The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-14
A WEEKS NEWS
The BNnOr Events OF the Past weess Tosds IN
Brief Paragraphs.


Secretary Msuoing continues to improve.
The totalloss by the quincy (I,l) fire was $780,,
O0O
Hoa. Joan weasch. ex.Minis,er to England, is
dead.
The German Reichstag has adjourned until
MAY e.
Hon. Joseph Pulitzer has resigned his seat in
Congress.
The wheat crop OF Northwest Missouri is very
promising.
The iron works at Florence. Wis, have been de
stEoyed by FIRE.
yon sohefel, the German poet, died at Carls-
rune Saturday
The Pail Mall Gazette predicts the defeat of
Gladstone's home rule schemes
Lacrosse, Wis. has suffered a million dollars
fire, including heavy lumber losses.
John Buford has just been indicted for murder
at She!bYviile Mo-, for killing his father.
A ssirmisa took place between Turkish and
Mo0tenegrin troops on the Turkish frontier.
Near Kansas City, Sunday afternoon, brutal
glove fight was fought, ll6 rounds, to q draw.
The tides were unusually high along the Allan
tic coast last week, and the low lands are Hooded.
Mrs Jane Slaughter, living near EdwardsYille,
H., fell in her cistern aud was drowned last Fri
day.
Senator Blair has introduced a bill providing
for only eight hours work q day for ietter-car
rierS.
Another of the wolfbitten Russians who was
under PaSteurs treatment has died making three
in all.
The Indiana Oratorical Association is rent with
internal discussions aud is in danger OF falling to
pieces.
Against the warnings OF physicians. President
exercise.
Gilbert Fl. Shirk. wealthy banker, died at Peru.
Ind Thursday evening. His estate is valued al
s.,o0o,C00
Corrected returns from Laredo show that ten
were killed and seventeen wounded in the recent
street fight.
Robert Phillips. wife murderer, was hanged at
Indianapolis Thursday. The cause OF the crime
was jealousy
There is great excitement ut Victoria B. c.. over
q bill prohibiting the employment of Chinese on
railroad work.
Forty-two Germans expelled from Belgium for
alleged completely in the recent riots, have ar
rived in Prussia.
Three Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad engineers
were drowned ia New River at Sunny Side, West
Virginia, sunday.
Arrangements are making for Dwight l..
Moody campaign at Chicago to supplement the
work OF Jones and Small
six men implicated in the murder of Ben Will
son, near Somerset. Ky, have been arrested by
friends OF the murdered man.
The Government official crop report makes a
| reduction OF 100000 acres in the winter wheat
| area from that OF two years ago.
The Murphy meetings at Titiin, Ohio. amount to
| q temperance boom. Two thousand six hundred
| persons have signed the pledge.
In the Prussisn Landtag the bill exproprIating
province with Germans was passed.
| Near Sullivan, Ind Lee Wolf, intoxicated. was
run down by train. His remains were taken in
| mail sacks 10 Carlisle for an inquest.
| r. s. Benham, Superintendent OF the Copper
| Queen Mining Company at Cauacas, Sonora, Mex
| leo. was shot dead by his coschmsn.
-Four men suspected OF being engaged iu plot
| to blow up the train on which the Car OF Russia
| was travelling were arrested at Charkod.
| I,r B. H. Warner OF Baltimore. died OF hydro
| ph0bia, having been bitten by small wounded
| dog in the streets that he picked w to save
A derry containing two dead men aud two liv-
| ing but almost exhausted. drifted ashore al
! GuyOn Island, e. B., alter being eight days adrlt
| At IndianapOli the Central Telephone Company
| is taking ont its Instruments and shipping them
20 Boston. the business being lett 10 private lines
| An order of Land Commissioner Sparks sus
| pending final action upon entries upon public
lands. hss been revoked BY the secretary OF the
| Interior.
Ia riot at Lyons, France, last Friday, one wo
| man was shot dead. several wounded. and the
| sub End three OF his gen armes wer..
wounded
A man named Wilson. at Flint, Mich last fri
dsy, killed bis little daughter by pouring cTeO
S s, down her throat because her mother NAL
A ACHIEVEMENT detective followed two Cs9rctl,
| nati diamond merchants TO Amsterdam nd f1dsi.
susPfeun; smuggling, but nothing contrsb%Id
General Grants tomb, at Riverside Park, will be
| decorated on Memorial Dry General Logan will
be the orator OF the occasion, which will be made
| National affair.
The late spring Is favorable to the fruit yield BY
| checking too rapid development of the buds. The
| prospects for cherries and appAeS in this region
| are pronounced good.
| Thirty persons were wounded ia the West Deer.
| field Mass railroad disaster. last Friday. whom
| have since died Ten dead bodies have been re-
1 moved from the wreck.
| DR.. French, prominent resident OF Maiden.
Mass. C1ims 10 nave been swinded out OF $50, 900
| cash aud $4,000 property 10y Alfred Richardson,
| Jr., broker OF that place
The Indian Appropriation bill passed the Sen.
| ate Monday, the 18th. In the House a committee
| was appointed to investigate the ST. Louis and
| Southwestern strike and labor troubles.
| Mr.. Arthur. OF the Brotherhood OF Locomotive
| Engineers. Endorses the sentiments of Mr.. Pow
DERBY and says that if the latters ideas are car
| ried out no serious difficulty can occur"
| Mr. Gladstone made his great speech on Home
| Rule last Thursday night. and Mr.. Joseph Cham
| beTlain spoke in the House OF Commons in oppo-
| sition TO Mr.. Gladstones Home Rule scheme.
| MOhamnedan fanatics on the island of Min
| danao one OF the Philippines, burned large
| amount OF church property. Twelve OF them were
| killed and many wounded by Spanish troops.
Major William II. Quincy, a well-known poll
self Sunday by cutting his throat with a carving
| knife. He was sufferer from financial troubles.
| Quiet reigned at East st. Lous Sunday. The
| presence OF the military preserved order. Large
crowds OF ST. Louis people were prevented from
| crossing over to the east side. Labor organizs-
| tons turned out in large force to attend the
funeral of three victims of last Fridays riot.