The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
NEWS IN SUNDAYS JOURNAL.
Resume Of the Principal Home and Foreign
Events Recorded in the Issueo Of May 10.

A ten-year-old boy is accused of mail-rob-
berry, at Beloit, Wis.
John II. Box was arrested. at Chicago, on
q charge of embezzlement
Patrick Conroy was severely injured at
railroad crossing in Aurora, Ind.
Seyenteen-year locusts have made their
appearance in Highland county, Ohio.
The American delegates to the Samoan
conference are said TO have carried every
point at issue.
William Hare was accidentally killed
with an ak while rafting railroad ties, at
Winfield, w. Va.
A steam barge collided with schooner
off Presque Isle, on the 18th inst Four
lives were lost.
Adolph Haas, Democratic letter-carrier.
at Cleveland, o.. was arrested for robbing
the mails. He confessed.
The funeral services of the late Allen
Thorndike Rice, minister to Russia, were
held at New York yesterday.
At Akron, o., VIM. Langendorf assaulted
. saloon keeper named Austgen with
heavy club, fracturing his skull.
The special autopsy on the remains of
Washington Irving Bishop, held recently,
failed to reveal the cause of his death.
VIM: Mclaughlin. a soldier stationed at
Fort Randall, Neb., shot and instantly
killed his sweetheart. He was jealous.
H.
uel Waldrup, Of Litchfeld, Ill, over a
year ago. has been captured In st. Louis.
Cyclone Bill" and w. E. Cunningham
have been arrested for the robbery of Pay
master Whani, at Rocky Gorge, Arizona.
The postmaster at Coshocton, N. Y, has
been arrested for withholding fficial COM
munications from his successor in Office.
The ten-year-old son of Chinese laundry
man at Mt. Vernon, o., was accidentally
shot by the proprietor of shooting gallery.
Augusta Wolf committed suicide at Louis
vile, KY, by taking Rough on Rats" She
mother.
At Chicago, Herbert Shires. aged seven
years, accidentally shot and killed his
brother. frankie, while playing with a
small target rifle.
Amanda Hardin and Ann Cunence, both
colOred, quarreled over the division of
some soft soap at Russellville, KY, and the
former was killed by the latter.
Four brothers and cousin. all named
at Sneedville, Tenn, July 10. Their
crime was q murder of the most brutal de-
scriptiOn.
Boyd NJ. Miller. who sued The New York,
Lake Erie IL Western Railroad Company
for injuries sustained while employed by
the company as an engineer, got averdict,
at Mansfield, o., for $4,000.
The Indians at the Cheyenne agency have
appointed twelve judges from the different
tribes to treat with the Sioux commission.
At recent council large majority favored
the provisions of the Sioux bill.
While two roofers, named Alex. Frazer
and George Eddy, were engaged in roofing
the dome of an elevator at Buffalo, the
scaffold gave way, and the men fell one
hundred feet. Both were fatally injured.
Charles d. Preston, once delegate in
Congress from Oregon, was arrested in
Washington in the act of using the franks
of Senator Stewart, of Nevada, and Dele
gate Smith, OF Arizona, on his own private
mail.
The Land Office has made ruling to the
effect that if a homesteader has made i'm
provements on his claim, and has lived on
the land himself the prescribed length Of
time, he has a right to patent from the
government, even if his family did not live
with him during the necessary five years
of occupation.
Base Ball-Cincinnati z Baltimore B;
Louisville Ii, Columbus 3: Kansas City 15
Athletics 8; Brooklyn 5, st. Louis (eleven
|. innings); Philadelphia 8, Indianapolis 4;
Chicago IA, Washington Is (eleven innlngs);
Pittsburg 8. New York 2; Boston 10, Cleve-
land 8; Wheeling 10, Dayton IL; Springfield
Is. Mansfield 5; Canton Ii. Hamilton 2; st.
Joe IL, Denver z.