The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-11

police to carry draped flags. They formed In
procession and accompanied the body TO
Brooklyn ferry.
An ingenious jail delivery was effected at
Adrian, Mich, on Tuesday night. Two horse
thieves. one adulterer and a poisoner made
charcoal OF embarrassing, using a wet
blanket for kiln, and with the coal thus OBJ
tained heated the stone-work OF the window,
broke IL, dug the bars out and got away.
Friday night thieves lie a large sorrel
horse from Daniel list, q farmer living near
Rogerstown, Ind. They also took two
buggies aud harness belonging to other par
ties. 1t is supposed TO have been done by the
regularly organized gang which has been
working in that and adjoining eastern Coun-
ties.
About t-"o years ago the Changers Coop
perSt atty, store was dnsorPo.aed IN SaidTe
tised that they did business 10 the amount of
$4,000 the first year, and paid large premiums
20 the stockholders Friday Charles T. Lewis.
Esq, was appointed receiver. 1t is stated by
men who ought to know that the stockholders
Will lose heavily.
There is good authority for the statement
that General Hancock has written a letter TO
General Sherman requesting the privilege o.
making public Sherman's letter upon which
Gently made public, and which is now memo.
rabe. Sherman has refused 10 either give the
letter TO the public himself or to permit Gen
eraI Hancock to do SO.
General Walker. Superintendent of the
Census, says il will be some time before ne is
ready to issue special figures of population,
etc.. After the first review of compilation is
made IL is subjected to two Tevises, and until
such revisions are made the data is not con-
sidered accurate. IL Is estimated that IL will
take three years at least TO complete the entire
compilation OF the census.
The returns from the Alabama election con-
tinue to show that the Greenback State ticket
was unknown in most of the Counties. rhe
Denccrs tic vote was unusually full on ac-
count OF the contest attaching to the County
officers. The Legislature will be almost
solidly Democratic, and al the Judges and
joritY on the State ticket will be fully $1,000.
The Consul General of the United States at
St Petersburg telegraphs the Department of
State that hail, drouth end insects have COM
bined TO render the prospects of the Russian
grain crop for the present year far more dis
couragipg than they have been for many
first fouI months of the present year was u.s.
100000 bushels less than for the corresponding
period last year.
Governor Hoyt, OF Pennsylvania, has re-
ceived communication from Secretary of
State Evarts, calling attention to the sale of
bogus medical diplomas abroad, and inclosing
a report from the Consul at Barcelona, Spain,
tran uniting diploma granted by the amer
lean University of Philadelphia" Tor $500 to q
Spanish citizen who wears he never attended
the L University, and never lived In the United
States. The pspers were aid before the state
Attorney General.
The Chiefs at the Los Pinos (Col Agency
have signed the treaty, and now the other
Indians are anxious to sign, fearing that they
may not get part Of the $4,000 which the
Commission is authorized to pay out as soon
as arrangements for the removal of the Utes
are perfected. which will probably be some
time next fall. The removal OF the Utes is
only question OF time, and the Commission
ers are hurryIng matters as fast possible
Stephen D., a nephew of Cyrus W. Field, has
patented an invention for applying electricity
as motive power on both surface and ele-
waited railroads, and his patents are said TO
antedate all other claims. The elevated roads
will test his motor, an1 adopt it IL 1t works
successfully The important feature in this
invention is that an attachment is provided
which VIII render coklisions Impossible, each
train automatically preserving safe distance
from that following it. The brakes to be
operated by the same electrical currents which
propel the motor.
General Garfield and his party, on their
way, last week, TO attend the conference of
Republicans in New York, made short halts
between Buffalo and New York Large crowds
greeted the arrival of trains, and considerable
enthusiasm prevailed among the Republicans.
There was cannon firing, cheers and music.
Lieutenant Governor Hoskins accompanied
the party from Buffalo, and introduced Gen.
era Garfield 10 the throngs at the stations.
Governor Cornell and General Arthur Joined
them at Albany. When they ived IN New
York Republican leaders greeted them. Gar
held and party returned home yesterday. The
conference in New York seems to have been
a Republican wall that everything was going
to the "demnition bow-wows." Indiana was
agreed by all to be the battle ground, and that
money and speakers must be pouTe into the
state, and Landers defeated at all Hazards.
George Mckinley and wife, of Sullivan
County, Ind, have lived unhappily for some
time, he charging her with being untrue to
him and intimate with Herschel Muncie, her
alleged paramour. The couple separated some
time since, and Mckinley had commenced an
action in Court for divorce. The alleged
state of their domestic affairs caused much
scandal In their neighborhoods. Both are
farmers. The two men have long cherished
b tier enmity to each other. Saturday they
met in Sullivan. and hot and bitter
qarrel ensued. Finally Mckinley stabbed
Muncie three times in the stomach, the knife
at each drive going into his bowels, and then
pounded his head and badly mashed his eyes.
Muncie fell, and his entratls soon began to run
out. The murderer Immediately made his eS-
cape through the crowd. Muncie died in q
few hours. The feeling among the country pAo-
pie is intense, and Muncies father swears
that he will kill his sons murderer.