The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-26
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

The Vermont House has defeated the local
option liquorhcense bill by 1913 to 70.
George Egbert, white was fatally stabbed at
Frankfort, KY, yesterday by Thomas Dobson,
colored. Egbert had pushed Dobson off the
sidewalk
The residence of Colonel Edward Bird. at
Guyton, thirty miles from Savannah, Ca, was
burned on yesterday morning by ineendiaries.
The inmates narrowly escaped with their lives.
AT Philadelphia yesterday. Solomon N Grim
ly, who pleaded guilty to receiving greater com
pensation than allowed in procuring a
pension, was sentenced to pay fine of $3.50 and
costs.
An engine, baggage and two passenger cars of
a train were thrown from the track, last even
ing just west of Turner's Station, N. Y. Tie
switch was turned wrong locked, and the switch
lights put out Noione hurt
Adolph Kettner was tried for the murder of
Patrick O'Brien, at Wilmington, Del. The jury
disagreeing, he was allowed to plead guilty to
manslauglrter and sentenced to five years
in prison and a fine of s., 000
Early yesterday morning on tho Lehigh Val
ley railroad, a coal train ran into another at a
sharp curve above Bethlehem. One engine and
several cars were badly damaged. Elmer Teel,
engineer, and Alfred Mickey, cnan, were
seriously hurt by jumping.
A skiff from a pilot beat containing pilot
Marshall Bertrand and two sailors, after putting
a pilot on the steamship Pennsylvania, yesterday
boat. The skiff las not since been seen, and it
is feared all three men were lost.
Last night difficulty occurred on Sycamore
street. Petersburg, Va. between two negroes
named Ramon Owens and Eugene Glenn. Will
mer Holland, white, attempted to separate them
when he was stabbed with a pocket knife by
Glenn, who says Holland struck him with a
stick.
The Lancaster crematory, built by tho Lam
caster, Pa. Cremation and Funeral Reform So
ciety, was dedicated this afternoon. The re-
mains of Mrs. Frederick Beseler, of Jersey City,
were then reduced to ashes in little over an
hour A number Of applications for cremation
have already been received from different parts
of the country.
Pierre Chouteau, owner Of the Grand Opera
house, at St Louis, has decided to rebuild that
theater Work will be commenced at once, and
the building be completed fo1 next season. The
new house will be ten feet deeper than the old
one and the walls will be rebuilt from the
foundation up No wood will be used in the
construction where it can possibly be helped.
A Jacksonville, Fla, special says: 'lIany
colored school teachers in Leon county, in which
the capital of the State is situated, have been
discharged since the election and several colored
schools closed. The colored people in the in
terror of the State are greatly alarmed at the
condition of affairs growing out of the election
of Cleveland and the action Of Democratic State
officials since the election
A massive monument has been placed over the
grave of the late Bishop Kavanaugh in Gave
Hill Cemetery Louisville. 1t is of dark gray
stone with copper slabs set in containing the
BishoVis full name date of birth and death. On
top is a copper plate in tho shape of an open
Bible on the pages the words of Bishop
McTyeires text in his funeral discourse over
Bishop Kavanaugh For he was good man,
and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith" Acts
XII "a