The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIas.

Fred Schmidt, Memphis groceryman, was
burned to death, yesterday morning, during a
Ere which destroyed his store
Jacob Barth, the teamster employed by Max
we'll Bros, of Chicago and who was shot on
Monday morning in an ARRAY with strikers, died
yesterday afternoon.
A local physician is authority for the state
ment that there are thirteen cases of sickness
from eating diseased pork, at Rib Lake, Wis.
The cases are severe.
A dispatch from Griffin. Ga. reports the death.
by shooting. of Mrs. Daniel, by her husband,
who had eloped with his sister-in,law. His wife
was in pursuit of him at the time
John Warburton, of the firm of Warburton
Brothers, prominent grocers and coal dealers,
OF Lowell, Mass, was arrested yesterday for
forging another mans name to an assignment
for wages DUE
Information comes from Pocahontas Ran
dolph county, Arkansas, that on Sunday night,
as Special Constable Steve Dame was bringing
to that place negro prisoner, Sam Evans. alias
Sam Patch, whom he had under arrest for at
tempted rape, and when within about one mile
of town, the negro broke for the woods. The
officer fired. killing his man as he ran.
At 7;30 o'clock Monday evening, the south
bound passenger train on the Southern division
of the Illinois Central railroad was wrecked
thirty miles below Cairo, Ill. The locomotive
and all the cars, except two sleepers were
ditched. and the engineer. William. Buffin. of
Water Valley, Miss, was instantly killed. The
accident was caused by the removal of a rail by
some unknown cause.
Samuel Bingham, cashier of the Wirdham
National Bank, at Willimantic. Conn. was
brought before United States Com missioner
Tenny yesterday, charged with taking heavy
commissions on paper bought of James d. Fish.
late president of the Marine Bank of New York.
Inc directors have made an examination of the
banks accounts and pronounce them all right
the hearing was postponed until Feb. 16
Charles Howard, colored watchman in the
Marietta & North Georgia railroad shops. in
Marietta. was brutally murdered Monday
night. The assassins tried to conceal the death
by setting fire to the body. The clothes of the
victim were burned and his flesh badly charred.
one hand being completely burned off. A clew
has been obtained to the murderers, and the
sheriff and posse have started out to capture
them.
The Cleveland police have as yet been unable
to find satisfactory clew to the person who
attempted to blow up Police Officer Corners
house with dynamite last night. A neighbor saw
a man going out of Corners yard about 1890. an
hour before the explosion. This man got into a
buggy and drove away. The fuse of the cart
ridge was three feet long, and il is supposed that
1t burned slowly, at least an hour before the ex-
ploson.
An ecclesiastical court met at Atlanta, Ga !,
yesterday, to try Rev. James j. Armstrong rec
tor of St Philips Episcopal Church, charged
with immoral conduct while in Cincinnati sew
eral months ago. The session was in private
The time was spent in reading nterrogatories of
the prosecution. e. F. Mann of Cincinnati who
wrote the article exposing Mr.. Armstrong, is
present to testify The trial will probably last
two or three days.
A San Antonio special says: 'Oficers to-day
arrested fnely-dressed man who registered at
the Menger Hotel as w. N. Gratz. 1.-THE detect
ives state that his true name is JosefH 8 dratz.
He is charged with unlawfuly obtaining twenty
thousand dollars worth of jewelry from the Chi
cago firms of Charles Crate, William Smith &
Co.. and Louis Straussburg. After disposing of
the goods he fed to Texas several weeks ago.
He will be taken back to Chicago, and will start
tomorrow"
A gang of robbers, headed by Shenandoah
Red a notorious outlaw. broke into the station
of the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad Company at
Somerset Pa. Monday night, and carried off
500 in cash and jewelry valued at $500 Officers
Shepherd and Berner started in pursuit of the
thieves, and last evening ran down Shenandoah
Red at point near Johnstown. The desperate
fought desperately and Officer Berner was seri-
ously injured. The thief was captured and the
money and jewelry recovered