The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

Henry Day, GreencaStle jeweler and
watch repairer, is in jail on the charge of
Emma Abbot left Kansas City for Glouces-
ter, Mass, last night, in charge of the re-
mains of her husband. Her dates have
been Cancelled for two weeks.
A man named Stagler, who was supposed
to have accidentally shot his hunting com
panion, near Asherville, a few days ago,
has been arrested for murder.
The Jacksonville Boot and Shoe Com
pany finds that convict labor does not pay,
and will abandon its contract with the
Prison South on April 1. 1t will remove to
st. Louis.
Fred Roth. employed by the Grand Rapids
lsiieh.,l Tank Company, has disappeared
with about $1,000 of its money. He has
been traced to Chicago, and officersleft yes
terday to capture him.
A veritable ghost is said to haunt the
farm of Charles Gwynne, near Lexington,
Clark county. 1t presents the appearance
of a white shadow in human form, and is
proof against bullets, rocks and clubs.
A cut mail pouch, with the contents miss
ing, was discovered on a mail train on the
Panhandle road, near Wheeling Junction,
yesterday afternoon. The pouch contained
way matter, but its value is not known.
At Lancaster, Pa. yesterday, Theodore
Roland, engineer at the Columbia Iron
the large fly-wheeT and was hurled around
with frightful velocity, receiving fatal in
juries.
w. Fl. Ryan, q fugitive from Columbus,
o., who is charged with stealing SITS worth
of watches and $3.50 in cash from Mrs. Will
Jams, of that city, was arraigned at New
York yesterday and remanded to await ex-
tradition papers.
Charles j. Kleesquis proprietor of the
Falls City Hotel, at Jeffersonville, is in a
serious condition from blood poisoning.
He recently probed a small boil over his
eye with a brass pin, and since then his
face has swelled to an abnormal SIZE
The bulk of the $500 worth of stamps
stolen from the postoffice at Grand Rapids,
Mich, on Friday evening" were recovered
yesterday. A boy found them wrapped up
in cloth in gutter in the outskirts of the
city. The thieves have not been caught.
AtCadillac, Mich, Saturday light, Charles
Wise and Ned Apsley, while crossing
the lake on the ice, walked into a air-hole
and were drowned. Sunday morning their
bodies were found clasped in each others
arms. The victims were both young men.
Will Kennedy, of Columbus, has received
which advised him. to take warning and
take better care of his Children The en-
ve1ope containing the letter, which was
signed white Caps" has the postmark of
Cincinnati.
Governor Beaver has fixed March q, 1889,
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convicted in Philadelphia of the murder of
her young daughter, by poisoning. Mrs.
Wbiteling confessed the crime and also adj
mitted having poisoned her husband and
another child
The Ohio Wool growers' Association yes
terday appointed seven delegates to attend
the national meeting at Washington this
week, and adopted a series of resolutions
protesting against the schedule of duties
prepared in the pending Senate amendment
to the tariff bill.
James Henderson, fancy horse jobber,
WAS arrested Ia at on
Henderson has been selling worthless
horses under the pretence that they were
blooded stock. 1t is said that he is wanted
in Philadelphia and a number of other
cities.
District Assembly 135, Knights of Labor.
has issued a circular in reply to General
Master Workman Pcwderly, in which he
makes a personal attack on Mr.. Powderly's
official course. Lewis is now secretary of
the National Progressive Union of Mine
Laborers.
The university crew of the Dublin, Ire
land, University has challenged the Yale
crew to a race provided the latter come to
England this year. Yale has taken no &C
| tion in the matter as yet, but the sentiment
| is in favor of accepting the challenge pro-
| vided 1T is decided to send the Yale crew to
England.
Dwight Moody, theevangelist. has begun,
| at San Francisco, a series ofmeetings which
will last at least thirty days. The services
are being held in the Mechanics Pavilion.
seat of the six thousand was taken. The
ailses were filled also, while hundreds were
| turned away.
| The new Guilford High-school, at Plain
| field, was dedicated last Saturday, the ex-
| ercises being held in the Baptist Church.
| Prof. r. q. Boone, of the State University,
delivered an address, Miss Ella p. Carter
read historical sketch, and the Reform
school boys furnished .le music. The
| building was erected at a cost of $4,000.