The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-06-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK,

The Republican Convention of the
First Kansas district nominated Hon.
John Anderson for reelection to Con-
gress.
Henry Dietz, nine years old, living
at No. $50 Greenwich street. New
York, was run over and instantly
killed by coal cart.
A fire on the second floor of the
wagon factory of John L. Kipp, at No.
le3 Eldriige street, New York, in
| volved a loss Of $4,000.
Joshua A. Bovine, President of the
Rhinebeck Savings Bank, at Rhine
beck, n. Y, was gored TO death by
q bull.
Henry A. Bowers. indicted for steal
ing the mail at Montpelier, Vt, in
January last, containing money and
postage stamps, was at Windsor, found
guilty.
The residence of Captain Jacob Van
derbilt, at Clifton, Staten Island. WAS
entered by burglars. and diamonds
| and jewelry worth $1,000 were stolen.
6. w. Gray,a student of the Sam
Houston Normal Institute, who shot
| and killed E. P. Jordan, another stu
| dent, some months since. was at
Huntsville, Texas, acquitted
The trial of James Redden, colored,
for criminally assaultiDg Sarah Purse,
white girl, aged fourteen years, was
| begun at Wilmington, Del. One OF
the jurors is colored man.
Blackman, Vogel & Co., wholesale
boot and shoe dealers. of st. Louis,
made an assignment. Their liabilities
are not yet known. The value of their
stock is placed at SIS, 900.
The body of Stephen Petit, buried
at Far Rockaway. L. l., for seventeen
years, was recently disinterred for re-
moval and found perfectly petrified,
the features being almost as natural as
life s-.f+4 ..s..-. ,-y-<~s.,.
John Walker, living near House
Mountain, Tenn, sixteen miles from
Knoxville, was stabbed and killed by
Andrew Evans, a neighbor, in conse-
quence Of Walker having made dis
paraging remarks in relation to Evans
sister. Evans is in Jail at Knoxville,
and his father is now serving ON q
jury in murder trial in the same
city.
Lewis Albaugh, aged twenty-five
years, OF Baltimore, while making his
first trip as trak eman on the Fred
erick Division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, fell beneath train and had
both legs cut off.
The Brooklyn Sur day School Ami
versary was celebrated by a parade of
the children and teachers. Flags were
displayed on all the municipal build
ings. About $4,000 joined in the
parade from 100 schools. T. }a
]. II. Weber, night Waterman at
Tucson, Arizona, while crazed with
liquor, fired several shots among
crowd of people, one of which instantly
killed young man named G. NJ.
Hinton. Weber is in custody.
Moses Silk, notorious ruffian and
murderer, was riddled with bullets by
Sheriff Taylor at Fort Spunky, Indian
Territory. Silk as drunk and quar-
relsome and resisted arrest, making
desperate fight. He is Gre dited with
the killing of five men and with being
accessory to many murders.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Home Mission Society was held at
New York in the First Baptist Church.
Among those who spoke of the Mis-
sion work in the West was Mrs. Quin-
ton CT Philadelphia, Mrs. Mary L.
Bonney, of Philadelphia; spoke of the
lamentable condition of the Indians.
She thought public sentiment should
be aroused 80 Congress might appro-
pirate sufficient morey to keep them
from starving.
Daniel ] O'Brien, crockery dealer
at Albany, N. Y, failed. Liabilities,
$50 900; assets unknown.
The Massachusetts House voted to
remove Judge Day from the Office of
Probate Judge in Barnstable county.
The dwelling house and q large barn
of E. d. Barbour, at Sharon, Mass,
were burned with their contents.
Loss, $4,000.
F. S. Rogers store, with its con-
tents, at Bradford, VT, was burned.
Loss, 5000.
DIR. David II. Nash, one of the old
est physicians in Connecticut, died at
Bridgeport, aged seventy one years"
Theodore O'Hara was stabbed and
killed at his residence in st. Louis.
The murderer has not been discovered.
The fertilizer factory of S. A. Wetz-
Ter & Co., on Bear Creek, b fillmore
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