The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

Ristor the tragedienne, will make q farewell
tour of America.
The Republican State convention, of Mary
land, will be held at Baltimore, on Sept. 81.
Frederick Cloth, boot and shoe dealer at Erie,
Pa, was closed by the sheriff on Wednesday.
Liabilities, 81 900; assets small.
A base ball nine composed of lunaties has been
organized in Washington. they are inmates of
the Government Insane Asylum.
DIR. James Alfred Burchett shot and Killed
himself at Monterey Owen county, Kentucky,
on Wednesday. He was addicted TO morphine
eating.
Mrs. Fanny Sprague, mother Of the ex-Clover-
nor, has accepted the offer of the company that
bought her home to lease it to her during life for
81 a month.
wonderful cave Is reported to have been dis
covered in Lookout Mountain, containing great
lake and three mammoth waterfalls, one being
$50 feet high.
At Kirby, O., on Tuesday. Frank Benbaugh
ten years. old, complained of headache in the
forenoon, and soon fell into a sleep, from which
he cannot be awakened.
Latham Kossck, a retired merchant, and dea-
con in the First congregational Church of JACK
son, Mich, has been arrested for stealing money
from a newsdealer's drawer
Coffee county. Georgia, white man named
FurlOng, Infatuated with another woman, hor-
rlDly mutllated ms wlfe, who now lies at the
point of death. Her body is a mass of lacerated
flesh.
The Chinese consul at San Francisco SAYS the
reports of smuggling Chinese into Washington
1cEFlboTN Is jon 10 ulNeFD tue aHtn0flr6B from
the heavy opium smuggling carried'O on in that
section.
Two negroes have been arrested for the muir
der of young Sayle at Oakland Miss They
crushed his SKULL cut his throat stabbed him in
a dozen places, robbed him and kicked the body
into ditch.
A piece of almost pure copper. weighing six
ty-BiDe pounds, was found on farm near Ber-
rlen Springs, Mich, and ore containing 40 peP
cent. OF silver was picked up point four
miles distant.
In Walton county, Georgia, Edmund Butler
ana Maria Phillips (coloredl have been expelled
from their church for 'coDjuring'' to death thefr
pastor some months ago. The Georgia negroes
are believers in voudoOism.
The meeting of The Minnesota miners and rem
resentatves of railroads running east, at Mil
waukee on Tuesday and Wednesday, failed to
adjust the grain and flour rates, the railroad men
refusing to grant the reduction.
When the steamship Manitoba from Glasgow.
was coming up the So. Lawrenee river, throu Oh
hyferlan minister. cut his throat and Jumped
overheard. boat was put out and the body re-
covered.
At Richmond. Va, A. NJ Lyon g. Co q tobacco
maHufaetory, william A. Waldr0n's manufsc-
tory OF tobacco machinery, and q. p. Howes e.
Co. g saw ana nle works were burned and other
buildings were damaged. Loss about 1925, 900;
insurance, $4,000.
At Atlanta, on Wednesday afternoon a lady
on entering the house of Mrs. Ashby, found the
unfortunate woman with small kitten almost
down her throat, only the hind legs being out.
presence Of mind the lady grasped the animal
and pulled 1t out.
The schooner f. 2. Irwin which nut in at
Richmond. Va. having on hoard q couple of can
mons aud 234 hoXes of ammunition, has been
liDeled ny the Lifted States government, and