The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-25
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

81. Louis grain merchants claim tnero 10
corner" in August oats.
Thomas Smith shot his wife and killed
himself on ranch near Denver. Col.
President Harrison has accepted an in
vitation to visit Potsdsm, N. y, within q
few weeks.
Tip o Tip, the smart negro who palmed
himself off as Zulu chief in various Cities
is under arrest at Louisville.
A cloud-burst at Roanoke, Va, Monday
night damaged stores. residences end
streets to the extent OF $4,000.
"A fight between Bob Fitzsimmons and
Jim Hall is being arranged, to come of, IL
possible, at New Orleans on Sept. &
Cassie Hack. . pretty "yaller" girl, shot
Eugene Butler at Memphis. The latter
failed to marry Cassie according to prom
lse.
Tuesday night Benjamin Howard, oolored,
was taken from officers near Joseiyn, ca,
and shot to death. Howard was accused
of murder.
Four.fifths of the water of Colorado
river In Arizona and California is now run
ming through q new channel. Salton lake
10 now drying up.
Tuesday was the fiftieth anniversary of
the conservation of Cardinal Taschereau.
of Quebec, rs priest. The venerable car
dinal was banQueted.
The next meeting Of the American Assoc
citation for the Advancement of Science
will be held at Madison, Wis, on the third
Monday in August. 1898.
The steamer Bay Queen, which was
thought to have met with an accident
landed her eight hundred passenG gers at
New Haven. Conn.,. early yesterday morn
ing.
A negro man, who was q witness in the
trial Of White Caps at Brookhsven. Miss,
some weeks ago, was shot and killed Mon
dav evening while returning homo from
work.
The big wharf of the Louisville, Now Or
New Orleans. caved into the river Tues
day. The wharf and warehouse we're
crowded with merchandise. The loss will
be heavy.
Arthur F. Wynne. of Springfield. ILL.,,
who disappeared from Washington q few
near the latter city. He was partially
demented.
Rev. Francis Ryan IL under arrest at
Philadelphia for robbing sleeper in q sa-
loon. The priest was drunk at the time.
He says intoxicants have peculiar effect
on him, and rob him of knowledge ofwhat
! be isdoing.
A woman named Greenbaum left her
child asleep in q wagon not far from Sagi-
n aw. Mich. while she went berrying in the
woods. When she returned she found
some animal. probably lynx, had de-
voured all but one foot Of tho child.
Benjamin F. Nelson, of Minneapolis,
formerly president of the Minneapolis Fire
Insurance Company, has hled bill in the
Wayne Circuit Court ut Detroit. asking
for tho appOi ntment of James T. Wyman
as receiver of said company In Michigan.
= The people of Wardner, Ida. are chatting
under martial law. All saloons are still
closed and no person 10 allowed on the
streets after IL p. NJ. The citizens accuse
General Curtis of trying to break up the
Miners Union in the Ceur DAlene dis
trlct
Lena Kloettel, q German girl. was found
dead at her home on Race street. Cincin-
natl, over the Rine. Tuesday night, with the
lid of big trnnk shut down on her throat.
She was subject to epile psy. and it is sup
posed she fell in Q fit while looking through
her trunk and wss strangled to death.
Workmen on the Kaw Indian reserva-
ton, near Guthrie, unearthcd the bones
of some mammoth animal. A tusk was
found that yyas five feet in length. The
largest end W as over three feet In circum-
ference The bone from the knee to the
hip joint was over five feet in length. and
the center was twenty-five inches in
circumference Across the launches the
bones measured over five feet, and the ribs
were over four feet in length.