The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-14
NEWS NOTES.

Two fierce duelists at Peoria, ILL.,, backed
out at the last moment
Mrs McGilvany, of Prince Edwards Island.
has completed her Tooth year.
st. Louis has an epidemic of suicides.
There were two more "Wednesday.
John 0'Mahony, chief of the Fenian
brotherhood in New York, is dead.
A Wisconsin brute named welland lately
starved his two year old child TO death.
New York has a case of mysterious dis
appearance of music teacher named Dup
lat.
The New York committee on the French
statue of Liberty have issued an appeal for
aid.
James Gordon Bennett will sell his stables
and remain in Europe But me will hold on
to the Herald.
Joseph Bartlett, formerly Blaine's private
secretary, has become editor-in-chief of the
Boston Traveller.
A pugilistic encounter between two MEM
bers enlivened recent meeting of the st.
Louis board of trade.
Charles Prapp, of Columbus, Wisconsin,
blew his head OF with a shot gun after a
quarrel with his wife.
The municipal debt of Illinois is about @
per cent. of the assessed value OF the proper
ty upon which ii is based
The president and actuary OF the Column
bia Life insurance company, of st. Louis, have
been indicted for perjury.
The last surviving relative Of George Wash
,ington testified as a chirographicai expert in
the Littleheld case in Washington.
James Waddle, long considered respecta-
BILE citizen of Greenfield, Ohio, has got away
with $4,000 borrowed from his neighbors.
Anna Herhsel was thrown from a horse in
Dayton, and dragged some distance, her foot
sticking in the stirrup, but strangely enough
escaped death or serious injury.
There are 800 Indians on a., reservation
in Brown and Outagamie counties, Wiscon-
sin, who are reported to be in such destitute
circumstances IS to require state aid.
A New Orleans jury recently returned the
laconic verdict, Three TO one" on the body
of an unfortunate man who had died with
his boots on and with the odds against HIM.
There is deficiency of half million in
the fluids of the Farmers and Mechanics
bank of Hartford. Loose loans have been
the trouble. The bank will continue bust
ness.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is discovering
more mail robberies at the Little Miami
depot in that city and along the Pan. Handle
line The bags are mysteriously slit and
the contents distracted.
Now that the Hoosac tunnel is built, it
seems necessary to build a railroad to Chi
cago to utilize ii. A bill providing for a
$50, 100000 stock company for that purpose
is before the Massachusetts, legislature.
Caroline Po;zia came to mysterious
death in Cincinnati Wednesday. She and
her husband had been on prolonged spree,
and it is uncertain whether it was whisky or
morphine that killed her, also whether the
morphine was taken accidentally or given
by her husband.
mysterious hermit, presumed to be in
sane, has been discovered near Bloomfield,
Johnson county, ILL.,, living in a cave, eating
from dishes of primitive form, made by him.
self and refuses to communicate with
strangers. He dresses well and chews to-
bacco constantly.
Some inhuman wretch endeavored to per-
petrate q wholesale murder recently, at Al
bany, Oregon. One of the gentlemen con-
nected with the court house discovered
bag of arsenic fitted to the pump in such a
manner, that, when drawing water, it
would percolate the sack and poison the
liquid, and be the cause of wholesale slaugh-
ter as the central school is supplied with
water from the well.