The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Maud S. made an attempt to lower her record
at Narragansett Park. yesterday, but succeeded
only in making mile in 2:13.
Secretary Manning met party of New York
brokers in that city yesterday and gave them
to understand the administration was unit in
the desire to stop the coinage of silver dollars.
Patrick Hartnett the wife-murderer, of Gin.
clnnati, who was to have been hung between
and o'clock this morning. was last night re-
spited by Governor Hoady to Sept. 30.
Commissioner Atkins, superintendent of the
Indian schools Oberley and E. S. Woag, chief
of the finance division of the Indian bureau,
have gone to New York to inspect Indian sup.
plies to be delivered in that city
Internal Revenue Collector Troup of Con
nectieut, yesterday informed Deputy Collector
Kelsey and United States Gauger Boughton. all
of Bridgeport, that he would be pleased to
accept their designations, to take effect Octo-
Der l.
Messrs. Thomas and Benham members of the
New York Produce Exchange, and in the -four
grain. butter and cheese business, were posted
yesterday afternoon as unable to meet their
contracts 1t is believed that their liabilities
will be small.
Patrick Hartnett, of Cincinnati wife muir
derer, will be executed at the Ohio penitentiary
about A. M. to-day. He spent quiet night
and is totally indifferent to his fate, assisting in
the preparations for his execution as if it was
an ordinary business transaction.
The annual camp-meeting of the New England
conference of Seventh-day Adventsts, near
Worcester, Mass, has five family tents, besides
several large assembly tents. Twenty-one
churches are represented The conference will
raise funds for a church to be erected in Wor
cester.
The arguments in the suit of the Western
Union Telegraph Company against the Balti
more & Ohio Telegraph Company, to restrain
the latter from using the duplex system of tee-
graphy. were continued Yesterday in the United
States Circuit Court at New York. They will
probably be finished to-day.
W.B Smell, formerly a business man of
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, was found in the house of
Malvina Hiser courtesan, in Metcalf county,
Kentucky, with his throat cut, and horribly
gashed about the head and body. The Hiser
woman. who was his mistress, has been arrested
and charged with the crime.
A leading topic of interest at Panama at pres
emit is the continued arrival of Pacific mail
steamers without the customary New York and
San Francisco mails, which causes much incon-
venience in the commercial community. New
York mails of the dates of the 1st and 10th inst.
came via Jamaica by royal mail steamer
The examination of candidates for appoint
ment as cadets in the marine service has been
concluded Four cen candidates passed, but as
there are only seven vacancies to be filed it was
decided to appoint the seven who attained the
highest average in the examination. The names
of the successful candidates are John B. Hull,
of Virginia; Stanley M. Landrey, of Indiana;
Preston II. Uberroth. of Pennsylvania Ellis
worth P. Bertholf. of New York; Gordon HI.
Wilcox, of Pennsylvania; Richard O. Crisp, of
Maryland; William d. Jacobs, of Maryland