The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.


Anthony Seiffert, tobacco dealer Detroit has
failed. Liabilities, $4,000.
Since the smallpox epidemic broke out in
Montreal IS, 900 persons have been vaccinated
The cable connecting Nantucket Island with
Marthas Vineyard was landed at noon yesterday.
1t is learned at ST. Paul that the Northern
Pacific will build a broad-gauge branch to
Butte.
There were twenty-six new cases of smallpox
reported on Wednesday at Montreal, ana two at
Toronto.
The boiler of a steam thresher, farm near
Mcpherson, Kan, exploded yesterday, killing
the fireman, a young man named Lee
The exercises of the Inauguration of Charles
Kendall Adams. president of Cornell University,
were4successfully carried out yesterday
The town of Terre Bonnie, Que, is in a state OF
stupor, on account of the execution of Riel. Ev-
cry store is closed, and Grape hangs upon every
door.
Frank H. Alden, dealer in hats, caps and furs,
Cincinnati has made an assignment Liablli-
ties. 5OOO assets. $4,000; secured Credits
SO, 500.
The Halifax Board of Health has proclaimed
quarantine against the Charottetown and
Suris, p E. l.. and Sidney districts, as infected
with smallpox.
Capt f. S. Hamilton is under arrest at Jersey
City, n. j. charged with embezzling 81, 900 from
firm of fireworks manufacturers for whom he
was book-keeper.
Officer William Lawrence through the heart, at
Bath, Me-, on the night of Sept. g. 1883, and will
be hanged to-day for the crime
Kennon Hill, grocers, Of Columbus, Ga.
and Salem, Ala, made an assignment yesterday
Assets. $50. 900; liabilities, 1000 There are
preferred creditors to the amount of sos, 900,
In the trial of Joseph Gableswisky, of Brook
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arsenic and powdered glass, the jury tonight re-
turned verdict Of murder in the first degree.
Charles Mclean and Patrick Boyle, both of
whom were burned on Wednesday at the fire at
the works of the Philadelphia fabrication Com
pany. died yesterday afternoon from their in
juries
The first special freight shipm Mt of Manitoba
wheat and flour direct from Winnipeg over the
Canadian Pacific Railroad. has arrived at Mon
treal, having made the journey in a little over
five days
Rev. Dr. Smith, of Hartford, Conn, who was
on Wednesday, elected bishop of the diocese of
Easton. has asked for and been granted two
weeks in which to consider whether or not he
Will accept the honor conferred upon him.
George W. Pomeroy, book agent of Chicago,
died at Easton, Pa, on Wednesday night from
the effects of fight with a bartender named
Linford Keller one night in October last. He
has suffered from hemorrhages ever since
Fire occurred at Hebron, Neb.. before day
light. yesterday morning, burning twenty shall
frame houses, and involving loss of SIS, 900.
with light insurance. The postoffice and Journal
buildings were destroyed. The letter mail and
postofice records were saved
A Bismarck special to the Pioneer Press says:
man named Edward Vandelink, who arrived
there in October last, registering from ST. Paul,
was arrested Yesterday by the chief of police of
Muskegon, Mich charged with murder. He
says he did the killing in self-defense.
T. W. Eek lowered the ten-me professional
tricy Gle record at St Louis, yesterday, in the
presence of number of bicycle experts. His
time was thirty five minutes thirty-two and two
fifth seconds beating the best record, by Harry
Higham, by four minutes. Jack Prince made
the pace.
Owing to the fact that errors were committed
in drafting the indictment against Hon. A S.
Northway, the alleged embezzling president of
the Jefferson (Ohio) National Bank, the United
States District Court for the Northern District
of Ohio, has referred the case to the United
States Supreme Court
The barbed wire manufacturers, in session at
Chicago, accomplished the object of their meet
ing at the concluding session of yesterday when
they agreed to limit the production of 1886 and
to advance prices sharply. The advanse in tho
cost of manufactured wire is alleged to be the
cause melting this action.
Mrs Maria Storey, the first wife of the late
Wilbur F. Storey, of Chicago who was divorced
from him about twenty years ago. was allowed
by Judge FULLY Yesterday to plead as one Of the
defendants in the chaneery suit of Mrs. Eureka
Storey, widow of the deceased against Arson c.
Storey and other heirs for the enforcement of
the last will.
p. Charles Warren, who was arrested at Chi
cago. on charge of embezziing money from an
insurance agency where he was employed: ap-
peared In court yesterday, and on pleading guilty
was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary
n hi lat iC ktnyu 10.
be $1,000, but his employers think when the in
vestigation is finished that it will amount to at
least So, 600.
Near Edgefeld S. c., on Wednesday. Edward
Pressly, a farmer over eighty years old and his
two sons, aged respectively thirty five and
twenty-five years, were murdered by man
named r. l. Jones. the father and older son
being shot and the younger son hacked to pieces
with knife. The murderer surrendered himself
to the sheriff and claims that he was driven to
desperation by the impositions of the Presslys
A special from Chattanooga, Tenn, saws: "A
'hegira of Mormon converts, from the South to
Utah, occurred on Wednesday. The converts
have been gathering from Georgia, Alabama
southern Virginia, North Carolina and east Ten
nessee The party numbered about hun
dred, and left in charge Of Elder John Morgan,
who has charge of the Southern headquarters.
The converts are represen tatives of the poorest
and most ignorant class of people,"
The suit by Grove, the notorious body snatch
err of Washington, against DR.. Tyler. demon
strator of the Georgetown Medical College. to
recover the balance on account for ''anatonli-
cal material furnished the college, was decided
in favor of the defendant yesterday. Grove
was asked whether he the owner of the
anatomical material" He refused to answer
and the judge decided that he could not claim
payment for property that he would not swear
was his own.
William Ellwood, the noted burglar, who sue
cessfully worked many Western cities, and who
was recently taken to Toledo, o.. from New
York. and committed to the county JAIL has beer
discovered eating soap. His fellow prisoners say
that he has eaten two cakes day for month,
in order to reduce his weight and give him con
sumptive appearance When searched, tobacco
was found in his arm pits. Physicians say that
this will reduce weight. Ellwood is awaiting
trial for burglary and for shooting policeman.
Mr.. Mackin Goes Into Retirement
CuIcAno Nov 10 -Josenh G. Maekiu will he