The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-15
T%ELEGRAPHlC BREVITIES.

Locomotive engineer Terry Smith was
shot and killed in a quarrel by q section
foreman named G.. Il. Baker, at Aberdeen,
Miss, yesterday.
side tenement, at New York, last night,
and Mrs. Kirschman and an infant grand
child, Ester Goldberg, were burned to
death.
j. P. Stevens, a section man at Marion
Junction. Ala, yesterday shot and killed
Birmingham railroad. The u began
about a woman.
Two of the victims of the benzipe ex-
plOsiOn at Coleman's Station, Pa, died yes
terday. making three deaths so far. Dunn,
the boy, is still living, but he is in q dam
gerOus condition.
j. G. Malone, one of the Oldest magis-
trates in Jefferson county, Kentucky,
dropped dead of heartdisease while testify
ing in court. ON Thursday afternoon. He
was slxty-six years old.
During a thunderstorm at Cincinnati,
yesterday, two children of Lowe Emerson,
a prominent carriage manufacturer, resid-
ing at College Hill, were struck by light
ming. One of them is supposed to be fatally
injured.
While at work in his field. Patrick Cook,
q highly respected and perfectly reliable
ty, Kentucky, killed a green viper about
three feet in length. with two distinct and
perfectly formed heads.
Mrs. Henry FaurOt, of New Orleans, who
compelled her cousin to- marry her. claim
ing that he was the father of her illeglt-
innate child, committed suicide yesterday.
She left a letter generating her husband
from the charge made against him.
". S. Richmond. a prominent real estate
dealer of Cedar Rapids, Ia, isl Jail charged
with forgery. 1t is claimed that an uncle
nanpr Rrchp,nnd Lost GEA n00 nr GEO 000 in
sp~eculatiOns on the Chicago market.
George and Charles Sherwood, aged, re-
s~pectively, fourteen and seventeen years.
sons of a conductor on the Northwestern
railway, were drowned in the Calumet river
on Thursday. The accident occurred near
the Panhandle bridge, K~ensingtOn, Ill.
The conference committee of the two
houses of the Michigan Legislature. on the
liquor question, has agreed to fix the retail
tax on beer and whisky at $3.50, n the
brewers tax at sos, and to compel druggists
to obtain permits to sell liquor and to quar-
terly report their sales.
At San Francisco, on Thursday, Samuel
Isaacs shot a woman. and then killed him.
self; a Chinese household servant slashed a
sister OF his employer with a large butcher
knife, and an unknown man was beheaded
by the cable-cars, making the third acct
dent on the same road in one week.
Raphael F. Ferrandine, an eight-year-old
boy, fell In the gutter near the corner of
Howard and Lexington streets, in Balti-
more. yesterday afternoon, during a heavy
rain-storm. The current carried the little
fellow into the sewer, and his body was not
| recovered.
Judge McLain, president of the Savannah
Mo- Savings Institution, which failed
Wednesday of last week. was arrested on
Thursday for receiving. deposits. knowing
that the bank was insOlvent. The liabili-
ties of the bank will reach SIS. COO, and the
assets will be over $4,000 o Only $3.50 was
found in the safe.
William Vert Henry, grandson of Pat
rick Henry, who was the first Governor of
Virginia. has been appointed by Governor
| Lee to represent his State at the meeting
of the Governors of the thirteen original
! States in independence Hall. Philadelphia,
| July 4. Governor Lees official duties pre-
vent his attendance.
Chas. Wittstein, a Cincinnati druggist.
committed suicide yesterday morning at
his home on Kemper lane, Walnut Hills. by
shooting. himself in the head. He had
spoken pleasantly to his daughter a mo-
ment before. 1t is supposed that a dread of
approaching blindness, coupled with gen
eral ill-health and nervous prostration. in
duced the act. He was in comfortable cir
cumStances.