The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

California's midwinter fair will be formal
ly opened Jan. n.
Mrs. Eta Sample committed suicide in
Louisville yesterday by taking nitrate of
amyl.
There is much spurious coin afioat in St
Louis. The material used is block tin and
anthony.
At Decatur. ILL.,, yesterday, Bert Dubler,
twenty-five years old, was fatally stabbed
by his stepfather.
Ignatius Donnelly is again president of
the Minnesota State Farmers Alliance. He
was elected yesterday, after a bitter fight.
Hugh Higgins and Eugene Finch quarreled
over a game of pedro in Almena, Mich.
Finch is dead, while Higgins is in Jail
awaiting trial for murder.
Peter 3. Gallagher, attorney. said at
Detroit yesterday, he was gagged and
robbed of Silva, in his room in the Victoria
Hotel early in the morning.
Controller Ecxels has levied an assess
ment on the stockholders of the defunct
Merchants National Bank. OF Tacoma,
Wash, for $4,000. the full amount of the
capital stock.
me postotfice at Lamars. Ia, was en-
tered Tuesday night, the safe opened, and
S45S in cash and 500 worth of stamps taken
besides numerous registered packages, the
value of which is not known.
Fanny Davenport sprained her wrist badly
in the third act of Cleopatra" at Denver.
Tuesday night, and as sne was unable to
appear last night the theater was closed.
she Is undergoing an electric treatment
The strike of the Louisville & Nashville
switchmen at East st. Louis, begun Dec
l. because the company did not restore
wages to the figure existing before the
reduction made during the financial furry,
has been settled.
G.. w. McGrath, superintendent of the
Union Pacific Railway Company coal de-
partment, has posted a notice, offering a
reward OF $4,000 for information leading to
the arrest of the persons who set fire to
mine No. at Almo, Wyo.
The workmen at the Riverside Steel and
Iron Company's plant, of Wheeling, W.
scale, which in many cases provides for a
reduction of nearly 30 per cent. The plant
employs about three thousand men.
At Tuskegee, Ala, John West and VIII
Duke, two veally youths. wanted TO escort
the same girl home from church. Duke
got rid of his rival by Draining him in the
presence of the maiden, and Vests friends
rid the community of Duke by fatally
beating him.
d. A. Baker. cashier of the First Ma
tiOnal Bank or Norwalk, o.. committed
suicide yesterday by shooting himself
through the right temple and heart He
had been connected with the bank FOR TWEEN
ty-five years. His accounts are said TO be
perfectly straight.
Representative Quigley has introduced a
bill in the Kentucky House prohibiting the
organization or continuance OF societies
whose object is TO discriminate between
Christians on account OF their religion.
Inc penalty is a fine OF $500 TO 81, 900 or inn
prsOnment from six to twelve months,
or both fine and jail sentence
Two years ago Mrs. Mary Allen. OF Glen
dale. o., died. leaving her estate OF $50. COO
to the Swedenborgial Church in Glendale
10 found "A school and library. Heirs con-
tested and broke the Will An appeal TO the
Circuit Court got new trial to-day. Yes
terday the conteSt!ng heirs consented To
abandon the contest and let the will stand.