The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-03-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The News OF the week Told In Brief Para
graphs.

Associate justice A1dILneWe Ole0 ~ w aS1l0g-
ton Friday.
Navigation between Detroit and Cleveland
has opened.
Floods have done enormous damage in Prus-
sian Silesia.
The president has signed the Oklahoma
proclamation.
The solicitor for the Parnellites has secured
Piggott's diary.
Louis Witt of Cincinnati has been missing
since March 20
Eli Gross was killed by falling tree near
Tifiin, o., Friday.
De Motto & Durant, stock brokers, New
York, have failed.
John Kyle weIl-known Cincinnati insur-
ance man, is dead.
The strike of the New York feather-workers
has proven a failure.
Mary Anderson's English company has
sailed for Liverpool
The Hon. John Scott died at Pittsburg. Pa,
Sunday of pneumonia.
An earthquake of considerable strength was
felt at Smyrna, Thursday.
A compromise of the weavers' strike at Fall
River, Mass, is looked for.
A bill taxing sleeping and dining cars has
passed the Nebraska legislature.
At Julien Station, KY, Thursday, Robert
Tyler was shot by Grant Hawkins and fatally
wounded.
The friends of Gen. w. II. Gibson are max
ing efforts to secure his nomination for COVER
nor of Ohio.
John Sarsfield has been sentenced to five
years in the New III ampshire state prison for
wife murder.
Capt W. A. Mccoy, prominent citizen of
Philadelphia w. Va, has been arrested for pen
sion swindling.
Herbert Bismarck has started for London, it
iuc aid to, ,~lar, A.
German alliance.
Wash Baker of Scioto county, Ohio, drew
$lS in pension money and mysteriously disap-
peared last week.
Dan Ward, aged sixteen, shot and instantly
killed Ed Burke, aged fifteen, at Birmingham,
Ala, last Friday.
The Rev. Ezekiel G. Robinson has resigned
the presidency of the Brown university at
Providence, r. /.
Vicar General Routhier of Quebec forbids
his parishioners TO waltz and the ladies to wear
decollete dresses.
The president has sent to the senate the
nomination of Corporal Tanner to be commits
sioner of pensions.
Princess Irene, wife of Prince Henry OF
Prussia, brother of the emperor, has been
delivered of son.
The British commons debated Irish matters
Thursday on a motion to reduce BaltOur's
salary, which was lost
1t is stated that Judge Gresham of Indiana
will be appointed TO succeed Justice Matthews
on the supreme bench.
The Norwegian bark Orvar Odd, Capt Tork-
elsen, from Brunswick for Buenos Ayres, has
been abandoned at sea.
John W. Moore formerly publisher and
writer on the subject of music died at Man
chester, n. H., Sunday.
Dr. Osiah Stovel Of Atlanta, Ca. aged
IasIx-
years OF age last Friday.
Ed Riggs, colored, was shot and killed Satur-
day near Louisville, Ky, while IN the act of
robbing a money drawer
Francis S. Brady, an old lake captain, was
struck by locomotive at Cleveland, o., Satur-
day, and instantly killed.
The body of William Ryan was found in a
lake near Beavertown, o., Friday. He had
been missing for month.
Elsie James, afull-blooded Chickasaw squaw,
has been convicted in Arkansas of numbering
a white man named JONES'
Arrangements have been completed for the
construction of a new railroad between Pitts
burg and Wheeling, W. Va.
The Hon. John Scott, president and one of
the receivers of the Allegheny Valley railroad,
died at Pittsburg Sunday.
The president has issued proclamation
warning all persons against violating the law
regulating the seal fisheries.
Whitelaw Reid and Fred Grant, as ministers
to France and Austria, respectively, were con-
frmed by the senate Saturday.
Forty cases of typhoid fever are reported in
Luzerneborough, Pa Physicians say a second
Plymouth epidemic is threatened.
The Northern Pacific railroad has secured
control of the Wisconsin Central railroad, and,
through 1t, an entrance to Chicago.
The copper crisis was discussed in the French
l. L. -,
vestigate to locate the responsibility.
1t is said that the Northern Pacific railroad
has secured control of the Wisconsin Central
and through 1t an entrance TO Chicago.
Fred Nelson, a travelling salesman for
Cheney Bros. of Chicago, committed suicide at
Moline, ILL.,, Tuesday by cutting his throat.
Charles Watson is hiding in dense wood
near Santa Fe, Ind, to avoid arrest on the
charge of Outraging thirteen-year-old girl.
The great scheme of Henry Willard whereby
oil the Edison electric companies were TO be
consolidated, is reported to have collapsed.
Daniel S. Lamont, ex-secretary of ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland, has been elected president OF
one of the New York street railway companies.
Peter and William Layman, prominent
farmers of Stark county, Indiana have been
arrested for completely in freight car rObberies.
West Virginia constable, who shot and
killed man named Moore in an attempt to ar
The four-year-old daughter of Joseph Mes-
cher of Dayton, o., who was run over by an
electric car Saturday night, died of her injuries
Sunday.
George r. Carlton bookkeeper for Smith
Bros q Co., Seattle, W. T., is an embezzler TO
the amount of $4,000 He was formerly of
Chicago.
Several houses and a mile and half OF rail-
road track at Dayton Tenn, were swept away
by high water Tuesday night. One man was
drowned.
A German baron's son, who ran away from
his native country in 1887 to escape military
service, died in the poor-house at Cleveland,
o., last week.
F. J. Fitch, graduate of the college of meta
physics of Chicago, has been refused license
ct indianapolis because he wants to practice
healing by faith.
Andrew Stroup, while burning brush near
Atwood, Ind, last Friday, dropped dead from
apoplexy and fell into the fire. His body was
burned to a crisp.
Judge Bates of the superior court of Cincin-
natl has decided that the law imposing fine on
restaurants for refusing to feed colored people
is unconstitutional.
Mrs. Russell, lady seventy-nine years of
age. and two girls named Trueheart were
burned to death Thursday in house near
Baldwinsville, Mass.
Pat Trainer, a Cincinnati carpenter, went
home under the influence of liquor Thursday
night and after beating his wife broke her jaw
with heated poker.
A bill was passed by the Michigan house pro
hibiting the sale of liquor in any place of
or INV od roorn hv vote af