The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Miss Winnie Davis, daughter Of Jefferson
Davis, arrived in Syracuse. n. Y, yesterday
afternoon from New York She is the guest of
DR.. and Mrs Thomas Emory.
The National Academy Of Sciences began its
autumnal session at the Institute of Technology
in Boston, yesterday, and the meetings will be
continued through the next three days.
The boilers at Bliss, Marshall & Co g brick
yards. at Dunbar, Pa, exploded yesterday, kill
ing Miss Title Campbell and seriously njuring
Perry Gaddis. The boilers and part of the brick
yards were demolished. Loss about $500.
The stock men of Upper FELTON, have driven
rs, 900 cattle the Pieean reservation, to range
during the coming winter. They claim they
had to do this, as feed is scarce The authority
of the Indian agent and the Indian Bureau was
obtained
A large fiy-wheel, at the Clinton rolling MILL
at Pittsbbrg, burst yesterday morning, scatter
ing fragments in all directions and instantly
killing Michael Burns. a workman, who
struck on the head with one of the pieces. The
mill was not damaged
A New York. Chicago & ST. Louis freight train
ran over cow near Fostoria. O., yesterday
morning. The locomotive and eight cars were
ditched, and Charles Murtaugh, who leaves a
family at Rochester, N. Y, was killed. Muir
laugh was stealing ride
The sale of the estate of the late George L.
Lorillard, at the New York Real Estate Ex-
change, yesterday, drew together large num-
ors Bidding was spirited, the amount realized
by the sale being $648, 700.
By an explosion at the Forcite powder works,
at Lake Hopatcong, N. j., yesterday, one man
was killed and five others seriously injured.
David Hammel was instantly killed. and George
Ravens, William Stephens John Fancher and
John Rogers were badly wounded. Hammel
leaves widow and six children
A telegram from Shreveport La, reports a
shooting affair in Bossier Parish, in which man
named Phillips was killed and one named
Sheerod Smith mortaly wounded. The men
fought with revolvers, nine shots being fired, all
of which took effect The difficulty which led
to the fight arose over game of cards
On Monday night five masked men entered
the house of George Smith, near Cherry Tree,
Pa, and, holding a revolver to his head, forced
him TO produce SIS 900 in gold which he had con-
cealed in the house. The robbers took the money
and made good their escape, Smiths wife and q
hired man were also in the house, but were COW
cred by reviewers
j. G. Mccormick. aged twenty-six, a prosper
Gus cotton-broker Of Hawkinsville Ca, who was
to have been married tonight to Miss Carrie
Lewis a lady Of high social standing and noted
beauty. committed suicide yesterday. He had
been subject to fits of dependency, and 1t is
supposed that the excitement attending the
wedding preparations so worked on his morbid,
nervous sensibiity as to cause selfdeStruction.
A dispatch from the Boston police yesterday.
asked Inspector Byrnes of New York, to arrest
Robert j. Fabraham, a young broker, now in
the latter city, on charge of embezZling S., 600
Fabraham was arrested. Notes and stock certi-
ffcates amounting to several thousand dollars,
and bushes cards of Robert Fabraham & Co.,
broker, at No 26 Congress street, Boston, were
found on the person of the prisoner.
A young man named L. F. Preston, who was
a collector in Ohio for the International News
Company of New York, collected about ST. 600
and fed to Canada, going to Hamilton. He was
easily located and Charles K. McShell, presi-
dent of the company, went to Hamilton and had
an interview with him. Preston gave up 5000
OF the money and two watches which he had
bought for himself and wife. Preston's home is
in Boston. He was arrested some time ago in
Toledo for clipping with fourteen-ye old girl
named Dora Weavy, but was released at the in
stance of the girI's father.