The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The News of the Week Told In Brief Par,
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Missouri has adopted the Australian system
Of voting.
-Four persons were poisoned by canned corn
at Pittsburg.
Mrs. Nat Goodwin, wife of the comedian is
Ill IN Chicago.
James Gordon, whipped by White Caps at
Anna, ILL.,, is dead.
The high Incense bill has failed to pass the
Missouri legislature.
Heavy frost, have killed the fruit in portions
of northern Indiana.
The Washington Sunday Gazette viii be sold
at auction Thursday.
J. Pardee Chapman, aged sixty-six, committed
suicide at New York.
A saloon at Newtonville, Ind, was blown up
with powder last week
Mrs. Nat Goodwin, wife of the comedian, is
seriously i'll in Chicago
Three miners were killed by fall OF coal at
Scranton, Pa, asst week.
The KENTUCKY feeble-minded institute at
Frankfort buried Friday.
-Four children were burned to death at Alb
bington, Md last Friday.
Melvin c. Garliz, was convicted of wife
murder at Cumberland, Nd.
Irving Laimer is on trial at Jackson, Mich,
for the murder OF his mother.
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ton factory al Huntsville, Ala.
Three business blocks in Foreston, H.,
burned Friday. Loss, $125OO0
There are five banks and six newspapers in
operation IN Guthrie, Oklahoma
Lucien Beall tell from a train at Wheeling,
W. Va, Saturday, and was killed.
The Dutch parliament has unanimously re-
solved TO restore the kings powers.
Two men were fatally injured by falling
building at Lowell Mass, Thursday.
The ceremonies OF opening the French expo
sition occurred Sunday and Monday.
White caps demolished saloon at Rawson,
Hancock county, Ohio, last Thursday.
About eight hundred railroad coal miners in
the vicinity OF Pittsburg are on a strike.
The Missouri antitrust bill is in the hands of
Gov. Francis, who will probably sign it.
A subterranean waterway has been discov-
cred In quarry near Hartford City, Ind.
The miners of the Pittsburg district have de.
manded a yearly rate of "a cents per ton.
The miners in the Brazil lind. district re.
jected the operators offer for a mining scale.
A high license BILL fixing the fee at s.. 500,
has been defeated by the Missouri legislature.
All Sunday trains will be taken of the Da-
kota division of the Chicago & Northwestern.
4 mail stage was robbed by masked highway
men near Eureka Springs, Ark, last Saturday
a deaf mute named kneibert OF Ludlow, Ky,
was robbed of $40 on railroad train Saturday.
Verg Dobson shot and killed his son-in-law.
Lucien Floyd, near Nashville, Tenn, Saturday,
Lolita, the actress, was suddenly taken i'll
Saturday while acting IN "Musette" al Easton,
Pa
Paul A. Metcalf native of Sandusky, o.,
committed suicide at SOmerville, Mass, Thurs
day.
Nesr1-;us has b-ol-ar ont 18th ,rao4 v-;ola,co
Streams of lava are flowing down the POmpeii
side.
Joseph Householder. commercial traveller,
suicided at Memphis, Tenn, Friday, with NOR
phine.
The liberation of Malietoa by Germany is con-
sidered to signify his reinstatement as king OF
Samoa.
At Marquette, Mich, Andrew Gregour shot
and killed his wife and attempted to commit
suicide.
Hugh Cunningham was shot and killed at
Greenville. Miss, Saturday, by negro named
Weston.
The release of William OBrien and Timothy
Harrington has been ordered. The grounds are
not stated
Fire damaged the soap and candle factory OF
Schaeier Bros. d Powell at ST. Louis Saturday.
Loss, $4,000
The ST. Paul street car strike has been de-
clared OF, the strikers returning to work at re-
duced wages.
About seven hundred quarrymen in the yari-
GUS quarries near Joliet, ILL.,, have struck for
higher wages.
The California Athletic club has arranged a
match between Leblanc and Nike Lucie OF Bos-
ton for May Is.
\ colored policeman named Collier was
killed by barkeeper named Kelly Saturday at
Greepville, Miss.
Five thousand miners are on a strike in the
Brazil Gnd.) district on account of disagree
ment over the scale.
1t is stated that the French election will be
postponed until next year. to avoid a contest
with the Boulangists.
John Cullen shot his wife and then himself
at Albany, n. y, Thursday. Both will die.
Jealousy was the cause.
At Morrilton, Ark, an attempt was made by
O. B. Bently, politician, TO assassinate ex-
Sheriff Harry COblentz.
Michael Rizzillaro, one OF the murderers OF
Mcclure, the pavmaster, near Wilkesbarre, Pa
will be hanged June %
Advices by steamer recount the building OF
railways in Japan, and the establishment OF
electric and other plants.
Samuel Coffman, wealthy farmer of Fay
cite county, Ohio, was swindled out of 5000
by bunko men last week.
A man, supposed from papers on his person
to be John Riehl, was killed by cars near Co
lumbuS, O., last Thursday
A party of eastern capitalists will expend
$4,000 exploring for natural gas in Starke and
Marshall counties, Indiana,
At Lykens, Pa, an Englshman named Ware
shot and killed two persons named John and
Miller over game OF cards.
The Indians are taking land in severalty in
the Sioux reservation and will sign the treaty
when the commission arrives.
Capt. Murrell, of the steamship Missouri, has
been presented with gold medal by the grand
lodge of masons of Maryland.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Leonard of Brooklyn
gave a dinner to Mrs. Harrison last Friday
Covers we're laid for twenty-five.
Prof II. p. Matchett of Galena was assas
sna:ed by George w. Skeene, whom he had
forbidden to visit Miss Matchett.
About three thousand letters and one. thou.
sand newspapers are delivered daily from the
postofiice at Guthrie, Oklahoma.
by her husband. Dunn was arrested, The
motive for the crime is unknown.
An Iowa farmer named Barker was swindled
out of s., 900 Saturday by three confidence men
who purported 20 be land buyers.
number of men, charged with robbins
cars belonging to the Union Pacific railroad
were arrested recently in Montana.
There is a general strike Of the building
trades in Pittsburg for an average advance OF
% cents per day and union workmen-
A committee of the L. 5. senate, appointed
TO investigate this country's relations with
Canada, is route to San Francisco.
Briscoe B. Bouldin, deputy collector of in