The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

several culprits were yublicly whipped at New
castle, Del. Saturday for various oiisnses
The graves of Confederate soldiers at Memphis,
Tenn, were decorated Sunday with appropriate
ceremonies.
At AsheryIlle. Kan, FRIDAY, three children of
Isaac WilkesOn were burned TO death in their
fathers bsrR.
Park Grimes aud Casxius Ide were burned to
death in a saw mill at Yermontville, Mich, one
night last week.
Bismarck's illness Is now ssid 20 have been
greatly exsggerated, his OILY ailment being his
customary neuralgia.
The editor of an American paper pTiu ted at Con-
stantiuople has been condemned TO imprisonment
for life for publishing disloyal articles.
Edison Finch, one Of the Oldest passenger en-
giaeers on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad,
dropped dead on HIS engine, near PAna. Ill, Sat
urday.
Negro miners Saturday night lynchet william
Connors white, who killed two nea and seriously
wounded two more in = drunken quarrel q: Glen
mary, Tenn.
AtParis. France, last THURSDAY. as 8 wedding
psrty was going to Church. a rejected lover snot
ana killed tbs expSctant bridegroom. and then
poisoned himself
Nine convicts IN South Carolina convict camp
attempted to escape Friday and were fired upon
by the guards. three of them being killed Vi the
Others, four escaped.
At New Haven, Conn. last Wednesday. the wall
OF burning livery stable iell upon SIX nrsm rs
/ loss BY the FIRE was $1,000.
| The cutting OF passenger rates from Louisville
| to Indianapolis aud Chicago has been suspended.
and the Controversy between the railroads will
| be submitted to arbitration.
| A few weeks ago Mrs. Dana Geyer, of wheeling.
w. Va, was robbed of 81 200 OF diamonds and
jewelry. Saturday the thieves returned the miss
ing articles through the mails
There arrived st Bottom last Thursday by the
steamer Ph@nicisn sol eyicted teaants from Ire
land, most of whom had teen assisted" TO emf
crate by the British Government.
Seven hundred female cigarette makers at Eo-
/ chester N ", having demanded sn advance of %
per cent on the pay they were receiving, the en-
ployers Friday Instituted lockout.
Sitting Bull and his followers, numbering i47,
have arrived at Standing Rock Agency, Dakota.
9ne old warrior wants TO end his days farming.
and has broken all his contracts for war paint.
| The rumor current in Washington that the Cab
met has discussed the possible demand from Eng-
land for the extreditioD OF sheridan, Lynch and
Walsh, is thought 20 have no foundation In FACT
| The recent burning of barns In Eastern Indiana
is attributed To farm hands, who arc ende9voring
to drive farmers to abandon the use OF seltbind-
! ing harvesters and other improved farm ma
chinery.
At Richmond, Va. Thursdsy the local military
observed the twentieth RnniverSary OF the desth
Square and firing a salute in front of Jackson's
monument.
An ex-speaker OF the New Jersey House OF Rep
resents tives hiss been arrested at EiiEaoeth upon
Armitsge, of Newark, at the late session OF the
Legislature.
The New York World has been sold by Jay
Gould to Joseph Pulitzer, of st. Louis. for $780,,
0CO. The World viii continue to be Democratic IN
politics. The new proprietor has assumed control
of the newspaper.
Edwin P. Hammond. of Rensselaer,. Ind, wal
on Monday appointed Judge OF the supreme
} Court of this State, vice Woods. appointed r
succeed Mr.. Gresham as Judge OF the United
States Circuit Court.
: Hannah Simpson Grant the mother Of ex
President Grant, died las. Friday NJ Jersey City
in the eish!y-ffth yesr OF her age. Her death
was sudden, old sge being the cause. She was re
! siding with her daughter Mrs. Corbin.
Ward NcCoIkey, who murdered George A. Nc
Clure in Dead Mans Hollow, near McKeesport
Pa, August 81. 1881, was executed last week Al
Pittsburg. He protested his innocence on the
gailows and met death with uncJncern.
President Arthur will spend the last week o.
