The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-17
TELEGRAPIlIC BREVITIES.

The Bell Telephone Company yesterday de-
clared an extra dividend of So per share
Governor Eaton. OF Colorado, has issued a
proclamation raising the quarantine against cat
tie from Missouri. Indiana and Ohio.
So intense is the feeling at Stanton. Va.
| against koerner, who murdered Brown, that the
| authorities fearing lynching, have taken Koer-
ner to Richmond for safe keeping
Five Cinnamon were killed yesterday in a
shaft at Wellington coiliery in British Coum-
bla. They were descending, when car top
of the shaft fell and crushed them to death.
Governor Foadly yesterday formally refused
TO commute the sentence OF Frederick Greiner
to imprisonment for life, and the condemned
man will be executed in the county Jail to-day.
DR.. L. l.. Greer. held at Greenville. O.. for
| murder, succeeded in breaking Jail yesterday
No definite clew as to the direction he took is
known but he is supposed to be somewhere in
central Indiana.
teen, employed as door-tender in the Dodson
mine of the Plymouth Coal Company. fell down
the shaft, distance of 600 feet, his body being
crushed into shapeless mass.
Mrs. James Quayle, wife of prominent young
attorney OF Cleveland O.. has been missing since
Wednesday noon. She has ueen in i'll health for
some time, and her friends think she has wan
dered away in a fit of insanity.
By the explosion of an overloaded gun in the
hands of Edward Burnley, at Hazelton Pa. yes
terdav Robert FIGHTER was instantly killed. a
! large piece of the barrel entering his head. An
other companion was SO seriously injured that he
will probably die.
On Thursday night. at Trenton, Mich, sa-
loon keeper named "Jud" Osborn was shot while
ON his way home. The ball entered the back of
the neck and severed the jugular vein, killing
Osborne almost instantly. Ed Flaherty has
been arrested on suspicion.
Leopold Schneider an aged German saloon
kepner a Lancaster. tO dos Ri
Thursday night. by man with whom he quar-
relied. Nobody witnessed the murder. Schmetz-
ers son, who was In a room over the saloon,
heard the two men quarreling
Two children of Mrs. Hamburger residing at
No. 81 Sheriff street, New York, yesterday morn
ing took lighted candle under the bed and set
it or fire. The children rushed from the room,
| and Lena, the seven months old baby, who was
lying on the bed. was burned to death.
VIM. McElfresh, while drunk met Charles
Ohmnes. peaceable German labnrer, near
Utopia, Clermont county, Ohio, on Wedne sday
night, and. without provocation, shot him dead
Ohmnes leaves a widow and three children. Nc
Elfresh arrested, but gives no explanation
of his act.
| Five cars loaded with wheat were ditched on
| the Northern Pacific. five miles east of Aitken,
Mimi. Two men who were stealing ride were
found suffocated in the wheat From letters on
them they are believed to have been John r.
Cocnrane, of Volant, Pa, and Louis Dust of
Champaign, Ill
At ST. Paul. Mimi, man named W. H.
Clarke, with his son, was filling and lighting
gasoline street-lamps from cans in wagon One
can exploded and burned up the horse and wag-
on. Clarke was thrown out of the wagon by the
explosion and seriously burned, and his SON was
badly, if not fatally, burned.
A sensational murder occurred few miles
from Somersville. Ala, on Thursday. Two gem
tlemen named Wesley Harper and James Ed
mundson had fierce quarrel about the division
of a piece of property. Blows followed, and
Harper. being the more powerful of the men,
| seized Edmundson in his arms and deliberately
cut his throat from ear to ear four times. The
murderer was arrested