The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-07
NEWS NOTES.

Cleveland has a street car fight.
Chicago is ravaged by scarlet fever
Little Rock will celebrate Mardi Gras.
La Sale, Ills, is devastated by the small
pox.
There is a big temperance revival in Pitts
burg.
There is proposition to divide the state
of California.
Moody and Sankey find throngs o: listen
ers in Boston.
Another Chieagoan has been cured of dis
ease by prayer.
The municipal reform fight in Philadel-
phia is waxing hot.
The Louisville and New Albany railroad
is to be steel rallied
A libel suit against the Post is in progress
of trial in Pittsburg.
There is white lead in cigarette papers
which poisons the smoker.
Another colony of Bostonians has left for
Florida to look for homes.
Patrick Mowney was cut to pieces by a
train in Cincinnati Wednesday
Three saw mills are in almost constant
operation at Deadwood, d. T.
Judging from the comments of local pa
pers, the Kansas senatorial contest is simply
an auction of votes.
The new Charley Ross in New York has
been found, minus his overcoat, which was
what tempted his abductor.
Oglesby, the counterfeiter lately arrested
in Cincinnati, once lived in Columbus and
it is thought piled his trade there.
A litigation over a strip of land worth $25
has been in the courts at Ballston, n. Y.
for over ten years, and the end is not yet
The school buildings of Manchester, Mich,
are so crowded that a portion of the pupils
have to attend after the regular school
hours.
Sea Cliff, Long Island, has camp meet
ing scandal between middle-aged brother
and sister in the faith, both of whom are
married.
There was council of prominent demo-
Gratis at the Astor house, New York, Mon
day, presumably to select counsel before the
tribunal.
By the upsetting of a lamp in Labette
county, Kansas, lately. David Mcknight
lost his house with all its contents, and three
children were burned to death.
Sixty-seven of the inmates of the Illinois
deaf and dumb asylum were born of parents
of consanguineous origin, and As of these
were children of first cousins.
The body of child buried in Oswego,
New York, 20 years ago, was lately exhumed
and found in perfect state of preservation.
1t looked as if dead only few days.
John Kattor was killed by his fellow
workmen in the Barber plate works IN
Cleveland Tuesday, for refusing to partici-
pate in a strike. The murderers are I'M
known.
A vacant house in Detroit was supposed to
be haunted until it turned out that police
man was in the habit of beating a tattoo
upon its resounding wall as a signal to a
companion.
A number of gentlemen, residents of the
Pacific coast, have formed a company with
a capital of so, 600, 900, gold coin, to get out
lumber in Alaska for ship building and
other purposes.
Governor Palmer, of Illinois, had an inter
view with Littlefield, clerk of the Louisiana
returning board, when in New Orleans, and
learned substantially the facts now devel
oped in his testimony.
In a single night at Memphis lately fire.
mans throat was cut in fight, citizens
skull was crushed with a club, a man was
garroted in the public street, and there were
two unsuccessful attempts at assassination.
A Minneapolis man has contrived an ap-
paratus for the collection and slaughter of
grasshoppers, which he has christened the
"Hopperdoser." He is humanitarian, and
has not, therefore, patented his continuance.