The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13
RESUME OF THE WEEKS NEWS.

stoek-raisers in the vicinity Of Pierre, Dakota
are cursing over seven inchesof new snow.
Hon. S. T. Maginnis died a: GAINESVILLE o.. sue
denly ON saturday in his sixty-seventh year.
At the bench show In san Francisco no les
than seyenty-seyen classes Of dogs are on exhibi
ton.
The strike of the journeymon cerpenters OF Gin.
cinna resulted in the concession OF 81 rs per day
by lbs builGerS
The mercantile failures in the Unsied States for
the first quarter of 1881 were l, $50 against 3si
ior the corresponding period OF 1880.
The Russian Grand Duke Nicholas. the diamond
tniei. has been incarcerated in castle belonging
70 MS father, for tntrigues in his behalf
A coal firm IN Cleveland has sued two railroads
running into That city. claiming $40 tor freight
determinations in favor of other dealers
The French Minister of Finance states that the
United States, Fnnce. Italy, Spain. and The
Netherlands agree upon double standard
Adyices from the winter wheat fields in South
ern wisconsin are TO the effect that the crop will
suffer diminution Of onefourth to one-Aalf by
the storms.
Near Milford, Ind. william Glenn and T. w.
Flowers, who had been suffering from small box
several days, died saturday. They were imme.
diaIely buried.
The Board of Health of INDIANAPOLIS has discov-
cred that, under the guise of Michigan butter,
large quantities OF oleomargarine are being tt.
ceived from Chicago.
Five treaties and 265 nominations await action
by the Senate The President will not ask the Re
pu0llcans TO 60 into executive session until new
officers are elected.
Rev Charles j. Ramsdell a Presbyterian pastor
at Washington, has been arraigned By the Pres
0ytery Tor marrying u catholic lady. The cere-
mony was performed in Chicago by Rev Dr.
Charles o'Brien, the owner of several busine. s
blocks in Burlington, Iowa, and one OF the most
extensive grain-dealers In that State shot himself
dead in his bedroom on Friday after dining
qui-tly with his family.
IL was stated in the British House of Commons
on Thursday, that England will not discuss Il G
question of bImetallism. and, therefore declln, ;
TO participate in the Monetary Conference, but
India will send a delegate.
The Governor OF West Virginia has pardoned
Elhu Gregg, who was sentenced TO the gallows
and who absolutely refused to accept comm uta,
ton Of his sentence to imprisonment for life.
Charles Harper, q messenger of the American
Express Company on the Great Western Railway.
disappeared at Detroit, on Friday, where he
drowned himself while laboring under mental
arrangement. His body was found on Sunday.
The Gar is said to have received from the
Nlhllist Committee an offer TO lay down their
arms in return for Constitution and amnesty
II Is alleged that another mine has been dis
covered unter the entrance to the Winter
Pa ace.
Dennis Martin, young man who left his home
at Rising sun. Ind; six years ago. and caused let
tiers TO be written home tC the effect that he was
dead, came home Friday sick with dropsy, and
died saturday afternoon at his mothers resi-
dence.
The will of the late Thomas Carlyle in a para
graph expressing strong feeling and good will to-
ward America, and especially New England,
gives the books he used in writing the lives of
Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the Great to Har-
ward University
At the Almhouse near Allentown, Pa, John
Gyumber, hungarian, has slept for fifty seven
trio shock or the firing of revolver and he having
10 be fed wi h spoon. On Monday he recovered
his full respiration and opened his eyes.
On board the Australia, which vessel arrived in
New York Saturday, were twenty stations sent
by Tattersall, OF London. TO his friend, William
Easton, OF New York, TO be sold at the American
Horse Exchange. They are said to be Of the best
blood in England, and several of them are winners
in good races.
The deadlock continues In the United States
Senate: IL has been discovered that under rule
90 OF me senate the President can send word
he has an important communication to make To
il. This summary method of ending the dead
lock has been suggested to the Chief Magistrate
but he will not make haste 70 try IL.
After delay OF thiriy-five hours, the West
Division Railway Company. of Chicago. yielded
10 the demands of its conductors and drivers 70
an increase of 20 per cent in their pay and rein
statement of those discharged on account of the
strike feature of the meeting of employees
was check for SO from Edward Lee Brown,
President OF the Illinois Humane Association.
With the remark that he had 10 more time to
waste In Washington, Senator Fair paired with
Jones, of Nevada, and left for the West Teller
of Colorado: and Maxey, of Texas. are paired fof
the remainder of the session, and have shaken
the dust Of the Capital from their feet David
Davis is threatening to return to Illinois Neither
Edmunds nor Garland will participate in the
deadlock.
most remarkable and shocking suicide &C.
Cured in Granger. County. Tennessee Friday
Mrs Mary Wright, after sending her children To
the spring, as pretext for getting them out of her
way. went TO the kitchen and deliberately set fire
TO her clothing. Her screams OF agony brought
the scared children back To find their mother en-
veloped in flames. They dashed water upon her
but In vain. She died in great agony. She had
often been heard 10 say that she had wretched
feeling. expressed a morbid fear of becoming In
sane, but her mind seemed perfectly clear a few
hours before she committed the dreadful act she
was the wife of well-to-do farmer and the
mother Of six little children.