The Indianapolis journal., 1889-06-18
TELEGRAPHlC BREvITIES.

Sunday night, at the colored church, on
the Oscola plantation. near st. Joseph, La,
Leila Mitchell was stabbed to death by
Sallie Underwood. Both are colored girls
under sixteen years of age.
1t is said that 81. .0O0, 600 has been sub
scribed In San Francisco for the proposed
cable between Honolulu and San Francisco,
and that the work of laying the cable Will
be commenced within eighteen months.
Two women and one man, afflicted with
leprosy, have been discovered on Cape Bre-
ton island, Nova Scotia. They have been
living with their friends, but will be re-
moved to the leper settlement at Iracadi ae
once.
August Swanson. thirty years old, and
employed as hostler, committed suicide az
Chicago yesterday morning. Swanson was
determined to die, and he took the poison
while he kept friend covered with re-
vOlver.
Mrs. Charles Cleaver and Erdine Cole, a
young woman of sixteen. were drowned az
Springfield, Me-, Saturday, while bathing.
Mrs. Cleaver leaves four children and
husband in the West. The bodies were re-
covered.
Can't. Hamilton Murrell. of the steamer
Missouri, was presented, yesterday morn
ing. in the private office of George w.
Childs, in Philadelphia. with gold medal,
a gift of Joseph Pulitzer. Medals were
also presented to thirty-two others of tho
crew.
Michael Andrew, Simon Novolk and John
Kutschi, all P0landers, were fatally injured
by an explosion of gas at the Nottingham
colliery, Plymouth, Pa, yesterday. Novoik
burned that the flesh peeled off In several
places.
Nicholas Schular, a farmer, while walk
ing in the woods near Grand Rapids,
Mich, on Sunday, found the badly decOm--
posed body of a man lying In a cluinp or
h,.ll l.<. L. hAod
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Jones Mahany and John McCarty. roll
ing-miIl men, quarreled In skih on tho
river at GAINESVILLE, o., yesterday morning,
and when they struck and clinched the
boat upset. Mahany was drowned and NC
Carly is under arrest. Mahany was single,
aged thirty years.
The following letter was found in bot
tie near GananquO. Lake Ontario: zap
tain of the Bavaria: Help the ship is sink
ing: all have been washed overheard put
me. / expect my turn Will come next.
About one hundred yards on Oaloup ISL
and, Lake Ontario
The steamers North Star and Charles j.
Sheffield came in collision near Sanlt ste.
Marie, Mich. last Friday. The Sheffield
sank in eight minutes. The crew was
saved. The boat was valued at $4,000.
and owned by ii. ii. Brown, of Cleveland,
and +. NJ. Peck. of Detroit.
Thirty five violators of the law proyid-
ing for the closing of saloons on Sunday,
who were arrested at Cincinnati on Sun
day. were in the police court yesterday
morning. Their cases were postponed in-
definitely, and they were all released on
bond until called for trial. One of the pro-
prietors of the Gibson House and twoof
his barkeepers were among the number al
rested.
The shipments of -four, grain and pro-
visions from Chicago to the seaboard last
week aggregated l6.097 tons, against l14tS
for the preceding week. a decrease of |. l.S,8
tons, and against l.. 800 for the correspond
ing week last year. al increase of 5. 3.s07 tons.
The Vanderbuilt lines carried 500 per cent.
of the business; the Pennsylvania lines
1877; the Chicago and Grand Trunk 1872 and
the Baltimore sud Ohio las.