The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-04-09
West and South.

COMMANDER CHARLES J. McDoUeAL, Q. S. N,
was drowned at Cape Mendocina, Cal, in at
tempting to land from the lighthouse tender.
He was on duty at the time as lighthouse in
spector.
REMARKABLE case of fasting is reported at
Battle Creek, Mich. Last October Mrs
Henry Ingram had some teeth pulled and
this brought on nassau and inability to
retain food. The woman is still alive, hav-
ing eaten or drank nothing since Octo-
Der. She is nourished by being bathed in beef
tea, milk, etc., which act by absorption, the
quantity absorbed being nearly quart day
from these baths. She feels sort of hunger
which is soon allayed by a bath, after which
she feels as if she had eaten. A bath of water
will quench her thirst. Her stomach is said to
be totally paralyzed.
JAMES CURRIE, who murdered Benjamin c.
Porter, the New York actor, in Texas two years
ago, has himself come TO sudden end at Las
Vegas, New Mexico. Currie, it appears, was
on drunken Spree and threatened to kill
several people, among whom was a bartender,
who in self-defense shot the Texan murderer.
The ball entered his forehead and came out at
the back of his head A party of railroad
hands, friends Of the dead man, attempted to
lynch the bartender, bat the sheriff succeeded
in getting him to jail. coroners inquest was
held, and the jury at once returned verdict OF
shooting in self-defense.
FURTHER heavy floods are reported in the
West. At Yankton, Dakota, the people were
To- ba LII, ~
the Missouri river. In the Platte valley OF
Nebraska three lives were lost and one-half the
bridges washed away.
Two serious railroad accidents occurred the
other day in the West-one near Council Bluffs,
Ia, where collision between two trains re-
suited in injuries, in several cases probably
fatal, to about twenty-five railroad employees,
and the other at Cotton O., where defective
switch caused train to be ditched, and re-
suited in injuries to seven or eight persons
SITTING BULL and his camp of about 100
lodges are reported by Canadian paper to be
in starving condition on the American side OF
the border
WILLIAM S. BATES, United States marshal
was fatally stabbed in fight near barroom on
the Southern railroad, below Somerset, XIV,
the other night Mr.. Cooper, another United
Safes marshal, was killed at the same time IL
Littletown, Ky. Both were active against the
Moonshiners.
THE town of Green Island, Eob, opposite
Yankton, has been swept away by ( food. The
inhabitants could be seen from Yankton cling
ing TO their houses as they fioated Off Mos. OF
the bottom land along the Missouri was inun-
dated for miles, and two steamboats, were
sunk.
OsE man was killed and six others were seri-
ously hurt by an accident to passenger train
at Fergus Falls, MINI.
An infant of two years who was bitten by a
dog at Evansville, Ind, last month, died the
other day of hydrophobia
CHARLES AND JOIN MILLER (brothers) were
killed in Cincinnati in quarrel with man
named Knapke, who sho. them in self-dcfense.
The Millers were nineteen and twen.y-one
years old respectively.
REDDY MCDONALD, the head musician Of
dance-house in Sidney, Neb., and noted cut
throat was hanged by visilants while trying to
break Jail.
NJ IS. UPRIGHT, young woman who was shot
at Stanton, Mich, by her husband died after
having lived fifteen days after being shot
through the brain
THE town of vermilion, Oak, has been swept
away by floods