The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-11
RESUME OF THE WEEKS NEWS.
Public executions will be discontinued in Rus

The steamer Faraday has sailed from London
with 800 miles Of cable for the new Gould Lines.
Mischievous boys at Kingston, n. Y, have
driven Chinese laundryman to insanity by con-
tinuous tricks.
Nearly 200 employees will be dismissed from the
Census Bureau at Washington between now and
the LIST Of June.
Twenty thousand car loads of freight are await
ing shipment at Chicago, caused by strike of the
railroad switchmen.
Nearly 5000 immigrants landed at Castle Gar
den on last Friday. The demand for laborers
continues to be large.
The appointment of a negro on the Police
Force OF Auburn. n. Y. caused the immediate
resignation of the chief al one patrolman.
James NJ. scoyil. of New Jersey, a prominent
Republican. has been convicted of obtaining $3.50
on false pretenses He made an appeal for mercy.
The amount of per cent bonds received at the
Treasury Saturday for continuance at 39 per cent.
was SIS, $50 200. Aggregate amount received TO
date, Sl02, lS5. 200.
proposition 10 hold the next Worlds Fair in
Boston Is being seriously discussed In that city.
The Executive Committee OF the New York pro-
ject failed to secure quorum recently.
lively emigration from Kansas to Northern
Wisconsin is reported to be in progress. The
reason given by some of the movers is the adop-
ton of the prohibitory amendment in the former
State.
Mr.. McConnelly. OF Quincy. Mass, whose child
was bitten by dog belonging to Deborah
Weston, and persisted in the agonies of hydro
phobia, brought suit for $4,000. and was awarded
81 200 last week.
The Police Commissioners of Troy, N. V, have
made eleven attempts 10 choose superintendent
without result. The roughs are growing very
bold in their depredations, and Vigilance Com
mittee is threatened.
A Land.league manifesto has appeared in Lon
don. signed by Justin Mccarthy, urgins Irishmen
10 evict their landlords as they themselves have
been evicted, and 70 wreak vengeance at the polls
on epostates from liberalism.
Owing to the general dissatisfaction between
the inmates of the Soldiers Home at Dayton and
the Governor large numbers are leaving daily
about 400 having left In the last three weeks,
going on transfer to the other Homes.
At Mendoza Ill. saturday, a team driven by
DIR. j. ii. Spear, became unmanageable, and ran
In front OF passenger train on the Illinois Cen
trail Road The Doctor was instantly killed and
both horses were literally torn to pieces.
In an address before the American Agricultural
ss0ciatiOn, in New York last week, 4. Pekar, the
hungarian Commissioner recently sent over, an
nounced that the flinty winter wheat OF Mime
sofa was the grain mostly sought in his country.
A young son Of Malachi Powell, Of Tell City,
Ind, stole 81 600 from the family treasury, and
left for Colorado. His father had him arrested
in Kansas on requiSition, has caused his IN
dictment, and will prosecute him TO the Peni-
Tertiary.
Saturday morning Mrs. Jane warlow, wife of
Hiram e. MarlOw, n prominent citizen OF Mar
shall County, Illinois, committed suicide by TAX
ing arsenic. The act was caused by the conduct
of daughter, who had recently entered a house
OF ill.iame.
Near Winona, Miss, Friday. while some
school children were playing under small tree,
IL was struck by lightning and three OF the child
rem, Mamie and Willie Hamer nine and seven
years old, and Mary Hightower, aged six, were
instantly killed.
Having closed the Cincinnati Theaters on sun
day, Mayor Means has served the Saloon.keepers
with a printed notice that he will enforce the
Stubs law should they dare to open their doors
on the Sabbath. The Police Court is in accord
with the Mayor.
Robert Ballantyne Federal soldier at Fort
Clark, Texas was once convicted OF the murder of
n cOmrade, and awarded seventeen years IN the
Penitentiary. His dissatisfaction led 10 a new
trial, which has just concluded with sentence Of
ninety-nine years
George Solver, who has run a small huckster
boat between Bethlehem, Clark County Indiana,
and Louisville, was found dead his boat Tuesday
morning, at Bethlehem, with his throat cut He
had been murdered and robbed during the night.
