The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-24
TELEGRAPHTC BREVITIES.

Charles Lund. while intoxicated, fell into q
water ditch in the suburbs of Louisville, yester-
day afternoon and was drowned.
Thomas Reese, coal miner, was killed by
fall of rock in the mine where he was at work,
near Akron, Ohio. yesterday.
The Burnet House at Cincinnati was reopened
yesterday, after being closed several months for
the purpose of alteration and enlargement
Dick Lee, colored, of Washington, D. c., last
night shot and instantly killed his wife. He is a
notorious character. He has not yet been ar
rested
Plymouth, Wis, dispatch chronicles the
failure of Otto Pullman, prominent miller
and grain dealer. Liabilities, 500 0O0 nominal
assets, $4,000
AT the Oseeoa mire. near Calumet Nj ieh. on
Sunday, William j. Stevens shot and killed
Frank Sanders. A coroner's jury declared the
shooting accidental
Mrs. d. Jacob, millinery dealer of Louisville,
made assignment yesterday. Liabilities,
ST. 800: assets unknown. Cincinnati firms are
the principal creditors.
At Wiliamton, Mich. on Saturday Willie
Demund blew off both his thumbs and fingers
with dynamite. The fright caused his grand
mother to fall dead from heart disease.
Mr.. Norqueway, Premier of Manitoba, has
received, through the Secretary of State, by an
order in council, a confederation medal in recog-
milton OF valuable services rendered by him to
Canada.
On Saturday night G. A. Thorpe, of Perry
Vile, and j. White, of Frenchtown, took rooms
at a hotel in Baltimore, and, upon retiring blew
out the gas About noon yesterday the room
was entered by the hotel people, and both men
were found dead from suffocation.
At lola. Kan. yesterday j. M. Downing shot
and killed one Earl, respected citizen on the
street. Downing fled, but captured and
placed in Jail. His reputation is bad, and feeling
against him runs high. The difficulty grew out
of an attempt on his part to ruin Earls fifteen
year-old daughter.
At Brooklyn. N. Y, yesterday, Joseph Grob-
lewski was sentenced to be hanged on February
10 next for the murder of mis- second wife
He was also suspected Of having murdered his
first wife In rambling speech he said that
girl named Winfred Hanley committed the deed
and Ibid it at his door.
A deputy United States marshal and United
States commissioner have been arrested by the
police Of Salt Lake City, charged with lewd con-
duct. 1t is claimed that the Mormons have put
up jobs against the arrested parties out of re
verge for the vigorous prosecution of the
Saints by the federal officials.
The Sourmash Distilling Company, of Owens
boro, KY, filed a bill in equity in the United
States Circuit Court at Cincinnati, yesterday,
against the Standard Distilling Company of Gin
clnnati. for injunction and $50, 900 damages. The
complaint is that the defendants have been
placing the COMPLIMENTS trade mark on inferior
whisky, and selling it for superior and we'll
known article made by the complainant.
George Stevenson, the mulatto who shot c.
w. Cutler, white man, dead, near Fonda, Ia
on the 18th inst, hanged himself in his cell in
the Fort Dodge Jail, on Sunday. Stevenson was
tenant of Cutler, who boarded in Stevensons
family. Stevenson charged Cutler with making
indecent proposals to Mrs. Stevenson and or
dered him from the house. A row followed in
which Stevenson seized gun and shot Cutler
The order of the Canadian Governments Coun-
Gil declining to interfere with the sentence
passed upon the Battleford Indians condemned
to be hanged on the 9th inst, has been with
held in the cases of the two men named Charlie
bois and Dressyman, in order that an inquiry
may be made as to the alleged extenuatng cir
cumstances. These men killed an old squaw in
the belief that she was ''windigo," or witch
They were not in any way connected with the
rebellion.