The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-23

Il COAASCSAOllcI SNOIC al pO11S,
MINI.
Albert Russell and wife have been arrested
at Cincinnati for working the 'fim-ham"
game.
Joe Healde fell into a tank of boiling grease
at Danville, ILL.,, last Friday and was seriously
injured,
An unknown young man was drowned off
wharf boat at Louisville Thursday night.
Suicide.
The State of Nebraska, which sailed from
New York for Glasgow Friday, has returned,
leaking.
Peter BOUCHER has been arrested at Steuben-
vile, O., for the murder of his child in Octo-
Der, 1886.
David Bence was sentenced at Circleville, O.,
to five years Imprisonment in the penitentisry
for incest.
An unknown man was drowned off a wharf
boat IN the Ohio river at Louisville, KY,
Thursday.
The new customs order, shutting out Cana
dian-built cars, is being rigidly enforced at De-
troit, Mich.
Two men quarreled about a woman near
Chattanooga, Tenn, and one of them was IA
tally stabbed.
A disease known as "scab" is prevailing
among the sheep in the vicinity OF
Wabash, Ind.
II is said that three prominent republican
senators are opposed to the senate tariff bill IN
its present form.
Charles C. Tinker was sentenced at Cincin-
natl to five years Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary for forgery.
Judgment notes aggregating nearly $3.50
have been entered against Isaac S. lsaacs, a
Philadelphia jeweler.
Robert Mcfarland of Bowling Green, O., is
charged with wrongfully opening letter adj
dressed to his brother.
The Corbn and Excelsior GOLFERS, employ
ing 1900 men and boys at ShamOkin, Pa, have
suspended indefinitely
The strike at the Wamba&e mills in Housa-
tonic, Mass, is virtually ended, the superin-
tendent being retained.
The majority of the Ford committee on Ia
Dor has decided that a five dollar-tax shall be
imposed upon immigrants.
William /. Wythe, New York's mysterious
prisoner is charged with embezzlement from
w. ). Lawson d Co., bankers.
Charles Fries, while in jail at Woodbury. n
Y, for forgery, committed suicide by hanging
himself to the door OF his cell.
The eigar-makers employed in the Havana
cigar manufactures New York have struck
against a reduction of 3 per 1000.
The grain-growers and shippers of the Chi
cagO board of trade will make war on the car
service association recently organized.
A reward of 500 has been offered for the ar
rest and conviction of the murder of Lester
Wood, III Edgar county, Illinois, Jan. 1.
The use of electric light on railroad trains
has been inaugurated in the Northwest by the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul railroad.
The democrats of the First Indiana district
have nominated Judge Parrett for congress to
fill the unexpired term of Gen. Hovey.
r. T. K. Balm, director of the Exchange
national bank of Norfolk, Va has been found
guilty of misapplying the banks funds.
Gen. Black, should he be nominated Judge
advocate general, will not be confirmed for the
reason that he cannot be legally appointed.
Charles Austin, bookkeeper for Bussey &
Mcleod, stove foundrymen at Troy, n. Y, is
missing. So is $4,000 of the firms money.
1t is charged that Arizona judge fined an
editor $500 for criticisIng one of his decisions.
The matter will be investigated by congress.
William Z. Sackett, of the Sunday Morning
Nears Jersey City, \. j. has been acquitted of
lbeling Thomas Potter, wealthy contractor.
Newton Helm charged with killing a colored
desperate named Starkey at Garretsburg, Ky
was acquitted on the ground of self-defense.
A damage suit for 100000 has been insti-
tuted at Detroit, Mich, against the Grand
Rapids, Lansing & Detroit railroad company
The famous Hatfield gang" of West Vir-
ginia has sworn out warrants for two detectives
on the charge of conspiracy to arrest the Hat
fields.
At Dawson, KY, two men were firing at
each other during quarrel, and boy who
stepped between them, was shot and instantly
killed.
Ex-Gov. Proctor has resigned the presidency
of the Vermont republican league. 1t is ru-
mored that he has been rendered a cabinet po-
sition.
John, alias "Glass-Eye' Cook, has been found
guilty at Chicago OF completely in the great
postoffice robbery at Minneapolis, MINI, in
July, 1886.
w. c. Murch and John Peterson, Escanaba
Mich boys, we're drowned while skating, and
Herbert Armstrong was killed while sleighing
at Quimesec.
John Greenwall, the burglar. charged with
killing Lyman s. Weeks in Brooklyn, some
years ago. has been convicted of murder in the
first degree.
Frederick Baldwin, accused of the murder
of Edward L. Miller divinity student whose
body was found at Westfeld, \. j., July 10,
has been acquitted.
Thomas A. Edison thinks he has been swim
died out of S250,OO0 by the treachery of his
attorney in disposing of the photograph to the
Lippincott syndicate.
Gov Shuman, for nearly thirty-three years
connected with the Chicago ECcni1g Journal
has retired from the dictatorship OF that paper
on account of il-health.
Miss Efie Swihert, who disappeared from
York. An officer took charge of her and her
friends have been notified.
A thirty million-dollar mortgage, given by
the c. & o. railroad company to the Central
mortgage company of New York has been
filed at Charleston, W. Va.
Mrs Easton of Springfield, O.. who was
afraid to deposit her money in bank, for fear the
bank would break, was robbed of $780, which
she had been saving for years.
Governor Sherman, who has been connected
with the Chicago EUening journal for thirty
three years, has retired from the editorship Of
the paper on account of ill-health.
Charles Hodlett, miner was awarded $3.50
damages, at Brazil, Ind, in a suit brought
against the Brazil block coal company, for in
juries sustained by falling into a shaft
Six elegant railway carriages, built in France
and costing about 10000 francs, have been
presented to the emperor of China. They are
intended for the use of the emperor. empress
and high court officials. small line will be