The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-07
TEI.EGRAPHIC BREylTIES.

ed.
Blight has seriously damaged the crop of
hops In the vicinity Oh Utica, n. L.
f. b. Wilbur was expelled from the Buff
falo Merchants Exchange on charges OF ap-
propriating grain after it had been sold.
Louis c. Mcmillan, of Wamego, Kan,
aged forty attempted to kill himself in
Topeka last night. fIe took morphine and
Is in dying condition.
At Ensley City. Ala, Andy Williams
went hsme and found VIM. McCutcheon In
his room with his wife. He killed them
both with a revolver, and left.
Aman about fifty-fiye years old shot him
name and address Paul Rouse. Morristown.
n. j." was marked on his underclothing.
IT is understood that the cruiser Alaska
met with an accident to her machinery
while making her trial trip, which will me-
cessitate her going to New York for repairs.
Yesterday morning small tornado passed
over Kansas City, from northwest to south
west, tearing down chimneys and small out
buildings, but doing little damage in the
city.
At Carthage. Mo-. S. F. Green, prom
inent attorney of that city, hanged himself
with piece of wire. Financial difficulties
were the cause. A widow and six children
are left.
At the annual meeting of the American
Electric-light Association the fact was de-
veloped that in the United States are in
use 237, OH arc lamps, and 2, 104, 76S incandes-
cent lamps.
Nathan Pinckney, cashier of the Lake
Grand Rapids. Mich, is missing. About
$1,000 of the company's funds have disap-
peared, too.
At Johnstown, Pa, Harry Meyer, of SUI
perintendent Hughes's carpenter force, last
night, shot and instantly killed James Nc
Cormack, tramp. There had been row
between these men last Sunday.
The Chickasaw Guards, of Memphis.
Tenn. and their guests, making party
numbering nearly two hundred, have left
Chicago for OcOnomOwoc, Wis, where they
will go into camp for three weeks.
The proposed convention of representa-
tiyes of the silver-mining and general min
ing industries of the United States, and of
kindred industries, at St. Louis, in October,
may now be considered an assured fact.
At meeting of the creditors of McKean
q Appleton boots and shoes. at Salem,
Mass, statement was submitted showing
the direct liabilities to be $5S,5O0, contin-
At Eminence, KY, during the election,
Monday. Deputy Marshal Maddox attempt
ed to arrest VIM. Monroe, cOlOred, under a
mistake. Monroe resisted and Maddox
shot him dead The coroners return was
'justifable homicide"
u. VI,
Los Angeles. has issued orders relative to
the National Encampment of the Grand
Army, at milwaukee,, in which he urges all
comrades in the Department of California
to attend the encampment.
The following directors of the Pacific
Postal Telegraph Cable Company were
elected: Jno. w. Mackay, w. c. vanhorne,
George Stephens. Chas. Il. Hosmer, Richard
V. Dey. Albert Chandler. Hector De Caster,
Edward G. Platt and Geo. Ward.
The initial subscription 70 the Chicago
worlds fair fund was announced at yesteT-
days session of the executive committee of
citizens. The amount was S250.0OO, in the
name of James w. Scott representing him
self and syndicate of his friends.
At Bechtelsville, Pa. in the works where
Thomas Edison's new invention, an ORE
separator. is being tested. Philip Dough
cry. the engineer met horrible death. His
clothing caught in one of the big belts, and
his body was drawn between two rollers
through a space half an inch wide.
Miss Jennie Tatum, aged about sixty
years, was found hanging from a limb of a
tree near her home, III the vicinity of Hills
boro, Tenn, yesterday morning. Miss Ia
tum, her mother and sister, nearly as old as
herself, have lived near HillsbOrO for many
years
Photographers Association of America was
opened in Boston yesterday. About four
hundred photographers are present from all
parts of the continent. Among those pres
ent was the venerable Abraham BOgardus,
of New York, the first president of the orig
inal society.
A colored-barbers' picnic at Island Park
wound up with fatal ARRAY. Colonel Dun
can imagined that Ed Bennett had insulted
his wife, and whipping out revolver shot
Bennett through the head, killing him. He
then walked down to the depot. A crowd
of Benefits friends soon followed and
killed Duncan in the waiting-room.
At Salt Lake City the gentiles are great
ly elated over the result of Mondays cleo
ton, which gave them majority of Al in
the city, which. it is claimed, insures a
gentle city government next February.
Seven gentiles were elected to the House
of Representatives and two to the Council.
giving them eight out of thrty-six mem
bers.
News has been received in Grand Army
mander Martin, of Illinois, in order to pre-
vent southern Illinois soldiers from attend
ing the encampment at Milwaukee, has
called an encampment of the Southern I'LL
noiS Veteran Association, to meet at Belle
Vile, during the week of the National
Encampment.
George Pohle, an official of the Acme
Lubricating Oil Company of Franklin
Pa. was found wandering about the streets
of Philadelphia last night in q demented
condition. He was identified and cared
for to-day by officers of the Standard Oil
Company. lie had started for Germany
for his health, which had been impaired
by overwork.
Arbitrators Failed to Agree.