The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.


reporter of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
On Saturday, at Cincinnati, c. w Richardson
was convicted of murder and sentenced TO be
hanged September &C.
A waterspout destroyed tire house of Francis
Moore, near Williamsburg, KY, and drowned
his wife and five children.
The jury disagreed at Cincinnati in the case
of I. G. Campbell, the attorney who was
charged with attempting to bride witness.
The prohibitory section of the Canada temper
ance act is declared in force in the counties of
Oxford, Ontario, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
The large cotton factorage firm of Gidiere,
Day &c Co., of New Orleans, suspended payment
on Saturday. Liabilities, $3.50, OOO assets $500,
900.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals on Saturday
reversed the cases of Cope Snapp, the City Hall
thief and Tom Crlttenden, the murderer of Rose
Mosby (coloredl.
Lincoln Gilbert, clerk in the employ of
Thompson, Moore & Co., of New York, whole
sale dealers in tobacco, was held to answer for
embezzling moneys collected for the firm
The skeleton of a boy was found in pond in
Avondale, near Cincinnati, Saturday morning,
with rope around its neck and stone tied to
the rope. There is no clew to his identity
Jacob Colbert, ferryman at Marion, Mo-,
jumped into the river on Saturday, to save his
sixyearold daughter who had fallen in. Both
were drowned Colbert leaves q wife and four
children.
The body found in Jim river near Mitchell, D.
T., and supposed to be that of the missing Ger
man, Schmidt proves to be that of Bechtel, the
supposed murderer of Schmidt. Bechtel was
the victim of vigilantes, then thrown into the
river.
Frank Rankin was found guilty of the murder
of Martin Cody on Saturday, at Louisville, and
his Sente nee fixed at Imprisonment for life Sew
en- of the jurors favored hanging, four would
have given him life term, and one was for fif-
teen years.
An explosion of fire-damp at old Eagle mines
near Monongahela City, Pa, on Friday seriously
burned pit boss John Walker, and slightly in
jured Robert Perry. The explosion was caused
by a rock falling, and gas escaping into the room
and lgniting from lamp.
Steve Anderson, colored, of Fort Scott, Kan,
quarreled with his wife over the plans for "a
proposed fishing party. She shut him out of the
house, and, refusing to comply with Anderson's
demand to open the door, he shot and killed her
| and then committed suicide.
Late Saturday night, at Binghamton, N Y,
w. A. Cooper, well banker of Mont
rose Pa, was shot at three times by Joseph
Drinker, a well-known citizen. Two of the
three shots took effect Cooper may survive.
Drinker Immediately killed himself
John johnson (colored) was arrested near
Loveland camp ground for wrecking a train,
on Wednesday night last, near Loveland.
William Scott, previously arrested, able
to show an alibi, and was discharged. John
son was taken to Cincinnati to prevent lynch
ing.
Samuel Lewis, who has just completed two
years sentence in Baltimore for forgery, was
brought to Boston. Saturday, to answer four
indictments on similar charge. Lewis was
formerly a wealthy ink manufacturer of New
York, but squandered his money in dissipation,
and several years ago commenced forgeries of
notes.
Alexander Fiddler, a man of many aliases,
was found near Sturgis, Dakota, on Saturday,
hanging to a tree-limb He and two companions
robbed emigrant family en- route for the
Hills recently, and is supposed to have met his
fate at the hands of vigilantes He bore bad
name and had been several times convicted of
crime.
Receiver Hume, of the Yellowstone National
Park Improvement Company, announces that,
owing to judicial complications in the affairs of
the National Park improvement Company the
mammoth Hot Springs Hotel will not be open to
tourists before the 10th prox. After June 20
passenger trains from Portland and st. Paul
will be run daily from Livington to Cinnabar.
Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, has issued
pastoral letter to the priests of his diocese inn
pressing on them the necessity of observing
great care and prudence in the management of
church picnics, and decreeing that no intOXcat
ing liquor shall be sold at any one of them.
Every occasion for disorder or breach of de-
corum, he says, should be avoided. The pastors
| shall in all cases attend the picnics and super
! wise the amusements Catholic societies. he
| says, should not hold picnics without the sane
ton of their pastors.
The gang of Counterfeiters who have been
| operating in Genesee and .Shiawasse counties
Michigan, has just been broken up by the arrest
| of the three principal ones engaged in the bust
ness-an old man named John Daniels, at Flint,
| and Asa Davis and wife at Corsenna. Daniels
had some $500 of spurious money on his person
| when taken. There is little doubt that he is an
| old hand at the business. He halls from Penn
| sylvania. He was taken into the United States
Court on Saturday, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for ten years. The
other parties pleaded not guilty