The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-01
T~ELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

ldlly IOpOESCQ d ~uoubf6dl y II 1nuFSQdy.
William Harper was hanged at Paragould, Ark,
yesterday, for the murder of John Sellers.
The public schools at Mt. Vernon, O., have been
closed on account of the prevalence of diphtheria.
The owners of the barge Eureka, twice reported lost
on the upper lakes, are still confident of her safety.
The sales at the Kansas City fat-stock show, yester-
sold.
A freight train on the vandalia was wrecked at
Rosedale on Thursday, in which several cars were
demolished.
Theodore Smith, of Morristown, N. j., who shot his
father. has been acquitted on the ground that he acted
in self-defense.
Jesse w. Jones, the young Texas stage robber,
pleaded guilty in court YESTERDAY, and was given ten
years in prison.
Five young women and one young man were badly
scalded, yesterday, in a New York laundry, by the
bursting OF a steam drum.
The Illinois Central managers at Chicago have
acceded to the demands of the stock yards switch
men, who struck on Thursday.
Mrs. notwithstanding Hulskamp and Louise Mon
tague are both to appear IN "Amorita, the next opera
to be brought out at the New York Casino.
There is no marked change in the condition of Cook,
the Philadelphia newspaper man, whose skull was
cracked with a Ratchet by the negro ~janitor.
The single-scull race between Gaudauer and Hamm
was rowed at Creve Coeur lake on Friday. in private.
Gaudauer won by a length and a half, in 2O:1O.
Wayne Parks, deputy sheriff of Colorado county,
Texas, was assassinated or Thursday night by an I'M
known person, who fred upon him from an ambush.
VIM. B.. ellis, alias VIM. Gooch. who swindled his
employers, in London out of $l50, 600, by means of
a series of ~forgeries, will be taken back to England.
The grocery stock of G. d. Smith & Co., at s.,
Joseph, No.. was damaged by fire and water last
600.
The railway freight business at Toronto shows a
slight increase for the August and September bust
ness over that for the corresponding months last
year.
A pocket-book, which was stolen from W. B. Har-
dee, at Charlottesville, two months ago, was found
this week in a stable at Rockville. No papers were
missing.
d. G. and w. P. Johnston, of Cincinnati, agents of
the Louisiana Lottery Company. were yesterday con-
victed of using the mails for distributing lottery adj
vertisements.
The prostration of business in Montreal is sending
emigrants from that city into New England in such
numbers as to cause considerable anxiety as to the Ill
innate consequences.
Counterfeit two-dollar bills of Dominion currency
are in circulation IN Montreal, bearing date of June
1S, 1873, and payable at Toronto. The work on
them is cleverly executed.
The body of James Dole, son of a prominent citizen
OF Chicago, was found in the Chicago river yesterday.
He had suffered from acute dyspepsia, and it is
thought he committed suicide.
Fl. S. Bacon, who has successfully swindled many
farmers in Ohio and Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to a
charge of forgery, at Cleveland, yesterday. and was
sentenced to a term of seven years in prison.
George Miller was hanged at Grand Forks, d. IT,,
Yesterday Esx ~ 4 for sra the N murder ,ra 5s Of the tn r, wife f and d. child @h Of
was the first legal execution in north Dakota.
The trial of Burras, the man who shot Mrs. Good
and Miss Walters at Chicago, has been postponed ten
days to await the result of the injuries sustained by
his victims. Their condition is very pre- arious.
Mrs. Ora Allen was taken to the hospital in Cleve-
land on Wednesday,, her jaw having been broken by a
blow from her husband: She died yesterday, and
Allen has been held on a charge of manslaughter.
The body of John Burrette, a ffteen-year-old boy,
one of the victims of the East Saginaw disaster, was
recovered yesterday. This makes the fourth body re-
covered, and there are two or three persons yet miss
ing.
Attachment suits to the amount of $47.0 900 were
commenced at Chicago yesterday morning against
Barber, Hartman & Co.. dry goods dealers at $50
State street. The sheriff levied upon the stock of the
firm.
Professor P. W. Steele, principal of a college at
Lynchburg, Va, while en- route East last night, was
decoysd from ,sIon a train j At W pittsburg by ya a w ss i
and then robbed of $3O0in cash and jewelry.
Recently the Buffalo Lubricating Oil Company OBJ
tanned Judgment against the officers, in that city, of
the Standard Oil Company, on a charge of conspiracy.
The latter entered q demurrer on technicalities and
the court has overruled the motion as frivolous.
Wong TIA Vim, the new Chinese Consul at New
York, was given a twelve-hours' dinner by his fellow
countrvmen. In an address he referred to the Wyo-
ming massacre. and expressed the belief that the Amer
lean government would see justice done in the matter.
Otto Funk, who was arrested in Chicago for steal
ing books from the public library, and subsequently,
underwent trial on a charge of attempting to b ow up
the university building, when he was released and
sent to the insane asylum, from which he afterwards
escaped, committed suicide yesterday at Cam bridge.
Since the repeal by Congress of the occupations tax,
in 1867, the pilots at Pittsburg have been paying $40
for original license and the same sum for each re-
newal. They have organized a movement to secure
the repayment to them by the government of the
moneys so paid, which will aggregate about
100000.
Investigation into the affairs of the Iowa division of
tho Illinois Central Railroad Company al Waterloo,
Ia, discloses the fact that the agent there has sys-
tematically, for a number of years. delivered to a local
dealer carloads of coal intended for the use of the
| company. IL is estimated that the aggregate of the
stealings is sos, 600. The affair will probably be
compromised.
DR.. J. L. M. Curry. the new minister to Austria,
was rendered D banquet by citizens of Richmond,
| which he declined, but in his reply to the committee,
wrote: ION another theater it viii be my duty and
privilege to guard American honor and interests, and
to show that they are as safe in the hands of a
Southern as they would be in the hands of one from
any other portion of the Union"