The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREvIrIEs.

A SHORTAGE of ss.ooOis repeated to have been
discovered in the accounts OF the Atlanta post
| office.
The ffrieth anniversary of the establishment
OF Catholicism in Chicago, was celebrated yea
terday.
Chicago Call Board, SOS, 900 was realized. Forty
OF the chairs sold for premium Of over $70c
each.
While party of i've were boating at Arriugto,
Kan, on Saturday the boat went over a dam.
and three OF them we're drowned.
In a row at Atchison, Kan, on Saturday night,
Policeman Taylor tcoloredi shot and instantly
Killed a col0red man named Dick Turpn.
Twelve employees of the Milwaukee county
hospital have petitioned the board OF supervisors
TO remove DR.. Marden, for drunkenness and
worse practices.
Miss Mary Reley. employed in Milwaukee
ury-goods store. died last week from inhaling
arsenicated hydrogen emauating from green
Velvets she handled.
W. ]. Northcutt yesterday shot and killed A.
I. Neal, at ]. b. O'NeaPs store, on Red Chute.
Bossier parish, La O'Eeal was q cattle dealer
from Fay cite, Miss.
w. II. Beck, charged with bigamy, who es-
capped from the Baltimore Jail on Wednesday,
shot himself on Saturday, fatally, when the
police were about to arrest him.
On Saturday colored man named Willis Shan
non, and three boys named Harry Cass Suod-
grass aud George TaIbett, were drowned at Mar
tins Ferry. o., together with two horses.
Tweuty-six silver and six gold watches were
Michel, a passenger on the steamship Pennland,
who was trying TO smugge them In waist belt.
Washington Thr0op, an old resident of Detroit,
casnder hung 1n himself He %as aged iS
and Tor the past seven years has been totally
blind.
San Antonio special says 1 100000 acre
purchase of land In the Panhandle of Texas by an
English syndicate is reported. Price %, 00o, 060.
Inc tract will be fenced. 1t borders 200 miles
ON the Indian Territory.
ated tea were seized in New York by govern
ment officials. The Chinese minister in Wash
ington believes that such action will improve
the grade OF tea sent TO this country.
Baton Rouge special says the entries of sea
marsh made by ]. B. Watkins cover 1,151,0l6
acres at twelve and one-half cents per acre, en-
bracing all the vacant Louisiana State lands in
the parishes OF Vermillion, Cameron aud Calca-
sieu.
The steamer Strasburg, from Bremen, landed
l,474 immigrants in Baltimore. Three
Killed durihg the passage by the fall OF a sail.
More than eight thousand have passed through
Hull on their way TO America during the past
few days.
There 10 TO be a meeting of the Ohio Republican
State committee At Columbus next Thursday, to
consider the advisability of postponing the State
convention TO some other time than June 5, to
await the decision of the Supreme Court on the
Scott liqu0r-tax law.
Henry Barton Beecher, eldest sen OF Henry
Ward Beecher was arrested for assault and bat
terry on H. +. Shellhaus, OF Brooklyn. There was
some business difference between them, and
Shellhaus provoked Beecher when the latter
put him out Of his Office He was acquitted.
Negotiations have been completed by which
the Erie d New England Express Company
ceases to exist after Wednesday next. BY the
terms OF the agreement the United States Ex-
press Company gets foothOld in Boston and q
through route between Boston and the West.
Detectives at Troy, N. " claim to have dis
covered plot to blow up tenement house in
habited by the families OF union men en-
ployed In the malleable iron works, to the num-
per OF ABOUT sixty persons. Suspicion attaches
TO the union men who recently quilted the works.
Near Chamberlain, d. T., a few days since, a
young squaw, who had been seld a wife to an
Indian for two ponies, and who refused to live
with him, as he had another wife, was forcibly
taken out on the prairie by young bucks of her
tribe and brusally ravished In punishment of her
alleged stubhornness.
Lanslngburg firm has almost completed
length is twenty feet 1t has seating capacity
Tor twenty -hYe persons and q carrying capacity
OF three tons. The sheathng Is a solid body of
paper three-eighths of an inch thick bullet
hired from distance of four feet neither pene-
trated nor made an abrasion In it.
Arrangements have been perfected by Man
ager L. G. Hanna, of the Euclid-avenue Opera
house, Cleveland, to have sham battle July
ON the race-course there, representing the battle
OF Atlanta, IN which the Continental Guard of
New Orleans, infantry, cavalry, artillery and
Gatling-gun companies of Cleveland and else
where In that and other States will participate.
At Buffalo, yesterday, the legal proceedings
Instituted against the Rochester d. PiLtsburg
railroad by the Lackawanna, relative to a cross
Ing, cnlninated in a fight. Fifteen cars of tine
two roads were destroyed and two men arrested,
| but subsequently released The Rochester d.
Plttsbnrg has the best of the struggle now, hav-
| Ing obtained an injunction allowing them to put
| down their rails again.