The Indianapolis journal., 1884-09-11
TELEGRAPHIg BREYFFIES

Two eonylets were brutally beaten and killed
BY guards at the water-works reservoir. Lening-
ton, yesterday.
Jacob Stein, postmaster at Reno, Iowa, shot
his wife dead on Tuesday night, and then COM
mitted suicide He is supposed to have been in
sane.
The ut. Lake Park Hotel, at Mt Lake Park,
Nd, kept by a. H. VanMeter was entered BY
burglars last night, and So 600 in cash and valu-
able papers stolen.
The officers of the State Bank, at Fort Ed
wards, N. T., state that the closing, on yester-
day afternoon, was precautionary matter. No
body viii lose anything.
A private telegram announces the killing Of
]. O. Christian, at Chipley, Ga, in a difficulty
with S. M Dixson, railroad agent at Chipley
Christian was prominent citizen and merchant
at White sulphur Springs
At Wabasha, Mimi, yesterday, Lucas Kuehn,
the largest merchant in town. assigned. He is
president of the Wabasha Bank, on which run
recently occurred. There is no statement Of
liabilities or assets Kuchn is rated at $50, 000
A petition from railroad authorities has been
received at the Treasury Department asking that
the quarantine on the Mexican border be raised
1t is not probable the request will be granted
during the prevalence OF yellow fever m western
Mexico.
AT the quarterly meeting of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, yesterday, George J. Gould
was elected vice president in place of Augustus
Schel deceased; Sam Sloan was elected a
member of the executive committee in the place
of SchelL
The body Of Mrs. Mary Armstrong, who lived
at pa Tenth avenue, New York, was found last
evening. with her neck broken and otherwise
bruised, in aspace less than two feet wide be-
| tween the rear OF house on Tenth avenue and
one ON Twenty sixth street. John Arms trehg
her husband, WAS arrested in bed, which was
covered with blood.
Yesterday afternoon, at Cleveland, Mrs c. E.
Akers a music teacher, drew $50 from a saw
ings, bank opposite the postoffice, and started
home through short street leading from Monu-
mental Park TO St Clair street Shortly after
leaving the bank, an unknown rnfian knocked
her down by violent blow in the back, grabbed
the money, and escaped.
Several creditors of kaufman, Cohn & Co. of
St Louis, wholesale Inilliners, who assigned
some time ago, have fled bill Of complaint in
the Circuit Court, changing irregular and fraud
ulent transactions on the part of the firm, and
asking that the assignment be set aside, and that
the several attachments sued out against the
firm just before it assigned be dissolved.
Albert Jones an ex-convict has instituted suit
against the Miner Coal & Railroad Company
lessee of Alabama State eonvicts, for $15 000 for
personal injuries resulting from negligence Of
lessee. Plaintiff alleges that his ankle was
crushed by coal cars, and he was kept at work,
inflammation resulting, necessitating amputa-
tion. This is the first case of the kind brought
in that State.
A number Of eotton.seed crushers from the
South have been in secret session at St Louis
for two days past hut nothing definite regard
ing their proceedings can be ascertained. 1t is
understood however, that the cotton-seed oil
interest is suffering from over-production, and
that one of the purposes, at least of the confer
ence IS to form pool for projection and regula-
tion Of the trade
Captain j. II. Sawyer, cashier of the Carolina
National Bank, at Columbia, in exchange for q
check of $50, presented by Mr.. Simon Hook,
gave him q bag supposed TO contain $50 in silver
Later, when he discovered that he had given a
bag containing 81, 900 in gold there was much
excitement IN the hank, which was aIlayed by
the return Of Mr. Hook, who had also discovered
the error, and returned the money.