The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

James Boyle, horse thief, attempted to es-
cane from the custody of Deputy Sheriff Nelson,
of Union Star. Mo-, and was shot dead.
Eliza Bethune, widow of General Bethune.
late manager of Blind Tom, the musical wonder,
has been appointed conservator Of Toms person
and estate.
Sam Jones closed a three weeks campaign in
Omaha yesterday At his last meeting he
raised So, 100 for the Y. NJ. c. A. building He
left last night for his home in Georgia, to take a
rest.
The Republican State committee of New Jer-
sey has offered a reward of ST. 900 for the arrest
and conviction of those persons implicated in
what they alleee to have been ballot-box FIX
ing" in the Third Assembly district.
At Chiffon, Wis, the family of Joseph Keller,
dealer In general merchandise was chloroformed
by burglars on Saturday night The thieves Sc
cured 1878 in cash and about $500 worth of
goods, which they carried off IN q wagon
The dead body of Mrs. Alicia Douglass, wife
of Dell Douglass, a Chicago scene-p ainter, who
had been doing some work at Sandusky, was
found in the woods near the latter place on Sun
day. Near the body was a chloroform BOTTLE
and Mrs. Douglass evidently committed suicide.
She had quarreled with her husband lasf Friday,
and left him.
Bud Starr, Vance Barnes Bill Brown and
Frank Moore, charged with robbing a store in
the Cnickasaw Nation, were expected at Fort
Smith on Sunday but they did not arrive and
1t Is reported on good authority that the four
named above and three other outlaws were taken
from the officers by vigilantes, near Burney-
ville and hanged
At Kalamazoo Mich, a carpenter named
john Reed, was carrying bunch of shingles
from the seaffolding to the roof of the Second
Reformed Church yesterday. when he Slipped
and fell to the ground, eighteen feet below;
breaking his neck. The shingles fell on his
head, smashing mis- skull. He was forty years
old and leaves family
Moses Enrich. fifty years DID, a retired jew
elery went to a New York barber shop and an
nounced his intention to take a bath. While
alone he cut the arteries of his left arm with
razor. letting the blood flow into the drainage
pipe of the bath-tub. When the barber found
him he was dead. He had been a hopeless in
valid, and this is the only reason why he should
have taken his life.
W. A. Baldwin, a bridge.builder who recently
moved from Vicksburg to Irondale q small town
Birmingham, Ala, decided to return
thither. He appraised his wife of his intention.
wnereupon she announced that she would leave
him. quarrel ensued, and A B. Moore. the
wife's brother, took her part Both men drew
pistols and began shooting rapidly Moore fell
dead and Baldwin received two flesh wounds.
His wife was shot in the cheek
Cornelius Mccarthy shot Dan ell Sullivan alias
POLE" Sullivan, in the neck and through the
heart last night in front of the Tombs prison,
at New York Sullivan died from the wounds
lew inOtu0utS ldLeF. L ne Two principals IN tn0
tragedy are known Sixth ward toughs. Both
had been drinking. The shooting grew out of an
unguarded reference to the fact that Mccarthy
had served term in the penitentiary. The
murderer was arrested. and at once went into
drunken sleep in his cell.
On Sunday morning John Bueh and Reuben
Arnold were crossing the Vaudalia track at ST.
Clair avenue. East St Louis. in a milk wagon,
when the wagon was struck by the engine of
Vandalia passenger train, knocking it into kind
ling wood and instantly killing the horse. Bugh
and Arnold were thrown several feet into the
air and were both terribly cut about the head,
bruised about the chest and shoulders and in
jured internally. Arnold died in a short time
and Bugh is not expected to live.
On Saturday night the schooner Comanche
owned in Osweco laden with 81 200 bushels of
corn, from Chicago for Ogdensburg, ran on
shoal about three-quarters of - mile from the
west side of Point Peninsula, on Lake Ontario,
and sunk. The schooner was commanded by
Captain Becker, of Osweeo. who. with Albert
Ounce, of the same city. owned the vessel In
rescuing the crew, which consisted of eight per-
sons. Fred Tucker. a farmer. aged twenty-sx
years, was drowned by the capsizing of his boat.