The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREylTIES.

Blythe is the murderer of Col A. Il. Jones.
Chas. NJ. Hull. editor of the Boliver Coun-
" MISS Democrat, was killedat Rosedale,
MISS, yesterday, by l.. A. Wessinger,
lawyer.
George w. and S. Taylor of Smyrna. H.,
founders and machinists, have failed.
Liabilities, $4,000. They employed forty
wOrkmen.
Miss Louise A. Andrews an estimable
young lady of Milwaukee. was drowned
while bathing in Devils lake late yester-
day afternoon.
drowned in Braxton county, West Virginia,
on ednesday while attempting to cross
flooded stream.
The proposed colossal benefit at New
York. which was to have helped John l..
Suillvan In a financial way, has been IN
definitely postponed.
The Republican clubs of Hamilton county
have arranged to give Mr.. Mnrat Halstead
public welcome tonight. He returned to
Cincinnati yesterday.
John Gilman, shoemaker. died at Louis
vile yesterday from the effects of a dose of
morphine taken with suicidal intent. Fam
lily trouble was the cause.
Indications of gold in paving quantities
have been discovered on the farm of w. III.
Dickson, near Arrow Rock. Mo. The gold
IS deposited in bed of rock.
John Metcalf is under arrest at Edger-
dered Miss Isabelle Everson. aged eighty
hve years. a next-doOc neighbor.
James Benjamin, Morgan county (Ohio)
farmer. committed suicide at McCOnnells-
vile. Yesterday morning, by blowing out
his brains with an old-fashioned rifle.
George Siler killed Rev. Sam Sharpe at
were coiorea. sS Sharpe was 0i living with
Siler's sister. claiming she was his wife.
Chief Hubbard will leave Winnipeg on
Sunday for Chicago with Burke. EXten-
sive preparations have been made to pre-
vent the possibility of the prisoners rescue
"A trust. for the purpose of controlling the
manufacture and sale of artificial ice in
the South, has been organized at Mobile,
Ala. The combination has a capital of
100000.
Fred Farr. an engineer living at Garth
age. N. Y, shot and killed his wife. on
Wednesday night, and shortly afterwards
committed suicide by shooting himself in
the forehead.
Ex-treasurer Henry f. Royce, lately of
the Willimantic Conn Savings Institute,
was arrested Thursday on a new charge of
embezzlement of 5000 from the institute
and making false entries.
A IRIDIUM commemorating the two-hun-
dred- and-tiftieth anniversary of the found
ing of the Ursuline Order in Canada was
begun at Ottawa. Thursday, by a solemn
mass. celebrated with unusual grandeur.
One pair of street-car trucks were dug
ont of the sand, at Johnstown. Pa Thurs
day, which is all that has yet been found
of the equipment consisting of about eighty
horses and fifteen cars.
Steps were taken at New York, on Thurs
day afternoon for the formation of the
Florida Orange-growers' and Dealers Pro-
tective Association, the object of which
will be to control the Florida orange bust
ness.
The writs of habeas corpus and certiorari
in the Ives and Staynor cases were dis
missed in the New York Supreme Court
the prisoners were returned to Ludlow
| street Jail.
John Williams. cook on the steamship
Wellington, Just arrived from Nanaimo,
was arrested in San Francisco, Tuesday
night, for smuggling 500 boxes of opium
into port. The opium, which was valued
at $4,000. was seized.
Notwithstanding that thirteen days have
elapsed since Joseph Feuchs SO brutality
killed his young and newly welded wife at
Bad River. Wis, q large posse of men is
still in pursuit of the murderer The MUIR
derer is hiding in the swamps and living on
| wild berries and small game.
The ex-champion oarsman, Ed Hanlon,
| reached ST. Louis Thursday. Il have no
excuse to make for my defeats in Aus
t hatan said ne suppose s If were not
| going to Toronto. and after a short rest
| will be ready to meet any man."
Mayor Mosby, of Cincinnati, has received
| letter from Governor Foraker concerning
| the action of the salOOn-keepers In defying
| cOmmends the Mayors firmness. and urges
| him to 'smite every manifestation of such
spirit with a swift and heavy hand"
| Adesperate gang of burglars was captured
at Chicago. on Thursday night, after hard
| fight The gang is composed of John alias
| .Iamaa RnrnS
Ryan; John ReardOn alias Muchs. John 7.
Rodey. J ohm Connolly and James Mitchell,
alias Mulligan. They all came from ST.
| Louis.
Mrs. Fred Phelneking, German woman
| living on a farm sixteen miles northwest of
Woonsocket, ID. T., committed suicide by
| taking two teaspoOnfuls of paris green.
She was twenty-six years old, and her irst
babe was only four days old. She thought
| the child was dead and in her grief swal-
| lowed the poison.
President George Gould. of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company. has received a
| cablegram from the cOmpany's agent at
Manzanilla stating that the treasure. foot
! Granada, when the vessel was lost, had
! been recovered The vessel, valued at
| SOC. 200, was a total loss.
The drawn Murphy Murphy fight at San
| Francisco has been indefinitely postponed
and the purse, consisting of s., 2i5. divided
|
ceived 500 and Billy Murphy S575. A fight
between Frank Murphy and Tommy War
rem, feather-weights, for purse of 81. 500,
| has been arranged. 1t will probably take
| place IN September.
Mrs. Henrietta Smell, widow of the late
Amos j. Smell, will pay $4,000 reward for
the arrest and detention. until identified by
the authorities of the city of Chicago, of
| William b. Tascott, the supposed murderer
of her husband. Thereward will hold good
for twelve months from Aug 1. All COM
munications are TO be sent to Dewitt &.
Cregier, Mayor OF the city of Chicago, OF A.
j. Stone, No. 5A West Madison street.
The Chicago world's-fair committee had
meeting. Thursday. to devise means and
ways of securing the coveted location of
the worlds fair at Chicago Mayor Cregier
was elected chairman and Thomas &. j.
O'Neil secretary. Resolutions We're adopted
TO the effect that the West should have it's
turn at some of the big events of the world.
and that. as Chicago was the commercial
metropolis of the West, the fair should be
held there.
Minor w. Bruce, the Alaska correspond
ent, who was reported killed by glacier,
has been heard from. For three days he
was lost on glacier. In Glacier bay, but
was finally >rescued by Indians, in an ex-
hausted condition. During this time he
witnessed the wonderful mirage of ''the
Silent CITY ~ " hich WAS first discovered nv