The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-02
York harbor and The Paducah and Hickman
railroad bridge bill were passed.
MISCFTT ANFOTrg NEWS ITEMS,

Forest tlres are raging near Plym0utn, Mass.
Fire destroys half the town of Golsboro, Pa
Funeral of ex-Gov. Hoffman at New York
Thursday.
Condition of the winter wheat crop is not en-
couraging. -.,--.
Market value of the Standard oil trust is
$144000,0O0. s
The Crosby high license bill passed the New
York senate.
Republicans of the Second district of Maine
indorse Blaine.
Samuel Thomas, one of the Lima rioters, ar
rested in Indiana
Dayton will be the meeting place next year
of the Ohio q. A. II.
Mrs. Nathan Herff. Hebrew pioneer, died
at Wabash Wednesday.
Atlantic engine works, at Boston, destroyed
by FIRE. Loss SI5O.0Oo.
Bank of Amigo, Wis, robbed Of $1,000 while
the cashier was at dinner
George Wiekham, a prominent farmer of
Benton, O., is mysteriOusly missing.
Death rate atthe Dayton Soldiers Home is
an average OF two for every three days.
William w. Williams killed by damp air
while digging vault at Portsmouth, Q.
Last season 10000 quail, valued at 5000,
were shipped out OF Fayetfe county, Ohio.
An anarchist paper at Chicago, formerly ed
tied by \. K. Parsons, suSpends Indefinitely.
A ninety-acre clover field was destroyed by
cut-worms near Hopkinsville, KY, last week.
Harry Maroney committed suicide at Fort
Wayne, Ind, on account of domestic troubles.
John Tinker, a wealthy farmer, living near
Sandusky, o., killed by falling under a train of
cars.
p. w. Corziius, cashier of bank at Column
bus, overdraws his account in the sum of
$31, coo.
Jack Hawk aud Bill Beaver, noted outlaws,
were shot dead in the Cherokee nation while
resisting arrest.
Thursday, April 26, was celebrated through
out the country as the sixty-ninth anniversary
OF American odd fellowship.
Antoine Wildvoge and Emile Schiller of ST.
Louis were found dead in 4 cistern where they
had been sutfocated by foul air.
Camp Patton, c. 5. a. veterans, of Charleston,
W. Va, contemplates erecting a soldiers home
for infrm Confederate soldiers.
The Hon. Chauneey VI. Depew SAYS that he is
not candidate for the presidency, and that he
favors the nomination of Blaine.
James Smalley OF Licking, Mo-, becomes in
sane, murders his two children with an AK, at
tacks his wife and cuts his throat.
The Hon. r. G. Ingersoll will deliver a memo
rial address in honor of Senator Cdnkling be-
fore the Legislature ofNew York.
Miss Ella Wiltenberg who was shot by re-
jected sutton, died at Reynolds, Ind. Citizens
threatened to lynch the murderer.
Twenty-Five persons iniured-two fatally-by
the giving way of a floor during a school ex-
hibition, Friday, at Rushylvania O..
George w. Van Lear is in jail at Urbana,
ILL.,, charged with incendiariSm and attempting
TO murder his wife and three children.
George Mcclellan Bunham was hanged at
the Woodbury., n. j. Jail Friday for the muir
der of his motherin-law, Mrs. HANDLE.
The body of Bill Thompson, noted desper-
ado and horse-thief i'm Indian territory and
~ Cd ,ri4b hill
G. Hall, brakeman, gets verdict of S25, 900
damages against the Louisville & Nashville
railroad at Mobile, Ala, for the loss of foot
Walter SEWERS and Charles Davis, convicts
in the Southern priSOn-at Jacksonville, Ind,
were almost burned to death by molten iron
Friday.
Two Xenia, O., lads started for Mexico 70
kill "greaSers,' last week, and changed their
minds when they got a short distance below
Cincinnati
Henry Memory, a well-known board of trade
commission man at Chicago, charged with con-
veying Sj00,0O0 worth OF property to escape
creditors.
One hundred and fifty men were discharged
by reduction OF force in the car and machine
shops of the Pennsylvania company at Fort
Wayne Friday.
William George, about to. suffer the death
penalty, granted a suspension OF sentence by
the supreme court at Columbus pending
hearing on error.
Near OFallon, Mo, Ernest GleSchutte shot
and killed his wife and eldest son, beat his
youngest son until he became insensible, and
then killed himself
The TiSkilwa Qll.l bank rObbers-Jimmie
Foster and Tan" Burns, alias Thomas Allen
have been placed behind the bars OF the Joliet
prison for ten years each.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, highest in rank of
living officers of the Confederate army, was
elected last week an honorary member of
Philadelphia GsA A. r. post.
Jack StaneIiff was shot at Chillicothe, Mo-, by
Mrs. Nero his employers wife. Louis Nero,
the husband, is leading business man. 1t is
believed Mrs.Nero was insane.
A giant poplar tree, eleven feet and eight
inches in diameter ab the base and 240 feet high,
was felled near Taylorsville, o. 1t will yield
from 1900 to 10000 feet of lumber
Burt Reeves, while burning brush on his farm
near BLOOMINGTON, Ind, fell face downward in
the fire, and, being unable to get up because of
his weight was sufocated to death.
The Ready building, at Duluth, MIMI, three
stories in height, collapsed, entailing loss of
$1,000. The building was unOccupied The
fall was caused by aPoOr foundation.
Lille Wheeler, aged eighteen years Anna
Thompson, aged sixteen; Ellen Aidridge, aged
drowned in Stiilaguamish river, w. T., Satur-
day. "
Whitley, the notorious Texas outlaw and
train rObber, who, with John Barbour, is sus-
pected of the murder of Deputy Sheriff STAN
ley, was wounded and captured after hard
fight.
Henry Meyers, suspected of having set fire
to a house of ill-repute near Berwick, Pa, by
which Annie Nagley, one of the inmates, was
burned to death, was captured in the noun
tains.
The American tin-plate association reports
that the block Tin output of this country is
now almost exclusively controlled by French
syndicate working in harmony with the cop
per syndicate.
William Bullock, employe of the West Shore
railroad at Newark, n. j., shot his wife last
week, killing her instantly, and then placed
the weapon TO his own head, intiictng a fatal
wound. Jealousy.
The New York Sportsman offers sweepstakes
for 1000 each, with $1,000 added money for
Harry Wilkes. Belle Hamlin and Prince
Wilkes, the race TO be trotted over the Roches-
ter driving park July 4.
The emperor Of Germany has been very near
to deaths door within the past week, but at the
present. writing his physicians seem to think
that he may possibly live several weeks longer,
though death may come at any time.
Five members of the Hebrew congregation
were last week on trial at Milwaukee, charged
with boycotting a Hebrew butcher named
Weissfeld. The defense was that he slaught-
cred his meat in an unorthudoN manner.
The murder by vigilants of De- ". f.. Ashley