The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITlES.

The Paine Shoe Company, of Holbrook.
Mass, has assigned to Charles L. Hall, OF
Boston.
A man who pretended to be the son and
heir of the Earl of Hardwicke is accused
of fleeing the unwary people of Colorado
Springs, Col.
By an explosion at Herns powder works,
at Reading, o.. James Figler, aged nine
very badly injured. The building was
wrecked.
James Wilcox. a travelling man for q
mineral water firm of Saratoga, n. Y, wa,
found dead in his room at the Gait House,
Louisville, yesterday morning Death was
due to apopleXy.
Brachmann Massard, De Leon & Co.,
wholesale dealers in wine and liquors,
Third street, Cincinnati, assigned yesterday
to Alfred Mack. Their liabilities are placed
at 10000; assets, $4,000
BY the explosion of an overcharged gas
cylinder at the Clarksville (Tenn) ice fac
tory two negroes. George Munford and
George Dick, were killed and j. c. Mattill
the foreman, was badly injured.
Bushrod Kelch a wife murderer, pleaded
guilty to murder i'll the second degree, al
Cleveland yesterday and was sentenced &c
life imprisonment. At previous trial he
was convicted of murder in the first degree
Hiram A Waite, ex-city controller of
Port Huron, Mich, was sentenced yester-
day to five years in the State House OF
Correction on conviction OF embezzlement
of several thousand dollars from the city.
The NOSe Edge flnlShlnS company, man
ufacturerS of shoe machinery and wood
working tools, of Lynn Mass, has assigned
to Ferdinand A Wyman, of Boston The
assets are unknown, but the liabilities are
placed at $4,000.
The strike of the iron molders at the
General Electric Companys river works
Lynn, Mass, that has been in effect since
Oct. 16, 1895. has been declared off by the
Lynn Lodge OF Iron and Brass Molders
International Union.
The Grand Lodge of the Independent Or
der of the Free Sons of Israel will meet
in Chicago to-day. Grand Master Julius
Hartsburger, of New York, Will preside and
it is expected that all of the 104 lodges
throughout the country will be represented.
President E. B. Craighead and Professors
TompkinS and Wright, of the Clemson COL
lege, the South Carolina Agricultural and
home OF John c. Calhoun, have resigned.
The cause of the designations is not known.
The Leibinger & Oehm Brewing Com
pany, of Newtown, l.. l., has made q gen
eral assignment. In the schedule filed by
the assignee the entire nominal assets OF
down to an actual value OF $5i,26i.53 Inc
liabilities amount to $124,9lS.4.
At Cripple Creek, Col, there is talk of
forming vigilance committee similar TO
the one which has proven so effective at
Butte Mont. Every payday there are hold
ups all over the camp 1t is believed that
the only way TO rid the community of the
nuisance is by a vigilance committee.
Dr. Richsrd B. Coutant, who is attend
ing Mrs. d. H. McAlpin, daughter of VIII
liam Rockefeller at IarrytoWn, denies the
published statement that his patient is dy-
ing. Mrs. McAlpin, who gave birth to a
son a few weeks ago, is, according to DR..
Coutant, progressing toward recovery Mrs.
Strong, daughter OF John ID. Rockefeller
and a cousin of Mrs. McAlpin was safely
delivered of a daughter Friday night.