The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

Robert Carruthers, yesterday signed with the
Browns, st. Louis American Association base
bail team. The salary named in the contract is
So, 900 for the coming season.
By the capszing of small boat in the Allie
gheny river, on Monday night. two men, named
James Brown and VIM. Snyder, were drowned
James Phillips. who was also in the boat was
rescued half frozen.
An authentic report Of the ore mines during
the season of 1885 shows that the upper PENN
sula of Michigan and the Vermiilion iron district
of Minnesota produced 2 AT, All tons of iron
ore, against z, 528 OPS in 1884
A concurrent resolution passed both houses of
the Iowa Legislature yesterday, asking Congress
to place license the sale of butterine and
oleomargarine in order that they may not COM
rete on equal footing with pure dairy products.
At Douglastown, n B., yesterday, Annie
Ramsey aged seven years, while coasting, slid
into the river. Her brother Robert, aged nine
years, and Harry Hutchinson, IN trying to save
her. were also carried into the river. All three
were drowned.
William Smith and Bernie Anselm, young
men of Plaquemines, La. had quarrel yester-
day and undertook to settle it by fighting aeduel
with pistols. Eight shots we're fired Smith
received four wounds, none of them necessarily
dangerous. Ansem escaped unhurt.
Thomas M. Turner, who has been on trial at
Kansas City for some days. in the Criminal
Court, charged with numbering Mrs. John Con-
way and her daughter Katie. four months ago,
was acquitted yesterday, the court ordering the
jury to return verdict of acquittal.
A dispatch from Akron, O., says that the
bride elect of Thomas A. Edison, the inventor,
is Miss Nina Miller. second daughter of Hon.
Lewis Miller, wealthy manufacturer of that
place, and president of the Chautauoua Assem-
bly,. The wedding is appointed for Feb. "a.
The headless man mystery, at Nashville
Tenn, was solved yesterday by the full confess
sion of one of the parties charged with the muir
der, the subsequent discovery of the head in Ben
Browns yard and the complete Identification of
the remains as those of Frank Arnold. Three
other persons implicated were arrested on bench
warrants and placed in Jail. Ben Brown has not
yet been caught.
Early on Monday morning, Boiling Parker q
respectable farmer of Nansemond county, Vir-
ginia. made deadly assault with an ak upon
his wife and sister, The latter was instantly
killed and his wife fatally wounded. Parker
says he had quarrel with his wife or sister.
him to the deed He was lodged in Jail He is
believed to have been insane.
The St. Clair sisters-Rose, aged twenty-four,
and Nellie, aged twenty three-both inmates of
st. Louis house of ill-repute. attempted suicide
by taking the contents of four bottle of
laudanum. Prior to taking the drug they sat
down in their room. and each wrote two letters
to the other inmates of the house. giving in
struct;ons what to do with their remains after
death. A timely discovery by one Of their COM
panions of the house caused a physician to APP
pear. He applied the usual remedies. but up to
yesterday morning the girls were still in crit
ical condition. The two patients are from Hick-
man. XIV.