The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-12-29
RESUME OF THE WEEKS NEWS.


The Boycott Relief Fund now amounts to fI 600
Congress has not been in session for the past
week.
The steamship silesia, for New York, brought
80. 600 in specie.
NJ Desprez ambassador of France to the Vati
can, will start for Rome January Is.
The London Electrician states that the Post
Office Department has ordered 10000 telephones
for the postal service.
The Committee for Decorations for Inaugura
| ton Day at Washington estimate the expense al
$3.50
! Two negroes were lynched near Horse Cave
Kentucky, Thursday, for an ASSAULT ON and rob
\ berry OF a white man.
Ex-Governor Scott, of South Carolina, now re
siding at Napoleon, o.. shot and killed young
man named Drury at that place
/ six persons out of family Of seven have died
of tricinosis and family of four are similarly
afflicted in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
Anderwert elected President of the Swiss Con-
federation for 1851 committed suicide at O'Clock
last evening. in public promenade, By shooting
! At Neelyville, No., on Saturday, an unknown
man shot three persons on passenger train. NOR
woods.
The residence of Patrick wynne, ST. Marks
avenue Brooklyn, Y. ", was fired Saturday by
an explosion OF kerosene. Mrs. Wynne was fatally
burned
John Penn, son of Ed. Penn, n coal dealer of
! Charleston, W. Va, was crushed 10 death by the
falling of slate in the Frederick Coal Mine, near
Cannelton.
| On the 18th of October 1879, n son of Alfred
Carbon, of Stuyvesant avenue. New York City,
was missed from home, and Saturday a daughter
was kidnapped.
The Consul General of the United States at
/ Shanghai announces the determination of the
Chinese Government to establish a telegraph line
100 miles long.
The wife and two sons Of the Russian Grand
Duke Nicholas have arrived at Athens. They are
| guests of King George. and were entertained at
a state banquet on Friday.
William Quincy. of Erie, Pa, prepared to die
on Friday AT O'Clock in consequence of dream
warning him of his end, but dose OF morphia
and falsified clock cured him of his delusion.
| II is reported in Washington that the recent
Federal appointments in New York indicate the
\ hostility OF the incoming Administration to Sen
ator Conkling. They are said to have been sug-
gested by Mr.. Garfield.
A memorial has been prepared BY naval inc
officers and will be presented to Congress praying
that naval officers suspended by the action OF
Courts Martial may not be promoted before off,
GERS who have rendered continuous duty.
In a naturalization case In Boston Friday, Gen.
eral Butler said the proceedings in such cases
there have been for the past three years illegal.
/ Tn fact If established. would effect thousands
of cases. and is receiving great attention.
/ 1t is said that one reason of the increase of the
Republican vote of New York City is the elevated
railroads, which have brought back to New York
Island a very large body of Republicans who
have hitherto lived in New Jersey, Long Island
etc.
Friday evening Frank Hamilton Harvey, q
student in the Sophomore class at Harvard,
while skating on Gest Pond, Cambridge, sud
denly disappeared through hole in the ice and
was drowned. SHaryey's parents live in this
/ city.
I A number of Sitting Bulls Indians are at Pine
/ Ridge Agency, and the old Chief himself will be
at the mouth of the Milk River, in Dakota in q
few days, although his next friend, 1.-THE Gall, Il
reported to have said he will surrender when he
gets ready
Michigan is now the third ship-building State
in the country, having built sixty-ive vessels last
year, to ninety-six built in Maine and ITO in New
York. The tonnage built in the whole country in
1859 is 157 407 426 600 tons less than the tota
built in 1850.
Widow Nancy Anthony, living two miles west
| of Weston, o., had her house catch fire Friday
night about O'Clock. consuming all the contents
and burning a son of hers, about fourteen years
old. and daughter of her sister, about twelve
years old. TO death.
Hugh B. Nicely, and as Nicely passed by LoudoI
felled him with large lump of coal, aud then
jumping upon him beat him terribly; He is now
confined in his bed, and LOudOn has fled. An ole
feud was the alleged cause.
During a disturbance Saturday in the hotel 20
H. T. Griffin. at ROckaway Beach, one MahOn al
tempted to stab the proprietor. The latter drew {
revolver and fired six times az MahOn, who fell
mDrtally wounded. Griffin then sliced gun axe
I riddled Mahon with buck-shot
Two men asked for lodging in Mr.. Rideingi
house In IupelO, Miss, Saturday night, and IL il
reported that they robbed the other inmates O
the house and then burned them to death in tn.
house itself The story further says that one o
the robbers was captured and burned at thu
stake.
Six hundred thousand dollars in gold has beer
put up in Bordeaux, France, to establish steam
ship line with New York, running fortnightly
! They have chartered old steamers till they car
build new ones. of which one is to be made ii
France, and of 5000 tons capacity.
| At Avon, Ind, Friday evening, Rodolphus Cay
wood shot and seriously injured Edmund Faw
cett Investigation shows that young Fawcet
had been holding Illicit intercourse with Cay
wood sister, and she was about to become
mother. Fawcett attending an entertain
ment OF some kind at Wesley Chapel and Cay
wood lay in wait for him on the outside. AS sool
as Fawcett made his appearance on the Outsid
! Caywood began shooting at him. one ball takini
effect in his side under the left arm, and it i
said to be quite serious. CaywOOd was immedi
ately placed under arrest 10 await the extent o
Fawcett's injuries.