The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11
TELEGgAPHfC BREVITIES.

The total experts of produce from New York
during the past week were valued at So. 754, 292.
Executions amounting to $l4, 900 have been is
sued against VIM. PEBBLES, a Pittsburg hardware
merchants. Mr.. PEBBLES has made an assign
ment for the benefit of his creditors.
Capt G.. ". Shouse, of Wheeling. W. Va,
who. on Monday. was appointed local inspector
of steamboat hulls. was stricken with paralysis
on Tuesday, and was reported dying last night.
At Mecklenburg. N. c., yesterday afternoon.
John Springs and Will Austin, both colored.
were instantly killed by the falling Of az eleva-
tor, and Julius Brown. also colored, was badly
injured.
George Driscoll. a well known business man
of Springfield. O., was shot and killed on Tuesday
morning by burglars, whom he found in his
house. A colored man named Harry Slater has
been arrested on suspicion.
Louis Bouchard, foreman of the Keystone
Bridge Company. fell from the top of the new
bridge over the Wabash river. west of Sullivan.
yesterday, and was instantly killed. The coro-
ner is investigating the matter.
At Marionsville, Pa. Tuesday night, Edward
Walton and Albert Nealy had a quarrel over a
love affair, the latter having been the favored
sutton for the hand of a Miss Dodge. and married
her a few weeks ago. Walton shot and killed
Nealy.
A riot occurred at Ronald, Va, on Monday
night Twenty drunken negroes attempted to
take the town. The citizens called on Chris
tiansburg for help. which was given. and FIVE of
the rioters were lodged in jail. The town is
now quiet.
Schaefer and vignaux last night signed ar
ticles for a match game of billiards, fourteen
inch balk-line. 5000 points up, 600 points per
night, beginning March 2. for $1,000 a side, the
winner to take all the receipts, the loser to pay
all expenses.
A fatal accident occurred yesterday afternoon
on the Munhall branch railroad near Pittsburg.
A number of miners were coming down on a
anal uNs- r-hsAl x-~- 49, A-.>l- TE> -Anl
caught six of the men, all Of whom were taken
out alive and will recover, except one.
Thomas Witter, a young farmer in Henry
township, Hancock county, Ohio, yesterday
quarreled with an aged neighbor named Jeffer-
son Adams, about a boundary fence. Witter
struck Adams on the head with a large club.
Adams will die. Witter has disappeared.
Oscar T. Burnett. for many years a prominent
druggist of Evansville, died yesterday morning,
after a long illness, of paralysis. He was born
in Rockport, in 1850, and, leaves a widow and one
child. He will be buried by the Knights of
Pythias, of which be was a prominent member.
John 7. Breathitt threw a SNOWFALL at Wilbur
Wilson, at Hopkinsville, KY. yesterday, and in
in return. the latter fatally shot Breathitt in the
abdomen with a target-gun. The young men
were good friends, and it IS claimed that the
shooting was accidental. Both are of prominent
families.
By the premature explosion of a blast of giant
powder, at the stone quarry of Charles Moore,
near Franklin, Pa. ON Tuesday, Moore and q man
named Charles Nitts were terribly injured. The
faces and eyes of both men were filled with
powder. Nitts's jaw-bone was fractured, and
his teeth blown out He will die. but Moore
will recover.
Twenty-four hundred pounds of dynamite con-
cealed under a pile of oats in a barn near one of
the workings on the new aqueduct, New York,
contrary to law, was seized, yesterday. by the
fire department., and will be removed to the
| powder ships. It was considered extra hazardous
to life in the vicinity. A large quantity of ex-
plosives are believed to be concealed at various
points along the line of the work.
The Keystone Bridge Company, of Pittsburg,
through it attorneys, have brought suit in the
United States Court at Evansville against the
Henderson Bridge Company for the balance due
for building the bridge at Henderson, KY. The
amount due, as shown by the engineer of the
bridge company, is $79, 900, but the keystone
Bridge Company claim $l40. 900, $40, 900 of which
is claimed as damages for delays to which they
were subjected.
A dispatch from Macedonia, O., says: ''This
morning. while John Hoar, a farmer living about
three miles from here, was away from home, his
hired man, a foreigner. whose name has not been
learned here, engaged in an alteration with
Hoars two daughters, Mary and Mamie. Dur
ing the wrangle he struck them both with a
piece of iron and knocked them senseless. He
then went to a large barn and fired it, which was
consumed, together with a large amount of hay
and grain. The fellow was placed under arrest.