The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-16
TELEGRAPHIo BREvITIEs.

The Western Unitarian conference, at Chicago,
spent the day In hearing ana discussing papers
Robert NJ. Bell, a prominent young man. COM
mitted suicide on Monday night In Arkadephia,
Ark.
Mile. Litta, the prima donna, is seriously III at
Negannees Mich, and all engagements have been
cancelled.
The Canadian mounted police have prevented
the contemplated raid of northern Cree Indians
into Montana
Governor Hamilton. Of Illinois, has issued a
proclamation for the due observance of Dec0ra-
LiUn Day, May 30.
The Alamo, the scene of Davy CrOokett's last
battle and death, has become the property Of
the State of Texas.
A crate of Georgia peaches, the first of the
season, was, on Monday evening, shipped from
Macon to New York.
The shooting for places on the international
military rit1e-Inatch Team, shows better mark
InaushiD than year ago.
Anton Bauer, q saloOn-keeper on Milwaukee
avenue, Chicago, fatally shot an unknown man
last night, He was arrested.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, the grand lodge of Penn
sylvania Odd.fell0ws IL in session. Tue craft IN
the State numbers SO,3S9 members.
At the burning of theAIerehants' Hotel at Ma
pOleOn, o., on Monday night, fourteen guests es-
capped by Jumping from the windows.
The strike of compositors employed on the
University Press, Cambridge, Mass, is ended.
The hrm agreed To Increase rates June l.
After meeting the expenses of winding mp, the
assets OF Lord Esinur, OF Montreal, will only
amount to as, 200, to ueet liabilities OF 81 900
II is rumored that dynamiters intended to
damage the Weliand canal The authorities
have taken extra precautions to protect exposed
points.
Henry L. Hudson, an alleged sprituast, poet
ana writer, was arrested at North Al ans, Mass,
on Monday, for robblng hotel cashier OF Jewelry
aud money.
At Brace-brdge, Ontario, the house OF John
Dawson Was burned. Dawson, while attempt
Ing to save his children, was burned to death;
also II SOU, aged ten.
The demand for the five cent nickel
pieces continues undated There at
the Philadelphia mint unexeeuted orders for
$4,000 OF minor coins.
The Council of Mecitanicsburg, O., has taken
advantage of the Scott law, aud passed an Ordi-
nance prohibiting The sale of beer any kind Of
liquors within the corporation.
Vaughan Helton was shot and killed by n
party of masked men In Montgomery county,
Kentucky, on Saturday night, while his wife
clung to him TO ward off the shots.
The grand connect OF Red Men, OF Ohio, con.
vened at Dayton yesterday. The degrees were
conferred, and in the afternoon "a procession,
with 900 members In line, paraded
john Rowland an aged farmer. attempted
suicide III Jessamlno county, kentucky, on Mon
day, by hacking himself on the head with
hatchet His wounds are probably fatal
James T. Rogers, a Catholic priest of Boston,
was Yesterday robbed of 800 by New York
swiudler, whom he met on tue street and whom
be accompanied to II saloon TO see some cloth.
The grand jury on the rehachapl disaster, on
ths night of Jan, 20, on the Southern Pacific, at
taehes blame 10 the general mana cement and
finds the working force at that point insufficient.
At Chicago, Thomas Walsh, who whipped his
wife to death with Il leather str4p, ana pleaded
guilty, was sentenced by Judge Barnum, yesteiS
day afternoon, to thirty;tive years in the penn
tentiary.
Captain John A. Miller, cashier Of the Pratt &c
whitney Manufacturing Company, of Hartford,
Conn., has become violently insane in OOnse-
quence OF the discovery that he is a defaultcr to
tno amount Of $4,000.
Two cOlOred thieves, Bob Allen and Henry
Reason, arrested in Wilmington, Dell on satur-
day, have stolen $4,000 worth OF goods In Kent
county during the past two years. Allen mas
three times escaped from Jail.
II is estimated that 1000 pupils in the public
schools of ST. Louis will be thrown nut bv the
Supreme Court decision that the school board
cannot legally admit persons outside the school
age Of six to twenty-one years.
The Ohio Brewers and Malsters' Association
held its annual convention at Cleveland yeater.
day. They adopted resolutions protesting
against the temperance laws recently enacted,
calculated TO harass aud destroy their bust
ness.
BY a rope Slipping from tho drum, a car In n
mine-shafb at Scranton, Pa, fell n distance of
forty feet, and Lewis Sawyer. Patrick Cullen,
John BrOgan, william Banks and William BolHnd
were painfully aud seriously injured. Cullen
will die.
On Monday Miss Annie Mendenhall. living
near jamestown, o., finding that .her clothes
were on fire, ran TO a stream near by and threw
herself into the water. White cunning the fiAnes
we're famed, ard she was so badly burned that
she died.
At Amity, Clarke county. Arkansas, Professor
r. NJ Burk, principal uf the school, dismissed
lila pupils on MONDAY afternoon, and IN u few
hours found dead IN the school room. No
cause Ia Unsigned. but IT. IL believed that death Ia
due 10 the unhappy termination Of love affair
Judge Newman decided at la Crosse, Wis, ou
Monday, on the Washhurn VIII contest, arriving
nc the same conclusions recently reached Nv
judge Vrlnnd ut Minneapolis, The estnte viii
net 50. 100000, Of which tho widow gets 5000.