The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25


similar.
The engagement of Margaret of Prussia to
the crown prince OF Denmark is semi-ofiicially
reported.
4 fourteen-year-old boy fatally shot himself
with a Flobert rifle at Lexington, KY, last
Saturday
The total number of persons drowned in the
Japanese floods, Aug. 90, is estimated at ten
thousand.
The amount already subscribed as guaran-
tee fund for the Chicago worlds far is over
$5,000O0.
Sacrilegious thieves robbed the poor-box in
st. COlumbia's catholic church at Youngstown,
o., Sunday.
Two Chinese bighbinders are under arrest in
Kansas City. murder conspiracy is at the
bottom of it.
Suithas been brought to compel the railroads
in Waco, Tex, to build passenger and freight
depOts there.
Prof. George H. Cook, state geologist of New
Jersey, died at Rutgers college Sunday of
heart failure.
Thomas Brown was hanged at Moorhead,
Mimi, for the murder Of a policeman named
Poull, Friday.
John Lister, jr., the son of a Chicago million
aire, has been convicted. at Duluth. Mimi, of
grand larceny.
Louis Westergren of Rockford, H.. dressed
himself in his best clothes last week and then
killed himself.
A Chicago police officer arrested a girl Satur-
day, one of a gang of thieves directed by
woman to steal.
Friday, on his own confession, for the murder
OF his stepfather.
Chauncey NJ. Depew has been chosen chair
man of the legislative committee of the New
York worlds fair.
P. NJ. Matthews, prominent and wealthy st.
Paul man, died in an opium joint at Butte,
Mont, last Friday.
The Cranburne club OF London was raided
Saturday night and thirty-fve arrests were
made for gambling.
An old farmer named Ayres committed sui
eide. near HillsbOro, o., Friday by hanging
himself in his barn.
Three men were sentenced at Portland. Ore,
Friday, to terms in the penitentiary aggregat-
ing eighty-nine years.
The officials Of the McDonough county Qll.)
fair have been indicted for permitting gam
bling on the grounds.
A little three-year-old child has been muir
dered at Rosaia Kas and man and woman
may be lynched for il.
The Cincinnati Washington & Baltimore
railroad has been sold TO Edward r. Bacon and
associates for S5,000000.
An engineer on the Wabash has had a war
rant sworn out against him for murder, for
running over a deaf mute.
1t is now said that the Northern Pacific has
outwitted its Canadian rival and secured the
Northern Central charter
A passenger train was derailed near Leon.
kas., by spreading rails Thursday. One was
killed and n number injured.
Ed Ahearn, who is charged with killing
Thomas +. jackson in prize fight at st. Louis,
was bound over without bail
The Iron Mountain has been sued by IN
surance companies TO recover 1000 for loss
paid on cotton at Little Rock.
Mary Humphreys was found dead Sunday in
the garrett OF tenementhouse at Columbus,
o. She had died of starvation.
Considerable damage but no loss of life, re-
suited from the bursting OF a large dam at
Springton Forge, Pa, last week.
Z. S. Deputy Marshal Eugene Byers was
jailed at Birmingham, Ala, Friday, for the
murder of a negro named Ware.
Consul Gen. Edwards at Berlin charges that
German dealers are in a combine with Ameri-
cans TO under invoice merchandise.
President Ingalls, OF the Big Four is in New
York. He says the purchase of the o., T. & w.
railroad is only question of time.
The body of John Briody, an old soldier, was
found in Frink run, near Mooresville, o., Tues
day. There are suspicious of foul play.
A New York jewelry dealer has been sued in
Chicago for $4,000 for mistreating the wife of a
The French conservatives are said to have
changed in their attitude toward the republic
because the people are not found against it,
John Allen and f. ii. Plat, who left New
York May IA to cross the continent on horse
back, arrived at San Francisco Saturday even
ing.
Amas Hardman surrendered to the authori-
ties at Marion, Ind, Saturday, claiming to
have shot Robert Shaw at New Lisbon, o., last
June.
At Phillipsburg, Pa. Sunday, Seely Hop
kins shot his wife and mother-in-law fatally
and then made an unsuccessful attempt to kill
himself.
John Alexander, a prominent oil we'll con-
tractor ct Washington, Pa, committed suicide
Saturday by shooting himself in the head with
a revolver.
Near Harrodsburg, KY, last Wednesday,
John Compton shot and killed William Greg.
DRY, whom he suspected of undue intimacy
with his wife.
The attention of the masonic fraternity has
been brought to the mysterious disappearance
OF John A. Greenlee, prominent mason of
Kearney, Neb.
A deputy U. S. collector unexpectedly an.
peared at Guthrie, l. T., last Saturday and ar
rested twenty-five liquor sellers, such sales be-
ing prohibited.
woman named Addie Wilson is in Jail at
Menasha, Wis. for attempting to entice three
young girls from nome Tor shameful purposes
at Republic Mich.
Henry F. Schmidt, ir., of Cincinnati the de-
faulting ex-treasurer of the Jewel building as
ISOLATION, who skipped out several weeks ago,
has been captured.
c. C. Sayle has been granted letters of adj
ministration upon the estate of David s. Terry,
lately killed by Marshal Nage. The estate is
valued at about 100000.
The trial of Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton, for
stabbing her child's nurse, Mary Donnelly, at
Mays Landing. y. j.. ended Thursday, the jury
finding Mrs. Hamilton guilty.
Mrs Robert Ray Hamilton, on trial at Mays
Landing. n. j., for stabbing her child's nurse,
Mary DOnnelly, has been convicted and SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary.
The yacht Leo was lost last week in a storm
on Lake Erie, and seven persons were drowned.
Two of the bodies have been recovered, and a
vigorous search is being made for the other
victims.
The shortage of the revenue collector at
Richmond. Va, is about $4,000 Owing to the
failure OF the auditor TO make his annual re-
port, the bondsmen will not be required to
to make good the loss.
During the absence Of the cashier Friday
night a bank at Hurley, Wis. was robbed of
the U. s. express company, which will suffer
the loss. as the funds were not regularly on de-
post with the bank.
young man giving his name rs Robert J
West and claiming 10 live in Chattanooga
Tenn, was arrested at New York. Saturday. on
charge of presenting forged orders on the
Goodyear rubber company.
Harvey Gurley, whose wife is in the Joliet
Deniteutiary for the abduetion Of little Annie