The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Ford and Murphy, who are under sentence OF
death, have been respited for thirty days by the
Governor of Louisiana.
Twenty witnesses, who have been summoned
from outside places to attend court at Montreal,
have refused to do so on recount of the small
pox
James Rice. formerly of Ithaca N Y, cut his
throat from ear to ear in the CananGaigua Jail,
on Tuesday, and bled to death. He was under
arrest for burglary.
Matthew Smith, of Etroy, Wis, stepped from
train at Ashtabula o., while it was standing
on bridge on Tuesday night He fell 100 feet
and was instantly killed.
Governor Hill, of New York, has appointed
Alton b. Parker, of Kingston, justice of the
Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of George Westbrook.
The new cremation furnace on Long Island
was privately tested on Tuesday, the carcass of
a sheep being used. The result has not been
made public, but it is known that it was not en-
tirely satisfactory.
drill shed, at Montreal, yesterday, the scaffold-
ing gave way. Two of the men were killed in
stantly. A third died shortly after, and the
other two are not expected to live.
Capt M. A. Mcguire, wholesale trunk dealer
at Cincinnati, was drowned in the Tennessee
river, near Coulterville, Tenn, while duck hunt
ing He was drowned while trying to a
colored boy who was with him, when the boat
capsized.
The coroner's jury in the case of Mrs. Pratt
who was killed In the accident on the West Shore
railroad near Little Falls on Monday, rendered q
verdict charging the railroad with gross negi-
gence in not having provided culvert at the
place of the accident
Petitions are in circulationto abolish the Brook
lyn postOfice a separate Office and to place it
under the jurisdiction of the New York Office
They said to have received but few sigma
tr1ro in lxyyn V4v1x
ject is more favorably received.
On Dec. IL and II a celebration will be held
in Philadelphia, under the auspices of the His
torcal Society of Pennsylvania 10 commemor-
ate the two hundredth anniversary of the intro
duction of the art of printing into the middle
colonies OF North America, to which will be in
vited, from other cities, representatives of all
branches of the craft.
The seventh annual State fair of the North
Carolina Industrial Association (coloredl was
opened at Raleigh, yesterday by Governor
Scales. Hon. Montford MCGEE, State Commits
hearers to acquire land, and assured them of the
earnest sympathy and constant aid, in all ways
OF the white people of the entire State.
While excavating for a building in the Four
teenth ward of Brooklyn on Tuesday the work
men unearthed eighteen human skulls within a
small area and only fourteen inches from the
surface. There is considerable excitement there
about, as nobody can explain the mystery. The
owner of the property has been in possession
thirteen years, and lie says it has never yet been
built upon.
Singer. Nirnck & Co., of Pittsburg on Tues
day filed bill against Henry T. Steele an at
torney of Chicago, asking for an accounting
The company had claim for So, 600 against N.
s. Boulton, of Chicago, for steel supplied him.
Henry q. Steele was given the account to col
lect He partly collected the claim, RENTING
81, lib to Singer Co. and the suit is brought to
recover the remainder.
Sixty students of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity, at Delaware, recently attended the
opera-house to witness a production of Richard
III by Fred Warde. They did so in violation of
rule Of the institution. Yesterday nine
students were suspended for the remainder of
the term. the other fifty one being compelled to
sign an agreement not to repeat the offense
There is said to be great indignation among the
pupils but the faculty are firm in their determi-
nation to enforce the rule.