The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-08
Miscellaneous News Items.

Illinois has .zo9 convcts in the Joliet Pepften-
tiGry ard SSi at Chester.
The Cincinnati Board OF Health reports ia new
cases OF smallpox for the past week.
The anniversary OF the birth of Robert Emmett
was celebrated IN number of the large cities
Saturday.
Twelve new cases Of smallpox develouod ut
Fort wayne last Thursday, six of them being in
one family.
The failures throughout the United States for
the week were 152 an increase OF II over the pre-
oeding weeg.
Hszsel won the New York walking race. max
ing eco miles to Fitzgerald So in six days. the
Others trailing.
Governor Cullum has appointed Jsmes Morgan
on the Chicago South Park Commission, In place
OF Paul C~rnell
TIE fall of twelve tons OF earth in the Lowthian
mine, az lshpeming, Mich, killed two men and
wounded third.
The explosion OF boilers in a sayy-niII at Stone.
Ino., on Friday. killed four men and seriously
injured three Others.
A contract has been closed at Denver for the
erection by August of p building for a National
Mining and Industrial Exposition.
The hatiers Of Danbury. Conn, being on 9
strike the Governor has ordered the militia of
Hartford TO be in readiness to move.
The Iowa Legislature has passed resolution
to submit To the people n Constitutional Amend
ment on the question OF liquor prohibition.
John W Defrees. Public Printer, is lying dan
gerOusly Ill az his residence in Washington City
him.
Reports from every County il ten Of the chief
wheat-growing States show u high ratio OF cOndi-
ton of winter wheat, with an important increase
in acreage.
The Ohio Senate Committee on Temperance
will report back to-day the Smith bill closing
saloons on Sunday, with the recommendation
that it be passed.
A liquor dealer a. Somerset, Ind. having run
away, the citizens subscribed enough money to
buy the stock from his wife, and ON last Thursday
empted 1t into the gutter.
The funeral OF Bishop Lynch took place on
Thursday at Charleston. In accordance with his
will. DO funeral sermon was preached, but solemn
High Mass was celebrated.
C. j. lansing prominent attorney OF Eureka.
Nev killed his wife last Friday with revolver
and surrendered himself 1T the Jail refusing to
give his reasons for his crime.
Twin monuments to Keats, the poet and his
friend seyeren, ia the Protestant Cemetery at
Rome. were unveiled on Friday, with a brilliant
address by story, the sculptor.
Two Mexican families who went from Laredo
10 New Orleans TO see tine Nsrdi-Grss parades
were robbed OF 5000 worth of Diamonds and
watches by Boston thief named Charles Dom
nelly.
1t Is expected that Queen Victoria will cause
proclamation To be issued returning thanks to the
British and foreign press for cOngTatulsting her
upon her escape from death al the hands of an
assassin.
AT . large meeting of prominent citizens in
Philadelphia, on Sunday night, resolutions were
adopted asking the President to present protest
To the Government at st. Petersburg against the
treatment of Jews.
The Iowa House of Representative, by a vote
o! ninety 20 one passed bill appropriating $50
for the purchase of a gold medal for Kate Shelley
the Boone heroine, who saved q train from bro
ken bridge few months since.
AT Memphis. Tenn. on Friday evening, ex- Gov
ernor r. J. Morgan made street assault on Col
the ground with cane. They were separated by
friends ard duel is not unlikely.
In n long letter to the Canal Committee OF the
New York Assembly. Horatio Seymour approves
the proposed abolition of tolls, aud expresses
alarm at the appearance of a railway tribunal
which assumes TO regulate commerce.
A London letter says; 1t is doubtful whether
Nobody suspects that there was q political motive
in his act and there has been no hint that he had
an accomplice or acted as the tool of any one"
William Sturges. Of Chicago prominent grain
operator, was arrested at keokuk. Iowa, on Satur-
day night on the charge OF defraudiug Francis /.
Kennett & Co, of Chicago, ont of $4,000 worth
of grain that was stored In the Keokuk grain ele
vatOr when Sturges was It's proprietor.
Reports are given of 10000 food sufferers in
Ark 1Isas and 1900 in Mississippi. above Vicks-
ourg and from This Ii Is apparent that the do
nation OF $4,000 made by the General Govern
ment viii fall far short of the amount necessary
To keep the needy throughout the overlooked
regions until the water subsidies.
People in the Southern counties of Illinois
suffering from the drought of last summer do
legislature will authorize County Boards, where
actual want exists 10 issue bonds buy grain
with the proceeds and sell the same to needy
farmers. taking their obligations for il.
The First Dutch Reformed Church at Holland.
Micn whose members favor the Masonic Order
recently resolved TO secede from the Protestant
Church of America. and refused to allow the use
of the edifice for meeting OF the Chassis. the
gates being nailed and gusEded free figbt re-
suited. ana the Mayor read the riot act aud or
dered three arrests.
The Fourth Provincial Council of the Arch
diocese of Cincinnati was formally opened sun.
day morning by q solemn procession aud PO0tif.
zeal High Mass Tue seven Bishops of the Prov
the Council, assisted by theologisns appointed
from The priests in attendance. bishop Borgess.
of Detroit preached the opening sermon.
Orville b. Roe of La sale III, finding that his
wife would no longer labor TO support him in
idleness, fred one shot through her hand and al
other through her head, and then killed himself
on last Thursday. Clinging to their mothers
bloody body five children we're found, for whose
relief subscription has been taken up Ii is
thought that Mrs Roe may possibly recover.
General Hancock, in an interview. sass the peo-
pie In the flooded districts OF the South are III i'm
d ediate need of generous help. in the way OF
God. shelter and medicines. In speaking OF the
Test meacs of preventing recurrence of the ca
lemity, the General Is reported saying "A
bill should be introduced In Congress providing
for survey OF the Mississippi. Missouri and Ohio
Rivers. as well as their principal tributaries The
survey being made, plsn of leyee should o
devised which would be sufficiently strong 10
The States, OF the Parishes build them they should