The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

Krauz & Co., wool merchants of New York.
have failed.
Samuel B. Gregory, commander in the United
States navy, died on Saturday at Boston, aged
seventy-one.
The Western Union Telegraph Company has
declared a quarterly dividend of Il per cent. A
surplus of $500, 900 will be left after payment of
the dividend.
John Z. Kelly, a member of the we'll known
book-making firm Of Kelly & Bliss, of New
York, has been arrested on charge of violating
the laws in selling POOL tickets at the Jerome
Park races.
The tenth annual session of the Western
Academy of Homeopathy was in session at Gin
cinnati, Yesterday. Twenty-Five members were
present, with President G.. A. Hall, of Chicago,
in the chair.
The act passed by the recent Kentucky Legis-
lature, prohibiting the sale of illustrated police
literature, went into effect to-day, and hereafter
the Police Gazette and such papers will not be
sold in that State.
John Carpenter, of New York. who killed his
wife and attempted the murder of his sister-in-
law, attempted to kill himself, yesterday, with
the handle of a spoon which he had sharpened
on the floor of his cell.
The international Sunday school convention
meets at Louisville, to-day. Canada and every
State in the Union will be represented, and
over 200 delegates are expected, among them
many distinguished men.
Jacob Perish, an inmate of the Erie county,
Pennsylvania, alms-house, grew demented over
politics and on Monday evening sui
eide by jumping from the fourth story of the
building, his brains being knocked out, and his
body horribly mutilated.
Suit was brought yesterday in the Superior
Court of San Francisco against n. G.. Goodwin,
the wel-known actor. by l.. M. Bayless, man
ager of the Gaiety Theater, at Sydney, Aus
tralia, for breach of contract made in New York,
to play forty weeks in the Australian colonies.
The damages are laid at $50, 900.
At Harrisburg. Pa, yesterday, John Grady,
catcher of the Reading base ball club, while I'M
der the influence Of liquor, entered a Chinese
laundry and insulted a female inmate. He was
ordered out by Sam Gee, the proprietor, who
followed him with a lat-iron. Grady picked UP
a beer bottle and hit Gee, inhicting a probably
fatal wound.
Joseph Palmer, jointly indicted with William
Berner, for the murder of w. H. Kirk, was
placed on trial at Cincinnati, yesterday. A
venile of thirty-six men was exhausted and only
two jurors accepted. The majority were ex-
cused because they had formed a decided opinion
of the prisoners guilt. A motion for a change
of venue viii be decided to-day.
A negro named Joe Britt attempted to out
rage a little twelve-year-old white girl, near Wins
low, Texas, early Sunday morning. Britt es-
capped for the time being, but was arrested on
Monday, and identified h. the childs mother.
AT 4 o'clock Tuesday morning a mob of fifteen
ClblA0Ho NEo4tSu oHO OalaooOs0' DHOho OP0H ohC
doors, and shot the negro between the eyes with
a rife, killing him instantly. No arrests.
An a~trocious attempt was made on Sunday
night to murder John Williams and his wife
while they were peacefully asleep in their home,
at Chattanooga, Tenn. They were startled
about 2 a. NJ. by a loud report, and awoke to
find the room full of smoke and the mattress
perforated with slugs. Williams ran to the
door and saw a man rapidly disappearing in the
darkness. He pursued him and saw him drop
his gun, and then lost sight of him. The gun
proved to be the property of a man named Dick
Miller, and he was arrested. Williams cannot
explain why the attempt on his life was made.