The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The total exports of produce from New York
during the past week were valued at $685., 749.
A fouryear-old daughter of Henry Lowater,
of Toledo, was so badly burned while playing
with the door of a kitchen stove, on Sunday
night. that she died yesterday.
The citizens of northern Idaho are protesting
against annexation to Washington Territory
because that Territory is antagonistic to mining.
They want annexation to Montana.
In Overton county. Tennessee, William Ell.
bridge, a boy fourteen years old, killed his
brother-in-law, Bige Willingford. because the
latter abused his wife, the sister of Eldridge.
Henry Murdoch, a prominent farmer of Walk
er county. Georgia, eloped on Monday night
with his sisterin-law, Sally Myers, fifteen years
Of age. Mr.. Murdoch's former wife has been
dead four weeks.
In the federal court at St. Paul, Yesterday, the
case of Frederick VS.. the Northern Pacific and
the St. Paul & Duluth railroads, for half a mill
ion dollars worth of lake front property at Du-
luth, was decided against the defendant by
Judge Nelson.
AT Toronto, Canada, Tobias Epstein. a dry
goods merchant, was yesterday committed for
trial on a charge of defrauding his credi tors Of
$40, 600 worth of goods, and was admitted to bail
in $50. 900. Neither his book-keeper nor his
ledger can be found.
The child of Edward Aprlegate, of SPOTS
wood, N. j., which was bitten by a mad dog
twenty-one days ago, went into commissions last
Thursday and died on Monday of hydrophobia
in its most horrible form. requiring two men to
hold it in its struggles. The child was six years
of age.
The Pan-electric Telephone Company put
their telephone system into operation at st.
workings. 1t differs in several respects from
other telephones. and includes a plan by which
communication may be had by anybody paying
a toll of a nickel.
w. E. jaeger, who has had charge of the Union
News Company's establishment in ST. Louis. for
some time past, has been arrested at Moberly,
Mo-, on Il warrant sworn out by Superintendent
Fox. OF Chicago, charging him with embezzle-
ment. 1t is stated that jaeger has also been en-
gagged in forgery, but only involving small
amounts.
At Louisville. KY, yesterday, in the case OF
Flanagan ct al. against r. Monarch, the Owens
boro distiller, Judge Barr, in the United States
court, gave his decision on the plaintiffs motion
asking for the appointment OF a receiver, and
appointed the defendant. r. Monarch, receiver
Of the distillery and other properties, to serve
without salary. Monarch's bond was fixed at
$50, 900.
At Chillicothe. Mo-, a colored girl, thirteen
years of age, named Mile Ashby, gave birth to
a full-grown male child last Tuesday, which she
threw into a stove on a bed of red-hot Goals and
roasted the infant to a crisp. 1t was discovered,
however, before it was entirely consumed. and
what remained or 1t was buried III the rear end
of the lot. The case is being investigated by the
coroner.
The clothing firm Of f. A. Temple & Co., of
Chester, with branch houses at Perryville and
st. Charles, Mo-. has made an assignment. Alex.
Hood. of Chester, and W. w. Kirkpatrick, of st.
Charles, are the assignees. The liabilities of the
firm are listed at SIG, 900, and the assets at a lit
tie over ST., 900. The indebtedness is for the
most part to parties in Philadelphia, Cincinnati
and Chicago.