The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-12-18
T~ELEGRAPHiC BREVITIES.

The yacht Fearless. bound from Chicago
to Nicaragua, arrived at Vicksburg, Miss,
yesterday.
The police of Baltimore have ordered VIM.
l.. Crostey, a dealer in green goods" to
leave the city.
Court, has been invited to address the
Davis memorial mass-meeting at Rlch-
mOnd, Va.
Lawrence Barrett has rallied well from
the effects of the operation upon his throat,
and was quite comfortable yesterday. he
is still at st. Margaret'sH Hospital, Boston.
Oil has been found on the Krug farm,
gas well is being sunk The flow of oil Is
estimated at 200 barrels q day. Great ex-
element prevails.
The Republicans Of Meriden, Conn.,, yes
terday elected all their ticket except city
f s1sra aas sp aSr are y Tstnrnsd B so R1Misr f sdssr tR Re-
publicanl, for Mayor, has 243 majority.
rived at Gloucester, Mass. Monday, from
Cape Broylen. Newfoundland. with a
cargo of fish, was seized, yesterday, by Col
lector Presson for discharging her cargo
without a permit.
Miss Flora Lusk, of Chester county,
Iowa, is on trial for killing q nan who was
engaged in aeharivari party in front OF her
grandfathers house. The girl shot into the
crowd to brighten the serenaders away.
Public sympathy Is on her side.
Miss Grace Pedley. an English actress,
claims that Edward j. Henley, who re-
Gently married Miss Mary Hampton. and is
now in California. is her husband, and she
yesterday applied at a New York police
conrt for a warrant for his arrest.
Charles Selner. proprietor of the Toledo
Sunday Herald and Times, is in Jail on a
grand jury Indictment charging hinSwith
forging notes and orders, the principW one
of which is said to have been a bill of eX-
change on Bates, q New York advertising
man.
George Gnenther: aged seventy. years.
ther, at ST. Louis, yesterday. The boy
bears a bad reputation. and is but seven
teen years old The quarrel arose over the
refusal of his mother to furnish him with
money.
The well-known Joanna furnace, at JO-
anna, Pa, and the Jones irOn-ore mines,
near by. have closed down for the winter
Nearly 1,500 tons of pig-irOn are stored at
the furnace, and operations will not be re-
sumed until the overproduction is dis
posed of.
The mystery regarding the Whereabouts
of banker JOS. G.. Dittman, of Philadelphia,
is as deep as ever. Clerks are hard at work
e~ndeavoring to unravel Mr.. Dittman's com
plicated accounts. but his counsel Will give
no information as TO the condition OF his
financial affairs.
At Lone Tree, Mo-. several months ago, a
young girl. aged seventeen, was forced.by
her parents to marry Newton Summers,
aged sixty-ive. Yesterday Summers was
found lying in his house terribly bruised.
His wife and her former lover had robbed
| him and gone off together.
Robert W.. Mcfarland, of Greensboro,
KY, a prominent attorney and former men,
Der of the State Legislature. was yesterday
found dead at the bottom of q stairway in
the Spoerri Hotel. His skull was fractured
and his nose was broken. When last seen
alive he was under the influence of liquor
Frank Harry, a Chicago travelling man,
was shot and fatally wounded at Mt. Ster.
ling. KY, yesterday by X. L. Smith. who
| travels for j. NJ. Robinson & Co., of LOUIS
vile. Some weeks ago Smith made q flip
pant remark to Hargy's wife. Harry met
| Smith yesterday for the first time and de-
manded an apology. A shooting match was
| the result.