The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

The book-keeper of the First National
Bank of Joplin. Mo-, 10 short $1,000
Forty milkmen were arrested in Akron.
o.. yesterday, charged with aduiterating
milk.
William Evans, accused of poisoning
nine persons at Laurel, Del, has been at
rested near Philadelphia.
The spring wheat crop in Minnesota and
the Dakotas 10 placed st los. DOC. COO bushels.
against 100000, 900 last year.
Henry Blackman, q life convict in the
Michigan State prison, at Jackson, on ues-
day. killed William Cuddy. contractor.
There is much excitement at Saltwater.
whose ailment is thought TO be Asiatic
cholera.
Mrs. George Mortimer. of Memphis, has
lost two husbands within two years. Both
were linemen andtboth were killed by the
live" wire.
Mrs. Alice Croker. Q wealthy Chicago
woman. was strangled In her sleep by her
insane son, aged twenty-three. at CARTS
bed, Tuesday night.
Major j. Houk, of Baldwin, Mich, Tues
day night shot his recreant wife and her
supposed paramount. Frank Gray. he was
arrested. The woman will die; Gray may
recover.
Charles H. Abbott, proprietor of the
South Royalton shoeshop and of the Belle
peared. leaving creditors to the amount OF
$50. 900 to Sax, 900.
c. II. Nett. a blacksmith. quarreled with
the postmaster at Dousman, Wis.,, and then
started rival pOstoffice. carving the mail
to the train himself. MIR. Neff is now In
the meshes of the law.
Capt. John Palmer, commsnder-in-ch chief
of the g. A. r., says that the Department. of
Mississippi and Louisiana has been organ
lied. and the colOred posts have been adj
united to full membership.
Col. Nick Roberts. formerly manager Of
"Humpty- Dumpty," and prospective man
ager of new theater at Cincinnati was
hurt so badly by fall last evening that he
Is under the influence of opiates at his
hotel
A company of Minnesota militia, on the
way To Yellowstone National Park for an
outing, struck q hot wave in the Bad
Lands of South Dakota. The THERMOMETERS
registered 1880; at Livingston, Mont, it
was 1850 in the shade.
John L. Sullivan is. trying to get his
weight down to two hundred pounds. He
has numerous visitors at Cannie Place Inn.
n. Y. who regale themselves by drinking
beer at Is cents per bottle. The big fellow
chews wax like Vassar girl
Rev. J. E. Shaw. of Camden. N. j., re-
ceived q call the other night from q woman
who announced she loved him and had
made arrangements TO marry him. The
preacher QemurreO ana SO ala DIS vile.
The woman was, therefore, sent to jail.
The newspaper sleuth has received q
black eye. A New York Worldireporter re-
GENTLY run to earth" the alleged murderer
of Mary Anderson. He caused Morris Berg
10 be brought from Chicago. charged with
she crime, but Mr.. Borg easily proved an
Alibi.
Eugene Bogt. of Long Branch. N. j., was
in love with a pretty French waitress. So
was another man. Bogt was Jealous and
quarreled with his rival when the latter
WAS preparing to call on the girl. The rival
disposed of Bogt by tying him to a bed
stead, and Bogt was SO chargrined that he
shot himself In the abdomen.
Women who visit electrical works should
first remove the steels from their corsets,
or singular results may follow. The steels
become charged with a sufficient amount
of electricity to magnetic watches hours
afterward, as q New York woman found out
who thought she was avoiding that trouble
by leaving her timepiece at home. 1t is
even said that the steel-stayed body
shaper may carry away enough OF the
deadly current to shock husbands and sum-
mef lovers