The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-21
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Joseph s. Warrington, of Warrington g. Co.,
Of Philadelphia, has assigned.
The annual national convention of wool grow
ers will be held in st. Louis next week.
/ The Senate committee on interstate commerce
began its sittings in New York yesterday.
Adjutantgener J. S. Farnsworth has as
sumed control of the B. g M. Telegraph Compa-
ny, having qualified as its receiver.
John P. Kinney the embezzling postmaster
of Steeton Pa, has been sentenced to six
months imprisonment, with fine of 800.
A general strike on the Eastern division Of
the Canadian Pacific railroad has been fixed FOR
Monday next Unpaid wages cause the trouble.
A. Bernardine, clerk in the bank of Montreal,
has, it is said, left for parts unknown, after de-
frauding the bank. The amount is not given.
A large number of representative breeders of
Holstein cattle, in Illinois, in session at Chi
cago. second meeting is proposed to be held
at Elgin, on June Ia.
The bark Wyoming, arrived at Halifax. from
London, reports seeing in latitude 55o longitude
25o. vessel bottom up, supposed to be the
Alexandria, of Glasgow.
The report of the expert on the affairs of the
Weetamoe mill, at Fall River, Mass, shows
John Baisdell the absconding book-keeper, to
be a defaulter in $44, 600
The argument on the motion for the appoint
ment of a receiver for the Toledo, Peoria s.
Western road, at the suit of Brown e Potter is
in progress before Judges Gresham and Blodgett
at Chicago.
The report recently telegraphed over the
country OF resistance by the Mormons at Paris,
| idaho, to the United States officers is now en-
| phatcally denied 1t is said no resistance what
ever, was made.
The scaffoldng of the new postofice building
Baltimore. fell yesterday with some men upon
| it. John Rogers, a bricklayef, was killed, and
| the others seriously, if not fatally hurt The
| fail was seventy feet
C1aroYsca Carearfar AZ prov;dor.o ID
/ has made a personal assignment to Horatio A.
| Hunt, cashier of the American National Bank
| The liabilities are reported to amount to 49,
| GOO The assets are small:
| In quarrel yesterday, at Bradford, Pa,
| Robert Lane was fatally stabbed bv George
| Nature. The fight was the result of long
standing. grudge Nature surrendered himself
| and was locked up.
| Mrs. Madison Lewis, a colored woman Twins
at Long Island City, went to call on a neighbor
| leaving six-month's-old baby in charge Of hel
son, six years old, and daughter four years old
| On her return she found the little girl had cut
| the baby's face with butcher.knfe in frightfr
manner The surgeon who was called to attend
the case says the child may recover, but will be
| horribly dishgured.
| The ship Alert will sail next week from Hall
| fax with men to reieve those now on duty as
meteorological observers at the posts established
| on the shores of Hudson bay and straits by the
Dominion government. The men now on duty
| have been at their posts for one year. Capt.
William Adams, famous Dundee whaler, who
| has spent third of century in navigating
| Arctic waters, will accompany the expedition in
| the interest of the Winnipeg d Hudson Bay Rail-
| road and Navigation Company, to examine and
report upon the feasibility and practicability OF
| the proposed route.
In New York early yesterday morning a
| Frenchman named Louis Francis murdered his
| mistress, Selma Fehat, and placing the body in
bag started out to carry it to the river. He
was met by policeman, who stopped him, and
on ascertaining the character Of his burden
took him to the station house. Francis claimed
| that his wife had died natural death, and that
he intended to cast the body into the river be-
cause he was too poor to bury it in the regular
way. The body, however, bore unmistakable
| evidence that the woman had been brutally
| murdered Francis admitted having had q
quarrel with her on account of her having lost a
valuable dog which he had picked up, and also
on account OF finding her in company with
another man. Both Francis and the murdered
woman were persons above the average in intel
| ligence and refinement of the people in the
| neighborhood where they lived.