Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-05-22
DAILY STATE SENTINEL

vi hADrOhD DAILY, lOund guilty and SEN
fenced to be hung on the Goth Of June. An
appeal has been taken.
DROwNED.-A man named JOIN S. Nap
PIT, discharged soldier of the United States
Amy, jumped overheard from the steamboat
Paul anderson, short time ago, near Go
laOnda, on the lower Ohio. and was drowned.
0-rItis said that, on the 11th, a 70 g ok
place in Belleville, Illinois, between circus
company and some Of the citizens, in which
child was killed and several citizens were
badly hurt
0rA destructive fire occurred at Barry
town, Dutchess county, N. Y, on Tuesday
morning, destroying the -four mills and store
house OF P. c. Fritz, with contents. The
total loss will exceed $4,000.
pJfhe dwelling house Of Dr. J. KNEE.
LAND. at South Onondaga, New York, was
totally consumed by fire on Tuesday night.
The family barely escaped with their lives.
Loss S1,7oo. insurance $3.50.
6TThe Louisville Courier, Of yesterday.
says: II. NJ. True the principal in the
swindling operation at Memphis, in which
the editor of the Louisville Journal was
party, has been held to bail in 5000 to an
swer to the charge.
HORSES KILLED-Three horses owned by
the gang Of Gipseys who have been recently
eneamped at Boggs' Run, not far from Wheel
ing, were killed by locomotive on the Bal.
timore and Ohio Railroad on the night of the
8th inst.
0ErIn the supreme Court of Massachusetts,,
DAVIS TAFT, of Charleston, South Carolina.
recovered $1,000 Of the Western Railroad
Company for the loss of an arm, which was
cut off by coming in contact with the door of
freight-car
NOVEL LAw-sUIT.-The First Dutch Re-
formed Church Of Jersey City has sued Mr..
WEIGH, the architect for $25, 600 damages.
They allege that Nj. WELcH furnished an
estimate to build church for $4,000
Hence the suit
CoTToN.-In 1906 the total consumption
of cotton in all the United States was little
more than one thousand bales Now, tho
cotton consumed by the mills of Lowell sx-
ceeds two millions eight hundred and twenty
thousand pounds per month.
0TGovenor HELM, the President of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, has sue
ceeded in selling TO citizens Of Louisville
one hundred $1,000 bonds each, for the ben
eft of the road. The sale was at eighty-ive
cents to the dollar.
0F The Laporte (Ind.) Union says that
Mr.. PATRIcK CusrE, a hand employed in the
Northern Indiana Machine Shop, ct that
place, was killed on Saturday week, by be-
ing caught in some of the machinery. His
limbs were fearfully crushed.
SLAVERY IN CuBA.-The planters and mers-
chants in the Island Of Cuba, have presented
memorial to the Queen of Spain, asking
permission to Introduce into the Island, q an
experiment, forty thousand colonists from the
coast Of Africa.
0rMr. Wars arrived in Louisville ON
the morning train from Lexington, on the
18th, with twenty-five men, all bound for
Kansas. They were each armed with
Sharpe's rifle, ane other accoutermepts for
border rufiian sports. ra-.s
0ETA fellow at Stratford, Canada West
made wager that he would kiss the first
woman that passed. He ATTEMPTED to win the
wager and got bis face slapped by the lady,
who summoned him afterward for the assault
for which he was fined So.
MASSACHUSETTS LEGIsLArURE-The Lag
islature of Massachusetts have passed an
amendment TO the constitution Of the State
limiting the number of Representatives to two
hundred and forty, and dividing the State
into districts for their election.
ILLINOIS STATE AGRICULTURE FArR-
The list of premiums and general regulations
of the State Fair, 10 be held at Alton, on
the Both of September, and the LIST, and Sd
days of October next, have been published
officially. The premiums amounted 10 ST.
600.
HomcIDE.-0n Friday night last Henry
GILMAN, well known in Nashville, met his
death at the hands of C. Il. WRIGHT, his broth
er-in-law. He received q heavy load of
buckshot in his lower abdomen from a mus
ket. GILMAN only lived few minutes.
RAILROAD SUBscRIPTIoS.--At the election
few days since, Schuyler county, Ills, gave
majority offour hundred and eighteen votes
in favor of making a county subscription Of
$4,000 to the capital stock Of the Rock Is
land and Alton Railroad.
0TThe Mississippi River Is encrosching
rapidly on its East bank, opposite St. Louis.
During the storm ON Saturday house on the
shore had become so far undermined that ID
fell into the river. When built in ls4s, the
house was more than fifty yards from the
waters edge.
SENTENCED. DIooESEs and THADpxus
wETMoRE have been sentenced, in the Uni
ted States Circuit Court at St. Louis, 10 the
Penitentiary for transmitting to the United
States Pension Office forged application for
bounty lands. The former was sentenced
to ten and the latter to eighi years.
/ OTThe Rockport Ind, Democrat says
that Mr.. WIN. HILL, of that vicinity. was
killed by his brother, accidentally, on FIJI
day. The brother walking ahead Of the
deceased, with gun on his shoulder, which
accidentally "going off," shot the deceased
through the breast, killing him instantly.
THE WALTHAM FoRGERrEs.-It Is said
that arrangements have been made by the
relatives of DAVIS for taking up al Of his
forged paper. During this interesting nego-
tiation he will be invisible in this latitude
Whether this couBe will satisfy violated law
and outraged justice, remains to be sesn-
or Another revolving pistol has been in
vented 1t has a magazine in two sections.
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