The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-02-24
A WEEKS NEWS.
The Minor Events OF the Past Week Told in
Brief Paragraphs.

for $40 600 OOe 3-per-cents. to be paid April.
The Delaware State Temperance Alliance re-
solved to organize Prohibition party in the
State
The British steamer Oxenholme lost niuety-two
head of cattle on the voyage from Baltimore to
Liverpool.
Smallpox has been declared epidemic at Fort
Worth. and the Mayor Of Dallas has proclaimed
quarantine.
At settlement near Palarm Arkansas the
James family. of six persons. was killed by a
negro last Thursday.
Mrs. James Durham. OF Shelbyville. Illinois, who
weighed nearly i've hundred pounds, died last
week rom paralysis.
Atan auction sale OF walnut ia Delphi, Ind,
last week. with bidders from four States 40 grow
ing trees brought $500.
During the Riel revolt the Canadian Govern
ment paid the Hudson Bay Company s2,OO0000 for
supplies and transportation.
Count de Soto. the spanish Minister to switzer-
land, has been recalled for iltoxication and rude
ness in ballroom at Geneva.
The Legislature of Ohio has passed a bill to
create non-partisan boards OF election OF Cincin-
natl, Cleveland, Toledo and Columbus
The Mormon apostle Cannon, was brought to
salt Lake City last Wednesday, and gave bond in
S45, COO for trial on the charge OF pOlygamy.
At Auburn, Ind. last Saturday. Levi Kessler
was convicted OF the murder of Alex Harner and
the prisoner was sentenced to prison for life.
The Indiana supreme Court in the telephone
rental Tor instruments at $50 is constitutional.
John B. Cough tor the past forty years the lead
ing orator in the cause OF temperance, died Thurs
day IN Philadelphia lie was born IN England IN
1872.
Physicians at BeIleville, Mich, report that
farmer named Tanning accidentally lodged
bullet deep in his brain and remains active and
rational
Charles Croker Of san Francisco, has given
SIS GOO to the Girls and Boys Aid Society, With
which 70 erect building on the lot donated by
Senator Fair.
Eight sheep-herders On the ranch OF solomon
Luna; on the Little Colorado River ia Arizona,
were killed by Apaehes last Thursday. Two parties
OF mounted men are in pursuit.
The Commissioners OF the Joliet penitentiary.
after advertising Tor month for proposals Tor
but found none had been received.
The Emperor OF Germany sent to the German
Teachers society OF London recently donation
OF 5000 marks, with an intimatiOn that similar
amount might be expected annually.
The bill OF particulars in the suit to test the
Bel IeteP9one patent has been prepared ana VII
can determine where to bring the suit
!. A Hopkins for fourteen years in the employ
OF Chopin in, 4 Cores wholeSale house in CHICAGO
the sale, Last sunday and He'd the city.
A train OF sixteen cars OF raw silk passed
through Chicago from san Francisco last Mon
day. Il was valued at over 81 900 900 and is sched
uled TO crsSS the continent IN thlrteen days.
Jonathan Ogden, Treasurer OF Edgar County.
Illinois, whose debts amount to $4,000, made an
assignment last Thursday having failed to obtain
loan desired on l,50O acres OF choice land.
The convention OF the American Agricultural
and Dairy Association at New York recommended
Cabinet officer TOT agriculture, aud Endorsed
Senator CullOms Interstate Commerce bill.
The yardmen and brakemen OF the Evansville
and Terre Haute Railroad, at Evansville, Indiana,
Saturday struck Tor an advance OF twenty-five
cents per day in their wages, which was granted.
James Harmon, living near Lexington. Indiana,
| disappeared suddenly from his home Friday,
| since when nothing has been heard of him. His
mysterious absence is causing much uneasiness,
Mrs. Hendricks received LAST Friday from the
State Democratic Club OF California an engraved
letter or coincidence, enclosed in massive solid
silver envelope, laid in morocco case lined with
satin.
Kenward Philip. who was charged with forging
| the Morey letter in the Garfield campaign died in
| Brooklyn last Sunday. aged forty years. 1t was
| proved that Philip never wrote the Morey letter.
Who did write it?
| J. B. Lucas charged with the ENLIGHTENMENT of
| $4,000 from an insurance company at Cleveland,
has been taken back to that city. from Pittsburg,
last Saturday where he was arrested on the street.
| in the company of his wife.
Rose Moran, OF Chicago, who sued Chris Wiehe
| Tor $500 for breach OF promise, was awarded
| damages OF $3.50 last week. On the first ballot
| four jurors favored an award of one cent; one
was for $1,000, and a third for 5000.
fire originated on cotton steamer at Will
mington, \. C., last Sunday, swept along Water
street for three blocks causing losses estimated at
| S1000,000. The First Methodist Church and two
| freight depotS were among the buildings burned.
A body of masked men at Nicolaus, California,
| last Thursday, shipped .forty-fouI Cinnamon by
| steamer to sacramento. The Celestials at SnO-
| homish City, Washington Territory, have been
| fred upon and their buildings damaged by dyna-
mite but they refuse to leave.
Nearly 800 professors and students OF Yale Col
lege rushed out last Friday to join in the search
for the wife of Professor Waldo, who disappeared
while temporarily insane. Her corpse was found
at the foot of a cliff at Pine Rock. She was niece
of Judge Fullerton, Of New York.
Mrs. Roche, handsome young widow OF st.
Louis, last Saturday caused the arrest OF female
fortune-teller named Sehadt. whom she charges
with defraudng her out of 81 40 for love-powders
to blow through the keynote OF room occupied
by blonde gentleman she desired to marry.
David Sholty. who attempted the lives OF his
brothers family near Bloomington, Ill, was
burned to death in the barn which he set on fire
last Friday. Mrs. Levi ShOlty received thirteen
wounds In the back from gun charged with
shot and bullets, ana can not survive her jnju-
ries.
James H. Paine, a miser who recently died in
New York. was grandson of signer Of the Dec
laration of Independence. While he was largely
int crested in the Chicago Land Company, and
ranked among his relatives a millionaire, only
$500 was found among the rags in which he ex-
pired.
At Martinsville. ". Va, early Friday morning
negro named Burns was taken from Jail and
hanged after he had confessed q criminal assault
nah Ga, on the same day. strangled two boys in
church ward and left their bodies to be deyoured
by buzzards
Socialists OF London, to the number OF 10 000
massed last Sunday in Hyde Park, London. listen
ed to speeches from three platforms and adopted
resolutions censuring the GOyerniient for its fail
ure TO commence public works in behalf of the un-
employed. Thirty thousand persons have applied
TO the Mansion House for relief.