The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
TELEGRAPHIC BREylTIES.

George Lewis, a negro living near Belden,
Tex, was lynched Tuesday night for poison
ing the well of VIM. Shaw.
After church, Tuesday night, at Trenton,
La, two negroes, Joe Cook and Sol Dorsey,
engaged in scutfle. Becoming angry. they
both drew pistols and fired, and both were
killed.
The first bale of new-crop cotton was
brought to Austin. Tex, yesterday The
cotton crop of Texas this year will proba-
bly, reach two million bales, and the corn
crop Will be enormous.
Wayne Whyttier. aged twenty years,
was arrested yesterday while attempting
to wreck freight train on the Reading &
Columbia railroad, near Ephrata, Pa. He
was committed to prison for trial.
The engagement of Miss Helen Newell,
of Chicago, to James X. Garfield. second
son of President Garfield, is announced.
Miss Newell is the daughter of John G.
Newell, general manager of the Lake Shore
railroad.
George w. Childs. of Philadelphia, has
received from Col. Fred Grant, minister to
Austria, contribution of S142 from the
people of Carlsbad $40 from Mrs. U. 5.
Grant, and $40 from himself for the Johns
town sufferers.
Emmerich Hasse. Paul Belijik, Joseph
Belijik and John Andrusik, four tinsmiths,
who arrived at New York last week from
Germany under contract to work for
Milwaukee timer, were sent back on the
steamer Irave, yesterday.
Forty two representative working men
left New York, yesterday, for q trip through
the manufacturing districts of Europe:
With the party are four stenographers Sand
type-writers, who will keep the records of
the party during the tour.
The new Sanderson Academy building in
Ashtield, Mass, erected as Q memorial to
was dedicated yesterday, addresses being
delivered by George William Curtis. Chas.
Eliot Norton, DR.. g. Stanley Hall and 9TH
erS.
Columbus Delano, the president of the
National Wool-growers' Association, has
called meeting in Columbus, for July %,
to consider the decision of the Treasury
Department regarding the duty on secured
wool imported under the false designation
of waste.
The southern part of Van Zandt county,
Texas, is suffering from the acts of band
of incendiaries, who are burning churches
and school houses right and left. -Four of
these buildings have been destroyed within
a week, and the citizens are becoming
greatly excited.
Cleveland capitalists have about CON-
pleted arrangements to establish an iron
tubing factory at Ottawa, Canada. Men,
bers of the syndicate say they possess new
welding process Ottawa was selected as
the site OF the factory on account OF Its
fine water power.
The impression prevails at the Naval
Academy at Annapolis that the court
martial which tried Commander Harring-
ton for grounding the practice ship Con-
stellation, found him guilty. 1t is rumOred
that the punishment is something like a
years suspension.
A. j. HOdson business partner of Mayor
Mosby, of Cincinnati, died yesterday morn
ing from the effects of injuries received on
the 4th inst, while dischargng fireworks.
He was wounded In the face. ana although
the wound healed, the shock brought him
into fever. from which he died.
A heartless woman placed a twO-weeks-
old baby ON the tracks of the yards of the
Cincinnati, Washington 81 Baltimore road,
ticed by an engineer in time to stop his en-
CINE. The woman was seen running away.
but she escaped in the darkness.
By the falling of an elevator in the beef
canning works at the National stOck-yards
in East st. Louis, yesterday. three men.
John Roman, Patrick Grimes and John
Bremen were precipitated from the third
| story to the ground floor. Roman was fatally
hurt, and Grimes and Bremen seriously in
jured.
| Wisconsin, took place Tuesday from the
residence of Mrs. Geo. Cox, in Lancaster,
an Old-time friend of Wisconsin's first Gov
ernOr. At the funeral were Governor
Hoard, ex-GOvernOrs Lewis, Taylor, Lud-
| ingtOn, and many other prominent WiscOn-
| sin citizens.
Suit has been brought to set aside the
! will of William Glenn, one of the wealth.
| est merchants of Cincinnati, who died re-
| Gently. The suit is brought by the widow
| of son of Mr.. Glen. who died ten years
| before the death of the testator, but it is in
| the interest of the widow'ss son. The estate
| is quite valuable.
| Mrs. Nelson briggs, of Dayton, o., gave
bond in the sum of $4,000, at Cincinnati,
! yesterday, to answer q charge of passing
| counterfeit money. Her bondsmen are
| Abraham Lacey and Constantine Bless
| niger, of Dayton. Her examination is set
| for Aug. 2. Her husband was remanded to
| Jail. and the wife said she would set about
the task of procuring bondsmen for him.