The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-03-20
THE WEEKS NEWS.
Minor Events of the Past seven Days Told
in Brief Paragraphs.

coal coming.
The rush to the gold mines in Lower Califor-
MIA continues.
Several glass factories at Martins Ferry, O.,
have shut down.
A syndicate buys 100000 acres of land in
Lower California.
Gen. Lew Wallace says that he is out of
politics altogether.
Snow has cut of communication between
Russia and Germany.
The Austro-Servian war rumors are officially
pronounced baseless.
The strike at the Wheeling (W. Va steel
plant has been settled.
Walker Blaine will be examiner OF clsIms for
the department of state.
Twenty miners were killed Wednesday by an
English mine explosion.
Russell Harrison has purchased an interest
In Frank LCSlie'S Ueedy.
Senator Chace of Rhode Island sent his res
lgnatiOn to the governor.
Mayor Roach of Chicago has been renom-
mated by the republicans.
Everything is reported to be quiet at the new
mines in lower California.
George c. Hayden supposed TO be very poor,
leaves $4,000 at 81. Louis.
Natalie will apply for the annulment of the
divorce obtained by Milan.
Three negroes were hanged at Arkadelphia
Ark, March Is, for murder.
The coroner is investigating Thursdays
boiler explosion at Pittsburg.
The report of the death of Louis Ulbach, the
French novelist, was erroneous.
An English squadron is before Tangier to
Intorce demands upon the sultan.
Schuyler Moses, the oldest free mason in the
state OF New York, died March Il.
The boomers invaded Oklahoma territory
and were driven out by U. 5. troops
4 II
Langtry's professional engagements.
Bark Fannie Skolfeld, from Calcutta, has ar
rived in New York with a scurvy crew.
Juares, French minister of marine, died
| wednesday from stroke of apOplexy.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fultner, aged fifty years, was
killed by ears near Clarksburg, w. Va.
The total amount subscribed to the Chinese
famine fund in New York City is $11 ,039.79.
The jury in The Kerr doodle" trial, at New
York, returned verdict of acquittal Friday.
The Mccarthy packing company's establish
ment st. Louis, burned Friday. Loss, $4,000
The jury in the trial of Alderman Kerr, New
York, Friday returned a verdict of not guilty.
Methudy d Alyer, lumber dealers, St. Louis.
have failed. Liabilities unknown; assets S24S,-
500
As yet there are no signs of satisfactory set
Element of the #eaverS' strike at Fall River,
Mass.
The legislature of Illinois has been asked to
appropriate 5000 to repair the Lincoln monu-
ment.
dinner was given Saturday by the Hamil-
ton club of New Yorh in honor of Secretary
Tracy.
Theodore R. Timby of New York claims that
he, and not Ericsson, invented the revolving
turret.
J. Howard Jennings committed suicide near
Madison, Ind, Thursday by hanging himself in
q barn.
The statement that the North Chicago and
other rolling mills have been consolidated is
denied.
By an explosion in a colliery near Mines IF
teen miners were killed and six injured last
Friday.
The Gulf hotel at Townsville, Ga, burned
Saturday night Loss about twelve thousand
dollars.
Three persons were seriously injured by a
runaway accident near Huntingburg, Ind,
Saturday.
The strike of the weavers at Fall River
Mass, remains unchanged and the strikers are
confident.
Judge Taylor of Fort Wayne is likely to be
made civil service commissioner in place of Mr..
Edgerton.
The cattle of the states enacting hostile lecis-
lation 10 the packing house industry will be
boycotted.
The coroners jury in the Dawson murder
case at Charleston, 5. c., finds that DR.. Mellow
was guilty.
At Huntingburg, Ind, Mrs. c. Longbrake
and Edward Huenefeld were killed by runa-
way teams
The principal business square of Newman,
Ga, burned Thursday. Loss, $4,000; insur-
| ance, $1,000.
a stock dealer named Laferty was waylaid,
| killed and robbed of over 81 900 near Parkers-
burg, W. Va.
| A boy named Seaman was shot by night
| policeman at Nashville, Ind, Friday night and
died Saturday.
Newspapers and periodicals of all kinds is
sued in the United States and Canada now
number 7,107.
Samuel Lutz of Pickaway county, Ohio, cele.
| brated the one hundredth anniversary of his
birth March 10
The carpenters in Sharon, Pa, and Parkers-
| burg, W. Va, have made demand for an in
/ crease in wages.
Lawrence Brill of Evanston, ILL.,, was fatally
shot by a friend named Diddier at Clear Lake
| Ind. Accident
The Mount Tory mining company has been
| organized at Winchester w. Va, with a capt.
tai of Sl,J0O00O
Jerry Rusk of Gen. Harrison's cabinet was
! the tow-path companion of Garfield when the
latter was boy.
Count Won Tattenbach. secretary TO the
German embassy at Madrid, has been appointed
envoy to Morocco.
A small fishing sloop was capsized by the
breakers near Los Angeles Cal, Friday. Two
/ men were drowned.
w. j. joyce has been convicted at Seneca,
Kas., for selling Jamaica ginger in violation of
| the prohibitory law
The South Birmingham coal and coke CON-
| pany has been organized at Salem, Va, with
capital OF 100000.
! The Mascoutah kennel club of Chicago have
issued the premium lists for its first annual
| bench show of dogs
| Edward Huenefeld was instantly killed
while trying TO stop runaway team at Hol-
| land. Ind, Saturday.
! Gov Wilson of West Virginia will call an
extra session of the legislature TO settle the
| gubernatorial muddle.
DIR. James S. Gregg, leading surgeon of
| Fort Wayne, Ind has been taken to the insane
asylum at Logansport.
| Henry Sheets of Athens, O., aged seventy. is
| charged with the seduction of his grand
daughter, aged sixteen.
1t is understood that ri. c. Sluss of Wichita,
Kas., has been agreed upon for first assistant
secretary of the interior.
Virgil Jackson was hanged at Utica " V,
! Thursday morning for the murder of Augusta
| COntro In January, 1888.
John Jones of Chicago Is charged with an
unnatural intimacy with his own daughter and
| her subsequent murder.