The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-17

as a result of the quarrel Schleif is dead
with a bullet through his heart and Wag-
ner was shot in the left hand.
]. c.. Stevens wholesale liquor house, at
Saline, Kan, was raided yesterday and four
fifty-galion barrels of wine were confls-
Gated by the sheriff. The proprietor was
arrested and will be tried under the new
temperance law March q.
The Metropolitan car barn in Kansas
City, Mo-, was robbed of $131 yesterday
by burglars who overpowered Irwin Lock
wood. the night clerk, locked him in a
cloakrOom and blew open the Sa1e WITH
dynamite. The men escaped.
Henry Alexander and William Coughiin,
of San Francisco, have been arrested at
Chicago on a charge of counterfeltlng
Several hundred bogus silver dollars ana
a complete counterfeiters outfit were
found in their rooms by the authorities.
Judge Baker, at Omaha. yesterday over
ruled the motion for postponement OF trial
filed by the attorneys for James Callahan,
charged with completely in the abduction
of Edward Cudahy, jr., Dec. is last. 1t is
now expected the case will go to trial on
Monday.
Careful Investigation of the report of the
burning OF sixty negroes in a turpentine
camp fire in Baldwin county, Alabama,
shows there is absolutely no foundation
for the report. The story was invented by
a faker. No Mobile newspaper printed a
line OF it.
In a duel with pistols at Cynthia, KY,
yesterday Washington Slade shot William
Hays, one bullet striking him in the arm
and another in the mouth Hays returned
the fire, striking Slade in the neck, killing
him instantly. Hays will recover. The
hot contests in the county Democratic pri-
maries were the cause or the trouble.
The Erie IN. " police arrested three
Migrants yesterday on information of "A
brakeman on a Lake Shore train, who
says he saw three men fighting near the
track as the train approached and that
two of them flung the third one under the
engine. The man was recognized as Felix
Johnson. forty years old, a native OF
Waterbury, Conn.,, where his parents live
in comfortable circumstances.
The jury in the insurance conspiracy
case of DR.. Michael n. Regent, Nora
O'Brien and her son, James O'Brien, re-
turned "a verdict of guilty at Chicago last
night. Regent will be sentenced to the
penitentiary in addition TO paying a fine.
The O'Briens escaped with a fine. The
trio were charged with substituting false
bodies for the member of the knights OF
Ladies of Security ana collecting the In
surance.
Henry Hobs, who is charged with COM
hitting an assault on Edith Shinkle, an
eleven-year-old girl, near Winchester, o.,
on Friday, was given a hearing by the
mayor yesterday. Later he was taken to
Eaton, o., the county seat of Preble coun-
ty, and placed in Jail 10 await trial. The
girl is reported out of danger. The excite
ment over the assault has quieted down in
Winchester, and there is no more talk Of
lynching the prisoner.
JACOB daSkell, a clerk IN the ASnIdDula
(O) postOffice and a son of Col. w. G. Has
kell, sealer of weights and measures for
the District of Columbia, was arrested yes
terday on the charge Of rifiing letters. Ii
is alleged by the postofice detectives that
a decoy letter was opened by Haskell and
the money and stamps contained therein
found on his person. Haskell admits, Il is
said, that he had rifed the letter, and con.
fessed hat he had been robbing the mail
for several weeks.
Mrs. Samuel Zweik, the wife of a trav-
cling salesman for a New York neckwear
house, took morphine and drank carbolic
acid at the Saratoga Hotel, Chicago, last
night. She drank the contents of an ounce
bottle of the acid just as her husband was
about to leave the room. After draining
the contents she threw the empty bottle
at her husband. She will die. Mrs. Zweik's
maiden name is said TO have been Annie
Shock, and she is said to have come of
twenty-six years old, and unusually hand
some.