The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-31
GENERAL NOTES.

Two drv goods stores belonging to Wood
son IL Fletcher in Concordia, Mo-, were
burned Tuesday. Loss $4,000.
The business portion of Red Greek. Wayne
county, New York, was burned Tuesday
night Loss s35, 900; partly insured
The California Senate Monday night sus-
tanned Governor Booths veto of the harbor
commission bill; another victory for the in
dependents.
Blodgett. the New Hampshire wife MUIR
derer has pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree, and was sentenced to 80 years
Imprisonment.
A special to the Detroit Tribune states
that the Grand Traverse college building at
Bensonia, Benzie county, Michigan, was
destroyed by fire. Monday night.
DIR. Paul Schoeppe, alias ]. p. 5chulen-
berg, left Baltimore, Wednesday afternoon,
in the charge OF Detective J.. H. Dixon, Tor
Chicago, where he is charged with forgery.
The compulsory education bill has just
been defeated in the Illinois State Senate. III
seems that the average minded sucker still
believes in spontaneous growth for body and
mind.
Gently from st. Louis, was fatally shot by
some of his companions, in Happy Hollow,
Tuesday night. Three OF them lave been
arrested and committed.
The total production of coal in the United
States in 1878, according to the Miners Jour
nal. was. anthracite, % 828, los tons. btu
minous % 5S5 DID tons; total, As, Ala, 80 tons.
The increase over 1872 was 1862, 179 tons.
DIR. Jas. A. Medallion, one OF the most
prominent citizens of Washington county,
Missouri, was accidentally shot and killed
at Potasi, wednesday, by young son,
through the careless handling of pistol.
The railroad passenger and ticket agents
convention, which met at Nashville last
week, held an adjourned meeting at the
Gait house Monday, and will be in session
several days longer. The day was spent in
arranging rates..
The Flat river furry in Michigan is all
over 1t seems that no occasion existed
among the lumbermen for any serious
trouble and yet the sheriff of the county
telegraphed the governor for aid and the
militia went, saw and came back with blood
less laurels.
Governor Woodson, Of Missouri, has sent
a message to the legislature, calling atten-
ton to the existence in that state of band
of outlaws and desperadoes, who rob and
murder with impunity. He says that he has
no adequate power or means to bring the
ruffians to justice, and asks that legislation
be had at once. 1t is evident the governor
thinks the time has come to act.
The House committee on appropriations
are considering the expediency of voting
100000 for supplying subsistence to the
Sioux Indians, who are now congregased at
the Red Cloud and MILESTONE agencies. 1t
seems to be in the interest of continual
peace and for the preservation of white
scalps, and in this view the measure will
certainly recommend itself as being
economic and wise.
A young married man living near Wilkes
barre, Penn, sprang out:of bed rather hastily
one morning when the clock struck six, and,
as his feet touched the carpet, he some way
lost his balance and fell, striking his bare
mock upon the top of broken chimney of a
lamp-which had been left standing on a
chair near the head of the bed-and severing
the jugular vein. He bled to death within
five minutes.
While DIR. Howard Crosby, of New York,
is opposing the present movement, such an
E'infallible" radical as Pope Plus TX. has
written letter to the Massachusetts Cath
Ole temperance union, strongly encourage
ing all their endeavors to urge forward the
total abstinence movement under the guild
ance of the church. He quotes st. Augustine
as saying: drunkenness Is the mother OF
crime, the root of vice, the wreck OF charity,
the spring of evil, the overthrow of reason,
the ruin of the body and a loathsome disease
of the SOUL" tle
A temperance advocate hints that the next
crusade will be against tobacco. He says:
"The alcoholic stimulants are guilty of no
such degradation of common decency as the
tobacco habit. The money spent for it is as
absolutely sunk as that for drink. 1t robs
families of support and comfort in the same
way. Not one argument can be offered in
I1C1 Nl~s.No - e. IL
little respect for the man who, with his
whole body infused with this narcotic, prays
on woman's crusade against drink-selling,
or cries for prohibitory laws" ~
Mrs. General Sherman is devout Catho-
lie, as well as her daughters, Lizzie and
Annie. Mrs. s. lives about two miles nom
the centre of the city Washington, on 1