May in New York, taking part, on the 2ith, III the
ceremonies attending the opening OF the Brook
lyn bridge, aud participating in the Decoration
{ Day exercises IA New York and Brooklyn.
The Pope informed Archbishop Croke OF Dub
, lin, Of an audience Friday. that certain grave
resolutions regarding the Irish trouble would
, speedily be promulgated. including a censure oil
such of the Irisn clergy a. has promoted the Par
nell fund
The dynamite conspirators were last Friday
CO omitted by the Police Magistrate of the Bow
Street Station London, on the charges Of treason
felony conspiracy 10 damage public buildings
and unlewfdlly having niIro-glycerins in theil
, possession.
Captain W. W. Bush. Of Lockport. N. Y, who
was the first man TO enlist in response to Presi
dent Lincoln's call for 900 men to serve ninety
days. issued April IS, 1861, has been presented
with gold badge foot In length, in testimony
Of the fact cited above.
As .. c. Hu;chins who had killed a man raal
Shreveport, Louisiana. last week. beiug e N
to Jsil at Belleyile, Sunday. his guards sur
that APE wsS impossible. Huichius drew a dirs
and stabbed himself 10 the heart.
The British Government has at last succeeded
In Obtaining Jury that would convict in the case
| nf Timothy Kelly of thaSa ~ y
Phe1ix Park asssssinations, who. on his third
trial The Juries having twice disagreed), has been
convicted and sentenced to be hanged June 9.
Among those whose deaths are recorded this
week are Mark E. Reeves. of Richmond, known
as the wealthiest man in Eastern Indiana, and
General George W. Warren, who has been Dfomi
nent in Boston for many years. He was a class
mate of Charles Sumner. Governor Washburne
|. | of Maine. died Saturday.
NJ. Leamy, an Irish Member OF Parliament in
a speech before 1000 OF bis constituents Sund a.
uToD the Pope 70 order the priests from meddline
with politics. Lord Erriugton, the English envoy
to the Vatican, was crushed under the oharacteri
cation of "a sneaking, scented poppinjsy."
Andrew ]. Smith, President of the Manhattan
, Fire Insurance Company. OF New York, hes been
arrested on the charge of perjury, ia making oath
70 a false statement If the CONDITION of tho Com
pRuy. The State Superintendent of In q rsncs
states hat the Company has been robbed OF $50
by one of III officers other than Mr.. Smith.
Tbs Western EXPORT Association at a meetinc
held last week in Indianapolis. resolved to adhere
10 the pooling arrangement until September I. II
was recommended that distilers who car do 81
limit their production between this date and June
l. when IL viii be obligatory upon ell distillers
IN the Association TO reduce production 20 per
cent
! Some of Mr.. Tnden's young nephews hav.
turned out to- he the most gracelcss speudthrifs.
, Of the age. Within the past ten wears they have
disSipated an estate worth q 0O0O00 II mus
! disgruntle UEcle Samuel to money which
could be vaiusbly utilized as the contents Of q
political barrel thrown away ia such reckless
manner.
At Virginia city. New. Saturday. Mrs There's
Fair was srented q divorce from her husband
JnIneE q. Fair, United States Senator, with "a
250, 600 alimoney in money and bonds the resi-
: dence ia San Francisco and the custody OF the
three youngest children. No defense was made
and the proceed inss were private, reporters
being excluded.
The descendants OF an English Colonel of Hes
SLAMS ia the War OF the Revolution, who reside on
farm on Rideau Lake. Ontario, claim TO have
title n $50 acres Ia the heart OF the city of Pha
ceiphia which belonged r. their ancestor and
which would mike each Of the nine claimants
= millionaires several times over lawyer has
been found TO carry the claim into Court.
! The United States Circuit Courtat Des Noines
last week rendered decision. IN q suit involving
/, the validity of the Nelson w. Green patent on
driven wells, issued I'm 1868 and reissued in 1871
The Court finds that the process of obtaining
water by driving lubes into the ground hsd been
IN use at least seven years prior to the issuance
OF the patent, which, therefore, Is null aud void,
Reports from correspondents of aChicago Com
mission House indicate that the spring wheat
crop Is In a more favorable condition at present
than IL has been az q corresponding date I'm 2