The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24

passed appropriauDS slo,OOOvOO to supply pension
on Monday the House continued in dead lock
over the McCabe-Dibblc contested election case,
and finally adjourned without doing anything.
miscellaneous News Items.
Archbishop Purcell was ordained priest ffty
seven years ago.
The Wells comet has been seen with the naked
eye at Phelps, \. Y.
The large mill of Nelson Brothers, near Wabash,
| Ind, was burned. Loss, 50 coo.
In the Vienna Chess Tournament Mckenzie
and Mason, Americans, had drawn same.
Unusually cold weather is reported in the
Northwest, and snow hes fallen in several locali-
| ties.
Government Commissioners placed 100000
shad in the ennessee River, at Chattanooga Sat
! urday.
Walton, the New York landlord, is said to have
| horses.
A colllery explosion near Shamokin. Pa, satur-
day, killed three men and fatally burned Il
| fourth
Riley Moore. acquitted of murder in Scott Coun-
ty Miss was asSassinated by some unknown per-
| son Sunday.
Four unsuccessful attempts were made Sunday
night TO burn the office OF the Daily World, Louis
| vile, Kentucky.
Mrs. Belle Hoover, of West Milton, O., was at
tackled by bull dog ana So horribly torn that her
| life Is despaired of.
! At Madison, Ind, Saturday night, August Stroll
aged about sixty, died from the efletS OF dose of
| laudanum taken with suicidal intent.
| Lew II Epler, farmer living near Greencastle
Ind, was Instantly killed Saturday night by fall
ing from railroad bridge on pile of stone.
Merrick Hutchinson, under five years sentence
| for arson, was pardCned by the Governor ofIndi-
ana, at the expiration OF one year OF his sentence
The Com mittee at work at Little Rock, on the
| books OF ex-IIeasurer.(n ow Governor) Churchill
report denclt Tor fourteen months OF Sll1, 22S57
The failures in the United States for the past
i week number t6 the imnarrant hai hat
| OF Edward Hixon * Co., furniture dealers, of
Boston.
The Health Officer reports $50 new cases Of
smallpox for the past week IL Gil cinnati. Total
| flfty-seyen.
Charlotte n. c., celebrated, Saturday, the 10Th
| anniversary OF the Mecklenbnlg County Declar-
alton CT Independence, one Of the Stirring events
Oi the Revolutionary War.
Isaac Gardner and his three daughters were
drowned yesterday. at Newc 1merstoyn, o while
attempting TO ford the Tuscarawas River, against
Inc protests OF Dystanders.
A movement is on foot to give public burial to
occasion of their removal from Washington 10
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati.
". II. Churchman, blind man, who has been
Superintendent of the Indiana and Wisconsin In
srsuuOns Tor the Blind. dropped dead of heart
disease, Wednesday evening, near indianapolis.
The Assembly of Southern Presbyterians has
decided take action of pre- ssing the revised
New Testament at present. Next years meeting
OF the Assembly will be held at Lexington, KY.
A negro womaR at Anisville, Rappshannock
County, Va, tied her son, nine years old, hand
and foot TO her cabin floor, Saturday, made fire
over him with splinters and burned him to death.
Frank James and several of his gang are now in
Texas. win headquarters at Dallas. Eight men,
bers OF PiHkertOls Detective force are watching
their movements and expect 10 capture the des
peradoes snortly.
William E. Badeau. OF New York in suit to
recover 81 500, charges James r. Keene and others
~
ststement IS in regard TO the Bradshaw and Wash
ingtOn mines in Arizona.
James Johnson, enc of the pioneers OF Indiana,
who owned two thousand acres OF land near
Indianapolis, died Wednesday, at the age o.
eishIy-two. He is credited with large donations
to educational institutions.
Six hundred employees have been dismissed
from the wholesale departments of A. T. Stewart
q %, New York. and the wholesale business will
be finished by July /. The retail store will hot
be shut up FOR six months yet, probably.
BY tornado IL Mountain Township, Pike
County, Ark, on the 10Th instant William
SHEDS, prominent painter, and TWO children
were killed aud his wife fatally injured. Sixteen
dwellings in that locality were destroyed.
Twelve miles west of Muscatine, Iowa, girl
fifteen years OF age was quaneling Sunday with
her father, john McMenOmon, farmer, when her
Older brother handed her revolver, and she shot
the old man through the breast, killing him.
Mrs. Hiram Williams, of Young Hickory, o
while out skif riding with her brotherin- law,
named Ernst, on the lake at Cleveland Sunday,
was drowned by the upsetting OF the boat. Ernst
was rescued while cliugiDg 10 the upturned boat.
Alta meeting Saturday Of railroad coal miners
in the PitsbuTg district l3 pits were represented.
and il resolved to continue the strike against
reduction and to quit work in every pit IN the
district il the lored men are not discharged by
June /.
General Pope telegraphs the War Department
that the Mescaleros must be fed they will
starye. AS the Indian Bureau can not give them
provisions the Army must feed them sur
round them with enough troops to force quiet
starvation.
Three hundred citizens of st. Martinsville. La.
took one murderer from Jail and picked OPP anoth-
er On their march Wednesday and hanged both TO
a tree near Breaux Bridge. The Governor has Of
fefed reward OF $2,CCO Tor the apprehension OF
the lynchers.
William White. an Igishman, who was dis
charged from The Indiana Insane Asylum a
month ago, and has been without means of sub
isience, threw himself in front of Vsndalia
eIg CINE saturday in this city. His injuries wer
such that he died few hours afVerward.
Patrick Troy, a coal dealer at Joliet, last week,
caused priest and two friends to carry him out
to a shed. There he unloosed a screw from a
board and IS 50J in coin rolled forth. He willed
81 900 his house to his brother James, who is
in a lunatic asylum.
Michael Turner, on reaching New York by the
steamer Wisconsin, was arrested on suspicion OF
Park, Dublin. Cablegrsms report that such is the
fear of arrest in Ireland that peasantry travelling
outside Of their districts apply 10 the police for
southern ports.
While the widow of James Quigley was filing
her account as administrator III Court at EIfe,
Pa, Wednesday, she was startled by the APP
pearance of another widow of the same msii.
who laid claim to the entire estate. Itappears
that the latter was married in Buffalo twenty
years ago, and that Quigley deserted her with
four children on her hands
The superintendent of Castle Garden predicts
an immigration of 10000 for the current week.
Shirt makers from Hayre say they have been
earning less than five francs per week, while
Scotch farm labOrers report their wages at $40
per year and found The steamship Alexandria
brings 700 Italian railroad builders, who have
nothing but the clothes they wear.
The last rites over the body OF Hon. C. C.
Washburn were celebrated Thursday at La
Crosse. Hon. Israel Washburn arrived from
Maine in the morning. aud Hon. Il. b. Washburn
from Chicago. Hundreds of people looked upon
the lace of the dead. Rev. ]. II. lutte, OF Mime
apolis preached the funeral discourse. SQUADS Of
militia were present from Milwaukee and Madi- ]