The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-25
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREyETIES.

The st. Lawrence river season of nayiga-
ton has closed.
The battle of Trenton. N. j., will be cele-
brated there, Dec. 26. by Sons of the Revo-
luton.
Greenport. l.. L.. will be the place where
the next National Canoe Association con-
tests will be padded.
G.. C. Baird. of Philadelphia. has offered
a tfty-doilar prize to the Princeton senior
who produces the best poem.
u. w. Donald has been absent from Nor
witch, Conn.,, so long that creditors to the
amount of S50.O 600 are anxious.
At Sillery. Cave, Canada. Saturday,
a schooner with twenty-one barrels of con-
traband Yankee whisky was contiscated.
Mrs. Mary Murphy. of Brooklyn. n. Y.
on Saturday believed she was swallowing a
siedlietz powder, but it was chloride OF
potash. and row she is dead. T
Connecticut wants her coast protected
against smugglers, and will ask Congress
for q revenue patrol of her shores like that
on other New England coast States.
George Walker, treasurer of a Knights of
Pythias lodge In Jersey City. took its
borrowed his wife's gold watch and 500 OF
his father-in-law, and is now missing.
The body of John Shaffer, of Bristol. Pa,
was found in the Delaware river, at Bur-
lingtOn, n. j., On Saturday. There are no
marks of murder. He left home Oct. 70.
Hannah Hastings, eighty-one years old,
and stark naked. walked abroad IN Brook
lyn, N. Y, at midnight Friday night She
was asleep, and was wrapped up and sent
home.
Statuary wrought in Italy after a model
of an American artist may not be brought
here free of duty as the production of an
American artist. So has decided the Treas
ury Department.
1t is stated that the Canadian Parliament
will be asked at the next session to enact
laws against p0lygamy, In order to cover
Offenses committed by the M0rmons OF the
northwest territories.
Admiral Walker and the commanders OF
his squadron, Saturday morning went
ashore at Boston with all the pOmp of their
rank and called upon the Governor, Mayor
and customs collector.
Joseph jackson. a col oaT' of muir
Saturday, attempted to Kill a witness
against the murderer during the trial.
Jackson was locked up.
Hollis Atwood. a town pauper. of Lin
coin, VT, is in Jail because he attempted to
improve his condition by passing silver
coin he had made with the aid of Newell
Haskins. of the same town.
The certified returns of the recent cleo
ton in New jersey show that the plurality
of Albeit tDemOcrat) for Governor is A.
253, which, with one exception. iss the
largest plurality ever given in the StateitO
election of 1867, when Joel Parker received
1867 plurality. The total prohibition vote
was 1888.
Reuben Gardiner fatally stabbed Lafay-
cite FrOntz at West Mill Grove, a small
place near Fostoria. A quarrel arose over
a game of cards. Frontz died in a few
minutes after the knife was plunged into
his side.
The indicted New York aldermen, of 1854,
known as the "bOodlers," have become i'm
patient at the delay in the trying them,
and, on Saturday, ex-Alderman Cleary went
to court, and demanded that his case be at
tended to.
DR.. Rudolph Tanzky, a noted Brooklyn
expert on insanity, who became insane and
attempted to kill himself and wife. in jan
| uary, 1855, died Saturday IN BLOOMING dale
Asylum. He was one of the experts in the
Guiteau case.
At Anaconda, Mont. yesterday, j. +. Hol-
ditz was shot and killed by his son, who
afterwards committed suicide. Temporary
insanity is supposed to have been the cause,
induced by dependency owing to depres-
sion in business.
Sir John Macdonald has resigned the
presidency of the Canadian Council, and
has taken the portfolio of railways and
canals. and Hon. G. c. Colby, Deputy
Speaker of the House of Commons, has been
chosen to succeed him.
Elizabeth, n. j., has Ousted the president
of the City Council because he recently
adjourned a meeting with the consent of
no member ave himself. The Council
insists on the fOrmality of ad~journing
itself.
j. b. Bond. of Elizabeth. n. j., was, two
weeks since, without work, the first time
IN twenty years. While walking on the
Central New Jersey railroad, Saturday,
in search OF employment, he was killed by
a train. A wife and two little ones are
left.
Charles NOnnemacher. aged twenty, who
was injured in Saturday nights collision.
on the Lehigh Valley wreck. near Bethle-
hem, Pa, died yesterday. He lived twelve
hours after being taken from the wreck
horribly mangled. Van Horn, another of
the victims. is in a dangerous condition.
1t is now claimed that Alice Jackman, the
kidnapped st. LOUIS heiress, has not been at
Normandy in a convent, as was thought,
but that. on the night she was taken out of
the House of the food Shepherd, she was
put on q train at Bridgeton, a few miles
west OF st. Louis, and taken to Chicago,
where she now ia