The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-29
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
WEpNrsDAY. May %.

WEDNESDAY, May %.
Nineteen business houses at GAINESVILLE,
Tennessee, burned 10 day.
OF Persia at St. Petersburg,
The United Brethren convention continues
in session at Dayton, Ohio.
The typhus fever is raging to an alarming
extent in New South Wales.
Eight hundred cattle were shipped from
Toronto for Liverpool last week.
Count Schouvaloff arrived at London from
st. Petersburg at 6 this morning
The four and a half per cent. subscriptions
today at New York was $4,000
The annual decoration of soldiers graves
at st. Louis will take place on Sunday next
The syndicate has advanced the price of
the new y bonds to 1929 and accrued IN
terest.
The fourth annual convention of the Cath
Ollie young mems national union is in session
at Buffalo.
G4rrick, Judith, Suwananoa and Bush
wbacker were the winning horses at Balti-
more to-day.
In the conference of charities at Cincinna-
Il many interesting points were discussed
and acted upon.
Leather & Co., propnetors of the chemical
works at st. Helena, England, have failed.
Liabilities, 100000.
The army of Sunday school children of
Brooklyn had their 10th annual parade and
anniversary to-day.
The trial of Rev. Geo. B. Vasbury, charged
with having poisoned his wife, was resumed
to-day in Jersey City.
The merchants of Moscow have contrib
uted 400, 900 roubles toward the formation of
a Russian volunteer fleet
The German government has not broached
at Copenhagen the subject of closing the
Baltic against the English.
Chas. Merrill & Sons, manufacturers and
dealers in hardware in New York, have sus
pended Liabilities, $4,000.
The Russian government has made con-
tract with Boston iron company for the
manufacture of heavy ordnance.
There has been received Il telegram from
Shanghai announcing that there has been
heavy rains in several Of the famine prov
inces
The large tobacco manufacturing estab.
was seized to-day on the charge of defraud-
Ing the government.
The general conference of the NJ. E church
south continues in session at Atlanta, GeOr-
gia. To days session was taken up in dis
cussing the Nashville publishing house.
The Presbyterian general assembly, in ses-
sion at Pittsburg, had another interesting
meeting to-day, az which large amount of
mr. ahurah mo tVas lioo11cSn1
The duke OF Athole yesterday had two in
teryiews with the queen, and afieTward adj
dressed a public meeting, declaring that
the prospects for peace were very favorable
The members of the German national lib
eral party held a meeting at Berlin to day
and resolved to vote against the government
bill for the prevention of so-called domestic
excuses.
Her majesty's iron steamship Triumph,
armor plated, 6,60O tons, and carrying IA
guns sailed from Portsmouth for the Petite
ocean, to relieve a ship of $40 tons and 26
guns.
The seventh annual convention of the
passenger conductors life insurance COM
pany begun at Philadelphia this morning
Delegates were present from every state in
the Union.
AT the annual state sportsmen's meeting,
now lii session in Fremont, Nebraska, the
club team champion cup was shot for to-
day. Six teams competed. The cup was
won by the Fremont team.
Harvard students have been recently dis
covered by the college authorities having
knowledge of the examination papers before
regularly issued. Two members of the
junior class have been expelled and one or
two employees removed.
Three children of a man named John
Wormkey, living near Dubuque, were suffo-
Gated yesterday by the burning of sticks
thrown into the wood box. Wormkey and
wife had locked the children in the room
and gone TO work in q corn field
The coroner's jury, which has been hold
ing an inquest on the victims of the mill
explosion at Minneapolis, has returned
a verdict that the disaster was the result Of
an explosion of mill dust IN the air, kindIed
by fire in the woodwork Of the Washburn
mill.
At the general session of the Social Science
association at Cincinnati to-day papers were
read on the following subjects: ION Con-
greSs aud the President Advocating the Adj
mission { { Cabinet Officers to the floor of
Con gress, Post Office Savings Banks"
American Coinage and Currency" The
Commerce of the Lakes" Canal Transport.
atIon," The Commercial and Social Rela-
tons with South America" The Elective
Franchise" Nearly all of the papers read
caused debate.
THURSDAY, May %.
Subscriptions to the per cent. loan at
Washington to day were $3.50 100.
The emperor of Germany has refused to
accept the resignation of DIR. Faiks.
The Russians at San Stefano are hopeful IN
regard to the meeting of the congress.
Mary. Danger, Lady Arlington, were the
winners at the Baltimore races to day.
The specie in the bank of France increased
100000 francs during the past week.
The duke of Cambridge will shortly go to
Malta to review the Indian contingent.
Count SchauvalofF had an interview with
Lord Salisbury, the foreign secretary, to-
day.
The Bennett polar ship will soon all