The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26
T%ELEGRAPHlC BREyETIES.

The cap-stone of the Bennington battle
at Bennington, VT, was laid
yesterday with much ceremony.
A Clyde line steamer of New York yester-
day, from Charleston, cut through a great
school of whales off Absecom Light.
The safe of the Missouri Pacific railroad
was blown open Sunday night at Conway
Springs. Kan, and $1,000 in money was
secured.
The trustees Of the proposed Episcopal
Cathedral in New York city have offered to
give up the site chosen for the editice for
the worlds fair grounds.
Louis Meyer. fifty years old, a travelling
salesman for the Meyer-Bannerman Sad
dlery Company, of st. Louis, committed
suicide. in that city. last night. by shooting
himself.
Frank Harrison. for over twenty years an
employe of the postoffice at Philadelphia,
was convicted. yesterday in the United
States Court of stealing letters containing
checks.
Daniel O'Brien, of Hoboken, N. j., put a
penny in the slot yesterday and seized the
electric handles. He was ~frIghtfully
shocked and the doctors are uncertain
about his survival.
The American flag was run up the Battery
flagstaff in New York city yesterday morn
ing. where 100 years before the British
evacuated the town. The Old Guard parad-
ed In honor of the day.
j. j. West, ex-editor of the Chicago
Times, yesterday confessed Judgment on O
portion of a Sl00,0OO note in favor of II. j..
Huiskamp. The confession In this instance
covered the amount of 1900.
At Amherst, N. H., yesterday the people
found in the woods the unidentified skele-
ton of a man. The top of the skull was
blown off and a loaded gun lay near. Sui
eide or murder is the question in Amherst.
The National Jockey Club. of Washing
racing will be witnessed at the club'sw we'll
know curse at Ivy City. The meetings for
some time past ave not been profitable.
Allie Jackson, the abducted St. Louis
heiress. has been located AT Quincy, Ill.
She was spirited away by the Spinkses, rel
atives of her guardian, DR.. Taylor. and
they now admit it, and say it was done for
the girls good.
The Pennsylvania Wool-growers' Associ-
alton has adopted resolutions protesting
against the classifying of wool as raw ma
terial. and against the modification of the
tariff on wool so as to substitute ad valorem
for specific duties.
While Edward strother. colored, was
abusing his wife. at Slater. No.. Sunday
evening, his son Timothy interfered.
Strother turned on him with a poker, but
the lad seized q revolver from the table
and shot his father dead. The boy is only
twelve years old. He was arrested.
Charles Murphy and his son Jerry were
arrested In Forest county, Pennsylvania.
Sunday, on a charge of operating an illicit
distillery. and selling liquor without Ii
cense. The still was also captured and the
moonshine whisky destroyed. The capture
Is regarded az a most important one by the
internal revenue officers.
Chris Kemps. superintendent of the Ash
land Cemetery, at st. Joseph. No., was shot
and seriously wounded Saturday while or
dering two unknown men. who had guns
In their hands and were followed by six
hounds, out of the cemetery. The shot was
fired by one of the men. the whole charge
taking effect In kemp's face. The wound
ed man Is IN a precarious condition.