The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The News of the Week Told in Brief Para
graphs.


The News of the Week Told in Brief Para
graphs.
The pope is under the weather.
Minister Palmer sailed for Spain last week
German collieries viii cease work Monday.
More natural gas has been found near Co
lumbus, O..
Seventy thousand German iron workers are
on strike.
The report OF the capture Of Khartoum proves
70 be untrue.
Ten thousand cotton weavers are out at
Z Heizy, France.
The prohibitory ordinance at Lebanon, O.,
has been repealed.
Frank W. Palmer of Chicago has been ap-
E-pOinted public printer
Justice Gray and Miss Jeanette Matthews
will be married June s.
The business portion Of Danville, VT, was
destroyed by IRE May O.
j. W. Davis was killed by lightning last Sat
urday at Ellsworth, Ne.
Senator John Sherman and John c. New
have arrived in London.
Whitelav Reid, American minister to
Trance, has arrived in Paris.
twenty-five thousand persons attended the
opening OF the Paris exposition.
Asa Matthews of Illinois has been appointed
FIRST comptroller of the treasury.
Ex-Minister Phelps will resume his duties as
professor in the Yale law school
The strike of the weavers in the cotton fac
tories at THY. France, has ended
ten-year-old boy choked to death on a piece
OF apple at Alliance, o., last week.
The general sitting Of the Samoan conference
81 Berlin will begin on Wednesday.
IL is thought that the oil we'll at Terre Haute
Ind, will yield 1000 barrels per day.
Henri Matthew, who was present at the battle
OF Waterloo, died at New York May g.
The Kentucky democratic convention has
nominated Stephen q. Sharp for treasurer.
Thirty stores and dwellings in the village of
NaldrOn, Mich, were destroyed by FIRE Nav O.
A nine-year-old girl was criminally assaulted
by negro near Newburg, Ind, last Thursday.
A farmer named James Eubanks was dragged
70 death by horse near Jackson, o., recently.
A newly married minister, named Rober-
son, of Whitwel, Tenn, is mysteriously miss
ing.
The Bellaire goblet works at Findlay, o..
were destroyed by FIRE last week. Loss, Sll5.
600.
George Baiy was shot and killed by a boy
named Allen near Birmingham, Ala, last
week.
The house of lords has rejected the bill en-
powering marriage with a deceased wife's
sister.
Parnell, on cross-examination, said he had no
objection TO the commission examining his ac-
counts.
Near Craig's Mill. Ark. Saturday. the daugb.
ter OF farmer named Palmer was outraged by
q tramp.
Capt. D. r. Alton has been appointed agent
OF the agricultural department. for the state of
Indiana.
Five persons were burned to death in a
dwelling house IRE at Westchester, y. Y, last
Monday.
II q
suicide at Chicago last week He was de-
Epondeut.
The Samoan commissioners from the United
States were introduced 10 Prince Bismarck last
"Wednesday.
Five men escaped from Jail at Cairo, H.,
Thursday, through stovepipe hole, which
they enlarged.
q proposed increase IN the liquor license tax
from 800 to $50.
John Kelly has been sentenced to four years
and eight months imprisonment in New York,
for bank robbery.
One thousand pounds Of opium, valued, in
Guiding duty, at $4,000. we're seized at San
Francisco May 10.
Irving G. Caldwell and Thomas Fl. Taylor of
Ohio have beeh appointed special agents of the
general land Office.
a tornado occurred in Stafford county, Kan
sas, May 8. One man was killed and many
others fatally injured.
The mayor of Huntingdon w, Va, has been
arrested on charge of preventing a constable
from making an arrest
Philip Lambert and James Adams were ar
rested at Pineville w Va, Thursday. charged
with pension sWindling.
At Mountain Home Pa, Saturday, Jeffrey
Harrison, aged eleven years, shot and killed
Sophia Everett, aged ten.
George +. Goodrich, for many years detect
i've at Cleveland, o., committed suicide last
week by shooting himself
At Birmingham, Ala, last Friday, Algy
Moses, colored woman, was sentenced to
death for highway robbery.
savaton PaPio. an Italian, fatally stabbed a
negro named Edwards, Saturday, during a
quarrel at Wilmington, Del
Gen. William 5. Harvey, on the retired list
81 the Y. ;. army, died at Orlando Fla, Thurs
day, aged lightweight years.
Fifteen additional moonshiners have been
captured in West Virginia, making the total
number arrested eighty-One.
Col Robertson of Fort Wayne has been APP
pointed a member of the board of registration
and election Of Utah territory.
The London police raided the gambling
clubs Sunday. Several English, French and
Belgium noblemen were arrested.
One man was killed and seven others were
seriously injured by explosion of dynamite
at Ashland, Pa, last Wednesday.
At country dance, near Portsmouth. o.,
Saturday night, Amos and Wilson Cooper were
shot and killed by Henry Nickels.
At Chicago, Saturday, Patrick Ford, aged
sixty, shot and killed his wife, aged twenty
three, and then fatally shot himself
Near Huntingburg, Ind, woman went out
10 visit q neighbor last Thursday, leaving three
small children asleep in the house. During