The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Efforts are being made to secure the pardon Of
Neal and Craft, the Cattlettsburg criminals.
Robert Smith, postmaster at slatington, Pa,
has been arrested on a charge of robbing the
mails.
A. W. Craig, a postal clerk running between
syria cuse and Albany, has been arrested for rob
bling the mails.
Fremont Cakes, of Lexington, KY, who was
shot In the abdomen by George Allender, Monday
night, has died.
Cincinnati Republicans have nominated L. L.
the Superior Court.
Patrick Early, a brakeman on the st. Paul e.
Duluth road. was killed by a switch engine at an
early hour on Thursday.
William Frey, n brakeman, was fatally injured
in a railway smash-up on Thursday, at Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, and died that night.
The railroad bridge over the Schuykill river
at Norrlstown, Penn, was destroyed by fire on
thursday, involving q loss of $4,000.
A lady at Hagertown, Nd, who had had eleven
teeth extracted last week, caught cold in her
jaws, lockjaw set in, and she did on Wednesday.
At Roanoke, Va, on Thursday, John Baldwin,
actuated by Jealousy, murdered William Wat
klns and committed suicide. Both men were
colored.
At Texarkana, yesterday. the compress and
500 bales of cotton burned. Loss, 100000;
Insurance $4,000 ]. D.. Hall Is the greatest
sufferer.
Edward Fitzpatrick, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
was run over and killed on Thursday evening
while walking on the track. The body was ter
ribly mangled.
Salmi Morse declares he will produce the "Pas-
sion Play in New York without a license. He
has built what he calls ga church." and terms
his play "a SERVICE"
Mrs. Jane Guackenbush, the wife of a Troy, N.
T., saloonkeeper, has set up as a faith curer. and
by her prayers is said to have brought healing
to a number of sick and diseased.
Katie Yunkee, a pretty German girl of TWEEN
ty-one obtained a verdict in New York city of
$4,000 damages against Peter Hickman for
seduction and breach of promise Of marriage.
The entire expenses attending the trial of Neal
and Craft, twice at Catlettsburg and once at
Grayson, will reach about 500, 900. There is a
report that Governor Blackburn may pardon
Craft.
John Levnon has been accused by a coroner's
jury at Maidstone Cross, Essex county, Ont, of
manslaughter, having frightened one Edward
Farrell to death by pretending he was about to
ride q horse over him.
H. F. Crocker, a desperate, who confessed to
numbering three men and one woman and re-
GREETED that he did not have an opportunity to
Kill two men more, committed suicide in the
Granbury, Tex, Jail on Tuesday.
The body of an unknown man who had COM
mitted suicide by taking "Rough on Rats" was
found in Cincinnati, Thursday. Charles Turpe,
a boarding-house keeper, on Sycamore street,
attempted suicide by s%tabbing himself with a
dagger.
A son of George Francis Train and a step
daughter ofthe late Charles R. Thorne, tr,. were
united in marriage. by Mayor Edison, of New
York, in the City nall, on Thursday. The father
of the groom sent the Mayor a bouquet and an
original poem.
Observations through northern Ohio. southern
Michigan and n portion Of Indiana excite anxi-
ETY. for the winter wheat crop, the winter and
spring having been unfavorable. The conditions
are propirious for a large yield of cotton the
coming season.
Yesterday, Col. Thornton, publisher of the
Atlanta P~ost-Appeal, went to the office of j. H.
Norwood, publisher of the Union. A quarrel
eusued. Norwood called his foreman, and they
forcibly elected Thornton. Pistols were drawn.
Thornton has begun an action for assault.
The Memphis Appeals, Helena, Ark. special
says: "John Powells clubhouse, on the Mississippi
side of the river, opposite this city, burned
on Thursday night. The bgileing was filed
with negro refugees. who barely escaped with
their lives. A child was drowned in the excite
ment that followed a stampede from the burn
ing building"
Sheriff Miller, of Albany county, arrived at
Cheyenne on Thursday afternoon, having in
charge Alfred Pacha, who is accused of having
murdered five men near Los Pinos in 1874. Ac-
cording to the confession he made soon after his
arrest, the men were killed one at a time TO pro-
vide food for the remaining members of a pros
p%eeting party. Subsequent investigation proved
this to be false. as the men were found, with one
exception. lying side by side, having been shot
while sleeping.