The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-24
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

The letter carriers of Charleston, s. C..
have contributed 50 each to a fund for .
to the late Hon. S. s. Cox.
Minneapolis, Mimi, is in the field with
reasons why the next Republican national
convention should be held IN that city.
Louis Kellernan fatally shot his wife. at
WATERFOWL, Wis, yesterday. The couple
had been separated for several months.
Senator Vest, who has been i'll for some
time, at his sisters house in Sedalia, Mo-.
is fully recovered, and left for Washington
last night
While forcing an entrance TO a saloon at
Chicago, at / O'Clock yesterday morning,
Michael Breen was killed by the bartender,
Pat Mulhern.
The right of the State of Maryland to
protect its oyster beds, even by sinking the
pirate vessels. has been upheld by the
United States District Court.
William +. Campbell. who was shot in
his saloon by Policeman Patrick Il. Morris.
at New York on Monday night, died yes.
terday. Morris is in custody.
The American Antiquarian Society held
Its seventy-seventh annual meeting; at
Worcester, Mass. yesterday, President
Stephen Salisbury in the chair.
During a gale on Lake Michigan, on Mon.
day night. the steamer Ballentine. barge
IrontOn, tug Protection and schooner Amer
lea went ashore at Winnaka, Ill.
Christopher Flcken, bartender, and Max
Boxer. a waiter, were found dead In bed
yesterday morning, IN their room. at New
York. They were suffocated by gas.
F~orty-six Yukon miners nave arrived at
San Francisco. Recent reports of starva-
ton in Alaska are denied. although many
of the miners are in destitute circum-
stances.
An old man named Fortzinger. living i&
Conemaugh, Pa, committed suicide yester-
day by hanging. He became respondent
over his great losses in the flood and was
unable to bear up under the strain.
Last night at Perkins cotton-gin, eight
miles east of Memphis. Hugh Mccullough,
the superintendent of the gin, was assas.
slnated by an unknown person, supposed
to be Gus Williams, a worthless negro.
At Trenton. KY. last night. Joe A. Smith
shot and killed City Marshal W. T. Will
Jams. The Marshal was serving notice on
Smith to answer tor some disOrdeTly conduct
of himself and others at Pembroke, on last
Sunday.
treal auction-room yesterday. There were
about one hundred persons in the room at
the time. Some thirty were preciDitated
into the cellar beneath. No one was seri-
cusly injured.
The formal dedication of the New Farms
worth Art Building. at Wellesley College,
took place yesterday. Rev. Alex. Mcken-
zie made an address, detailing the history
of Isaac Danforth Farnsworth, the donor
OF the building.
during september past 3S,o44 immigrants
came TO this country, against 1856 in Sep
tember. 1888. Germany furnished $3.50:
England and Wales, 6.5s1; Ireland, 5.293:
Sweden and Norway. $3.50; Russia. $500,
Scotland, 135; Italy, 1,776; France, 76s.
The Jury in the case of Charles McElvaine.
the young burglar on trial in Brooklyn, n.
Y, for the murder of Christian w. Luca,
the groceryman, came into court yesterday
with a verdict of murder in the first degree.
The prisoner was remanded for sentence.
James Pope, a horseman, was attacked
last Monday night, at Kansas City, by
Ralph Roys. a vagrant, and severely in
jured with a slung-shot. Pope's injuries
resulted fatally last night. Roy is in Jail
awaiting the finding of the coroners jury.
Hereafter three steamers will perform the
service of the Pacific Mail Company between
China and San Francisco. The work for
merly required eight. Reduction of China
travel through the exclusion act. and CON-
petition by the Canadian Pacific company,
is given as the cause.
i. NJ. Hoyt, a middle-aged stranger, was
arrested at Louisville, yesterday, charged
by Mrs. Julia Hunt, a widow from
DeFuniak.- Fla, with representing himself
to be a detective, and by promising to
marry her. he got possession of her entire
estate, which he sold. and came to Louis
vile. He also secured SSl5 in cash from
her.
The Canadian Commissioners of Customs
has ordered that all freight sent in bond
from a Canadian point through the United
States to British Columbia ports must be-
carried from the Pacific port of transship-
menu to destination in British vessels, OF in
vessels of foreign countries who pay for
the privilege. This is a boycott on Amer-
l. lean vessels.