The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREVTIES.


Sam Barnard shot and instantly killed New.
ton Harris, near London. KY, yesterday The
TWO mad quarreied about dog. Both are farm
John 7. Raymond continues to improve rap.
idly. On Wednesday night he was able TO at
tend the performance at the Park Theater New
York.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, in private telegram from
Paris, says she Is not married, and is not going
to be married, and that she will start for New
York Sept l.
At East Somerville, Mass, yesterday. James
Nelson, aged three, slipped from a grain wagon
driven by his father, and was crushed TO death
beneath the wheels.
In wrestling contest at Cincinnati last night.
between Tim Cannon and Evan Lewis the first
fall was won by Cannon and the second by Lewis.
Cannon then gave up the match.
The residence of A. L. Kane, on Prospect
avenue, Milwaukee, fashionable thoroughfare,
was entered at an early hour Yesterday morning
and robbed Of $500 worth of jewelry and silver
ware.
Fire at Dodge City. Kan, yesterday, burned
out Sturtsyant's drug store, H. j. Dunlap's jew
elry store, Hart & Haynes's saloon and Tilghmau
g. Co.'s auction houses. Loss. $780, 600; partially
insured.
At Grove City, O., last night, William Grant
and Charles Lavender quarreled over game Of
pool. Lavender struck Grant, knocking nim
down fight of steps and injuring him so thai
he is dying
A ST Andrews bay pilot reports the seizure
of the American schooner J. Kennedy, of Calais,
Me-, for violation of revenue laws in trading be-
tween two British ports She had carried car
go of coal from Sydney to st. Andrews
John Ransom and James G.. Gaines. of Carter
county, Tennessee, had been counting one of the
most beautiful ladies of the county. few
nights ago they met &C the lady's house. and, IN
her presence, Gaines shot his rival dead.
The liabilities of VIM. j. Hooper & Sons OF
Baltimore, who recently failed, are 50OOs
assets, 1868, 600. including Hooper's interest in
the Morning Herald. The creditors have APP
pointed committee to arrange for settle
ment
The National Bell Telephone Association will
hold its annual meeting at st. Louis, commenc.
ing Sept. T. One hundred and twenty i've reg.
ular delegates will be present, and good deal
of very important business viii come before the
convention.
On Tuesday night an armed mob came ia
Magnolia, Miss, broke open the Jail. took there.
from John and Leander Nelson, colored, charged
with the recent murder Of negro, named Col
Inns, and hanged them from bridge near this
town. There is much excitement over the az
fair
A dispatch from Usage Mission, Kan, says
Willie Sells, the murderer of his family, was on
Wednesday sentenced to be hanged. which, mn
der the laws Of Kansas, means Imprisonment fol
Indifference he has manifested ever since the
murder
A movement s on foot to appeal to the citi.
zens of Cincinnati and of the State of Ohio gen.
orally to sign petition to the Legislature to APP
propriate sufficient sum to erect an equestrian
statue in bronze to Gen. VIM. Henry Harrison
at the celebration of the settlement of Cncin.
natl, which will be held in that city on Sept. %
1888.
Chief of Police Murphy, of Jersey City has
received letter from Governor Albeit, request.
ing him to cooperate with Sheriff Heintz in sup,
pressing the prize fight between Frank Heard
and John L. Sullivan, which was announced ia
take place at Schuetzenpark Union Hill, next
Saturday night This will undoubtedly put an
end to the plans for fight.
Chas A. Poskey. manager of the St Louis
branch OF the bar fixture house of r. Rothschild.
Cincinnati. yesterday morning visited the rooms
of his paramount Dora Marks, and in dt OF
jealous rage began smashing the furniture He
was arrested and soon after became violently i'll.
and was conveyed to the Dispensary, where he
died at ii o'clock. The Marks woman found an
empty Rough on Rats" box which Poskey had
dropped, indicating that he had committed sui
eide.
Mr.. Perkins the victim of a carriage accident
at Windsor, VT, Wednesday, was Charles
Callahan Perkins, a well known resident of Bos-
ton. He graduated from Harvard in lS43, and
then studied music and painting in Italy for ten
years He had been president of the Handel
and Haydn Society, member of the school
board, the Massachusetts Historical Society aud
the Institute of France. Mr.. Perkins was prom
inent in the introduction Of music in the public
schools.