The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-14
T%ELEGRAPHlC BREVITIES.

Charlie Morich, of Cincinnati, nine years
old, was fatally burned. yesterday, by the
explosion of the tank of a gasoline stove.
The Canadian Order of Odd-fellows, now
in session at TORONTO, voted down a motion
to provide for the eligibility of COlOred men
for membership in the order.
A tobacco manufacturers trust, with a
capital of So, COX, 600. is said to be in pro-
cess of formation. ST. Louis and New York
firms are at the head of the project.
Bob Younger, the youngest of the notori-
Gus Younger brothers, who has been in the
State prison at Saltwater, Mimi, for near
~ thirteen years, is dying of consumption.
George Coffee, the colored man charged
with setting lire to the residence of Rev. 4.
L. Clarke, in Princess Anne county, Mary
land, whereby five lives were lost, has con-
fessed the crime.
Yesterday q squib factory, at st. Clair,
Pa, was wrecked by an explosion of pow
der. Mamie Null, aged nineteen years, was
burned to death. Hercharred remains were
fOund in the ruins.
Yesterday. at Louisville, Mrs. Catherine
Boyle. aged sixty five, and her children.
Miss Nora, aged twenty-five. Frank, aged
thirty, and William, aged twenty,three.
were all decided to be insane.
Robert Robertson, of Genoa, Mimi, was
arrested yesterday for stealing horses at
kirkland. Ill. He will be taken there to-
morrow. Robertson way released from the
saltwater penitentiary in March, where he
was imprisoned for the same ~offense.
Stockholders of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal Company, at Annapolis, yesterday,
directed the use of all resources to put the
canal in repair. President Stephen Gamb-
rell and the old board of directors were re-
elected. The presidents report says it will
take $500, 900 to put the canal in order for
business.
The East ST. Louis Dressed Beef Com
pany has sold its entire plant in East st.
Louis, and som twenty refrigerator stor-
age-rooms in various parts of the country,
to the Fairbanks Canning Company Of
Chicago. The purchase price was $500. 600.
The new owners will operate the East st.
Louis plant to its full capacity, of 1000 to
1900 beeves per day.
7. c. Munroe, of Lucas, Mich. caught
his coat sleeve in the cog-wheels of a ma
chine. He called for help. and two men
ran to his aid. They grabbed him around
the body and called for somebody to stop
the machinery. The warning was not
needed, and Munroe was gradually dragged
into and through the machinery, and his
body reduced to a shapeless pulp.
The Canadian government has received
advices that several Canadian sailing ves-
sells have sailed for Behring sea. The Brit
ish men-Of-war are still at Victoria, b. c.,
but il is likely that one of them will cruise
in Alaskan waters later on in the season.
There is no likelihood of any interference
on their part with the operations of the
United States Treasury protection service.
Rubber-shoe manufacturers held a meet
ing at the Hotel Brunswick, in Boston, yes
terday, to perfect plans for a rubber-boot
and shoe trust. A plan proposed by a gen.
tleman interested in the STANDARD Oil Com
pany was discussed and a committee ap-
pointed to report at a subsequent meeting.
1t is claimed that the conditions of the
trade force the union of parties interested.
Frank James, arrested last Tuesday night
at Bowling Green for an attempt to blow
up Mrs. Mertie Williamson's house with
dynamite. hung himself in Jail with a pair
of suspenders. He had been assisting Mrs
Williamson to get a divorce from her hus'
band, and when she refused to marry him
he secreted himself in her cellar with a dy-
Mantle cartridge. While waiting for the
woman's return, he fell asleep, and was dis
covered with the cartridge fuse in hi
| hand.