The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-19

The steamer Maud NJ. Fish sank at midnight.
Saturday night. at Gouli's Landing, twenty
miles below New Orlesns. She was valued at
$40. 900; insured in Cincinnati companies. Mate
John Fox was lost
George Jakely, a Missouri Pacific trackman,
was set upon in the east bottoms Of Kansas
City, at half past 9 o'clock, yesterday morning,
and stabbed TO the heart. Joel Boyd and his
brother and two other ~rufians have been ar
rested.
Private advices from T~ishomingo, the capital
OF the Chickasaw nation, are to the effect that q
conflict between the followers of Guy and Byrd
is inevitable. In a personal encounter between
two of the belligerents the Byrd follower was
killed, and his friends swear they will have
vengeance.
A sad drowning acciden. occurred a. the
Buckingham ford OF the Nolachucky river, near
Greenville, Tenn, Saturday evening. Miss
Matte Woolsey and her cousin, Henry Love,
while returning from school. attempted to cross
the river in a buggy, but missing their course,
were carried into deep water and persisted.
Richard Shrine, a young man twen,y-eight
years Of age, committed suicide, last night, by
shooting himself through the head with q pis-
tol, at the St. James Hotel, Richmond, Va. He
is said to be g Virginian, a resident OF Brooklyn.
and q travelling salesman for the shoe house of
Pollock 81 Co., Baltimore. No cause is assigned
Cor the act.
Yesterday afternoon. at George s. Crewfcrds
undergrad, at Cincinnati, engineer VIM. Mes
singer, who was cleaning the boiler. ordered
fireman Peter Mcguire to fire up. There was
an insuficiency of water in the boiler, aud it ex-
plodsd, scalding both men dangerously. and, it
is feared, fatally. Both were drunk at the time
of the explosion.
A telegram from Merrillon, Wis, gives the
particulars Of the finding Of DR.. Lucas's body
five miles east OF that town, near some log
ging shanties. He was town clerk of Spauld-
ing, and left for that place the night before
the election. IL is believed that he went on q
spree and died in a ft of delirium tremens.
His clothing had nearly all been torn off his
body.
A convention of city. county and State boiler
inspectors will meet in Pittsburg, tomorrow, to
form q national organization. The object of the
association will be to arrange a uniform system
of boiler inspection and to take measures to
prevent the employment of incompetent engin-
eers. Delegates will be present from st. Louis.
Omaha, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and
| New York.
James Smiley. Malvina johnson, Julia Rut-
| ledge, Beatrice Tark. Elizabeth Reed, Robert
Hudson, jr., and Henry Morley were arrested,
near Somerset, KY, Saturday, charged with
the murder of Levi Troxtell. 40 old farmer of
that neiehborhood, who disappeared on Nov. 8.
Troxtells friends claim to be able to prove a
conspiracy between the persons arrested. in
which they arranged to assassinate Troxtell.
The Kentucky Court Of Appeals on Saturday
rendered o decision in the case of Da vid Rob
erts, charged with murder. The decision sends
| Roberts TO prison for twenty-five years. He Is
sixty-four years old. In 1864 Roberts cut The
throat OF James Kendall, of Morgan county. hid
the body In the brush and escaped to Missouri.
Kendalls son. Wilmore. while serving in the
Kentucky Legislature last winter, accidentally
heard Of Robertss whereabouts in Missouri aud
brought him to trial.