The Indianapolis journal., 1883-11-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Marquis Lansdowne has received several let
ters threatening his life.
The managers Of Sing Sing prison report net
profit of $5, ,036 for October.
The Camp Cree half-breeds, Indians of Dakota,
are proving themselves obnoxious by killing cat
tie.
The Cincinnati Dramatic Festival Association
has been Incorporated, with a capital of S2,oOO
NOT for profit.
f. II. Andrews, the thievng Chicago bank
clerk, has been sentenced TO the penltentlary
for three years.
Joseph McEneany, cashier of a steel works in
New York, embeZzled $4,000 and squandered
it in racing pools
highwayman stopped stage near Sonora,
Cal, and captured the Wells-Fargo express bag,
containing $4,000
The trotter Maybird has been sold to A. J.
Haws, of Greenvlle, Pa, for $4,000. Maybird
has record of 23O
The Clyde Banking Company, sandusky. O.,
has failed p. W. Parker, the cashier, has dis
appeared with 100000.
Samuel 9. Hennen, an alleged fugitive embez-
zler OF $62, 500 from John F. James, real estate
broker, Brooklyn, has been arrested.
]. shipman, government contractor living
near Washington, was bunkOed in Cincinnati out
OF $50 in money ana 50, 400 in checks.
An attempt made to poison the family Of
). B. stephens, near Atlanta. Ga, by putting a
poisonous chemical in the drinking water
Reuben Springer, of Cincinnati, has presented
the Cathedral of that place sanctuary lamp
which is thirteen feet IN height and cost $500.
All eccentric old Frenchnan named Dervo.
dying in Akron, o.. has 6equeated to the city his
estate, valued at 81 D. 000 TO be used In founding
hospital.
Hogs are henceforth to be admitted in bond
into Canada at all warehousing ports for
slaughter for export. They must be isolated
from Canadian hogs
Miss Libbe Cortolyou had her skull fractured,
and Mrs. John 8. Hulin received concussl0n of
the brain by team running away a. Brooklyn,
on Saturday evening.
KingstOn On GRAND iurv decided that
the testimony of agnostics should not be accepted
in courts of law. His Lordship stated that he
dlssented from their views
Frank Hiland, arrested at Atlanta, Ga, on a
! requlsitiOn from Governor Foster, and charged
with attempted wife murder, was placed in the
youngstown jail on Saturday.
Six bench warrants we're issued for the arrest
OF persons accused of connection with fraud in
the water bureau of New York city. David E.
Al4en, out on bail, w3s rearrested
Bishop Poole. on his way from England to
take charge of the Anglican church, Japan, ar
rived in New York on Saturday. The Bishop
, leaves in a few days from San Francisco.
Indians in the Canadian northwest. to the
/ number of 10000, have been so successful in
raising grain this season that the government
will reduce their -four rations so per cent
John Jurgens, boatswain of tho steamship
Marie, which arrived in New York on Saturday,
was lost while endeavorng to rescue Carl Zieg-
ener, "a passenger, who had leaped overheard.
Henry Longstreet and Gordon Ostrander,
young men, have been arrested in Chicago for
rOODlng the United States Express Company.
Longstreet disposed of goods stolen by 0s-
trander.
1t is reported that the anthracite mines of the
Pennsylvania railroad are soon to be leased to q
syndicate, headed by william l.. Scott, which
Will send 100000 tons westward from Buffalo
and Erie each year
AT Iron Falls, OAK, policemen, by order of the
City Council cut the telephone poles and wires,
the company having disregarded an order to re-
move them TO the alleys Notice also served
on the Western Union.
American naval officers, in commenting on
the frequency of collisions between govern
ment and merchant vessels, hint that the lat
ter have way of selling out to the insurance
companies without exposing their crews to
much danger.
At Paris, KY, II. B. Hutchcraft & Co.'s four
story warehouse destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000; Insurance. $33, $50. SO far this year
Bourbon county, in which Paris is located, has
lost over 100000 by fire, $4,000 by wind and
100000 by water.
At the next May Festival Cincinnati. there
Will be five evening performances, from Tuesday
TO Saturday night inclusive, and matinees on
each be devoted to single composer. Tuesday,
Handel: Wednesday, Beethoven; Thursday, Wag-
ner; Friday, Schumann Saturday, Gunod.
A young woman from st. Joseph, Mo-, named
Lungerhausen, was requested by her rowing hus-
band to meet him in Saginaw, Mich, with their
babe. Failing to find HIM there, she appealed for
aid to his brother at Moun Clemens Receiving
no encouragementsh administered morphine to
herself and child with fatal effect upon the lat
ter. Money is now being collected for the poor
woman.