The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-03-14
THE WEEKS NEWS.

lhtAuu 70 MOUTH.
1t Is said thet Mr. Foster of Indiana. will de-
cline the mission TO Madrid.
Mrs. Berkemler, Of Knox County, Indiana. died
Friday at the age of 100 years.
Four Montreal firms went TO the wall wednes-
day, their aggregate liabilities being slSS,O
The present high price Of wheat has caused q
cessation of grinding by milwaukee millers.
The Emperor of Germany sends 5000 marks 10
German sufferers by floods in the United States.
Two hundred factory girls started last week
from Lime rick Ireland, TO take situations in New
Hampshire.
For denounciDg q paTishoner who had given ND
her seat in Church. Father Harkins, of Holyoke.
Mass, has been sued for $40 900 damages for libel.
The Russian police are showing increased vigi.
lance as the time for the coronation approaches
and arrests are being made OF suspicious char.
acters.
was married Wednesday night. in staunton. Va,
to Mrs: Dora Inez Calvert. of Greenbrier County
West Virginia.
Clarence Hite, one of the James gang of out
laws recently sentenced to twenty five years i'm
prisonment has been pardoned by Governor Crit
tenden, of Missouri.
Daniel Woods OF Indianapolis is dead at the
age OF lt6 years. He served'in the English Army
under the Iron Duke, was at Waterloo and ac-
companied Napoleon 10 st. Helena
Dame Rumor is telling in Oshkosh that ex-sen-
at0r Tabor made his recently ACC uired father-in
law a present Of 100000 aud gave his mosherin-
Several hundred squa tiers have recently inva-
ded that part of the Sioux Reservation which lies
east of The Missouri River, and the Interior De-
parSment Is requested TO cause theiI expulsion.
The homeopathic physicians OF Massachusetts,
have petitiOned the LEGISLATURE of that state for
lum, TO be under the control of their school of
medicine.
The opinion prevails at the Treasury Depart
ment in Washington that the law removing the
hank CeDOSltC. is rtlie y-
Ing banks from taxes that have accrued since toe
LIST of January.
resolution instrucliug the Governor to open
correspondence with Robert I. Lincoln relative
TO the purchase of the Lincoln homestead by the
State was adopted by the Illinois House of Repre-
sentatives last Friday.
Near London, o.. Saturday. while John g.
Tracey and his brother-ln law David Gillinwster
we're chOpping in the woods they quarreled, and
Tracey cut Gillinwaters throat with an ak, the
man dying In few moments.
decline in the stage OF water is reported at
Helena, Ark. At Greenville, Miss, and further
down, the river continues to rise. Some breaks
in levees are reported but the greatest danger of
a general overflow appears to have passed.
The mother OF Hon. Frank Landers, late Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Indiana, died
Sunday in InGia1a at the home of her son, Hon.
Jackson Landers. She Will be buried to-day at
O'Clock ST the old homestead in Morgan County.
Much sickness prevails In the territory south OF
Evansville Ind, inundated by the recent over
flow CT the Ohio River, the prevailing diseases be-
ing phoid fever and dyseDtGry. Many families
are in extreme desttutioA, having lost their sub
Z lance by the floods.
BY an explosion OF dynamite in "Dead Mans
Hollow" near McKeespoIt, Penn, one man was
killed outright ana three others received injuries
that may prove fatal. The accident was caused
By an attempt to thaw out some frozen dynamite
by the heat Of a stove.
simon B. Paige, of Davenport, Iowa, killed him
self sunday while his family we're at Church.
Troubles growing out of the death of his first wife
Frrn ffVaf IN hOfn nzh
were stopping, in 1881 are supposed to have
prompted his actions. He was very wealthy.
Failure has attended The first attempt to place
eooIed man upon Grand Jury in Maryland
William A. Addison, negro, having been plsced
on the Baltimore Giand Jury, has been convicted
OF making corrupt use OF his official position and
was suspended from duty. He will be further
proceeded sgainst.
is taid to have been made in Washington last
week, some one firing pistol at him while he
was rldi3g, the bullet passing through the win
dow of his landau. Mr Blaine treats the matter
lightly, but his friends profess to believe such an
attempt was made.
Seth f. Crews member of the Illinois House
of Representatives, from Jefferson County has
been arrested under an Indictment found in ST.
Clair County, for obtaining none under false pre-
lenses Mr.. Crews is the law partner of Mr.. Chas.
T. Strattan. late candidate for state Superintend
ent of Public instruction.
At Terrell Tex. last fall party of five Inen,
while playing cards in the upper story of bust
ness building, quarreled and one, o commercial
drummer, was shot dead, and in falling knocked
over lamp. which fired the structure, the body
OF the murdered man being reduced to ashes
The story has just been related by participant.
who lies on his death bed.
Lieutenant Harber's report OF his search for
Lieutenant Chip and pazty. of the Arctic explor
ing steamer Jeanette, in the Lena River delta,
has recalled the Secretary of the Navy. The
search began June 20 last and continued without
success though prosecuted with the greatest care,
until December 5, 1882, when Lieutenant .Harber
reached Irkutsk on his way home.
The funeral of the late Alexander II. stephens
was the occasion of most impressive dennOnstra-
ton at Atlaota, Ga. Robert Toombs an early po-
litical rival of the dead statesman, snd Senator
Joseph Z. Brown were smong the speakers In all
the cities of Georgia and in many other places In
the South memorial services were held sfmulra
neously with she burial st the State CapftaE
Rev. DR.. Nicholson, Of st. Marks Church, Phil
adelphia has been chosen Bishop OF Indiana, TO
succeed the late Bishop Talbot. The selection
by the Diocesan Convention is subject to ratfica-
ton by the House 6f Bishops As DR.. Nicholson
IL now receiving salary OF $1,000 per annum 1t
bishopric is only 81. 900 may have some influence
toward causing him to decline the office.
The State Department having instituted IN
9qiss as sa To- ns cause 81 ne ming IN Spn tne
Fort at CuTecoa in the West Indies. explanation
has been made that the incident was the result of
on ps ne p of u fns Pnel p1se
Of an obsolete regulation OF the OiceT ut the fort
The offenders have been punished. and assurance
is given that the occurrence viii not be repealed.
Eleven men we're burned to death Saturday
night in a ohe-etory- and.loft boarding house at
near Dead wood. Oak. The loft
snere itSeea men were sleeping, was reached by
one ladder only, but there was one window open
iDg twelve feet from the ground, By when all
might have escaped had they retained their pres
ence Of mind. OF the foHr who escaped from the
burning building. two were so badly scc<cbed
that they will have 10 undergo amputarion of
legs. t
In the region of Waterloo. Quebec. the greatest
snOwstorm for years has ragged since Saturday
afternoon. Shocks OF earthquake were also felt
The weather has been sQually, With flurries of
snow in Northern New York while along the
New Jersey coast on Sunday, sunshine prcvailed
with strong wind from the northwest On The
Nova sEotian and New Brunswick coasts neavy
but the damage caused sas triAlng.
In the West generally fair weather has been the
order. Virgins informed q reporter thEt he was
satisfied with the storm.
CONGRESSMAN Belford, of Colorado. was called to
the witness-stsnd IN the trial of the Star Route
case Wednesday, aud testified relative to his
efforts at the PostOffice Department TO secure the
expedition of certain mail routes In the course
OF mis- examination some questions were asked
which Mr.. Belford construed as an iInputation
upon his honor, and after leaving the witness
stand he asked the privilege of making a state-
ment to the Court. Judge Wiley CURLY refused
him the permission requested, whereupon ar.
Belford denounced the action Of the Court, He