The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.


nominated Oscar Lapham for Mayor.
Bishop Alfred A. Curtis was installed at ST.
Peters Procathedral, Wilmington, Del, yester-
day.
The music hall of the University of Virginia
was burned OF Saturday, with most of its con-
tents.
Ross Carey, an old man, was killed at Attca.
N. Y. on Saturday, by the locomotive of freight
train.
A five-year old son of John Connors. of Adrian.
Mich, had both legs cut Oft by freight train
Saturday
The first blizzard of the season struck Fort
Keogh on Saturday night. 1t is showing hard
and growing cold rapidly.
On account of the prevalence of diphtheria at
Ishpeming Mich, the schools have been close
and all public meetings prohibited.
By preconcerted arrangement, seven hun
dred subscribers discontinued their use of tele-
phones in Rochester, n. Y, at noon on Saturday.
The Vermont Legislature will adjourn
Wednesday. making this the shortest session of
that body in twelve years-coveIing only fifty
days.
The Manhattan Athletic Club opened its new
rooms Fifth avenue, New York. on Sata1iay.
large number of distinguished athletes were
present
Two Hebrews, Louis Goodman and Charles
Pfeffer, were killed by a train while crossing the
track at Rasseas, Pa. on Saturday. Their home
was in Bradford.
Burglars entered the residence of Mrs. Miller,
a widow, of Ligonier, Pa, Friday night, and
stole 81, 900 In gold, and as much more in cur
rency and checks.
A Baptist church was dedicated yesterday on
the site of the house in which jeff Davis
born, on the line between Christia IL and Todd
counties, Kentucky.
Maggie, the eleyen-year-old daughter of Angus
Mckenzie, farmer, living near Wellsvlle, O.,
was burned to death no Saturday by her clothing
igniting at an open CRATE.
AT San Antonio Tex. yesterday morning, the
grocery store of Jacob Duling was burglarzed,
the safe blown open, and $1,000 in cash and
81, 900 in notes CARRIED away.
The schooner Alpha, from Philadelphia, for
Newport, r. l., struck shoal in Delaware bay
on Friday and sunk. The crew were saved, but
the vessel and cargo are total loss.
Commissioner Wright, of the Labor Bureau,
has rendered the special agency of the bureau
for New England to James c. Britton, of Hart
ford, prominent Knight of Labor
j. S. Mclaughlin, of Mclaughlin Brothers,
and son of Mr.. Sumner. of Hodgson, Sumner
& Co.. of Montreal are supposed to have been
drowned on Friday, while duck-hunting
Anna Seibert a servant girl in the employ OF
Joseph Daupher. of PittsDurg was fatally
burned on Saturday, by her clothing taking fire
while she was at work by the kitchen stove.
Two American fishing schooners, fishing under
mander Mclean, of the cruiser Middleton. Their
papers were confiscated and the vessels released.
VIM, Ezer German peddler was found dead
in his room in New York yesterday, he having
died of apoplexy. He left considerable property,
which he bequeathed to the German Legal Aid
Society, of New York
The Northwest Council previous to adjourn
ment, appointed three of its members as dele
CATION to Ottawa, in the interest of the scheme
for forming Assinaboin, Alberta and Saskatche-
wan into one province.
The tr aims of the Missouri Pacific railway
were yesterday run into Omaha over the new
belt line road, which encircles the city. The
new road is virtually owned by the Missouri Pa
cifc, and cost nearly million dollars.
Theodore Frankel Gustav Pohlhaus and
George w. Bailey, composing the firm of
Frankel, Bailey & Co, glassware, of No. az Bar
julius Meyer, with preferences amounting to
500, 000
The general merchandise stores of Comar
Farrs e. Dial. whose main store is at Rusk
Tex. with branches at Jacksonville Wells,
Troupe and Alto, was attached Saturday.
Liabilities between 800 900 and $3.50 900; assets
$50, 900.
T. j. Boasso, formerly chief of aids, of New
Orleans under sentence Of fourteen years i'm
prisonment for forgery, and John Soniate, of St
Landry parish, under lite sentence, escaped
from the penitentiary at Baton Rouge on Satur-
day night
Marshal Mcclure and an officer named Henry
attempted to arrest two horse-thieves-" Kid
johnson and Charles Ross-at Albuquerque,
N. NJ, when the latter shot Henry through the
heart and fatally wounded Mcclure. The
thieves escaped.
Near Lima. o., on Saturday Mrs. NJ Bryant
wrapped her child in a shawl and left it In the
care of its seven-yearold brother while she went
out to milk the COWS. During her absence a
spark from the fire ignted the shawl and the
child was burned to death
Mrs Emma Smith, aged nineteen, residing
with her parents in Chicago, had been estranged
from her husband and during the separation
Charles Gregor, dissipa:ed young man. had at
tempted TO force his attentions upon her. Yes
terday the husband and wife were reeonciled.
Soon after the husband left the room Gregor re-
turned, shot and instantly killed Mrs. Smith,
and then sent bullet through his own head,
falling dead beside his victim.
A party of hunters, consisting Of O. D. Free
man, Will f. Baker. Josh Stevens. and j. j.
Baker, of Cory, Pa, and Willis Harvey, of Min
| nesota, were spending a few days in Forest
county, PENNSYLVANIA, and were encampe6 In