The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-31
~TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Extensive preparations are being made in New
York for the eighth national convention of the
American Agricultural and Dairy Association,
which is to be held in that city on the 9Th and
9th of February next.
At Burnside. Ky, Lee Nelson. aged twenty
three. whipped severely a little son of Ben
Chestnut Ed Chestnut, an older brother, hear
ing. of it, hunted up Nelson s6d pounded him
with a club until his head was reduced to a
jelly. Nelson cannot live.
Shortly after II o'clock last night. two men
walked into the back room of the confectionery
of o. Zepin, on Fountain square, Cincinnati.
and when the proprietor appeared, presented
pistols at his head and robbed him of $3.50,
They then bound, gagged and left him and es-
capped.
The brewers of Milwaukee are highly indic-
nant at the report sent out from Sioux City that
they had contributed S 5000 toward defending
Arensdorff, the alleged murderer of Rev. Mr..
Haddock. They will unite in the publication of a
card denouncing the story as a malicious fabri-
cation.
VIM. Hutton. a wealthy farmer of Fillmore
county, Minnesota, went to New York, a few
days ago. with his brother, to take passage for
Scotland, their native place. While wandering
around the city, seeing the sights, Hutton fell in
with sharpers, who induced him to play cards,
when they cheated him out of 81, 600 and then
decamped.
Joseph w. Reinhart, assistant passenger agent
of the Lake Shore railroad, resigned his position
yesterday, and, it is said, has received an offer
from the Richmond & Danville railroad 10 be-
come its comptroller, which re has accepted.
Mr.. Reinhart will shortly leave for Washington,
his future headquarters, and will enter upon his
duties Jan. 5.
Cluverius, the condemned murderer of Fannie
Lillian Madison, has sent out circulars to mem
bers of the General Assembly for the purpose of
getting them To sign a petition asking the Gov
ernor to grant HIM a reprieve until they meet
When the Legislature meets Cluverius hopes
that they will recommend the Governor to com
mute his sentence to life imprisonment.
At the new armory building at Nanticoke,
Pa, yesterday, a scaffold. upon which five men
were at work, gave way. and the men were pre-
~cipitated to the ground below. All were terribly
cut and bruised. John Oswell, a carpenter, had
both legs broken and was injured about the
head to such an extent that it is almost impos-
sible for him to survive during the night.
Isaac Bicket, an aged farmer, residing near
Anamosa, Col. refused his nineteen -year-old son
a dollar, which the boy asked to spend at a New
Years party. The father, in a passion, attempt.
ed to chastise his son, but was slain by a single
blow on the head from a heavy stick in the
young mans hands. The parricide has been ar
rested.
Peter Ungebueheler, the young private watch
man, who is alleged to have killed Nick Pfaffen-
berger, on Christmas morning, in Cincinnati,
was arraigned in the police court yesterday ON
a charge of manslaughter. His four compan-
ions were held as witnesses under 81 200 bail.
The case was laid over until Jan. 4. and Unge-
bueheler's bond fixed at So, 900. He pleaded not
guilty.
Theodore Richards, manager of a hack line in
Louisville, KY, was fatally stabbed yesterday
by Nick Burns, a one-armed man. Burns was
drunk. and Richards was seeing him home in a
carriage. When Burns's house was reached
Richards stepped off the hack, and just as he
did so Burns stabbed him with a fve-inch clasp
knife. The men were friends, and there Is no
apparent motive for the crime. Richards is dy-
ing.
There was a lively scene in the lower board OF
the Louisville City Council last night. During
an animated discussion Mr.. Vint Bradas, mem
Der from the First ward, called DR.. Carey Black:
burn, president of the board. a liar. DIR. Black.
burn attacked Mr. Bradas, striking him three or
four blows with his fist, knocking the First
ward Scion out in one round. DR.. Blackburn is
a son of ex-Governor Blackburn, AID Mr.. Bradas
q y wholesale merchant.