forgery. As solicitor for William
Brierton. the Boston agent for Baird g. Stilson,
of New York and Chicago, it is charged that he
received commissions and goods on bogus orders.
On Thursday. deputy United States mar
shall arrested two men in Little Rock. Ark, on
the charge of passing counterfeit money. They
were examined, and counterfeit coin was found
in one of their trunks. The coin is of good
mold, and the men are believed to be members
of an Arkansas gang of counterfeiters. It is ex-
pected that startling developments will follow
upon their arrest
At Cincinnati a local freight train on the Little
Miami railroad ran into the Mt. Lookoutdummy,
a street-car and engine combined at a crossing
IN the extreme eastern part of the city. and
broke the dummy to pieces. Its engineer, Henry
Coons. was probably fatally injured Mrs. Tin
ley, Mrs. Mears and Mrs. Smith, all of Mt Look
out were slightly injured, as were also conduct
ors Mullen and Conway.
A terrible mining accident occurred at Webb
City, Mo-, Thursday evening. Two miners in
the employ of Page & Co. had located heavy
charge of eighteen sticks of giant powder for
final blast and were tamping it down when the
whole amount exploded. The two men. WEIGH
and Peterson. were literally blown to pieces, the
largest fragments Of their bodies that were found
being FOOT ana portion or a lower limo.
Mrs Julia Bartelles, treasurer of the Eva Lodge,
No. % o. NJ F.. reported to the ST Louis po-
lice that her house had been entered by burglars
and robbed of $500. Officers were detailed to
look after the matter. and made an examination
of Mrs Bartelles house. They reported to the
chief that they could not find any traces of a
forcible entry, and claimed that she had admitted
to them that she had used the lodge money for
private purposes
The work of drilling hole through the hill
directly over where the lost Nanticoke miners
are supposed to be is progressing fast. On Sat
urday night ITO feet of 6inch pipe had been put
down. There then remained 185 feet to be
drilled The superintendent thought bottom
would be reached in about ten days When bot
tom is reached it will be ascertaned for the first
time whether that portion of the mine is filed
with debris. IF it is, there will be no other way
but to clean out the gangways Asked if he had
any idea of finding any of the twenty-six men
alive, the superintendent said "Oh, no. those
men are dead long ago; we only put down this
pipe to satisfy the relatives Of the poor unfortu-
Mates would be only too glad if the men were
alive; but. under the circumstances. the drilling
of a hole is only a useless task"