The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-07
A WEEKS NEWS.
The Minor Events of the Past Week Told in
Brief Paragraphs.

The public debt was reduced during March
about $4,000, 900.
indianapolis mugwumps are after Postmaster
Jones scalp again.
Phillips is to be executed next Thursday at In
disnaplis, for wife-murder.
Failures in the United States the past week were
100; since January there were 1889.
Five hundred New York bakers have concluded
to strike May for less work and more pay.
A carpenter at Belleville, France, killed his
mistress by choking her and then shot himself.
The Czsr has started for the Crimea, and 10000
men guard the railway over which he will pass.
Secretary Manning is rapidly improving. aud
Messrs. Garland and Lamar re nearly well again.
Prince Bismarck received many congratulations
Thursday April l, it being his seventy first birth
day
1t is rumored at Chicago that the Communist
Anarchist and socialist Societies are secretly arm
ing.
Two children died in Michigan last week from
eating wild parsnips. and their mother is danger
ously Ill
Fire in the Fairbank canning factory at the
town of Lake, suburb OF Chicago, caused a loss
of 100000
The food at Cincinnati reached its limit which
was hfty-three feet and one itch at midnight
Saturday.
Ida Bennett, with several aliases. last wedDes
day killed AL A. Bennett and attempted suicide
a. Memphis, Tenn.
Ira James & Co., of Mattoon. Ill; have sue the
|. ST. l.. Railroad Tor $4,000 lor alleged discrimi
nations in freights.
]. T. Guthrie. of Leesburg, o., has invented a
new telephone instrument that threatens to reyo-
lutiOniZe the business
William O'Brien, a farmer who lived near Cen
tralia, ILL.,. was accidentally shot while hunting
and killed, Wednesday.
varnum J. Card was convicted at Warsaw Ind.
for forgery, AMI sentenced the penitentiary for
ten years last saturday.
Fifteen thousand strikers in the Charleroi Dis
trict Belgium, refuse to return to work, but the
riots have been suppressed
Co, of North Manchester. Ind, is missing. His
accounts seem to be all right
B. S. Bennett wanted at Warren, Idaho. for a
$4,000 forgery committed one year ago, hs' been
arrested at Niagara Falls, n. Y.
Captain Pennington Power has been arrested at
Beatrice. Neb., and will be brought back to Pitts
field, ILL.,, on charge OF forgery.
Sam Jones engagement at Chicago has ended:
He and Mr. Small are said TO have each received
800 for their four weeks work.
Mrs Nathan Griffith, living near London, Cam
ada, while laboring under religious excitement.
cut her husbands throat with a razor.
George Hollingshead, reported few days since
as having com mitted suicide at Terre Haute Ind,
has turned up all right at Vandalia. Ill.
Mr.. Davies. receiver of Grant & Ward. says
neither Warner nor his wife can be found, and
they have taken all their money with them.
In Kentucky many farms are inundated, rail-
road bridges have been swept away. and serious
damage caused otherwise by the high water
George McGormley, an insane farmer living
near Fremont o., committed suicide Saturday
morning by cutting his throat with razon.
Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks left Indianapolis
Thursday for California: She Will be absent
about six weeks. Her health has not been so good
lately.
Two negroes. named williams and Ridley.
killed PANEL Guthrie. of Crockett County. Ten
nessee. last week, and were afterward iynched by
q mob.
La a drunken fight at log rolling near Cum
beriand Falls Station, Ky, sunday, Ben Wilson
was shot dead by some unknown man in the
crowd.
An appeal has been issued to the people OF the
United States to relieve the distress caused by the
destruction by fire OF large portion OF the city OIL
Key West, Fla.
Eight conibanies of State troops are at Fort
Worth. and the Adjutant General says trains
must move il 1t takes the whole military force OF
the State to do IL.
Henry Enochs, an old.line Wing, who aided
slaves in their struggles for freedom all he could
and who furnished five sons for the war, died
near Ironton, o.. Sunday.
At indianapolis the Central Union Telephone
Company are preparing to abandon the field on
account of the recent decision limiting tne sum
they may charge for service.
Suit is about TO be begun IN the Supreme Court
of the State of Illinois against the State of &c rga
some bonds OF the latter State, issued in 1869
and 1870, and since repudiated.
Commodore Truxton fell in an epepic fit at
noon. He has been subject to such attacks. His
present condition is very serious.
At Kansas City a mortgage of $40, 100000 has
Colorado Railroad in favor of The American Loan
and Trust Company OF New York.
In San Luis. Obispo County. California, last
Thursday. Eugene Walker and his wife
killed by Peter Hemmi and his son, and the muir
derers were afterward lynched bya mob.
1t is estimated by Democratic members of the
Ways and Means Committee that the reductions
of the tariff recommended by the Morrison bill
win amount to between s220O0N0O and ga
0QQ,0CQ.
Mr.. Hoxie telegraphed Mr.. Gould, Saturday, that
affairs are getting better every day on that road.
The shipments OF Friday exceeded those of Thurs
day by 2S7, and Saturday was still more improved.
Such employees as do not choose to return under
the conditions offered are paid off, Many shops
along the line have been opened. At Parsors,
Kas., trains on the Missouri Pacific were moved
situation as inevitable, and are getting anxious
for job. The Mayor Of Atchison, Kas., has adj
vised MT. Hoxie that that city will pay for all
property damaged in its corporate limits by
strikers. AT Atchison and Kansas City the usual
number of trains are running on schedule time.