The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-07-31

husband. The president said he would look
into the case but at present could not see his
way clear to act.
Joseph Withers was taken from his bed
Thursday near Eastland, Tex, and brutally
beaten by a mob. He is a crippled Exon
federate soldier.
The great dry-goods house of Lewis Bros. d
Co; of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and
Chicago. has failed for an immense amount
possibly S5,000,0O0.
Al Cridge, stakeholder in the Sulivan-Kil-
rain fight, has paid over to Sullivan the $4,000
stakes, and delivered TO him the Police Gazette
championship belt.
Mrs Sally II. Thomasson. a cousin of the
late Gen. Grant has been taken to the Toledo
insane asylum. Her affection was caused by
the death of a relative.
A young lady named Oppenheimer was
killed by cars al Harmony Pa, last week. She
was thrown from carriage between two
coaches, forty wheels passing over her.
The story that {. S. sailors on the Samoan
vessels were stability treated on their arrival at
San Francisco and we're left without means to
get home, is denied by government officials.
Richard Sullivan, young farmer residing
near kirkmansville, KY, was shot aud danger
ously wounded last Friday BY the father of a
young lady to whom he was paying attention
Charles 5. Coyster, noted politician of In
dependence, No. is said to be $4,000 short IN
his accounts Mr.. Coyster is now in Washing
ton.
Two men, representing themselves agents of
8 Chicago commission firm, charged with
defrauding merchants of Somerset Ky, by
selling them ginseng weighted with lead and
tacks.
The Sunday closing law was strictly enforced
IN Kansas City yesterday. Only seven saloons
attempted to open and these we're promptly
closed.
Z. NJ. Hewins, president of the Cherokee
strip live stock association, says that his COM
pany has made no offer to the Indians for the
purchase of the strip.
Two companies have been formed in Kansas
City for the purpose of retaining GOO acres of
submerged land in the Missouri river, the es-
timated value of which, when reclaimed is
50, 10000.
Chairman George o. Jones of the national
greenback committee has issued circular let
ter stating that prohibition and woman suffrage
will not be considered at the convention in
Cincinnati.
Near Marion, Ind, a helpless widow, Mrs.
Azeneth Street and her daughter were taken
by regulators" stripped to the waist and
brutally whipped. The accusation against them
was gOssiplng.
Edward James, the false Christ of Liberty
county, Georgia, has been arrested on the charge
of lunacy, and will be sent to the asylum.
Twenty-Five of his most desperate followers
were taken with him.
In a general fight which occurred among col
ored men over game OF craps at Benet sta
ton, Miss, recently, one man was killed,
another MORALLY wounded and several
were seriously injured.
A Chicago rabbi named Bauer has brought
suit for $4,000 damages against three members
of his congregation. He received notice to quit,
but paid no attention to it and was assaulted
while officiating at the altar of the synagogue.
There is a rumor of the discovery OF a plot to
blow up the quirinal and the vatican. 1t is
stated that the pope's departure from Rome
Detectives are watching the exits Of the vati-
can.
A great number OF counterfeit silver dollars
were found in a sewer in Wheeling. w. Va,
last week. They we're supposed to have been
thrown there by some of the pals of the old
counterfeiter briggs, now in Jail at Cincinnati,
to avoid their capture by the authorities.
While bathing in the river near Decatur, H.,
recently, Thomas Landers was carried over
dam aud lit upon sharp snag, which struck
him in the back, near the base of the spinal
column, passing entirely through the body and
coming out in the lower part of the abdomen.
Business at the close of the week was rather
dull The wheat market was weaker, and prices
suffered further decline. Flour was dull and
dropping Corn was firm but quiet. Oats were
steady Dairy products were unchanged. COT
fee and sugar were quiet without change in
prices.
Morris Crawford and Walter Mason attempted
to cross a street in Detroit, Wednesday, when
a buggy containing two men drove up and
blocked the way. a quarrel ensued and Craw-
ford was killed. Mason was seriously injured.
Two men have been arrested, charged with the
murder.