The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.


Over three hundred bids for Indian supplies
were opened at New York yesterday.
The New York Boardiof Aldermen contemplate
erecting statue to Peter Cooper in front OF
Cooper Union.
The cigar makers of Portland, Me-, are strik-
facturers propose to substitute girls.
In row at country dance near Nebraska
City, Neb, on Saturday, TWO men received in
]urles that viii probably prove fatal.
Charles Emelius, jeweler at Miles, Mich,
from the dInner-table, on Monday, and shot him
self dead without cause or warning.
The principals and seconds Qtalians) in the
duel In Brooklyn, have been arrested. Eight
shots were exchanged, but nobody was hurt.
Charles and Fred Ward, nephews of the Hon.
Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, were found dead
on Monday, in their shanties, near Cree City,
D. 4.
At Independence, Mo-, on Monday, John Van
zandt fatally shot Porter Armstrong. The
trouble was caused by dispute over a game Of
cards.
The Appellate Court decided, yesterday, that
certificates of membership ID the Chicago Board
OF Trade cannot be taken possession OF by at
tachment.
Fifty.hvs infantry companies, five batteries
OF artillery and several noted military bands
have entered for the competitive drill at Mash.
VILE, May 81
Quite number OF saloon-keepers in Columbus,
o., have closed up account of the Scott law,
and It is predicted that their number Will be in
creased TO 200
Two women, each claiming to be the widow of
Ine same man, nave gone TO law at Omaha, to
determine which is the mother of two girls aged
fifteen and seventeen years.
Governor Fosters father aged eighty-six, was
stricken with paralysis, at Fostorio, o., today.
ana is reported dying tonight. The Governor
ana family have gone to FOstora.
| Ex-United States Marshal Russell left San An
tonic Texas. yesterday, in charge of three Off
GERS, for Chester (Ill.) pen1tentary, where he is
to spend his term OF imprisonment.
Captain j. W. shackford. OF the steamship Illi-
nois, has been appointed commander Of Jay
| Goulds new steam yacht ATLANTA. he takes
command of the vessel Immediately.
The mayor of Minneapolis last night vetoed
the ordinance fixing saloon licenses at 81 800,
the council sustaining the veto, the friends of
nigh license lacking one vote of enough TO pass
1t over his head.
John d. White, congressman from Kentucky.
and Alice NJ, daughter of ex-Congressman Har-
ris, were married at Easu Brdgewater, Massa-
chusetts, yesterday. The bridal trip includes
the Pacific slope.
"Owney" Geoghegan was fined $500 and SEN
fenced TO one months imprsoDment for permit
| ting minors TO enter his BOweSy den, New York.
The Supreme Court granted a temporary stay,
Geoghegan is in jail.
The bridge of the Cheraw & Chester rail-
road over the Catawba river, South Carolina, ex-
eept small portion on the Chester side, was
swept away by freshet Yesterday. The bridge
had been used only ten days.
Reports from the smaller towns OF Ohio indi-
cate that a large proportion of the saloons are
closing on account of the Scott law. The liquor
leagues, wherever organized, have neld meet
lngs, but kept the proceedings secret.
AT Norfolk, Va, Lucy Haulsey, negress, has
been arrested for whipping her sisters orphan
child, seven years old, to death The child was
hogged with cowhide and burned on stove.
The husband was arrested as accessory.
A sensational murder trial is in progress at
Denton, Nd, where Mrs. Belle Beachamp Is
charged with poisoning her husband. Her coun-
sci claims that the proceeding is malicious
prosecution by enemies of the prisoner.
| A Bohemian named Wencel Ureekmar while
| engaged in drunken fracas over game of
cards with Charles Franzer, at II beer saloon, in
Cedar Rapids, Ia, Sunday night, received
wounds from which he died next morning.
| BY vote of So nays to 100 yeas the Massa-
4 chusetts House refused to engr0ss the res0lu-
| tion for amendments to the constitution so
women may be appointed justices of the peace
/ and notaries public. two-thirds vote is neces-
sary.
j. D. Calrke,,of the firm 'of Clarke &Franks,
| OF Stewartsvile, KY, was shot and killed, on
Monday, by his partner, ]. L. Franks. He had
1 accused Franks of stealing the firms money,
from which quarrel arose. Franks shot Clarke
five times,
| While train on the Housatonic road was
/ rounding curve, yesterday, four heavy sticks
OF timber fell from freight car in the front and
| were driven through the smoking, baggage and
passenger cars following. No person was serl-
| ously injured.
The socalied fraud upon the revenue by H.
| Spiegel & Co, of Broad street, New York. tur
ouf, upon inquiry, to be purely technical affair,
and occurred through innocent carelessuess and
negligence of employees. in which the firm can
| not be directly or indirectly involved.
| Much excitement prevails over the reported
| discovery i'll BERTHE county, N. c., OF the remains
| of a number of gigantic men in a mound. The
| skeletons were discovered in a sitting posture,
| aud their heights range from seven TO nine feet.
| The State GeOlogist goes TO the spot at once
Father Otto Jair was stricken with apoplexy
| on Monday afternoon at the residence of the
German pastor, Grand Rapids, Mich, whose
| guest he was during the conservation of Bishop
Richter, which he came to attend. His situa-
ZION is serious, With grave apprehenslons OF u
fatal result.
AtSpringfeld, o., on Monday. Mrs Lizzie
| Hamilton brought suit for divorce from her hus-
band, Humphrey Hamilton, after a period of
married life embracing twenty-nine days. EK-
treme cruelty is tue alleged ground for action
plaintiff ayerring that Humphrey beat her
within twelve days after the wedding.
George Dean, while calling at the house of
man named Colt, mt Luzerne, N. Y, on Sunday,
| for an improper purpose, was attacked by Colt,
| his ten-year-old son and "A woman named Nancy
White, and fatally wounded. The elder Colt
shot him in the breast, while his son stabbed him
! in the abdomen, and the woman hacked him
| with an All three were roughly handled by
| Dean:
At Philadelphia, on Monday, Catharine Bur-
| neson who fatally shot little Maggie Curett,
! aged eleven years and six months, on the 3lst
of January last, was arraigned upon charge of
murder. and upon the advice of her counsel she
entered plea OF guilty, with the understanding
| that the degree of the Offense should be deter
mined by the court after hearing the facts Of the
case. After bearing the testimony the counsel
said he thought the eourt should enter Judgment
against the defendant of murder In the second
! degree The court reserved sentence for few
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