The Indianapolis journal., 1888-04-14
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Sam Small will join Rev. Sam Jones in the
loc adoption campaign st st Louis next month
JOha Brothers. farmer living near Canton.
Ohio. was bunkoed out OF s., 00O yesterday By
two sbarpers. who escaped
Sam Fleming, arrested az Atlanta, Pa, for
bigamy, having married Miss Montgomery in
Illinois. and Mics AuIdman At Atlanta. has CON
fessed his guilt
please record. at Providepce, Thursday night.
with 282 miles, 420 ysrds-sevsnty yards ahead
of Noremacs record.
Can't. W. @. Rector shot his son-in-law. John
W. Koehler, dead, at Ell Paso. Tex. for alleged
seduction OF Lee Rector. the eightern-year-old
unmarried daughter Of Rector, and own sister of
Koehier's wife.
City Marshal John Howard shot and killed
Ark. yesterday. The preacher had knocked the
marshal down with can of peaches. for some
unexplained affront
Twenty five years ago. st Trankfort. N. Y,
William Gates. Of Chicago, and George w.
Gates, of Oshkosh, Wis, brothers, were mar
rled. Thursday evening they celebrated their
SILVER wedding at the same place. the clergyman
who married them being in attendance.
The ive-year9old daughter of Thomas Baker
living near Weilsvflle Ohio Yesterday fell into
burning brush pile. Mrs. Baker went to the
child's assistance and both were fatally burned.
Mr. Baker also recaived serious burns while ex-
tinRuishing the flames on his wifes and child's
clothing
On Thursday night four men entered switch
shanty of the Wisconsin Central railroad as
Wood street. Chicago, and took possession. The
switch tender. VIM. Studner, endeavored to
put them out. when thew assaulted him with
stones and clubs, infiicting fatal injuries His
assallants escaped
Two boilers used by the Armistead Lumber
Company. at Telahatchee. Mss., exploded yes
terday killing two fremen. One a white
man named Perkins; the other. colored. and
named Joe Hill. A young white nan, named
Deming. son of the sawyer. was also killed. a
Iaborer named Allen Lindsey aad LEG badly
crushed. The mill-house 10 a complete wreck.
Both boilers were blown to pieces.
Joseph Mages, a wsll-to do farmer of Estele
county, was found dead in alley back of a
clearinghouse at Frankfort. KY. He had ievi-
IDENTIFY fallen from tho window Of his room and
been so badly crushed as TO be unable to call for
help Mages had come to Frankfort to sell
raft of logs be had floating down the kentucky
river. IL 1t supposed he was i'll in the night and
going to the window for air Loss his balance.
Advces from the Indian Territory give an ac-
count of the cold -blooded murder of four-year-
old negro boy By two white men from Short
Mountain. The men, ]. r. Halsey and ]. G.
dulist, were returning home from Fort Smith,
drunk, and as they passed cabin by the road
side one of them said, Watch me kill that
coon," whereupon he put a bullet through the
child's breast. The men have been arrested. but
disclaim the killing.
The developments in the Sergeant Sherman
Cigarette picture case. at New Haven. Conn.
show that the business mas been carried to a
greater extent than was at first supposed. It
has been learned that many girls have had their
pictures taken by the signal officer. His studio
was broken into by the police, yesterday. but il
had been stripped of everything. The police are
collecting what evidence they can to form basis
for arrests
Willie Grady, six years DID, accidentally shot
and killed his sister Ella. three years old,
Thursday morning, at his parente' home 10
Chicago. The little fellow, in company with
his sister went into store-ronm to PLAY. while
there, Willie opened bureau erawer and null
ed out pistol While examining 1t the weapon
fell from his hand to the floor and was dis
charged the bullet taking effect in his sisters
left breast close TO her neck. She died in half
an hour