The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-09

Congress, without delay, to institute measures To
execute due and orderly performance OF said duty
in the future" This was agreed to- and the reso-
luton passed without opposition. The pension
bill was discussed, but not acted upon.
senator Logan made speech ia opposition 90
the rider proposing change in the machinery OF
the Pension ofiee on Friday.
FRIENDS of senator Allison declare that the
treasury portfolio is in his hands, but that he
honestly desires that James +. Wilson should en-
clear.
In the United States Senate. Saturday. a resolu-
ton was passed inviting the Government and
people OF France and family OF Lafayette TO join
the people of the United States in the Yorktown
Centennial celebrations. and S20O00 were APP
propriated for the purpose. Consideration was
Mr.. Logan continued his criticism Of the sixtT
surgeon bill. Several bills were passed OF a gen
eral character. and the Senate adjourned
In the House, saturday. the principal feature
was the debate on Mr., Cox's APPROPRIATION which
began in temperate manner, but closed i'm
storm. The Senate concurrent resolution for
counting the Electoral vote was passed
General Garfelds path to the White House iS
now free from all obStructiOns On Saturday the
House adopted the Senate resolution providing
for the count of the electoral vote and ali that
now remains 10 give the PreSident-elect a com
pete ana happily undisputed title is 10 count
the vote OF the Electoral Colleges which will take
place on Wednesday next, without scene or in
Tellers to keep the count of the electoral votes
for President and Vice President. to be canvassed
Today, were appointed by both Houses of Con-
On Monday, in the House. the river and harbor
appropriation bill discussed al length. with
out action. More new bills were offered
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS NOTES.
The order placing General Ord on the retired
list was issued Saturday.
Earthquake shocks were felt in several places
In New Hampshire Saturday.
The mercury in the Chautauoua lake region of
New York stood at 80 below On Friday.
1t is said Bismarck does not favor the proposal
ol + rance lot an international conference on the
silver question.
Recent advices from South America state that
the Peruvians have been successful in several
engagements.
Four thousand weavers are on a strike at HYDE.
England, for an advance Of wages. and 1000
looms are idle.
Samuel Hazehurst & Sons, operators in -four
and grain, Of Baltimore, have suspended La
bilities, $4,000.
Gambetta proposes to visit Vienna soon to
to his candidacy for President of the French
Republic.
In Northern Vermont the mercury on Friday
became useless as an indicator of temperature.
A spirit thermometer at North Sheldon marked
IS below.
1t is understood that Gortschakoff the Russian
Chancellor; will resign in April. when he win
that capacity
William II. Vanderbilt has paid the entire cost
OF transferring the 0belisk, pedestal and steps
ircm AleXandris to New York, and erecting them
in Central Park.
! Rev. J. L. NJ. Curry of Richmond Va has been
chosen General Agent of the Peabody Educa-
uonal Fund. The available income for the
coming year is over $4,000
\ Member of the Maine Legislature named
Thomas b. swan has been swindling the public
through the mails having received thousands of
dollars in answer to circulars
Thomas Rogers. who took part in the Irish Re-
\ belllon OF l79S and who settled i'm Toronto when
| ii was nothing but cluster of log cabins has
breathed his last at River Beaudett, Ont
mail coach was robbed Of all the mail and
express matter from Ouray, Lake City and Silver
ton, Friday, near Del Norte Col. OF the five pas
sengers, only one Charles Peck. was robbed
! meeting of the National Committee of the
Union League of America win be held in Wash
/ ingtOn the ID OF March, and a public meet
ing OF the entire League will be held the follow
/ ing day.
Two brothers named John and Henry Russell.
living near kendallville, Ind got into friendly
/ tusSe, but John, becoming mad, struck Henry
with stick OF stove-wood, killing him almost
| instantly.
Mrs. Sallie Keene of PHILADELPHIA became in
sane in watching over her only child during an at
tack of smallpox and hanged herself when she
learned from the physician that it could not sur
| vive the week.
Henry Lame the Oldest person in Indiana. who
claimed to have been a body servant to General
Mercer during the Revolutionary War died at
Mount Vernon on last Thursday, at the estimated
age of l23 years.
Cape Town dispatch saws King Cafee has
| formally declared war against England and sent
the Golden Rod TO Governor Usher emblem
OF the fact Much anxiety is felt in England over
/ this fresh trouble in Africa.
Charles Hill. shackled convict enroute from
from NigO County Jail TO the Indiana Penitentia-
/ ry on saturday, jumped from the train while
going into Indianapolis and secreted himself i'm
the wilderness of freight cars
| John Browns Sons OF PHILADELPHIA have
Jailed. Liabilities. three-quarters of a million.
The firm expects, with time, to pay twenty-five
cents on the dollar. over 80 men are thrown
out OF employment by the failure.
Catharine Miller and George Smith were execut-
ted at Wiliamsport, Pa. in the presence of about
$50 spectators. On the scaffold the woman uttered
piercing shrieks Smith made declaration that
mis- paramOur first proposed the murder.
The House Committee on Naval Affairs instruct
ed Representative Whitthome 10 have inserted in
the sundry civil bill an appropriation of S2OOOOO
for the establishment of cOaling stations on the
American ISthmus. This is in accordance with
the recommends lions of the President.
Two members of the Post Band at Fort Adams.
\ Newport X. l., broke through the ice, Friday
evening, and were rescued by Miss Ida Lewis.
keeper of the Lime Rock Light House, they
were disappearing for the last time. This makes
seventeen lives rescued by Miss Lewis.
Jackson Goodrich, farmer in Boone Township.
Indiana having lost forty sheep through the
assaults of dogs, got out his gun and ammunition
and killed twenty-three CANNES in a single raid.
He seems TO think there are enough left alive TO
transact all necessary business in the Township.
Saturday, at Elkhart, Ind the Elkhart
Knitting Factory was seized on a chattel mortgage
/ by the Elkhart National Bank, amounting to $40
!
that $ S. Strong will assume the liabilities and go
on with the work.
! General Grant presided at a meeting Saturday
night, in New York, in the interest of the Worlds
| Fair of 1888 Addresses made by several
gentlemen; SS22 900 were collected for the enter
prise in six days. Three gentlemen present con-
tributed s., 600 each. The railroads are expected
| TO give million.
The Bishop and clergy of the Archdiocese of
Boston have issued an address 70 the people of
Ireland, asserting that any movement which
seeks by legitimate means to rescue the Green
Isle from enforced poverty has their sympathy.
but hoping that no resort to arbitrary power
would be considered.
y y party of citizens of Augusta, Ark. lynched
three men on Thursday who attempted an out
rage on worthy young lady. The mob rallied
at the Jail at midnight. gagged the guards and
took the prisoners across the river for execution
The victims OF Judge Lynch are said TO have been
sons OF wealthy planters in Monroe County.
4 new railroad is announced from New York to
/ Chicago, by way OF Cleveland The Cleveland
and Chicago branch viii be $40 miles
1 long, and its st. Louis branch viii be-
! gin at Fort Wayne, and be only :s25
miles long 1t is intimated that ii will cross
the Allegheny Mountains instead Of going to
the north of them.
An insurance conspiracy of deep interest has
been unraveled at Evansville, Ind. by a detective
employed by one of the Companies involved. Ju-
! Illus A. Coleman, prominent young lawyer, in
duced Charles III. Lucas to insure his life for
$4,000 and make feint of having been drowned in
! the river. The preliminaries of the fraud were
duly carried out but Lucas and his minor accom-