The Indiana State sentinel., 1883-08-22
THE NEWS OF A WEEK.


have tine or opportunity TO master all the news a.
it sppesrs from morning to morning. we have
mace a brief summary of the weeks doings, end
ing tuesday, as follOws:l
There were forty deaths from yellow fever in
Havana the past week.
Csptsin Rhodes says positively that he viii
swim the Niagara rapids.
Judge jeremiah s. Black died at hts home in
YORK, Pa. at a. m. Sunday last.
The caerpillars are lDjuring the cotton in the
neighborL ood of Columbia, 5. e
Hon. David Gallup. Lieutenant Governor of Con-
necticut in 1880, is dead at Piainfield.
Twelve stores and six warehouse were burned
at Crawford, Miss, Saturday. Loss. sl00 eco.
A vein Of petroleum which flows f rty barrels per
day has been sunk near Canon City, Colorado
The electrical exhibition at Vienna was opened
last Thursdsy with great ceremony By the Crown
Prince Rudolph.
James Wiggins of Towanda. Pa lied his wife
for bringing dvOrce suit, and tnen blew out his
brains last Friday.
Colonel ]. n. sflverthorn. the we1lkuow1 river
reporter of Evansville died in that city Saturday
of paralysis OF the brain.
Lightning at Blue Springs Tenn. on last Thurs
day killed two cows and twenty-seven hogs which
sought shelter under a tree.
A. Biermann, of Minnesota. has accepted a NOM
ination for Governor at the hands of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee.
party of twenty-five students at the Univerd
ty OF st. Petersburg have been sent siberia for
their connection with a NIhiltst jour Ial.
While driving at Stowe W.. last Thursday. Jesse
Town al wife were thrown from their carriage
aud killed, and Mrs. Stockweu WAS seriously in
Jured.
The British Government has demanded of Rus
sia explain alton in regard 10 the expu zion of
Jewish commercial traveller bearing an English
passport
No less than twenty thousand persons are idle in
the district of. sOn-unde.- Lyme Engl and,
count of the refusal of the master weayers to in-
crease wages.
The Government having recured the title to the
site of the birthplace Of George Washington at
Wakefield, Va, a monumental building will be
erected at a cost of S33 0C0.
The South Carolina Railway Company has ex-
pressed It's willingness 10 furnish free transporta-
ton TO organized bodies OF negroes who will agree
never TO return TO the state.
Ansley Grey, who is in Jail at Denver for drunk
/ enness. was once promising attorney of Milwau.
kee. lie married Racine lady aud squandered
$4,000 of her money in dissipation.
The engine and tender of a passenger train went
/ through an open draw bridge near Mobile Satur.
day. Edward Brown. the engineer, stuck to mis-
pest and saved the passengers. but went down
| with the wreck and was drowned.
Mr.. Foote. the newly appointed Minister to Co
rea, reports having secured at the Capital house
maoe ot woSd @ and papeI in the the mist Of h3vels ,
! end says nearly all articles OF food ase brought
other counties
The exports from the United States for the fiscal
year ending June 20 were valued st 1913 sos 8l9
increase OF S7S 26S 562 over the preceding year.
| he imports tor the ast twelve moaths aggregat-
!
| 6S3, 1853 in our favor.
Joe Payne, a negro, assassinated merchant OF
| kland, Miss, last month, aud mutilated his
| mains. The murderer made a confession last
| Thursday. and by almost me unanimous v1te Of
$50 citizens, after an informal trial he hanged
in the regular way. only the sheriff protesting.
| In the British House of Commons. the Chsncel-
| lor of the Duchy OF Lar caster stated last week
that the oot-and-moutl disease in cattle had be n
| carried from kngand to Ameaica. and that the
Canadian cattle now suffering at Bristol had been
! IN contact at Liverpool with Infected Irish ami
| mails.
Drake Carter won the Omnibus Stakes at Sara
| toga Saturday in canter. beating Pizarro and
| several Others He was purchased by Pierre Loril-
lard Immediately sfter the for $i7 500. Drake
| Carter, stree Leonatus' misfortune, is without a
| rivsl in his three year-old form. He is dissin-
! guished Kentuckian and a sou of his sire, the
| famous Ten Brock.
In Nashville. Tenn, early on Friday morning,
| lifeless body of John W. Thom1s, who had at
tempted suicide with cothes line, and for WI ose
recovery nopss are now eatertaiped Hs Is under
| grocery merchant.
The United States Minister at Monteyldeo re-
| ports thst on July the Government .ent a baud
/ Diplomatic Corps called. and the Urueuayan Con-
gress passed q resolution haiing the advent OF the
one hundred and seventh anniversary of the Dec
laTation OF Independence.
A train on the Kentucky Central Road, one car
of which contained 400 kegs of blasting powder,
STOOD on the crossing a., a, Lexineton last Friday,
| h1cn u OuSrapcdkS y unu Outo tram ran luto IL a
terrible explosion followed In which TWO con.
duciors were killed. five Others were fatally in
jured. and the Depot and one engine were Blown
/ TO atoms.
Boston will next month have an exposition
de up wholly of foreign productions. for which
Congress parsed a bill admitting exhibits free OF
duty. The articles already received are sufficient
10 insure creditable fair. Ii twin be held In the
siehtacIe buildiI G of the Charitable Mechanics
esds been decorated with the ss Of ali Mas
tons Exhibits will in most cases be attended by
natives In their National costumes. King Hum
bert has forwarded marble bust of himself. A
coup of fourteen Japanese women will make
wicker and straw goods during the exhibition.
Martin Casey the leader Of a band OF outlaws
living in the mountainous region ON the bound ny
Of New York and Massachusetts,, has at last been