The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-18
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Officer Chubb, of Eau Claire, Wis. was fatally
shot, yesterday by drunken man whom he was
trying to arrest
A farmer named Upsold living six miles from
CheteE, Wis. yesterday cut his wifes throat
from ear to ear and then hanged himself with a
bed cord. Domestic infelicity was the cause.
Postoffice Inspector Pulcifer yesterday re-
moved the postmaster at Maud, Kineman county,
Kansas, and turned the Office over to his bonds
men. on account of the postmaster's failure to
remit balance due the government.
George III. Prescott, aged forty-fve, confden-
tial clerk for Wise & Melauder, of Boston, agents
for the Chicago & Northwestern railroad in that
city, has disappeared, after borrowing several
thousand dollars from various business acquaint-
ances
At Newark. o., yesterday Joseph Jefferson
aged about Fifteen years, jumped on Panhandle
freight train which was running miles an
hour. He fell between the cars and was almost
instantly killed. His body was cut almost en-
tirely in two, and his left arm and leg cut off,
James Heihier, an old soldier, residing at
Hutchinson, Kas., found yesterday in his
bed, with his throat cut and his head nearly
haggled off. He lived alone, and is supposed to
have committed suicide by using an old butcher
knife. He had probably been dead several days
Cause unknown.
MRS. Della Parnell, on Thursday took passage
for Queenstown in the steamer Celtic. Only her
most intimate friends were on the dock to bid
seventy-two years of age on the 18th of Februa-
ry next, showed scarcely trace of her severe
illness of last winter.
John Judge, wellto-do man, seventy years
of age and an old resident of Cory, Pa, was in
stantly killed last night. He was crossing the
railroad track in the west part of the city, when
freight engine, hacking up, struck him, COM
pletely cutting his head off, badly mutilating his
body and dragging it for some distance.
Mrs. Marian Godfrey. wife of Rufus Godfrey,
a wealthy farmer residing near Erie Pa, left
her husbands side on Wednesday, and on Thurs
day morning was found at the bottom of the
Nickel-plate bridge, near by. The unfortunate
woman had thrown herself over a precipice a
distance of $50 feet, and was dashed to death.
The attorney for p. J. Nolan. Frank Young,
Oscar Harrom and Frederick Hundhouse,
Knights of Labor, recently acquitted, at ST.
Louis, Of the charge of conspiracy against the
Missouri Pacific Railway Company during the
strike last spring upon that system, is about to
file damage suits, aggregating in all $50, 600,
against the company for malicious prosecution.
The river steamer G. C. Carroll, owned by
Capt d. HI. Silver, of ST. Louis, bound for St.
Louis from Kansas City, struck snag, Wednes-
day night at Chapman's Landing. and sunk. She
cannot be raised and will probably prove total
loss. She was valued at SIS 600; insured for $40,
600 in New Orleans companies. She carried one
thousand sacks Of grain, which fully insured.
Douglass Smith, clerk in the auditors Office
at the New York custom house, has been &C.
cused of embezzlement His duty was to re-
ceive all moneys from duties books at the
postofice. Lately, Collector Magone discovered
of Smith. The thefts extend back through the
terms of Collectors Hedden and Robertson.
Fuller investigation may show the amount to
exceed 81, 900.