The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07
THE WEEKS NEWS.
Recent Minor Events Briefly Photographed
For 1.-The weekly Sentinel"
Texas crops are fiourishing.

Texas crops are hourishing.
The president of Nicaragua is dead.
The American cricketers win in England.
gold deposit has been found near Mar
shall, Mo.
The Rothschilds have bought all the brewer
les in Omaha
Emperor William left Germany for England
last Wednesday.
A wolf-hunting association is to be incorpor-
ated at Salem, Ill.
San Francisco was shaken up by an earth
quake Wednesday.
large number OF men in the Connellsvllle
coke region struck.
The Tanner commissions work proves it a
whitewashing board.
Ex-senator Rollins died at Portsmouth, n.
H., Wednesday night.
The trial trip of the Yorktown is reported to
be q complete success.
The u. s senate committee on irrigation has
assembled in st. Paul.
Eleven business houses OF FennviIle, Mich,
burned Loss, $4,000.
Secretary Whitney denies that he is a candi-
date for the presidency.
w. F. Johnson & CO., Boston leather dealers,
have failed for $4,000.
A charter has been applied for by big irriga-
ting company in New Mexico.
Fred Farr shot and killed his wife and him
self at Carthage \. Y, Friday.
The total circulation OF money in the United
States Aug. 1 was $780,, 6S5,937.
An English syndicate is about to purchase
the largest brewery in Pittsburg.
W. T. Johnson & Co, leather dealers. Boston,
have failed. Liabilities, $4,000
Brown Hal paced mile in 2:i2% at Cleve-
land, lowering the stallion record.
News from Hayti indicates that Hippolyte
will soon be master OF the situation.
Atty.-Gen. Kitchener OF Indiana is a candi-
cate Tor the senate against Voorhees,.
The Ute Indians are reported off their reser-
walton, stealing and destroying game.
The disagreement between Switzerland and
Germany has been amicably adjusted
The trial of Mrs. Maybrick for poisoning her
husband began at Liverpool last week
Thomas Barkman killed o. P. Phelps, a
neighbOr, near Texarkana, Ark, Friday.
The damage done by the flood in and around
Plainheld, n. j.. is estimated at S250OO0
DIR. Hammond of Washington is experiment.
ing with the Brown-Sequard elixir of life.
Fire in the mill OF the Ripley co. mill and
lumber company caused loss of 100000.
The cornerstone of the soldiers monument
at indianapolis. Ind, weighs fourteen IONS.
John r. c. Pitkin of Louisiana has been ap-
pointed minister 10 the Argentine republic
The BUe Grass BLADE, prohibition paper of
Lexington, KY, has suspended publication.
Murat Halstead has retur ned from Europe
and laughs at reports that is in i'll health.
Street car stables at Richi nond Va, burned,
with sixty mules and horses and several cars.
A syndicate is forming i n the South to con-
troll the sale and manufacture of artificial ice.
Edward Peters and Mrs. Thomas Ballard of
New Boston, Ark, have eloped a second time.
Orange-growers are abont to form an asso-
citation to control the Flo rida orange business.
Damage to property Philadelphia on ac-
count OF the recent foo DIS will amount to $50
600.
Two very slick confidence men were caught
by pOstoffice inspectors at Kansas City last
week.
Forest fires in Montana show no signs Of
abatement Loss is 'now estimated at half a
million.
has been renewed. and will be good for twelve
months.
English syndicates IRE endeavoring to obtain
control of the patent leather industro in this
country.
Pittsburg plasterers will strike on Monday.
They object 10 the EN- plOyment of boys by the
contractors.
The president has rendered the collectorship
OF the port OF New rleans TO eX.Gov. ii. c.
Yarmouth.
Lord Salisbury in a speech declared that
"peace with honor" was Engand's aim in for
eign affairs.
John /. Sullivan was arrested in New York
last week on requlsitlon by Gov. Lowry OF
Mississippi.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of
damage has been caused by the recent floods in
New Jersey.
A mad horse ran amuck on Chicago street
Friday, biting two men and eight horses before
it was killed.
A freight and passenger tmin colIided al
New Britain, Conn. Friday. Five 1rainmen
were injured.
The U. 5. senate committee on irrigation Of
arid lands in the West began its lsbprs in St
Paul Thursday.
The republican state association of Pennsyl
vania is recognizing for a raid on the depart
ment clerkshiDs.
movement is on foot TO ams1gamate the
two rival athletic associations, the n. A. A. A.
A. and the A. A. U.
1t is reported that Berner, the Cincinnati boy
| murderer, has broken down from Overwork in
the Ohio penitentiary.
An epidemic of blood ffux has appeared al
Carthage, H., and $50 cases are reported
mostly among children.
a syndicate has been foxTr.ed which control,
the services of 5000 ballet 4irls who are TO be-
| let TO theatrical managers.
At Carthage. y. V. Fred Farr an engineer
shot and killed his wife. and then committed
suicide. Domestic trouble.
A feud has broken out between the Smith,
and Slushers of Pinerville. KY, about a hog
Both factions are fully armed.
The California commissioner 10 the Paris ex
| position, N. H. De Young, declares the Ameri
can exhibit complete failurG
The G. A. R. has made final and unsuccess
| full appeal to the railroads for a 1-cent rats
| TO the Milwaukee encampmem.
The national monument to the memory Of
| the pilgrims was dedicated at Plymouth with
| appropriate ceremonies Thursday.
Two men and three boys we're torn to piece,
! in an explosion Of giant powder at the Re
| public mine, near Marquetss, Mich Friday.
The immigration during July was 1874 les,
| than in July, 1888. Every month this wear ha,
| shown a gradual decline in European arrivals
| Christ Weinman Of COlumtus, o., who killed
/ his wife week ago, and attempted suicide
died Friday of the wounds inflicted by himself
The widow of Smell. the murdered Chicago
millionaire, offers $4,000 for the arrest of Tas
colt, the offer to hold gbod for twelve months
Near Fort Wayne, Saturday, Henry Beight
| farmer, was thrown In front OF the knives of :
moving reaper and margled so badly that hC
/ died.
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