The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-02
THE WEEKS NEWS.
The Events of the Past Week RetoId in Brief
Paragraphs.

There were frosts in parts of Ohio last Wednes-
Gay night
The early frosts have made an abundant East
ern peach crop.
The loss by the recent lumber fire in WauSau
Wis, aggregates 100000.
Snow fell in parts OF Pennsylvania last week
VIII prospects Oi frost last night.
New York firm OF finaaciers has ordered
10000 IN gold bars for shipment.
There were thirt, -shrce new cases Of cholera in
Venice Saturday ana tnIrty-one deaths.
The Sixty sixth Indiana Grand Lodge o Nelson's
was in session at Indiana polls last week.
There are limitations that the grasshoppers
VIII prove a serious pest in ohio this year.
house OF bad character at Rhine ande Wiz.
burned ana four inmates lost their lives.
The funeral OF General Durbin Wa-d, at Leb-
anon, O., was largely attended last WeCneSdar
Ex President Arthur is worse again, and there
are slight hopes of his surviving many months.
Horace Maiden and Miss Mamie GiddingS, boat
riding at Bristol, ln1, were drowned last Friday.
The average number OF business failures in
this country continues to diminish week by week.
Springfield, Mass, celebrated the two hundred
and ftieth anniversary OF its found ug last week.
\ Chicago firm has executed a contract to sup
ply 100000 pounds OF canned beef for the French
army.
Eight thousand men and women are idle in
New York City in consequence OF the tailors
strike.
Several inches Of snow fell in Northern Vermont
with frost.
The household goods of Martin Irons the leader
of the Missouri Pacific strike have been seized Tor
a debt OF g..
Major II. c. Russell a gambler well known in
Western cities killed himself at indianapolis
Saturday night
John B. Henning was hanged at Charlottesville
Ind. last Thursday. for the murder OF Lolita Vol.
mer at Rockville.
The boiler of Breckmans factory near Lima
o., exploded. killing the engineer and fatally in
iuring two sawyers.
Overloaded wheat bins caused the collapse OF a
mill at Grand Rapids, Mich. The loss is eStimat
ed at $4,000 to 100000.
OF the ten Chica % Anarchists indicted for muir
der eight arc III jail. and each man viii have to
answer iOr SIX murders
Jacob Stef'er, OF Keokuk Ia, shot dead sat
urday by his j. sane son, who had just been re-
leased from the asylum.
s. T: Lydick. a wealthy farmer living near Gym
thiana- Ky committed suicide by shooting him
self with shotgun last saturday.
Andrew Carnegie. the millionaire steel manu-
GsctureT. has given S25OOCO to Allegheny City for
establishing Free Library and Music Hall.
Two little sons OF Henry Blair, OF Cardington.
O., were nearly fatally poisoned by eating sour
dock roots which they mistook Tor radishes.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday were all cele
brated. more or less, in various cities and towns
in Indiana and other states as Decoration Days.
young man named Wharton, while dementeo,
deliberately walked into the kanawha River at
Charleston. W. Va, and drowned himself Satur-
day.
An unknown thief, arrested at Elkhart, Ind,
while being taken by the Sheriff to Goshen, Satur
day, jumped from the train and received fatal in
iuries.
In Chicago last Wednesday June wheat sold
down to 1875 cents. and those who had been bet
ting on higher market found themselves in
bad fix.
1t is rumored in New York that MAJOR Bird. for
meTy OF the United States Cavalry, has challenged
Captain Saunders 10 duel for t0aSting Jeh DAVIS
at Savannah.
Three hundred kegs of mining powder exploded
on a train near Chattanooga, Tenn. last week.
The locomotive and two fiat cars were torn 10
fragments, and three men were killed.
Only twenty guests will attend the Presidents
wedding. members OF the two families CaDinet
officers and their wives and Mr. Wilson BisSell,
| who viii be the Presidents best man
swain Anderson, a wealthy farmer OF Mountain
Grove, Mo, was murdered in the road al night on
| ms way home from. Masonic Lodge. his TWO
sons and another accomplice confess the crime.
The graves Of the Confederate dead on John
| sons Island, Lake Erie, were decorated Monday
| by McEieens Post. G.. A. r., Sundusky. %. during
the war over 1900 prisoners were co9hned on TINS
Island. and more than 200 dead were buried there,
| few graves being marked, Congress, southern