The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Texas militiamen are protecting rapist
Moss from a mob of lynchers at Emory,
Tex.
Henry Smith, son of farmer of Mahon-
ing Station, o., was murdered late Monday
night by tramps.
The annual convention of the Daughters
of the COnfederacy will begin in Baltimore
to-day and will probably be in session three
days.
The boiler of Burlington engine exploded
near Crawford, Neb. yesterday, instantly
killing Engineer H. c. Simpson and Fire
man F. NJ. Robinson.
Cleveland's second annual horse show be-
gan last night at Central Armory. 1t prom
Uses to be a pronounced success both from
a social and an equinine standpoint.
The National Grange, Patrons of Husban-
dry, will meet in annual session in Harris
burg, Pa. to-day The National Grange is
composed of fifty-eight delegates and six
teen officers.
Fred and Harvey Elliott, brothers, hotel
Keepers at Varna, near Bayfield,, Ont.
quarreled Monday night, and during the
struggle which ensued Fred shot Harvey,
killing him instantly.
Yesterday morning neighbors found An
drew Vaughn and wife weltering, in their
own blood at their home, in Bell county,
Kentucky. Vaughn is supposed to have
shot his wife and himself.
Among the passengers who arrived at
Nov York yesterday on board the steamer
Friesland from Antwerp were Count G. De
Lichtervelde, Belgian minister to Washing
ton, and Countess De Lichtervelde.
1t is probable that the Rev. Robert Col
lier the eminent Unitarian divine of Brook
lyn, N Y, will fill the pulpit of the First
Unitarian Church at Oakland, Cal, for a
period of three months early in the coming
year
The fifteenth annual congress of the
American Ornithologists' Union was begun
yesterday in the Museum of Natural His
tory at. New York. There were, over one
hundred delegates present, besides many
lovers of birds.
A national convention of American stock
breeders and feeders has been called to
meet in ST. Paul, Mimi, Jan. II to p next.
inclusive. The convention is a direct offset
Of the National Farmers Congress, which
was in session there recently.
John II. Mooney, Kate Mooney. his wife.
and Michael D. Romey, Mrs. Moneys
brother were found dead in their beds at
San Francisco, asphyxiated by gas. They
were in comfortable financial circumstances,
and it is believed the gas was left open
accidentally.
The Board of Missions of the Southern
Presbyterian Church met at Nashville yes
terday and revoked the order sending DIR.
Houston, of the Louisville Presbytery. back
to China pending an investigation now in
progress respecting his orthodoxy and &c
clesiastical standing.
The safe in the Mockesvile IN. CD post
office was blown open Monday night and
robbed of $500, half the amount being in
money and the rest in stamps. The rob-
bers fled on railway handcar first cut
ting the telegraph wire in two places to
prevent any message being sent out after
them.
In response to an order from Captain
Wright, Lieutenant Cavanaugh, with fif-
teen men, from Fort Duchesne, has arrived
at White Rocks. Utah. The reason, it is
reported, is rumor that the Indians are
leaving the reservation in bands of two
and three and returning to Colorado to
avenge the massacre of their comrades
there
Major S. A. Mulhauser, of Cleveland, o..
who, it was reported from Honolulu, had
attempted to commit suicide because of q
shortage of funds has arrived in San Fran
cisco. He denies that he attempted to take
his own life or that he was financially en-
was caused by the accidental discharge of
his revolver.
A contest has been begun at San Fran
cisco over the will of Mrs. Lydia A. Spauld-
ing. formerly manager of the Bella Vista
Hotel. The contestants are Eastern rela-
tives of the deceased. who claim that undue
influence was exercised over Mrs. Spauld-
ing by Mrs Augusta F. Tracy and Mrs
Mary p. Marshall, who prejudiced her
against them. The estate is valued at about
$4,000
The Los Angeles (Cal.) engagement of
Nine. Moultenord. the Oriental lecturer, has
been marred by the suicide of her advance
agent. Rev. ". L, Yeale. Presbyterianl
in his room at the Hollenbeck Hotel Los
Angeles. Ee was an Englishman, forty-nine
years old. Temporary insanity, due to an
injury to his brain, is the supposed cause
of the suicide.
Proceedings have been instituted in the
Federal Court at Topeka, Kan. for the
Scottish-American Investment Company of
London against the Kansas Investment
Company and T. B Sweet for $125.O0 The
suit is the outgrowth of investments ag-
gregating $3.50 600 made by the London COM
pany through the Kansas Loan and Trust
Company in the eighties. The Scottish In
vestment Company claims 1t was "defraud-
ed and deceived in the investments made
for II by the Kansas Loan and Trust Com