The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-29
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

F. NJ Levy, prosperous merchant of Baton
Rouge La, was accidentally shot and killed last
evening.
At Newark, O.. on Saturday, policeman Thos
Roach was shot and fatally wounded by William
German, drunken man whom Roach was try
lug to arrest. Roach died Saturday night, and
German is in jail
Two freight trains on the Detroit. Grand
Haven & Milwaukee railroad colided at Lowell
Mich. on Saturday. The locomotives were tel
escoped, and engineer Price, of the east bound
train, killed No one else hurt.
The ammonia boiler in the ice factory at Apa-
lachicola Fla, exploded yesterday killing g. A.
Gazier and fatally injuring Capt VIM. Moore.
of Columbus, Ca, and seriously cutting several
others The factory was demolished.
man on whose person papers were found in
drafting that he was from Detroit, and was
named James III. Farnsworth, committed suicide
by hanging, in his room in New York hotel.
last night Dependency is the cause assigned.
Capt. F. A. Cloudman. of Rondout, N. Y.
started from Savannah, Ca, yesterday. in the
twenty-four foot soop yacht Outing on trip
around the world. Before going ten miles ne
ran aground in the mud, and did not get off un-
til midnight
Strong efforts are being made by his relatives
to secure a pardon or Communication to life i'm
prisonment for Thomas j. Cluverus. now under
sentence of death in Virginia for the murder of
his cousin, Miss Lillian Madison, on March l3.
1885. Cluverus is preparing statement which
will be laid before the Governor
The cables at the northwest corner of the
Niagara suspension bridge have been success
fully transferred from the old stone tower to the
new iron one, by the use of powerful hydraulic
jacks Traffic was suspended from Saturday
morning until 1:30 o'clock yesterday. Other
transfers will follow at weekly intervals. The
old towers are to be taken down.
The steamer Mary Houston, from Cincinnati.
had a narrow escape at Louisville yesterday.
She was heavily loaded, and in trying to land
was swept by heavy wind into the chute and
over the falls. She grounded several times and
struck several rocks, but finally got into safe
water and escaped without special damage.
Two tugs that went TO her assistance were also
carried over the falls. The passengers aboard
were badly frightened.
Granville Brown, aged fourteen, living near
Mount Vernon, KY, was sent on an errand by
his aunt. and few minutes after he had left the
house she heard him scream from the barn. She
rushed out and saw the barn in flames, but
found the barn door fastened 1t was impossi-
BILE to rescue him from the flames. After the
barn had fallen on his body it was recovered,
burned horribly, and part of his arms and legs
were burned off. It is not known how the boy
came into the barn, and the community is
troubled over the mystery.
j. G. Lyman, travelling salesman employed
by the Hazard Powder Company. of Few York.
was accidentally killed, near Galveston. Tex,
yesterday. Lyman visited a powder magazine,
three miles from Galveston, belonging to the j.
S. Brown Company, for the purpose of destroy
ing five hundred pounds of damaged powder
owned by his company and stored in the maya
zine. He carried the kegs of powder a short dis
lance from the magazine. piled them up and set
fire to them at arms length. The explosion
which followed threw Lyman high into the air,
killing him instantly.