The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-24
RESUME OF THE WEEKS NEWS.

Heavy rains have accustomed serious floods in
| the PROVINCE Of Florenos- - - .-s
Forty three railroads have been started in Ar.
kansas in the last two years.
President Hayes, ON Thursday, received the en-
yoys from R0umania and Bolivia.
The activity Of Noun vesuvius increases. Lava
flows abundantly the side toward Naples.
The steamer Mildred Captain Long, from New
York, september Is, Tor Marseilles Is given up Us
lost
The STEAMSHIPS Bristol, Gloucester and Assyrian
Monarch are now overdue from week to ten
days.
Jackson's school house, near Madison. Ind. was
totally destroyed by fire saturday. Loss, SsOo: no
insurance. -.
Fourteen Inmates OF st. Peters Asylum, Min
nesota are known to have been burned aud ihir
teen are missing.
1t was reported In Washington that the Presi-
dent htd determined TO appoint General Miles as
Chief Signal Officer.
The Persians destroyed the Kurdish villages
around So-Ooj Bolak, and the Kurdish tribes fled
a distance of fifty miles.
The Western stock-raisers have adopted reso-
luton in favor Of governmental action 70 prevent
the spread OF pleuro pneumonia.
Goschen. British Minister 70 Turkey has told
the sultan that Europe viii not wait longer than
ten days for the cession OF Dulcigno.
It Is stated that the Vatican has addressed
note TO the French Government protesting against
the application OF the religious DEGREES.
The ambassadors TO Turkey have decided to no
longer attempt to exercise the pressure upon the
Porte relative to the pending questions.
Two negroes Joseph Severson and Edward
Oueenan were hanged In Washington on Friday
for the murder of G. Z. Hirth last January.
1t is reported that a new treaty has been made
with China, but the State Department refuses TO
say more than that the treaty is satisfactory.
The Baitish Cabinet Council. at Balmoral
Der, but without su1nmoning il 70 meet for the
dispatch Of business.
Anthony and Henry ostrander and James Gal
luD, a usiice OF the Peace OF Summit Schoharie
Cnnniy. New YORK. have been arrested and held
for trial for extensive pension frauds on the Coy
ernnet.
The PostoGice Department has made arrange
ments with Southern lines OF railroads for fast
mails to go into effect the 18th inst. by which
one business day will be saved between Boston
and New Orleans.
Gum Hayes barn. at Gosport Ind, was totally
destroyed by fire saturday morning about four
o'clock. Supposed TO be the work of incen-
diary. Ii contained 1000 bushels OF curn and
three tons of hay. NOinSurance.
At Ponte Tresa an Italian Custom Householder.
having failed to obtain the consent OF the father
OF ais betrothed to their marriage, the engaged
cJIpe fastened themselves together and plunged
lnto the river. Their bodies were found the next
day.
A new railroad enterprise in the name of the
Denver, Western and Pacific Railway Company,
has been perfected i'm Denver, in which General
+ J. Marshall takes prominent Interest, and in
whose behalf he VIII shortly visit the Pacific
Coast.
Al the National Exhibition to be opened at
Milan next year. there viii be captive balloon,
the model of the one which was so successful in
Paris in 1878 10 viii measure not less than 1S0
feet in circumference. 81 feet in height and con-
| tain 900 cubic feet of gas.
In Wolfe County. Ky, Mr.. Green Bailey was
killed ON the 18th inst. by his horse falling on
/ him. He was out riding. when he fired Off q pis-
/ toll which frightened his horse. The horse
juaped over a bank ten feet high, and fell ON
Bailey injuring him SO that he died in few
| hours.
Two men were aiming their guns at bat which
was perched on the roof of house. at Gordon
| Slle Utah. 1t was night, and the occupant OF
| the building, called to the window by the noise
thought an attack was being made OH him. He
| fired at the bat hunters, killing one aud wound
/ ing the other.
John Clear, employed in the coal mine az Lin
coin, ILL.,, shot and instantly killed Daniel Conner
there Friday, at the residence Of John Daily. The
shot was fired from thirty-twO -caliber revolver
aud stuck Common in the right breast. passing
! through the heart Clear, after committing the
murder, gave himself up.
| The wholesale drug house of Lord StOuchten-
/ burgh & Co., No. Sc Wabash avenue, Chicago, was
Quilted by fire which broke out about noon sat
urday. Loss estimated AZ SlOO.0oO, partially in
sured. The fire originated in the mixing depart
ment. on the third hoor, among the yltriOls,
and almost instantly had wrapped the whole
! building in flames, so that very little was
saved.
DIR. Besses, who served on board the Polaris with
Captain Hail. proposes next year to undertake AN
expedition 10 the Arctic REGIONS the ex-
| pefses of which are to be met bya public sub
scription. He wishes to form a scientific station
at the entrance to Jones Sound, the staff
of which VIII include an astronomer. geolosist.
a bOtanist, and zoOloglst, vino are TO keep up
communication as often as possible with the set
| Elements on the western coast of Greenland and
with the whaling ships.
! As No. . passenger fast-bound on the Ohio and
Mississippi passed Ewing. Ind, at $3.50 Saturday
afternoon, running forty miles an hour she
struck wagon in which four men were riding
and killed them all. The victims are John Me
/ OSker, John l.. Robertson, - Freeman and
Beverly Richardson. The three former were in
hours The tarties were retnrni9~ from tnnerai
! They attempted 10 crnss before the train. The
horses baked; and the wagon was struck, with
the horribly blood-curdling result stated
Mr. and Mrs. Offutt drove twenty miles to Paris
/ KY. to see performance by the Wallace Comedy
Company. Mrs. Offutt who was young and
pretty; was charmed by the acting of E. GU
Ofutls went tothe same hotel where the com
edian stayed, Onutt declares that, both from the
stage and az the dinner table Spalgler flirted with
his wife. After the meal Ofutt decoyed Spangler
Into second-st0ry room. locked the door. and
gave him the choice between jumping out OF the
window and being shot. spangler jumped.
a man at Auburn, Me-. received check for
$3.50 in payment of a dividehd from an Insur-
anee Company, one day recently When he re
esi.ed the cheek z deputy sheriff iuevery day
Let me look at thisa minute" said the deputy.
curiOusly. The man innocenty allowed him to
,ake il. The deputy coolly. pulled ( lded paper
from hispOcket and pinned the check 10 it, while
the man looked on In as,onishment. "Ihave a
writ here and shall have TO attach this, and the
debtor had TO see his $3.50 walk away.
NJ. ]. Donley shot and slightly wounded Birdie
Do, ley and then shot and killed himself at 9
o'clock Saturday night in Emma Howard house
Of JOY, 20. 15 Sou Sixth street, st. Louis. Don
hey fell In love with the girl three years ago. when
she MAS an Inmate of another hause- He was
then In the United States Cavalry. His term ex
piring in 1873: he reenlisted ~ January
was discharged Ocujber.ll.i 1850. on Hccount' of
sickness. Donley and Birdie separated after their
irstkpell ofaffecfion was over, aid did not COME
together again until two weeks ago. Birdie had
in The meantime found new lover, and this
pr mfded Donley's Jealousy. r.sf 49,. 81
Captain PAYNE. who was In Little Rock several
weeks ago. working up interest ip his Indian Ter
rii9ry invasion, has issued address .fxiig the
da1 Of the descent upon the Territory on tbe 18th
of November The Company win Arendezyous at
HYichfta. Kan. whence they viii start for the IN
dian counfry by such rouis' - u deemed Pnctt