The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-21
WHoLEqNo. 1888.
RESUME OF THE WEEKS NEWS.

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at South Chester, Pa, last Thursdsy. - : :,
Fires In the Pennsylvania oil regions last
week destroyed $4,000 worth OF property.
SdEs 0 Of ohie mas assspssa the
Treasury. r. .r..- NJ =
General Pope says there is no il 1vasion of the
| withstanding. -
The total value of the exports OF domestic
breadstufs for the year ending June 80, Is re-
ported at s277 s226 762.
General Sherman denies the stories about
| General Hancockis readiness 10 take orders
| from Mr. Tilden in 1876.
An ex-priest named Bruereck, aged ninety
| three, was married on Friday, 10 Mile Vernet,
aged thirty, at Cannes, France.
The Department of AgricuIture reports the
prospects for cotton, corn and wheat crops as
more favorable than for several ytars past,
Mr.. Cam Williams and family, of Jefferson
Vile, Ind, boa riding out in the country, were
are quite i'll.
The Department of Agriculture at W ashfne-
| ton report in fine condition the crops of to-
pacco, oats, potatoes, rye, barley, wool and
various fruits.
The National Educational Convention at
educatonai eXhfbition at tSp NO 20 Pr fr, an
versal Exhibition OF 1888.
Judge Stephen T. Logan died at Springfield,
III III Saturday, aged eiehty-one. He had lived
was law partner OF Abraham Lincoln.
| The Louisville and Nashville Railway Com
pany has negotiated with the Barings, of Lon
don, for The sales of s2O, ,OO0,0O0 of their bonds,
| having hfty years TO run at per cent. In
/ terest.
The Sugar Investigating Committee ap
pointed by the Treasury Department during
| the last session OF Congress say that frauds on
| erara.
Prince Gunther H., Of Schwarzburg-Son-
| dersbausen, has abdicated because his sight
| failed. His eldest son, Prince Charles, as
| Saturday.
In Pfttsburg on Saturday night Mrs James
Tully, who lives on the south side. in a Jealous
/ Mt, stabbed her husband five times through
| the lungs. Tully, who is O working man, will
| die from his injuries.
| General Grant, it is stated, will return to
| Galena In a few weeks, settle up his affairs.
| offered the Presidency OF the De Lesseps Canal
Company, at n salary of $4,000 year, but
/ will decline the offer.
The Treasury Department says: "If now
/ that fraudulent coloration IS clearly known
| importers persist in attempting to pass fraud
ulent sugsrs below their true grade, the De-
collecting duties, but will seize sugars for for
/ feiture."
General Grant and party arrived Saturday
afternoon at the depot at Colorado Springs.
| They were met by large and enthusiastic
| crowd. The party did not stop, but were
| drawn 10 Manltou In carriages Immediately
| on the arrival of the train.
| Reports were brought to Deadwood ON Sat
| urday morning that 500 Indians appeared
4 near SPearhsn Friday night, and mad a war
| dance. They had been engaged in killing cat
| tie at Spearfish. fifteen miles northeast OF
| Deadwood. veral parties have organized
and started out.
The funeral of Chastine Cox the murderer
/ OF Mrs. Hull, took place Saturday afternoon
| in New Ork from an under aking establish
1 ment. The funeral was largely attended by
cOiored people, and the street in front of the
| store was crowded with people unable to gain
| admission. The Methodist Episcopal ser
| vices for the dead We're rendered by Revs.
| Drs. Cook and Simmo ms, and the body was
| taken to-Evergreen Cemetery for interment.
| James Donegan, the man who shot and
killed Police Officer Griego, on the morning of
the l4th, was taken FROM the jail at Santa Fe
on lturday morning by body of masked
and armed men, who overpowered the Jailer
| and Deputy Sheriiis, shot several times, then
The Jailer and Deputy snefiff testified osicre ore
| the Coroner's Jury that they Were compelled
/ to open the doors at the point OF the pistol and
| did not recognize any of the mob.
Two men, named Amos Harrison and PbiIo
Peters, while bathing in the Arkansas River,
| forty miles east of Pueblo, last Sunday. found
| an iron pot containing $1,000 gold nd silver
| A letter concealed in buekskin purse, found
| in the pot. Is yellow with age, and is dated
| April 49, 1859, and says: 81 stole the money in
Ghicsgo, trom farmer; my partner died in
Mexico. If anybody finds this pot they can
| keep the money. A. T. T."
| stock train on the Marietta and Cfncln-
natl Railroad ran into Robert Stickney IS cir
| Gus train, on Saturday morning, about 3
| O'Clock, wounding three persons. Real Meur,
| the ring master, was badly bruised about the
4 shoulders and breast, and had his head badly
/ cut Mrs. Samuel Stclzney had her thigh
| badly bruised, and Thomas Wedge, groom
/ had his head cut. The wounds are not con-
| sidered dangerous. A number of other en-
| ployes received slight wounds The accident
| occurred in the Company's yards, just east
/ out
James T. Mason, an mploye at the Burgess
i Iron and Steel Works, Portsmouth, o., was
4 badly burned Saturday by falling INTO a large
Il containing Ha wa
| in the act OF crossing over the bin on a plank,
4 when II turned. precipitating him a distance
/ of eight or ten feet. As there was no assist
| ance ear, he managed to climb ont himself,
but not until his left arm was burned almost
| to a crisp, and pieces of flesh fell of when
| coming in contact with the sides of the bin.
| In his struggle he rec sived other bad burns
| about the body, and viii be laid up for several
| months.
Colonel Cash, the surviving principal In the
| recent duel, was before Judge McIver. of the
Soulh Carolina Supreme Court, at Cheraw,
| Friday evening, on a writ OF habeas corpus,
| and was admitted to bail in $1,000. Considera-
| ble excitement was occasioDed in Oheraw pre-
| vious to the hearing of the application by an
| attack made by the son of Colonel Cash upon
/ Mr.. Pegues, editor of the Cheraw Sun, who
bad denounced the duel in his paper. foupg
| Cash and his father had both drawn their
pistols, the latter avowing his intention of
seeing fair fight, and Pegues was only saved
by being thrust by his friends into an open
| doorway, where he was locked up.
| Major Thomas Woodward, County Treasurer
| of Princess Anne County, Virginia, and c. M
4 MunQen, Two prominent cltlZenS, nad a dis
| pute growing out of a political discussion at
| the Court House, on last Saturday, both being
partially intoxicated. which lasted for some
| time. Finally Mr. Wood ward left the Court
| House building, and for some reason jumped
| into a wagon owned by Munden, who ordered
| him out. Wood ward refused to get out, when
| Munden caught his horse by the head and
| commenced turning him around, finally cap
| sizing the wagon and throwing Woodward TO
| the ground, brusing him considerably. When
he got mp he drew revolver and fired at
| Munden, wounding him in the breast. Mum
den then drew his revolver and fired three
| shots at Woodward, each Of which took effect,
1 and killed hiR instantly. Munden's wound
/ was q fatal one. ~ a Tfa1 g
g. T. Dresser. who found the late AZ. c.
| Meeker, Agent Of the Utes, has returned from
/ the scene of the Septem ber massacre on White
4 River. He re-interred the remains of Meeker
/ and eight employees, including his two sons,
/ which bad been hastily buried by Merritts
1 command Dresser found a chain about four
/ feet long around the neck OF Meeker's re-
4 mains, proving the story true that the Utes
| had dragged the body about the Agency after
/ the massacre. The remains are much decom-
| posed. Caloraw, with other head men and
| Douglass daughter, came into the Agency
/ last week to trade. They said they lived on