The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY. JUNE 22 1881

gaining in America Judge l. ID. Kinne. was
nominated for Governor, Captain J. NJ. Walker.
for Lieutenant Governor, Hon. III. b. Hender
son. for Judge of the Supreme Court and Profes-
sor W. A. Butler. for superintendent OF Public
Instruction.
John P. Howard. who last week gave 81. 900 to
the University OF Vermont. has sgnifed his inten-
tion of erecting in University Park a colossal
bronze statute OF Jafayatte, who laid the corner
stone OF the old University Building on the occa-
sion of his visit TO Burlington, VT, in June ISIS.
meneed version eontaing all the renderings
suggested by the American Committee will soon
be put on the market, in response TO the demands
of clergymen throughout the United States-no
Episeopalian, howeyeT, being among the petit
TONERS.
The projectors of the tunnel under the English
Channel have sunk two experimental shafts on on
Yards have been cut with q gallery seven feet In
diameter The progress II sixty seven yartis per
week, which involves five years TO complete :he
first boring.
The latest Boston bubble to be pricked - the
Globe Co.. which represented itself to be the own
er of valuable locomotive patents, ana gathered
IN 500 900 by sale OF its stock Ii has been paying
quarterly dividends of 10 per cent. and has a
branch in Chicago. The Boston police have the
case in hand
Friday tight, at Akron, Ohio, brute named
Bennett fora trivial offense stripped his little boy
eig ht years old. bare. and beat him with hath
until the blood trickled down his legs from tie
laeerated flesh. The citizens are highly indignant
and the monster will be prosecuted to the fullest
extent of the law.
A lady named Mrs George Knodts, while riding
In a carriage with her husband and children al
Fort Wayne Ind, on Saturday, met with a fatal
accident by being pitched backward through a
sudden lunge Of the horses. the back of her head
striking the Nicholson pavement OF Calhoun
street. causing conclusion of the brain.
| Frederick Miller a man sixty-two years of age
/ committed suicide at Chicago by laying his head
on the Burlington and Quincy Railroad before an
approae hing train last Saturday the engine pass
Il inc owe head from
body. Miller had been sick for some time, and
had been in desperate spirits. He leaves a
| wife aud two children in destitute eircum-
| stances
! on Saturday afternoon the firm of Mahr & Bray
| ton founders Cleveland. Ohio. were the victims
| of a most audacious daylight robbery While the
bookkeeper- Mt. r. G. Cutler. was called from the
| Office to speak with man who pretended to be
! too lame TO enter, an accOmplice took from the
safe So 900 that had but a short time before been
drawn from the bank. There is no clue to the
perpetrators.
A responsible grain merchant of New York
used the cable. last Thursday, to ascertain the
| actual condition of the crops in Europe. The
prospects in France are fine, and the Russian
harvest will be the best for twenty years. IL i:
| asserted that Europe will not only be independ-
ent of American wheat, but that Russia will
offer considerable competition to our grain
growers. Germany, Austria, ROumania, and
Switzerland send out the most encouraging re
ports.
The Postoffce Department on Saturday awarded
contracts for supplying tWine wrapping paper
scales. balances and marking stamps for the Post
Office Service throughout the country for the mex
fiscal year. The amounts appropriated by Con
greSs for these supplies aggregate $1,000 0O0 but the
contracts awarded are at prices so much lower
than those last year for the principal items, tha
a saving of s35 00o will be effected without dimin
ishing quantities. Gould. Pearce & Co., at Gin
/ cinnati, received the award for cotton twine.
A Battle Creek (Mich.) special reports that Mrs
Nellie Ingram has been unable 10 eat since Octo
Der last. she Is thirty-six years old, has beel
twice married. and has been possessed of an un
usually robust constitution. On October H. 1880
{ she weighed nearly $50 pounds, but having sui
fered from aching double tooth she got IL ex
traeted that day, and during the operation be
came very nervous aud excited and was takel
home in a state OF prostration. Fro1 that tim
on she has loathed food. and II was ii torment 4
her to attempt to eat She has taken nourish
ment several times, but always with the result Q
intense pain and deathly sickness followed b
spasms. Her life has been sustained by injeC
2 tons and baths in nourishing liquids. She nov
: weighs less than eighty pounds She has of lat
lost her voice. Medical men are greatly inter
ested in the case.