The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-16
miscellaneous News Items.

A food in the Canton river, China, has
drowned 500 persons.
Krieger & Burkhardt, Cincinnati machinists
have assigned for $4,000.
Fire Thursday burned Persons lumber-yard
at Chicago. Loss $4,000.
The king of Sweden has been received with
great ceremony at Lisbon.
The prince and princess of Wales opened the
Glasgow exhibition Tuesday.
Dreyfus, Marx & Co.. statiOnerS Tenn, have
failed for $4,000; assets, $4,000,
Memorial day (confedeate) was generally
observed at Charleston, s. c., Friday
Two men were drowned in Lake Vermillion,
Mimi. Sunday by canoe upsetting.
Russia denies having any idea of a coup de
main either in Central Asia or Persia.
Mr.. O'Brien was thrown from gig near
Dublin Sunday and severely bruised.
A mob near Bowling Green, Ky, lynched q
negro Wednesday for poisoning horses.
The queen regent of Spain is at Saagossa.
She received an enthusiastic welcome.
The Chicago boodlers, Varnell, Wasserman,
Ochs ct al were taken to Joliet Friday.
Fire at Owosso. Mich, Thursday, burned
WoOdard's easket works. Loss, 100000.
The passage above Iroquois Point Mich. is
still ice-blocked. Many vessels are in the ice.
At Hebrun, W. Va, Tuesday three tramps
murdered Jacob Morgan and robbed his house
]. II. Kiel of Oshkosh, Wis., was murdered
and robbed near Menominee, Mich, Thursday
night.
At gainesville o., Thursday, viii Caslar,
aged twenty-five, shot himself dead. Cause un-
known.
Michigan's monthly crop report predicts but
sixty-eight per cent of an average crop of
wheat
At Yilliston, D. T., Tuesday w Grinnell was
ehoked to death by his wife, whom lie was
beating.
Roscoe Conkling's will was offered for pro-
bate at Utica Wednesday. Everything is left
TO his wife.
The emperor of BrnziPs chest affection has
abated, but diabetes and symptoms OF paralysis
have set in.
In a fight with citizens of Mexia, Tex, Tues
day two highwaymen were killed. No one
knows them.
At Oak Ridge, Miss, Tuesday James New
baker was assaSSinated by one Morley, who was
lynched later.
Burglars took 5000 worth of silks, ETC., from
August Reinking's store at Baraboo, Wis,
Monday night.
At Pittsburg Thursday, Charles Turner shot
was the cause.
Fred Harrison was arrested at Milwaukee
Wednesday for the murder OF Pat Hughes at
Lima, o., April 2.
William Showers, convicted murderer of his
two grandchildren, has escaped from the
Lebanon, Pa, Jail.
Ex-Mayor Bryant of San Francisco, Friday,
while affected by vertigo, fell from ferry boat
and was drowned.
Fire at Little Rock, Ark, Friday, destroyed
thirty stores and residences. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
The Colby mine powder house near Besse-
mer, Mich, blewup Tuesday, killing two men
and wOunding five.
ia b. & o. locomotive boiler exploded near
Cumberland, Nd, Sunday, killing the en-
gineer and fireman.
Archbishop Walsh, referring TO the pope's
rescript, writes that it settles question Of NOR
ais, not of politics.
Everything is in readiness for the Latonia
race meeting at Cincinnati May %, and great
gathering is expected.
Nathaniel Watts, the last of the "old defend
ers" who defended Baltimore from British In
vasion in 1914, is dying. q. 80 s
The boiler of freight engine exploded near
Cumberland, Nd, Saturday. instantly killing