The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-03
THE NEWS OF A WEEK.

For the convenience OF readers who do not
have time or opportunity to master all the news as
it appears from morning to morning. we have
made brief summary of the weeks doings, end
ng Tuesday. as follows:
President Grevy has returned to Paris.
Tuesday was the Hebrew New Years bay.
The French Chambers will be convened October
Last years increase in postal revenue So 5s2.
156.
Prince Alexander did not 60 to see the Emperor
/ of Austria
Orange demonstrations are disturbing the quiet
/ OF Ireland.
The estimated debt reduction for September Is
Nearly an inch of snow fell last Friday at owa-
| tonna, MINI.
A colored woman named Diana Colphus. us
years of age, died Friday last at London, Ontario
The Convention of the Irish National League met
/ Saturday at Leeds
/ 1t reported that the Afghan army has been de-
/ feated by the Ghilzais.
! A Guaymas steamer carried five cases of yellow
/ fever to San Francisco.
! Three hundred women voted at 4 school election
/ in Binghamton, n. Y, last week.
Another method OF iampering with the new pos
tai notes has been discovered.
Thirty thousand baskets of Michigan peaches
were received in Chicago one day last week
More than as 900 checks are drawn to pay the o.
| toDer interest on registered Government bonds.
Fifteen persons were killed by the explosion of
barrel of gunpowder at Villena, Spain, Saturday.
| Three highway robbers were Saturday sentenced
to twenty years Imprisonment tch, al Pittsburg.
Dezendorf repeats the declaration that President
| Arthur said he was bound to carry out the caucus
| compact with Malone.
Judge Hoadley has recovered from his recent
sickness and has begun anew the campaign for the
| Governors chair of Ohio.
Twelve deaths from yellow fever occurred on
| Wednesday at Hermosillo, Mexico, and il is est-
| mated 900 persons are prostate.
A cargo of 600 sheep shipped from Canada have
been condemned at Liverpool because 1t is
claimed one sheep in the lot had scab.
Blanche Gray a girl of Sixteen years. whose
| weight is 517 pounds. was married in a museum in
New York to David Moses last THURSDAY.
Rev H. W. Beecher and wife are at Dallas, Tex,
where the famous pulpiteer lectured 10 a large
| dience. They intend TO make tour of the state.
The yearly meeting of Friends at Richmond.
Ind. has drawn together multitude far in excess
! of anything ever before known. There are go
| authorized ministers of the denomination in the
field.
Joseph St. Cyr, an old and honored Creole resi-
dent OF New Orleans, who participated in the bat
tie near that city in 1915, has been gathered to his
| fathers.
Charles S. Parnen left London for Leeds, Friday
| morning. There appears TO have been no founda-
ton for the report that he had been killed or
| wounded.
King Alfonso visited the French capital last
week. He was treated with indignity at the rail-
way station and the streets, and LETT for Spain
on Sunday.
w.R McKeen, President of the vandalia Rail
| u u
ling of Terre Haute and Will go TO California for
bridal tour
W n. Clark. of Cardington. O.. who went to In
dianapos TO secure pension, hanged himself to
a fence in the rear of the City Library Building
last Saturday.
A pile of straw at Carey, O.. which was stacked
four years ago. was loaded on wagons last week.
In the center was found the skeleton OF a man and
vial OF acOnite
Yellow fever having broken out at La Paz Mex
leo, it is proposed to establish an inland quaran-
| tine at Numa A riZ in which the railway authOrl-
ties Will cooperate.
The gfeat trotting match between Jay-Eye-See
and ST. Julien took place Saturday on heavy track
at Fleetwood Park New York. The former won in
three straight heats
John B. Carroll, formerly a clerk in the City
Hall at New York, who was discharged on sus-
picion, is shown TO have embezzled $4,000 by
means of false entries in his books.
The hangman Friday closed the career OF three
negroes at Chatham, Va, who waylaid white
man on his way to market with vegetables, and of
sailor.
During the taking of dispositions in a contested
will case at Blue Lick, KY, last Friday, Samuel e.
Rogers, President of the Farmers Bank at Car
Isle, killed his brothers William o. and Thomas
Rogers
Failures for the third quarter OF 1883 were 1908
in number. and representing liabilities amount
ing to $50 600 900 For the corresponding period of
1882 the number was l,SOO and liabilities only SIS,
0O000v.
Rev. II. Root, bank President at Valley City
Dak, sued the Times of that place for Sl7 OjO dam
| dHeS ullu Will eLlDeLLleueul
and stealing Sunday school c0ppers. The Jury
awarded him six cents.
John Bowley, young lawyer OF Chestertown
Nd. who led his class at Princeton College, was
found dead in bed last Thursday. lie left for the
Coroner note asking him to solve the question
whether he died OF laudanum, love or whisky.
Colonel George Knapp, President of the Missouri
Republican Company, died on board steamer
from Antwerp September IS He was born IN
1914 in Orange County. New York, aud entered
the Office Of The Republican at the age OF twelve
years.
The third wedding in St. Paul's Church, London.
since 1I5S took place last Thursday u daughter OF
the Lord Mayor being united to Mr.. Aiken. The
great pell was Tung the first time for a marriage
Three hundred guests were present at the wedding
breakfast
The cannon-ball train of the Atchison, Topeka
ana Santa Fe Line was attacked Saturday morning
at Coolidge, KaS, by three men, who shot down
the engineer, fireman and breakman, but were
routed by the express messenger, who was him
self slightly wounded.
The statue of Germania, which cost over l ,01o,-
00G marks, was unveiled last Friday at Nederwald
by the Emperor, Princes. and Generals OF the last
and castles along the Rhine were illuminated at
night, and salues were fired from batteries on the
hills
The boiler of the steamer J. s. Robinson ex-
ploded at the wharf at Albany last Friday. Cap
tain George s. Warner Fireman William Cleary
and Richard Van Zandt were killed. and several
others were seriously injured. The tug Cora
totally wrecked. The Robinson sank Immediate
ly after the accident.
Charles Butler, the son of a rich and influential
citizen of Columbus. o., recently flushed term
OF imprisonment for assaulting policeman. His
wife was at Princeton, Ind. visiting relatives. lie
went thither Sunday, and after few words with
his wife lodged a bullet in her brain from which
she can hardly recover.
Mr.. Armstrong, Commissioner OF the Railroad
Bureau OF the Interior Department, has spent four
months in inspecting the land grant road on the
Pacific coast He reports gap of 25S miles in the
track between California and Oregon which is be-
ing rapidly reduced. The Bozeman and Mullen
tunnels on the Northern Pacific will probably be
completed this year.
At the foot of steep grade near Shakopee,
Mimi. early Friday morning. freight train on
the Minneapolis and st. Louis Road broke into
sections, which crashed together, killing Engineer
Snow, Fireman Mccain, Brakeman Mallory, and a
drover named p. IL. McAluf. The latter left
wife and four children absolutely penniless Nine
cars were completely wrecked.
George Lafere. colored man, who died in New
Orleans last week at the age of 10 years, claimed
TO have been Prince of tribe of negroes in
Guinea, and was full grown man when brought
10 the city and sold as a slave in 1905. He served
Paul Laiere in the war OF 1912, and cared for his
sons in the Mexican campaign. Before the Re
bellion he was freed and given money enough to
sustain him constantly.
| At $3.50 O'Clock Friday morning fifty masked
men, armed with sledge- hammers and crowbars,
appeared at the residence of Sheriff Kackey,