The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Mr.. Burge, New York stock broker, commit
ted suicide in his Office, yesterday, owing to re-
cent losses.
Seven laborers were drowned in Carsons inlet,
N. j., during Wednesdays storm, by the up
setting of boats
The schooner A. Babeock was sunk near
Barnegat Captain Babcock, four seamen, and
the mates wife were drowned.
E. T. Stamps clerk in the carriers division
of the New Orleans postofice was yesterday ar
rested for embezzling ordinary letters.
F. E. Stark, the advance agent who killed
Manager David Allen in the New Orleans Opera
house last November, acquitted yesterday.
John Corbett, the mate and two seamen, of
the schooner Fanny Flint, were drowned while
running line to the wharf at St. John, n B.,
yesterday.
Memorial services were held in Simpson
Methodist Episcopal Church Brooklyn, to-
night in honor Of Bishop Simpson. Bishop
Harris presided.
The boiler in a stave factory near Walnut
Ridge, Ark, exploded yesterday, killing J. 2.
Flock, the proprietor, and the engineer whose
name is unknown.
VIM. Reed while drilling a wild coal oil well
on farm near Butler, Pa, struck heavy vein
of gas The pressure IS so great that the roar
of the escaping gas can be heard several miles.
John G. Hill, a retired clothing house proprie-
tor at Great Falls, n. H, who recently re-
covered from severe sickness, killed his wife
yesterday. He is seventy years of age and in
sane.
Bill Bird well-known colored trainer of
horses, died at Chicago yesterday, at Washing
ton Park. He was in the employ of Captain
Cottren He had had consumption for long
time.
L. Deilford, formerly of Newark, Ohio, but
for the past two months night telegraph opera
tor for the East Tennessee railroad, at Macon,
Ga, shot himself through the heart yesterday
morning dying instantly,
The Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, will hold its annual national con
vention in Pittsburg August 3. Delegates will
be present from all parts of the country where
lodges of the association exist
Henry Brunt was fatally shot by David Goodin,
yesterday. in Syl Brunt's saloon, at Lima,
O. Brunt was drunk and was ordered out by
Goodin, who is the bar-keeper. A fight o.4sued
and Goodin claims he acted in self-defense.
The will of the late Mary H. Drake was fled
yesterday, in the surrogate's Office at New York.
She bequeaths to the Theological Seminary at
Alexandria, Va. $40 000 and s., 900 each TO
number of religious and charitable organiza-
tons
Ex-Gov Franklin ]. Moses, who is under ar
rest in Chicago on the charge Of swindling, is
under indictment in Boston for swindling Col.
r. w Higginson out of $43 and is also charged
with swindling Mr. A Williams and an eX-
mayor of the city.
A Cedar Rapids, Ia, telegram reports that
TWO cOnV1ctS. freeman ana FARMER, VINO nau
escaped from the Anamosa penitentiary, were
surrounded in the woods near Cedar Rapids and
a fight ensued, in which Freeman was MORALLY
wounded and Farmer dangerously.
w. F. Morrison, a telegraph operator, from
Buffalo who obtained 50. 200 from the First Ma
tional Bank of San Antonio Texas, two or three
days ago, forged draft, was arrested at
Monterey, Mexico, Thursday, and will be
brought back on extra1ition papers.
The dead body of Frank Brown was found in
a.
bridge, Thursday evening, and near him the al
most lifeless remains of Edward Fiman The
latter revived sufficiently to state that he and
Brown lived at Monticello, Iowa, and had fallen
from freight train TO the ground, over seventy
feet below.
In the case of Alexander Kost, of the Ger
mania Theater, Eugene Klein, an actor, and
Richard Dorr a midget recently connected with
the Lilliputan Opera Company, charged with
conspiracy to cheat Theodore Rosenfeld, of
Philadelphia, out of costumes valued at So, 400,
the jury yesterday returned a sealed verdict of
guilty as to all the defendants. and recommend
ed Dorr to the mercy of the court.
The statement in yesterdays dispatches from
Chicago that the Superior Court had rendered a
decision sustaining tine validity of the ordinance
levying a tax of per cent. on the gross receipts
of insurance companies whose headquarters are
outside the State of Illinois, is incorrect The
decision is the reverse, holding that the tax can
not be collected under the ordinance. The city
has taken an appeal
Gustave Joseph Lowengart, for many years a
resident of New York city, and nephew of
Samuel Seller of the firm Of Altschult, Seller &
Co. of San Francisco crockery merchants, shot
himself dead yesterday in that city. He had
lost considerable money in gambling, and threat
ened his uncles life for refusing him ST, 000 Be
cause Of this threat warrant for Lowengarts
arrest was obtained. While an officer read
ing the warrant the deceased blew out his brains.
Injured by a Boiler Explosion.