The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-16
engineer S. A. Woodruff and fireman H. Kitn-

! of New York to be u. S. minister TO the Meth
| erlandS.
Cattle are dying in large numbers in Cook
and Montague counties, Texas from mysterl-
Gus disease OF the throat.
J. T. Human has been arrested at Topeka,
| Kas., for robbing the Grand Rapids, Mich,
postofice o. 81, 34S in 1870.
Gen. Willoughby has been expelled from
Madagascar, and deprived OF concessions
| granted by the government.
The Fifth Ohio district democrats have re-
nominated Congressman Seney. National
delegates are for Cleveland.
The treasurer's office at the Lexington, KY,
lunatic asylum was robbed of $500 by patient
Friday. The thief escaped.
The New York weekly bank statement shows
an increase in the reserve of 81, 026,6OO. The
| reserve excess is 81, 276675.
j. Lusk & Co., operating the largest cannery
in the world at San Francisco, have assigned,
but are expected to pull through.
w. Riley of Chicago left S, 900 in the Phoe
nix hotel safe at Lexington, KY, Thursday,
and it was stolen during the night.
First Asst. p. NJ. Gen. Stevenson has de-
clined to be a candidate for the democratic
nomination for governor of Illinois.
Hundreds of immigrants are at the sheds at
the Toronto, Ont, railway station destitute.
What to do with them is a problem.
Near Bloomington, w. Va, Friday, Pat
Farley, lunatic, threw James Boughner over
a cliff, killing him. Farley is in jail.
At st. Paul. Wednesday, J. Robler and c.
Miller were killed, falling with loaded eleva-
tor which broke down.
Robert Teater was thrown from his horse at
| Nevada, KY, Sunday and kicked by the ami
NAL, dying in few minutes.
The Seventh district school at Dayton, o.,
was struck by lightning, Tuesday, injuring
many children, two girls fatally.
4 Il. & o. train struck John Skinner near
| Newark, o., Sunday, killing him and injuring
/ Thomas Johnston who was with him.
Jefferson Davis has accepted an invitation to
lay the cornerstone of the new confederate
monument at jackson, Miss, May %.
George Boyd, negro violin player in a low
| Chicago saloon, stabbed and killed John Steph-
enson, a Danish painter. He arrested.
Experiments with "bellitep invented by Prof.
/ Lanum OF Stockholm show it to be more power
full than dynamite with quieter explosion.
Emperor Frederick's strength increases. He
was dressed Sunday for the first time since the
last crisis. Prof. Virchow will visit him soon.
! The democratic members of the ways and
means committee have consented to an extern
/ sion of the house tariff debate until next Satur-
/ day.
A natural gas explosion In r. V. Pierce's
! hotel at Buffalo, y. " Thursday, caused 81 600
loss and seriously hurt Michael Drummer, fire.
man.
Democrats have been elected to all the city
Offices at Lansing, Mich, the council vote be-
| ing tie and the mayor casting the deciding
ballot.
Owing to the absence of several members the
! house agricultural committee has postponed
action the Butterworth lardine bill to
| May II.
Gen. s. w. Colby of Beatrice, Neb has
! bought the Arabian stallion Linden Tree, pre-
! scented TO Gen. Grant by the sultan of Turkey
in 1879.
new trial has been refused Ebenezer STAN
! yard, at Youngstown, o. He murdered his
sweetheart, Alice Hancox, and will hang
July H.
Among the combinations to-day were the
| following pOstmasters: Mary Thomas, Garrett,
Ind; J. b. Avis, Salem, Ind; A. Kelly, Water
| loo, Ind.
AtWorcester Thursday Teemer beat Hanlan's
time for three miles by nineteen seconds, max
i ing the distance in nineteen minutes four
| seconds
Miss Ellen B. Miner inmate of the Columbus
/ (O) insane asylum, went 10 the roof Friday
| and jumped down sixty feet, dying in fifteen
minutes.
At Kansas City Friday John Jones, wanted
in st. Louis for the murder of Reuben Howard
! last June, fatally shot Mary Wise, his mistress.
! He escaped.
/ England will have Two new thirty-ton guns
mounted on the central bastion at SheerneSs.
| and will adopt other measures OF defense on
| the Thames.
/ lne entire SaW-miH oil JOhn DOughertY, at
] Salina, Pa, was stolen by unknown persons.
| There were indications that it had been hauled
away on wagons.
Three hundred persons have been arrested
/ by order OF the fish commissioners at Marietta
/ o., Tor catching fish by means OF q set of hooks
and quick jerk.
l. Maryland democrats at Baltimore Thursday,
endorsed Cleveands tariff policy and instruct
/ ed their delegation to st. Louis for him. Cor
man leads the delegation.
The state capitol built at Austin, Tex, by the
/ Farweu syndicate has been accepted. The ac-
ceptance gives the syndicate 100000 acres of
! land in the panhandle"
Michigan democrats at Grand Rapids Thurs
day, elected delegates to st. Louis. The plat
! form endorses Cleveland and his tariff policy and
/ instructs delegates for him.
/ At Vincennes Ind. May Mcdonald aged
nine, was fatally shot in the forehead last
Saturday, by George Taylor, a companion,
/ while playing with revolver.
In thunderstorm, Tuesday, at Hyde Park,
near Chicago, James Mulligan was killed and
Joseph Kempper fatally injured by lightning.
! Two children were badly hurt.
! William BernS, a brewer at FairmOnt, w. Va,
was shot in the head twice and instantly killed
| by Pete Manly for declining to serve beer TO
| Manly when requested to do SO.
At Nashville, Tenn, Thursday, the state
| democratic convention elected national dele
| gates and instructed them for Cleveland The
| platform calls for tariff reform.
| The Chicago Ne1rs claims to have knowledge
| of a syndicate which controls practically all
! the spot corn, not for a corner but merely to
4 keep prices up and make money.
, At MISREPRESENTATION, n. Y, Wednesday
| A. III. Tyler fatally shot DR.. w. F. Gilroy. He
alleges that Gilroy is the father of the illegti-
mate child of his (Tyler's) daughter.
At j. j.. Hills short horn sale at st. Paul
| Friday thirty-seven animals were sold for
/ S14,335 II. G.. q. Balls of indianapolis bought
| North Oaks Lady of Oxford for s., $50.
Alabama democrats completed their work
| Thursday and adopted a platform endorsing
| CleVeland's administration and instructing for
him. Q A reduction of the tariff is demanded.
The trial of the taIly-sheet cases was resumed
yesterday. The arguments in the case will
probably be concluded to-day, and verdict or
! disagreement by the jury may be expected this
week.
A ear carrying ton and half of iron ore
was dumped into n shaft at Ishpeming, Mich
instantly killing August Turnquist and seri-
ously injuring T. ]. Sihey, who were at the
bottom.
Cora Starkey of Delphi, Ind, was brutalIy
outraged bya villain, Sunday, who represented
| himself as a respectable farmer and engaged
her TO accompany him TO his home as a
domestic.
James T. Hinman while assistant postmaster
at Grand Rapids, Mich, in 1885, embezzled
s, S4S. He has just been arrested in Doniphan