The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

Charles Joel was shot and killed on Sunday.
at Poplar Bluffs, Ark, by William Robertson.
The cathedral erected by Mrs. A. T. Stewart
at Garden City. L. l., was consecrated yester-
day.
The Manufacturers Fire and Marine Insurance
Company of Boston. voted, yesterday, to re-
insure its risks and discontinue business.
George Green, a farmer. living near Elkhorn,
Wis, and one of Walworth countys earliest set
tiers, was killed by lightning yesterday after
noon.
By the explosion of a soda fountain at Stuck
ey's drug store, at Pittsburg, yesterday after
noon, james Mcconnell, clerk, was fatally
injured
A. darlington. sheriff of Idaho county. Idaho
with posse of three men, shot and killed a
horsethief named Fox, at Lapwai Agency. Fox
was resisting arrest.
Samuel Ely, the ex-banker of Elizabethtown.
Pa. who failed last January. has been arrested
on the charge of embezzling Sc, 900 belonging to
the estate of Edward Sweeny, of which Eby was
one of the executors.
skiff in which were six fishermen. was
swamped in the swells of the Monon gahela river
near Six-mile Ferry at an early hour yesterday
morning. and s. Kunke and j. SINISTER drowned
The others swan ashore.
The funeral of Charles T. Howard principal
owner of the Louisiana lottery. who was killed
by being thrown from horse against tree, was
held at Dobbs Ferry yesterday The remains
left for New Orleans last evening.
The Kappes Furniture Manufacturing Com
pany, of Chicago, was levied upon and closed
Yesterday TO satisfy certain judgments entered
by confession. The liabilities of the company
are stated TO be $4,000; assets not given
Mayor Harrison, Of Chicago, yesterday after
noon, through his police department, issued an
order that all gambling houses not closed on or
after the 9th inst, will be raided by the police,
and their occupants arrested and their contents
destroyed.
The experts are stiTl hard at work on the
books of the suspended Shackamaxon Bank of
Philadelphia. The deeper they delve into the
books the larger grows the deficit, until it
seemed yesterday that it would reach far into
the hundreds of thousands. The bank has de-
cided to make an assignment.
The nineteenth anniversary Of the Universal
Peace Union began yesterday at Philadelphia
The annual report stated that complimentary
letters had been sent to Gladstone and others
relative to the settlement of the Afghan Question
without bloodshed The final session will be
held to-day.
The Ohio live stock commission, created by
the last Legislature, held meeting to-day, and
from Investigations which have been made by
the State Veterinarian, expressed the opinion
that pleur0 pneumonia. which prevailed among
cattle in certain districts last summer, has been
entirely stamped out There has been no out
break of the disease since June last
Charles e. Ackron, brought from Chicago to
Jersey City to answer to fifteen complaints of
forgery, was yesterday held to the grand jury
A welldressed gentleman was in the court room
with loaded revolver. He declined to give his
name but asserted that Ackron had attempted
his daughters ruin, and that he meant to kill
the prisoner in the court failed to hold him.