The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITTES.

The six-months-old son of John A. Nuwin, of
Cincinnati, slept with its parents on Tuesday
night, and yesterday morning it was found to
have been smothered to death An inquest will
be held.
W. D. Head, contractor and builder. of Lynch
burg, Va, has made an assignment His liza
blities are unknown, but are supposed to be
about $50, 000 The assets, it is said will pay 70
per cent of his liabilities.
Mrs. Fanny Belts the wife Of judge of rec
ord at Sandusky, O.. was arrested in New York
yesterday for shop lifting. Bail was given for
she was not responsible for her actions.
The trial of Henry and Edward Kohout, of
New York, on charge of murder committing
arson, was concluded yesterday The jury
found them guilty of arson in the first degree
and the prisoners were sentenced to State prison
for life
The largest oil we'll in the Ohio field was de-
veloped, on Tuesday on the Moore e. Brother
ton territory OIL shot into the air to the height
of seventy feet when the tools were withdrawn
They were replaced to keep the oil down. This
we'll will exceed $50 barrels per day.
At Detroit, yesterday morning a candy kettle
in Flynn & Durfee's establishment exploded, in.
juring three persons. Charles Snickenbacker
was covered with the boiling candy and terribly
burned. It is thought his injuries will prove
fatal Ed Fiddler and Nellie Calvin were se-
verey but not dangerously scalded.
J. P. Bullock. merchant and postmaster at
Arbloe, Crawford county, Arkansas, was found
dead in his bed yesterday morning. his skull
having been crushed with an ak. Jerry Bswei
his brother law, with whom he had diff
ficulty two weeks ago, murdered him while
asleep, and fed across the line into the Choctaw
nation.
Hon. David Fl. Bailey was sued by the gov
eminent to recover $38 600 of money collected
by him as consul general at Hong Kong, China,
and not paid TO the government. Judge Baxter
holding court at Cincinnati, found that Baiey's
accounts showed him indebted SO, 900. and gave
judgment for that sum against j. j. Gest, his
bondsman.
At 22O o'clock. yesterday morning, the powder
house of Sharrell 81 Co. exploded at shaft % of
New York New aqueduct. on the Fordham-land.
ing road. SCATTERING boarding shanty. and Sc
yerely injuring two men. Michael McGuinness
who was in charge of the powder house. IS miss
ing The cause of the explosion is unknown
The damage is small.
At an early hour yesterday morning diff
Guilty occurred in low concert saloon in Balti-
more, in which Charles F. Taylor fred three
shots from revolver at Joseph Buchotz. the
proprietor of the place. One of the balls took
effect in the back of Mrs. Bucholtz wife of
Joseph. and passing through the right lung. was
extracted from the right breast Taylor was
arrested The condition of Mrs Bucholtz is
critical.
Warrants we're sworn out at the Cincinnati
Police Court, yesterday, for the arrest of sever
al members of the theatrical companies who APP
peared at Heuck's and the Peoples theaters last
Sunday. These persons were all arrested i'm
medately after the performance, early Monday
morning. and fined 81 each by justice of the
peace The Law and Order League. which
caused the warrants to be issued yesterday,
claims that the former arrests were illegal
The finding OF a bundle of bloody clothes near
the scene of the Knoch tragedy near Detroit as
repOrted in these DISPATCHES Yesterday takes a
new appearance to-day. 1t now appears that an
unknown man, whom the finder of the garments
describes, took away part of the bundle, the rest
having already been secured by the German
Instead of this being clew to the Kuoch muir
der, il is now believed to be evidence of another
mysterious murder it being thought the body of
the victim has been hidden where it cannot be
found till spring.