The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-04-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Most Recent Events Set Forth in Brief
Paragraphs.

Mary Anderson sailed for Europe last week.
The strike of the st. LOUIS carpenters is still
on.
Shelbyville, Ind, will soon have electric
light.
There is a street railroad strike in Rochester,
NY.
Logging operations in the Maine woods are
closed.
Potatoes are selling at 10 cents bushel near
Norwalk, O.
A street railroad strike is threatened at Min
neapolis, Mimi.
There is no change in the Rochester IN. "
street car strike.
King John of Abyssinia has been defeated
and slain in battle.
Switchmen in the Erie yards at Buffalo, n.
y, are on a strike.
Snow fell all day Sunday throughout larger
portion of Virginia.
Parnell has been made life member of the
National Liberal club
Nihilists have been arrested at Warsaw and
printing Office seized
Secy. Tracy was rendered reception by the
Brooklyn club, Saturday.
There is a strange disease among horses in
NernlIlion county, Indiana.
Six tramps were seriously injured in a rail-
road wreck near HOOyers, Ind.
Gold is reported to have been found in the
4OCdA dh uOuuldius III MOuldud.
Fourteen business buildings in Nelson, Neb.,
burned Wednesday. Loss, $4,000.
heavy snow storm prevailed in Washing
ton and other eastern cities Saturday.
The Miami Valley paper company OF Miamis-
burg, o., has failed. Liabilities, $4,000.
Two deputy sheriifs were killed by train rob-
bers near Flag Stan, A. T., last Thursday.
Favorable reports are being received from
the spring wheat fields of then orthwest.
One thousand eight hundred and seventy i'm
migrants landed at Castle Garden Thursday.
Fire at Attica o., Friday morning destroyed
six business blocks, causing loss of $4,000.
Fife Miller, aged ten years, was thrown from
cab at Chicago and fatally injured, Saturday.
At Springfield, o., William Moore, jr., shot
and fatally wounded Harry Franklin Thursday.
A ffteen-year-old boys neck was broken by
falling tree near New Albany, Ind, Saturday.
free bridge will be built across the Ten
nessee river, at Chattanooga, at a cost of $780,
900.
Over three thousand persons along the line
of the Panama canal are in a destitute condi-
ton.
The Licking county (O.) grange association,
disbanded some years ago, has been reOrgan-
lied.
Capt George Wilson of Ohio has been ap-
pointed deputy commissioner of internal rev.
enue.
Mrs. Turner Sargent, daughter of DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, died in Boston Wednesday
night.
Mrs Bridget Curlea, aged seventy-five years,
was burned to death at Louisville, KY, Friday
night.
The various labor organizations of Pittsburg
are preparing for big demonstration on
July /.
Sheriff & Sons foundry and machine shops
at Pittsburg burned Thursday night. Loss,
$4,000.
The Musical union of New York is trying to
prevent the landing of strolling bands from
Europe.
Last week an attempt was made to wreck
Pennsylvania limited vestibule train at Louis
vile, o.
Joseph J. Mcdowell, prominent iron bro
ker of st. Louis, was found dead in his Office,
Saturday.
Several men and boys have been injured by
an explosion of gas in a coal mine near Du-
quoin, Ill.
The Standard iron works at West Superior,
Wis., burned Wednesday night. Loss $4,000.
Uninsured.
Jacob Hornung, a leading brewer of New
Albany, Ind committed suicide Thursday
with a revolver.
John Schwartz of Toledo, o., is charged with
outraging his step-daughter. The girl is only
fourteen years old.
A movement is on foot among the Pennsyl-
vania coke manufacturers to re-organize the
old coke syndicate.
Friday afternoon at Frankfort, Ind, Wilbur
Bray, horse trader, killed his wife and then
fatally shot himself
Since the return of Empress Frederick TO
Germany friendship has been re-established In
the imperial family.
Several men and boys were injured by an
explosion of gas in the Muddy valley coal
mine near DuquOin, Ill.
The president has appointed Joel B. Erhardt
collector of customs at New York, and C0rne-
Illus Van Cot postmaster.
A moonshiner named VIII Moran, was killed
while resisting arrest in Mercer county, West
Virginia, last Wednesday.
The First national bank at Plymouth, o.,
was entered by burglars last week. They got
about two thousand dollars.
Edward Mayer, who started home afOot with
$500 in his pocket, was found murdered near
Imperial, Neb., last Friday.
Business failures for the week number 222.
compared with 240 last week and 227 in the
corresponding week of 1888.
The railroad coal miners of western Pennsyl-
vania have decided to demand the same wages
as last year, 76@ cents per ton.
Mrs. Lydia Noble, becoming respondent be-
cause of sickness and poverty, committed sui
eide by hanging, at Cincinnati.
J0nn Manning, pOLlcenlan at DesSeulery Ala,
was shot and instantly killed by cOlored gam
bier named Jones last Saturday.
Mrs. Betsy Thomas, aged ffty-hve years,
committed suicide Akron, o., last week,
by jumping head first into a well.
A colony, composed of clerks, store-keepers,
idlers, workmen and anybody, is being formed
in Chicago to settle in Oklahoma.
The cruiser Yorktown, ut the League navy
yard, Philadelphia, has been ordered TO be
made ready for sailing by April 90
G. w. Reed of Mansfield o., was arrested at
Los Angeles, Cal, last Thursday. on a charge
of forgery. preferred by his mother.
The body of Eugene Pouhls Chicago liquor
merchant, was found in ditch filled with
water, near Kansasville, Wis, Friday.
Henrietta and Emma Day, aged sixteen and
nineteen years respectively, are in Jail at Sum-
NIT, n. j. for arson. They confessed.
Mrs Herman Flechsig committed suicide at
| Allegheny City. Pa, last Wednesday, because
she thought she was afflicted with cancer.
| David Kline is in a dying condition at Bor-
dentown, n. j., from the effects of drinking
coffee which contained "Rough on Rats"
Policeman John Manning was shot and
killed at Bessemer, Ala, Sunday morning by
a negro whom he was endeavoring to arrest.
| Ten million feet of lumber in the yards of
| the Empire lumber company and several resi-
dences at Hannibal No., burned Wednesday.
| The farmers of Madison county Ind met in
mass convention April and adopted resOlu-
tons in opposition to the "bindertwine tru ST. f"
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