No clue to the perpetrator.
Intimate friends of the President are open in
their announcements that direct war upon
Conkling has begun, and will be foughtwith the
full forces at the command of the Administration.
They are satisfied that conservative Democrats
will aid in confirming good nominations, and
seem 10 have no fears OF the result Of the battle.
The Washington Sunday Herald contained
double loaded editorial denying that the Star
Route money was used 10 advance the chances Of
Hancock at Cincinnati. The editor says that Han
cocks friends had very little money; that none
was used in his behalf, and that the Hancock
boom, from first TO last, was not assisted by Star
Route money or any other kind.
The prayer-cure establishment at Erie. Pa, run
by Father Maloney, has been closed by the inves-
legations OF reporter In the case OF Ellen Nc
Quillian, who was raised from the death bed
there Is evidence Of n collision between the
Priest and the patient. Bishop Mullen would
hold no intercourse with Maloney, aud the latter
forwarded charges against him TO Archbishop
Woods. of Philadelphia.
A rupture has occurred la Parnell's party At
a meeting in London, on Friday night after
stormy discussion, a resolution 10 abstain from
On no Of la and
To leave tn House when division is call was
adopted by a vote of Il 10 Il. Parnell threatened
TO resign the leadership unless II was passed,
while Sullivan has written letter declining
longer TO acknowledge Parnells authority.
The United States Senate ratified the Chinese
and Japanese treaties and took final action on
eighty-four nominations last week. Among those
confirmed were William Walter Phelps TO be Min
lister TO Austria and Lionel A. sheldon 10 be Gov
ernor OF New Mexico. The President sent IN the
name OF George T. Pomeroy of New Jersey 10 be
Secretary of Legation at Paris, and withdrew the
nominations of Stewart l.. Woodford. Asa w. Ten
ney, Lewis f. Payne, Clinton d. McDougall and
John Tyler 10 Federal Offices in the State of New
York.
The Lower House OF the Illinois Legislature
was the scene Of intense excitement last Thurs
day afternoon While the vote being taken
on the passage OF the Pill TO prevent the pooling
OF parallel lines Of railways, member, In behalf
Of himself and fifteen Others demanded that alb
sentees be sent for. The Speaker refused TO recOg
nize him, and. amid great confusion, declared the
bill lost, and at once adjourned the House.
personal alteration followed between two legis-
lators, while third seized the gavel and started
n rump session. which was adjourned to in the
evening. At this time some thirty odd members
assembled, signed protest. and declared their
determination TO pass the bill despite the Speak
ers opposition.
man named Levy, relative of O'Donovan-
Rosa, has been arrested in Dublin under the
coercion act.
The British Board OF Trade returns for April
show a decrease of f5,379 703 i'm value of i'm
ports. compared with the same months last
year, and decrease of 81 1873 029 in value of
ports.
A Constantinople dispatch says Intelligence
has been received that party of Circassians at
tackled Mr.. Pears, an American missionary, and
maltreated his escort. Consul General Heap has
complained 10 the Porte"
A dispatch from Bolton, Lancashire SAYS fam
lily named Seldom have had a windfall of property
valued at e., 600 600, which had been in chancery
since 1857 The property was beQueathed to John
Seldom, who died in the Work House. His heirs
inherit this vast fortune.
A ST. Petersburg dispatch says: "a skase will
be published Saturday or Sunday lessening the
rents to which peasants are liable for lands from
Northern Governments. There will be other
mes ,nres of amelionation for the South. The ex-
pecmtions of a Constitution are probably chimeri-
cal"
A letter from the most Rev. Thomas w. Croke,
Archbishop of Cashel. is published, in which he
says: II can not approve the action which the
Irish party are said TO contemplate to exhibit
their sense of loyalty to Dillon, and apprehension
for his arrest. An overwhelming majority of the
Irish people are in favor of giving the Government
a fair chance OF passing the land BILL"
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