The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

1t is announced that James G. Blaine ir has
! secured position on the staff of the Pittsburg
| Times.
| DR.. James G. Perkins, prominent young man
of an old Milwaukee family fatally shot himself
yesterday morning. 1t is believed he was tenn
porarily insane.
The farmers of several counties in Massachu-
sets are com bining against the Knights of La
bor whom they charge with melting strikes dur
ing harvest time
DR.. James S, Perkins. prominent dentist of
Detroit. committed suicide yesterday. by shoot
ing while lying in bed. No cause can be assigned
for the rash act
Lizzie Bowie, with Grimm Al intent, in public
road. Monday morning, wa lynched at Florence,
S. c., Tuesday night.
Assistant United States Attorney Dodge, of
Cleveland, has rendered an opinion that prison
officials violate the law when they open letters
addressed to convicts
Four negroes were lynched near DeKalb, Tex
on Monday night. for the murder of a farmer
named George Taafe The murder occurred in
the Indian Territory The negroes were taken
by force from Texas officers
While workmen removing debris from
the recently burned building of the Ware Vim
egar Company, at Cincinnati. YESTERDAY. the
east and west walls FELL fatally injurng John
Lamphier. A half dozen others narrowly es-
capped
On Tuesday night three boys, two sons of
John Lee aged five and six years. respectively,
and son of Robert Pulver, aged six years, were
drowned at Joy, village in Wayne county, New
York. They went on the ice on mill pond and
broke through
The second section of freight tr2ip No. Is, on
the Cleveland g. Pittsburg railroad. ran into the
first section of the same train, near Sumnitvlle,
o., at IL o'clock on Tuesday night, wrecking six
teen cars and both locomotives. The debris
took fire immediately and w antirav
sumed. No person was injured. The loss is
$25 000
Three Hungarans, John Cobhalack, John
Werner and Andrew Kasko, who were living in
drunken sleep upon the track of the Delaware,
Lackawanna 81 Western railroad. near Pittston,
last evening, were struck by a passenger train
and instantly killed Their bodies were fright
fully mangled, portions of their limbs being scat
tered over the track for some distance.
On Thursday last, at Fairchance, Pa, several
pounds of dynamite were discovered in the Office
of the FairchaEce Furnace Company, so ar
ranged in connection with a desk that if the one
accustomed to use 1t had leaned upon it. -eX-
plosion would have followed which would have
caused untold loss of life and property. The
company is at a loss to understand the cause for
the dastardly deed.
Officials of the Grand Trunk nd Canadian
Pacific railways are at Ottawa striving for con-
ceSsions from the government with respect to
the proposed branches to connect with the
American railway system. at Sault Ste. Marie
The former will commence operations at once,
unless prevented by complications with the
Canadian Pacific railway which has located it's
line over the Grand Trunk lines, taking the
same favorable river crossings. 1t is stated that
only one charter will be granted by the Amer
lean authorities for bridge at the Sault, and
this will be controlled by the Grand Trunk
Lively times are expected, as the projected rail-
ways will form an outlet for wheat from the
Vast