The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-20
RESUME OF THE WEEKS NEWS.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS


James Boyer prominent raw mill owner OF
Wells County, Ind, is missing.
ST. Julien, Santa Claus and Overman. fast San
Francisco horses. are coming East this spring.
The Indiana Senate, by V te of 20 to %, de-
feated the fee and salary amendment TO the pub
lie offices bill.
A Clerkship in the Interior Department al
81 800 per year has been CONTEMPORARY refused
by Private Dalzell.
John Frankenstein. artist and sculptor, was
found dead in n wretched apartment in Brooklyn
Saturday morning.
Emigrants are arriving in Baltimore in large
numbers, nearly 400 having landed at that port
during the past week.
The chief damage at Davenport by the hocd
seems to have been the destruction by the ice of
raft of 100000 feet Of lumber.
| Half the peach crop in middle and southwest
ern Georgia has been killed by frost; the gtrees
are dead, and plums badly injured.
Julius Dougherty. bank teller in Baltimore,
stood in front OF a mirror at his residence, on
Thursday, and cut his throat from ear to ear with
a razor.
The authorities OF the almShouse near Reading,
Pa, now dealing with sixty-fve cases of
smallpox, but the epidemic has not appeared in
the city.
Ind. is shown by investigation to be short s2S,
3Si 81 I'm his accounts, and there is grief in store
for his bOndsmen
Catholic priest named John A. Tanning has
considerable amount. Creditors attached car
load OF his horses at Peoria.
Sergeant Bates. who tramped through the South
with the Union flag after the War, is said to be
dying at Saybrook, H., where he has wife and
six children. in extreme poverty.
DIR. J. 8. Allen, of Atlanta, ILL.,, died of paraly
sis. His legs turned black. and grew so hard that
they could not be punctured with a pin. IL is
believed that petrifacton has commenced. and
that his body will turn into stone.
In the United States Senate on Thursday Ma
hone was the central figure in war Of word
with using language both cowardly and false,
and the Georgian retOrted that 1. was out Of Ma,
homes power to insult anybody.
Frederick Hartman who died near Ceuterville.
Ind, in March. had considerable money. which
could not be found at the bank or among his
papers. A vigorous search of the old homestead
was made last week and about So OCO have been
dug out of chinks and crannies-
The sixteenth anniversary of the assassination
of Abraham Lincoln was cOmmemorated az the
monument at Springfield on last Friday by exer-
gus had been decorated with flowers. Speaker
Thomas delivered the chief address, and Rev. X.
o. Post the benedfction.
man named Hobartson. one of the most ex-
pert and prosperous mechanics in Akron, o., and
the head of an interesting family, consisting of
wife and three children. left last Saturday for
parts unknown, having placed himself in an un-
comfortable position by paying undue attentions
10 a young lady of aneighboring town.
Advices from Bagdad state that the ravsges of
the plague are terrible, though not extending be-
yond the sanitary Gordon. Four thousand in
habftants Quilted Nedjed and encamped in sa-
luxurious localities. Nedjed and Dijukwa were
burnt on the Sth inst. Tho disease becomes very
violent the afflicted dying In ten hours after be-
ing attacked.
Reports from all parts of the Western winter
wheat region show an immense amount of damage
done the crop by the severity OF the winter; but
there Is not the slightest danger Oh genera. iaii
siderable majority Of Districts the crop v