The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-03-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The News OF the Week Told in Br
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The News OF the Week Told in Brief
Paragraphs.
A poultry association has been organized at
Liberty, Ind.
Louisville, Ky, wants to pipe natural gas
from Indiana
fifteen-year-old girl was brutally assaulted
by five men near Portsmouth, o., last week.
The Rhode Island house of representatives
has vetoed to resubmit prohibition to the Peo-
pie.
John brennan, a prominent lumber mer-
chant of Princeton, Ind, is mysteriOusly miss
ing.
Mrs. Rosa N. Leland, widely known as a
theatrical manager, died in Albany, n. Y, Sun
day.
An English syndicate is negotiating for the
purchase of big brewery plants at Newark,
NJ.
The surplus from the inaugural ball is to be
expended in relieving the poor OF Washington
City.
A party of five French tourists were muir
dered aud robbed in Yellowstone park last
week.
Pauline Hall, the actress, has been granted a
limited divorce from her husband, Edward r
White
F. c. Compton disappeared several days ago
from Chattanooga Tenn, and 1t Is supposed
that he killed himself.
George HENRI and wife. the abductors of
little Lucy Spellman of Kansas City, were ar
rested in Chicago Friday.
George w. Allen suicided at st. Louis by
shooting himself through the head. Jealousy
OF his wife was the cause.
Martin Thorp and William Garner, leaders
Of gang Of counterfeiters, were arrested In
Conway county, Arkansas.
Postmaster-Gen. Wanamaker will have over
thirteen hundred appointments to make as
soon as he settles down to work.
DR.. Harrington was arrested at Huntings-
burg, Ind, last Wednesday on a charge of IS
suing fraudulent pension papers.
A freight conductor named Covey was in
stantly killed in a wreck on the MonOn railroad,
near Putnamville, Ind. Thursday.
After paying all expenses and returning the
$4,000 guarantee TO subscribers, there will be
an Inauguration surplus OF $4,000.
Capt. Charles Russell committed suicide
Thursday, at Minneapolis, Mimi, while labor
ing under a fit of temporary insanity.
f. NJ. Souts and Matthew Matthews, two
molders, quarreled at Hamilton, o., last Friday,
and the former had his skull fractured.
The president allowed Gov. Alger of Michi-
gan to name the new solicitOr-general, and he
named Col. III. NJ. Duffield of Detroit
a warrant has been issued for the arrest of
Albert Meter of Cincinnati on charge of en-
bezzling $500 from Miss Nellie Hayden.
Mrs. Ann DriscoIl decapitated her sleeping
husband with an ak, during a temporary tit OF
insanity, near Delafeld, Wis, Thursday.
Miss Beatrice Funk, the belle of Marble
Greek, Ky, and daughter of a wealthy farmer.
eloped with Dick Bricken, young barber.
Gunther Weichrung, a German drug clerk at
New York, was struck on the head with an ak
last Friday by an unknown man, who at
tempted to rob the store. 1t is thought that
he will die.
At Bryn Mawr, Pa, Donald Frazer fired two
shots at his wife, and then shot and killed
himself. Mrs. Frazer's life was saved by the
bullets striking the steel ribs in her corset and
glaneing of.
Anna Diamond committed suicide by taking
poison at the Waveriy house, Rochester y. Y,
Sunday. She had been discarded by her lover,
Charles Macklin, a member Of the 'ShamuS
o Brien" company.
John Greedy was fatally burned and John
Costgan, viii McGinnis and Fred Shrank
seriously injured by an explosion of powder
which they had stolen, at Akron, o., and were
taking 20 the country to fire Oft
In an ARRAY list Friday between Prince Bry-
ant and Sam Brown. near Bessemer, Ala, the
former was dangerously, if not fatally, wound
ed and the latter lost his life. The infdelity of
Browns wife caused the trouble.
Patrick Mcmahon, fireman. was blown to
peices. NELL Brown was instantly killed and
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plOsion OF a boiler in the Victoria Touring mill
at ST. Louis, early Sunday morning.
Elizabeth Sands of Baltimore celebrated the
one hundredth anniversary of her birth March
z. She saws that she will 20 TO Washington IN
the spring to see President Harrison aud have
a talk with HIM about his grandfather.
While demOlshing the frame building con-
tanning the cyclOrama of the Battle of Gettys-
burg, in Cincinnati last Friday, one of the guy
ropes suddenly broke and the heavy timbers Of
the roof fell with a crash, fatally iniuring two
men.
President Harrison announces that he will
I'LL territorial offices with residents OF the terri
tory, and that he will not consider applications
from any other source. He regards himself as
pledged 10 the doctrine of home rule for the
territories.
At dinner of the Eighty club in London
Friday, Earl Spencer, in aspeech, congratulated
Parnell upon his vindication. Parnell reply
ing, repeated the moderate claim for Irish self
government under imperial rule lately made
by him in parliament. He declared the union
indissoluble.
Isaiah " Williamson, the venerable million
aire philanthropist of Philadelphia, died last
Friday Mr. Williamson was, perhaps, the
richest bachelor in the United States. He was
born at PENIS Manor, Bucks county, Pa,
eighty-seven years ago. He was the son of a
poor farmer and had many early privations.
After varied commercial experience, in which
he developed great business ability, he became
a member of the dry goods firm OF Williamson,
Burrough 4 Co. OF Philadelphia. He was very
successful and retired from active work many
years ago with a fortune aggregating millions.
Among the latest items of interest in the
latest foreign budget are the following: The
French deputies voted approval of the decree
resembling the banishment of Due d Aumale.
and also sustained the government in its re-
fusal to grant amnesty to persons convicted OF
press, public speech and labor oienses. Peru
announces a new cabinet which is well re-
ceived by the people. DerOulede and other
leaders of the French Patriotic league have
been indicted. The king of ShOa has declared
war against the king OF Abyssinia. The Saliva
ton Army has been barred out of Berlin. A
nihiist circular states that nihilists have been
quiet only as a blind. The Servians are said TO
be much pleased at the abdication of King
Milan. Advces by the steamer Belgic, at San
Francisco. give details of the Chinese uprising
against foreigners and the destruction of Chin
kiang. Fire at Shidsouka, Japan, destroyed a
thousand buildings. and another on the same
day at Yokosuka 800.