The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

There were sixteen sunstrokes on Saturday in
New York and Brooklyn, five fatal
A receiver is reported to have been appointed
for the Howe Scale Company, of Rutland, VT.
The company denies it.
Citizens of Mount Sterling, KY, are much ex-
cited over a threatened outbreak between the
white and colored races.
The proprietors of the Volta iron works, at
Apollo Pa, signed the Amagamated scale, and
work will resume to-day.
Four desperate characters attempted to break
jail at Franklin, KY, but their efforts were
thwarted by the jailers vigilance.
Miss Alice M. Wells, of Boston, viewing the
machinery in a Chicago grain elevator, was
caught and instantly crushed to DEATH
Chas c. Hemmick, clerk in the mailing de-
partment of the Baltimore postoffice, has been
arrested, charged with purloining letters.
The safe in George Hooters saloon No. $50
Eastern avenue, Cincinnati, was broken open by
burglars during Friday night, and 81, 800 stolen.
The postoffce box of Oliver Bros. & Phillips,
iron manufacturers, Pittsburg, was opened by
duplicate key, and large amount of mail
stolen.
Mrs Rebecca Arbuckle, aged seventy-two and
George w. Hall committed suicide at Maysville,
Ky. Both are believed to have been temporarily
insane
Miss Augusta Rohrbach daughter of promi
nent merchant of Hagerstown, Nd, committed
suicide. The cause is attributed to mental de-
preston.
Peter Mccormick, wealthy resident of
Hunters Point, L. l., was shot and killed yester
day by Patrick Herman, one of his tenants who
kept liquor store, in dispute about rent
Policeman Patrick Casey, who shot Polce-ser-
geant Cumisky dead in the Long Island City sta
ton house, was found guilty of murder IN the
second degree and sent to the State prison for
life.
The time of the college races at New London
is definitely fixed. The Harvard Columbia fresh
men race will come off on Wednesday afternoon
and the Yale Harvard race on Thursday after
noon.
At Montreal the shirt and collar factory of
Shelton Bros. & Co. was destroyed by fire yes
terday morning. The falling walls killed one
man and dangerously wounded another. Loss
heavy.
Bishop Simpsons daughter, Mrs. Weaver
wife of the United States consul-general at vi
emma, was informed some days ago of her
fathers dangerous illness, and is now on her
way home.
man named Moses Soper and his son were
going home from New Sharon, Ia, on Saturday
They had bottle of whisky with them, got
drunk and quarreled, and the son stabbed his
father five times, fatally.
dispatch from Bradford, Pa, says: A fire at
Benezette, Elk county twenty-five miles east of
Dubois Pa, destroyed eleven buildings, princi-
pally dwellings. The cause of the fire was the
explosion OF lamp. Loss, $4O,OoO.
John Deehan and wife, of Philadelphia,
quarreled en- Friday, and she struck him on the
head with pitcher. The quarrel was renewed
On Saturday when Deehan stabbed his wife to
death. Deehan is believed to be insane
Isaac B. Sharp, of Wyandotte, Kan. com
mitted suicide at his home on Saturday by
shooting himself through the head Ill-health
was the cause. The deceased was formerly
circuit judge and prominent in Kansas politics.
At Leon, Mex, OF Friday night, the Wells &
Fargo express, returning from the depot, was
fired upon by fifteen masked men, VINO sprang
from side street in the central part of the city.
The comrany's agent. an American. escaped un-
hurt The Mexican driver was killed. and $500
stolen.