The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-14

turn his visit.
Charles Thrift drowned himself in the Misss-
sippi river near Jonesbor0, Ind, Friday. His
mind was unbalanced by hard study.
The feeling over the Maybrick verdict is very
intense. Memorials TO the government for q
reprieve are being extensively signed.
A yacht was blown 20 pieces at Buffalo last
Wednesday by an explosion, and four persons
were killed and two seriously injured.
An excursion steamer at New York was found
10 be on fire just as she was leaving heir pier.
The passengers were all safely landed.
Postmaster j. r. Lewis and Col. A. f. Buck
were burned in efigy at Atlanta, Ga, last week,
for appointing colored man 20 office.
James Mcclure, a notorious woodsmau, has
been identified as the man who robbed a Wis
consin Central train near Chippewa Falls.
In duel nj Hokes' Bluff, Ga. Saturday be-
tween Pat Calhoun aud j. D. Williamson, the
former wounded the latter in the right arm.
The property OF the Riverside and oswego
IN. W worsted mills company has been seized
by the sheriff on an attachment for $4,000.
The indications are that 100000 persons will
attend the laying Of the cornerstone OF the
soldiers monument at indianapolis Aug. %.
Dr. W. ii. Bradley, manager OF the Philadel-
phia Weekly Press has been arrested, charged
with embezzling $4,000 from the Press company.
Two travelling men, while waiting for a train
AZ the depot in Luverne, Ia, were attacked by
David Ballew and his wife we're arrested at
Graysvile Tenn. for numbering and cremating
three-year-old boy, near Asheville, n. G., in
1881.
An old man named Bell was knocked OF
trestle sixty feet high on the Il. d. o. railroad,
at Taylorstown, Pa, Friday, and instantly
killed.
Commander Booth of the department OF
Kansas has issued circular urging comrades
10 attend the G.. A. II. encampment at Mil
waukee.
Col. J. III. Davidson, an executor Of the es.
tate of the late Commodore Davidson of ST.
Paul has made an assignment. Liabilities,
100000.
Undertakes refuse to bury the decomposed
remains taken to the South Chicago morgue for
the fee OF 50. and the place is becoming a
nuisance.
Buildings and crops were greatly damaged in
klttson county, Minnesota, last week, by fu.
rious hail storm, accompanied by thunder and
lightning.
A thirteen-year-old boy named Charles oberg,
who tried to crawl under a circus tent last
Thursday at Cleveland, o., was killed by a
Snowman.
Two young men charged with the murder of
an officer at Chicago, walked into a police
station and surrendered Saturday, but denied
the killing
Blondin, the rope-walker, wagers $1,000 that
he can walk cable stretched from the Eifel
tower 70 the dome OF the exposition building in
five minutes.
An engine dashed into caboose at New Ha-
ven Junction, Pa, Friday, killing William Gar
win and fatally niuring Mark Christman. The
engineer was asleep.
One of the Maybrick jurymen describes the
impression produced upon the jury by the evil
dence as throughout convincing, and not adj
hitting of any doubt.
Henry NJ. Stanley, with Emin Pasha, is pro-
ceeding down the coast to Zanzibar. They are
accompanied by 1900 men, and carry an enor-
nous amount of ivory.
quantity of crude petroleum has been
found in a catch-basin on Clinton.st., Chicago,
and the residents are excited. thinking they
have struck oil well.
Russians and French are much disgruntled
over Emperor Williams reception in England
while the Germans and Austrians are pleased
An alliance is predicted.
passenger train was robbed near Chippewa
Falls, Wis, by one man who pulled the bell
rope when he got through, and jumped from
the train when II stopped.
.. w. Lansford. a prominent citizen OF
Laurens county, South Carolina, shot and
killed Barrett Lanston. A feud had existed
between them for some time.
Ed Blair and Charles beaverton. fugitive
burglars, were recently captured near Lees
burg. O. Blair was sentenced to seven years
An epidemic of typhoid fever at Chicago is
attributed to the pollution of the city water by
the recent heavy rains carrying the sewage out
to the source of supply in the lake.
J. Frank Collom, a prominent young attor-
ney of Minneapolis, has confessed that he
forged the name of John L. Blasdell, the mill
liOnaire pioneer of that city, to notes and other
papers TO the amount of S227 900.
Jefferson Davis is dissatisfied with the profits
on his book, The Rise and Fall of the Southern
Confederacy." The publishers claim that the
book cannot be sold in the North because of
the strong sectional feeling manifested in it.
-Four men went through express train near
Crevasse Col, with drawn revolvers, last week,
and gathered 5000 and twenty watches. The
robbers put bullet through the hat of a pas
senger who looked out OF the window to see
what was going on.
George l.. Bradbury, general manager Of the
Lake Erie & Western railroad, was arrested at
indianapolis Friday complaint of his wife,
who charged HIM with attempting to shoot her.
next day for trying to shoot him.
At the close of the week there was a little
more animation in breadstutfs than usual.
Flour was steady but quiet Wheat was in fair
demand. Corn was more freely offered to ar
rive and easier. Oats were active at lower
prices. Rye was lower and there sales of
barley for September delivery. Provisions
were quiet and easier. Business in banking
circles was dull, with prominent feature of
interest. The New York banks suffered de-
pletion in their reserves of 81, 1885, 50 on tho
average tor the week.