The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-27
rELEGRAPHIO BREvITIEs.

Charles W. Foster, father of Governor Foster
of Ohio, died at FOsGoria yesterday evening"
aged eignty-three.
In Holmes county, Ohio, German family ate
freely of raw ham, and are now suffering from
trichna. -Four persons are dangerously sick.
John Fallon, laborer, while digging n we'll in
Louisville, yesterday, was killed by the walls
falling in, covering him under thirty feet of sand
and earth.
Among the certificates of incorporation filed
in Columbus, O., on Wednesday, was the Cesko
RunskO KOtnlike Podparujtcie SpOkelk Svate
Alzbety, of Cleveland.
Rev Father John T. Sullivan. vicar general of
the diocese of Wheeling, Roman Catholic church,
yesterday celebrated the twenty-hfth anniver-
sary of his ordination as priest
A clerk in the employ of the Cincinnati North
ern railroad, John Wetzler by name has been
detected in selling the tickets of the road to
scalpers, pocketlng the proceeds.
George Andrews. of Lincoln, Neb., was brutal
ly beaten and robbed of S275 in cash on the mill
tary reservation north of Leavenworth, on Tues
day night, by three unknown men.
The Arch-stree5 Opera-house, Philadelphia,
burned yesterday morning. The loss Will not
exceed 81 s, 900, as the walls are standing and
the front of the building Is unlnjured.
The officers of the secret service are said to be
In pursuit of the coiners of the most successful
spurious dollar ever uttered in the United States
a coin which deceives the banks, and even treas
ury experts
During a fire at Heaton's saw.mill, at Trenton,
Ont, yesterday, Stewart Heaton, son of the
proprietor entered to ascertain the cause, fell
across circular saw, and his head was severed
from the body.
ing trial for insanity, in the county court here,
dashed through an open window in the second
story, falling TO the stone sidewalk, and was
picked up dying. ... aa.,
l. d. ]. Mccain, of Danvile, Tenn, was arrested
on Tuesday. at Paducah, by Chief James Geary,
upon the sneul ar charge of stealing and selling
"a raft of $50 logs. belonging to w. A. Cheno-
werh, also of Danville.
At Eastman, Ca, young man named Hegg, a
blacksmith and night watehman mt Fews saw
mill. ordered Thomas Bradford ont, when the
latter lifted up screw plate and struck him on
the skull, MASKING his head into jelly.
Jones, who murdered his young wife, will be
hanged at Augusta, Ga, May 49, He has re-
uliested that his body be buried by the side of
his murdered wife. He said: 81 would rather
be buried by her and go to hell than elsewhere
aud 90 to heaven"
Advces received at Little Rock, from Wash
ington county, Arkansas, are TO the effect that
great terror prevails in the vicinity of sulphur
Springs on account of mad dogs. Horses. COWS
and hogs have been bitten, and many narrow
escapes of human life.
One hundred vessels, carrying 425OOO0
bushels of grain, chiefly wheat, corn and flax
seed, are lying in the river and outside the har-
Dor of Chicago. waiting the announcements that
tine straits Of Mackinaw are open, which will be
the signal for their departure.
James Robertson committed suicide at the
Cross Roads in Rowan county, Kentucky, on
Tuesday night, by shooting himself through the
head with pistol. 1t is said that jealousy over
the conduct of his young and pretty wife. whom
he had but lately married, led him to the fatal
step.
A half-witted girl named Margaret Linville
committed suicide Mt Topeka, Kan on Wednes-
day morning, by cutting her throat with a razor.
She had been heard to remark that she would
rather kill herself than become insane. She has
a sister in the insane asylum here, and there are
traces OF insanity IN the family.
While tho United States officials at Philadel-
phia were deliberatng over the case OF the
steamer Tropic, which violated the neutrality
laws by carrying war materials to the Hayden
Insurgents, the ship steamed away, and when
the decision was reached on wednesday to seize
the craft, it discovered that she was out of
reach of the law.
The Washington express on the New York &
New England went from Hartford to Boston,
III miles, in three hours, Tuesday last, SO
satisfactory was the run, IL is very likely that