The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-31
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

/ der explosion near Chicago on Sunday died yes
| terday, making the second death
Jonathan ~. Scott, manager of the Baltimore
Price Current, committed sulcide some time Sun
/ day night by hanging himself in the engine-room
| OF job-printing Office
| On Sunday, Congress Hall, a summer hotel at
/ Sheldon Springs VT, was broken into, and SIS,
900 In cash. bonds, stocks and notes stolen from
one of the guests-W L. Lincoln, of Chicago.
Madge Doiara. handsome Chicago girl, ac
companied by her hacker, Jerry Costello. passed
through Rochester last night for New York,
where she will make attempt to jump from
the Brooklyn bridge for purse of $1,000.
DR.. Rush j. Stark ex-deoartment commander
| for Michigan in the G. A. R., is out to-day in a
| letter renounclng his connection with the Re-
1 publican party. He claims the party has grown
/ too corrupt for him. He goes over to the Flu
I sionists
Several days ago George Kratel, butcher
| living near Cleveland, o., attempted to take an
| apple from the throat of COW. and was bitten
! for his pains. On Sunday ne died from the ef
/ fects of the bite blood poisoning having set in
| directly after he was hurt.
i General Newton yesterday took possession of
| his Office as commissioner of public works of
] New York city. He appointed as his deputy ID.
| Lowber Smith, which is sharply criticised in
| some quarters a fatal mistake, some journals
declaring that Smith is worse than Squire.
/ Train No. l. of the Cincinnati Southern rail-
way, was badly wrecked near Dry Ridge. Ky,
L
/ engineer Cooms and hurting fireman Murphy,
| conductor Shrum and the baggagemaster quite
seriously. All trains were delayed on account of
| the wreck.
| Judge Donahue, in the New York Supreme
/ Court, yesterday. decided against Miss Emma
Berger in her suit against the American Opera
4 Company upon claim for S.. 900, alleged to be
/ due under a contract with Charles e. Locke.
manager of the opera company, which he refused
/ to carry out
! In the suit of the Detroit Lubricator Company
vs.. Frederick Lunkheimer, of Cincinnati. for in
| fringement of the fower-sieht feed lubricator
patent, Judge Brown, in the United States Cir
| cult Court, at Detroit. yesterday reopened the
! case defendants motion for leave to take the
! entire testimony.
| The bribery case against w. S. Cappeller, at
| Columbus, Ohio, was dismissed yesterday. no
1 one appearing to prosecute. Allen o. Myers.
i who had hearing on the charge of perjury in
! the same connection, was discharged, it appear
ing from the evidence that he did not intend the
/ arrest OF Cappeller.
| Judge Stanley Woodward who would have
| received the unanimous nomination for Congress
| by the Democrats of the Twelfth Pennsylvania
1 district, has written letter absolutely declining
the nomination. An effort will be made to in
| duce General Master Workman L. v. Powderiy,
| of Scranton, to accept the nomination.
e. L. Hughes. one of the leading dry goods
| merchants of Oshkosh, Wis, and his four-vear-
old daughter, were drowned in Lake Winnebago
] by the upsetting of a boat IN which they were
| out for sail. Another daughter of Mr.. Hughes
| and little boy named Bray we're also in the
boat, but were rescued in an exhausted condi
ton.
After two years of discussion legal couten-
] tons. etc, work was yesterday begun upon the
| New York electrical subway. The composition
| through which the wires are to run contains II
| conduits, q inches in diameter. There to
| be two lines of these, side by SIDE and the sur
4 face will be about two feet wide. A large crowd
rpofh IN xxafxo fhoh pn1 L Of ma WITH
gang of burglars were operating In Akron
/ O.. Sunday night, They entered the residences
of Sumner Nash. ex-county clerk; B. G. Herrick,
| wealthy crockery dealer, and j. B. Woods
president OF the City National Bank Entrances
| were effected in professional manner, and the
| occupants chloroformed. Jewery, silverware
| and money to the amount OF SO 900 was obtained.
| Daniel Magone, the collector of the port
| of New York, assumed the duties Of the Office
| yesterday. The custom house was formally
! turned over to Mr.. Maeone by the retiring col
| lector, Mr. Hedden. Being interviewed he said:
4 cit would be very rash to make wholesale
changes without an investigation. | believe,
| with the President, public Office is a public
! trust"
Supervisors Larkin. Carroll and Gallagher, of
the Brooklyn Board of Supervisors, were served
| yesterday with warrants. directing them to APP
| pear before Police Justice Walsh to answer
charge of conspiracy to defraud the people of
| Kings county. Granville T.. Williams, late
| plum her of the Brooklyn courthouse is the
complainant. The defendants were released on
| their own recognizance
| Three Mexicans became involved in fight in
| the street at Columbus, Texas. Saturday night,
and when Deputy Sheriff Hope attempted to ar
| rest them, they all turned upon him and one of
| them attempted to stab him. Deputy Hope
| shot the Mexican in the centre of the forehead.
| inficting wound from which the latter died
shortly afterward At the inquest the jury JUS
| titled Hopes action The name of the Mexican
who was killed is not known.
At Atlanta, Ga. Thomas Smith and Herman
| Gluck we're testing their strength. when quar-
| rel which resulted in trip to the back
| yard, where Guck marked off dead line and
| challenged Smith to pass it AS Smith did SO.
Giuck reiterated. Then Smith marked off
| dead line and challenged Gluck to pass it. The
| latter no sooner did so than he was set upon by
| Smith and given five mortal stabs. Smith is in
| Jail.
AS large crowd as ever assembled in Wheel
| ing, W. Va, gathered last evening to witness
the lighting, for the first time, of natural gas as
| it escaped from stand pipe. The gas was
turned into the pipes to-day from the Hickory
| field in Washington county, Pennsylvania,
! three miles distant. The citizens held Jubilee,
| with speeches by President William Finn, of
| the Wheeling Gas Company The arrival of the
| gas marks new era in Wheeling manufacture.
Three trackmen employed on the Pennsyl-
vana railroad struck by an engine near
| Sumner HILL Pa, yesterday morning, and in
| stantly killed. There names were: Watson
Ashe, aged sixteen years: I'll. George, aged thirty
/ five years and Joseph Horner. aged about
/ twenty years. The men were working at the
| time Of the accident and stepped off one track
| to avoid weSt-bound train, when they were
struck by engine going in the opposite direc-
/ ton. Their bodies were terribly mangled and
strewn along the tracks for several hundred
| yards
Losses by Tire.
HOUSTON, Tex. Aug. 30.-The Howard oil