The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Mr.. Schwartz, of Chicago. owner of the trotter
Charles Hogan and other horses, yesterday pur-
chased Oliver K. the winner of the $40, 900 spe
cial-stake race at Hartford The price paid was
SIT, 500.
Jerome r. Hurd a farmer living in Genesee
county, Michigan, was killed. yesterday. by the
accidental explosion of dynamite cartridges he
was carrying in basket. His limbs and neck
were broken. and his body horribly mutilated
There was a shortage in the supply of natural
gas in some parts of Pittsburg yesterday, and
several factories SUSPENDED operations Some
people attribute the decrease in the flow to the
earthquake, and officials of the companies are
investigating.
The schooner James A. Garfield, from the
Grand Banks reports that on Aug. % Isaac
Green and Robert Bennett, two OF the crew,
were lost by the capsizing of their dory while
attending to their travis. They were natives of
Sweden, and were unmarried.
At Columbus, suit was filed in the Common
Pleas Court, yesterday, by E. S. Niswager
against John Mcbride, Democratic nominee for
Secretary Of State. asking $4,000 damages. al
leging that Mcbride has alenated the affections
of his wife. Mcbride, in interview, denied
the charge
The horses of nearly every street-car line in
Cleveland are affected with 'pink-eve" On sew
eral roads new running schedules were made out
yesterday, and fewer cars and slower time was
the result. One line has sixty-five sick horses in
the stables, and the epidemic, it is feared will
be general.
Frank Patterson an opera house manager,
who was convicted of forgery and has been
fined in the Monmouth county, New Jersey. Jail
for two years, was released yesterday on So. 600
bail, it having beer decided by the Supreme
Court that the county court before which Pat
terson was tried was illegally constituted.
On the farm of Rutger Vanderburgh in the
town of North Green Bush, three miles north of
Bath, N. Y. the boiler of steam thrashing-
machine exploded and caused the death of David
Phillips. the owner and engineer, and of Archie
Hankle, of Bath. Merte Deforest, hoy,
ceived fatal injuries, and two farm laborers,
named Livingston and Rutger Vanderburgh.
were more or less hurt
Charlotte, Mich, is somewhat stirred up over
the report that genuine sea monster abounds
in the waters ten miles south of that city. The
monster, it is claimed by the habitues of the
vicinity. raises out of the water on moonlight
nights to the height of ten feet. aud then disap-
pears. Its body is said to be about the size of
stoveppe, and its head to resemble that of SER
rsEt party is being organized and will prob
ably visit the lake soon to investigate.
Jimmy" Carroll, the notorious bank robber,
who escaped from his captors by jumping from
train in East St Louis, and who was subse-
quently recaptured, was taken yesterday by two
deputy sheriffs to Galesburg. Before placing
him on the train he was heavily shackled, hand
and foot, to prevent recurrence of another
break for liberty. A large crowd gathered at
the station to the trio off. Hughes who
was suspected of aiding in CAROLS escape was
released, as no case coulC be made out against
him,