The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.
At Beaver Falls, Pa, John j. Schrock secre-
tary of the Cooperative Foundry Company, COM
mitted suicide yesterday, by blowing his brains
out with revolver. The cause of the deed is
not known.
Six OF the men who were arrested for placing
dynamite and other explosives on street.railway
tracks in st. Louis. during the strike of the
streetrailway men, last October and November,
were put on trial yesterday.
Rev. FL. c. Jardine, the deposed rector of st.
Mary's Episcopal Church in Kansas CITY, arrived
in st. Louis yesterday. and had consultation
with his attorneys, the result of which a
determination to apply to the house of bishops
for rehearing of Mr.. Jardines case.
At Joseph Rosenthal's mines. short distance
from Webb City, Tuesday morning, a boiler ex-
ploded, injuring four men. Elk County judge
James I'll. Cooke received a fracture of the skull,
and died within hour. The other three men
were badly but none of them fatally injured
A probably fatal shooting ARRAY occurred at
John Bortles 10cent lodging house, at 2l7 State
street. Chicago. little before s o'clock yester-
day. Gus Rieba. twenty-four years old, clerk
at the lodging house. was shot by a one-legged
man, who is only known by the name of Peggy
Frank
The police of St Louis are greatly dissatisfied
at the inability of the municipal treasurer to
pay them their last two months salaries there
have made no arrests for the last forty-eight
hours and the whole force threatens to resign
If they are not paid in a short time.
At the election for new officers of the ST. Louis
Merchants Exchange, yesterday, Seth Fl. Cobb
was elected president for the ensuing year and
Charles w. Tiechemann first vice e-president
Owing Hall and j. Will Boyd were contestants
for second vice president, but neither received q
majority of the votes cast, and there will be an
other election to-day
AS a result of the recent report of the Cook
county (Chieago) grand jury. declaring that low
saloons and other resorts throughout the city
were keeping open after midnight, the police
have commenced to raid these places. Six Of
Tending saloon-keepers were arrested yesterday
for keeping their places open after midnight,
and fined $50 each and costs.
VIM. Kennedy, student at Tusculum Col
leee. Tennessee, was in the dormitory, Tuesday
evening, with number of companions, when
one of them picked up an old army pistol from
his trunk. and began fourishIng it, supnosing it
was not loaded 1t was accidentally discharged,
whereupon Kennedy clasped his hands to his
breast, crying I'm shot," and fell dead.
William Coleman, carpenter, fell from the
tower CT the, Union school at Carthage n. Y,
yesterday. He struck the caves forty feet be-
low, and turned end for end. then fell fifty feet
further to the ground, which he struck twenty
feet from the building. He aligbted on his feet,
which were driven eight inches into the earth
have been fatally injured
Two Americans. comprising the firm of Clarke
q Co, dealers in oysters ana canned goods, have
disappeared from Montreal. They came from
Chicago. they alleged, last spring. and had done
a good business ever since. receiving large con-
signments of goods from Baltimore and Philadel-
phia almost daily. They ran up debts in Mont
real to the amount of $4,000, owe the Ontario
Canning Company as much. and unpaid drafts
are coming in from all parts of the United
States.
At Beamsville, ten miles from St GATHERINGS
Ont. on Tuesday, John Stone walked into the
house of his sister. Mrs. Hodge. and proceeded
into the family room. where his niece Maud was
He spoke asfew words to her in a low tone, then
drew revolver and began firing. The first shot
took effect and as the young girl rose to escape
another bullet brought her to the floor. Stone
then turned the revolver on himself. Miss
Hodge will die, but Stone is likely.ferecover
No cause is known for the act.
The States attorney at Chicago. on behalf of
the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children
has filed bill to secure $ll0 900 from the estate
of Julia B. Newberry, which she beGueathed to
Although not named in the will, the claimant be-
lieves it is entitled to the bequast. 1t has $780,.
600 building, and was incorporated In 1876. The
bill asks that a trust be re-established for the
$ll0 900 left by the will, and that it be declared
to be for the Hospital for Women and Children.
An injunction is asked to restrain the defendants
from dsposing of any of Miss Newberrys estate
until the decision of this suit