The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-29

ing steady. The New York banks reported
moderate increase in reserve for the week.
A new party, known as the single-tax party,
has been formed in South Dakota.
The ore-handlers at Marquette, Mich, have
struck for higher wages. Three hundred men
are out
Sheriff May of Grayson county. Texas. was
killed by three despersdoes whom he was try
ing to arrest.
Col. w. H. Chiffon, for fifteen years CONNER
eial editor of the Louisville C0UTier-,JoUvnaL
died Monday.
| The widow of the late Amos J. Smell has re-
newed her reward of $4,000 offered for the
rest of Tascott.
Fire at Reno, New, destroyed several bust
ness blocks, two Touring mills. the depot and
round-house. Loss over S2J0,OOO.
Atty.-Gen. Miller thinks that there is no pro-
vision of law under which national banks can
be established in Oklahoma at the present
time.
1t is regarded as a certainty at Washington
that Atty.-Gen. Miller will be appointed to sue
| coed Justice Matthews on the L. 5. supreme
bench.
At Birmingham, Ala, Dick Halves was SEN
| fenced to be hanged July u. Notice of an ap-
| peal was given, and the sentence was sus-
! pended
The interstate commerce commission began
| its inquiry into the charges preferred against
western roads by the Chicago board of trade,
! Monday.
Edward Jennings, charged with assaulting
young girl at Cleveland, o., was fined 500 and
sent to the work-hOuse for six months last
Wednesday.
1t is stated that at the Samoa conference the
American delegates disputed Germany's claims
/ for indemnity, holding that Mataafa acted in
self-defense.
George A. Jessup, vice-president and acting
cashier of the Scranton City bank, at Scranton,
Pa, is accused of embezzling 100000 of the
banks funds
Near Hopkinsville. KY, last Wednesday
| two-year-old boy accidentally set ire to his
clothing while playing with matches and was
fatally burned.
George Carson, prominent business man OF
Milwaukee, Wis, attempted TO commit suicide
at Newark, o. Friday while suffering with
delirium tremens.
George A. Westerkil of Ashland. Wis, sui
cided in Chicago hotel by taking morphine.
| He had fallen in love with Lydia Thompson,
the burlesque actress.
7. \. Meredith of Monticello, H., has been
/ tapped for dropsy seventy-eight times. One
thousand and fourteen pounds of water have
been taken from him.
! A freight train on the c., B. & Q.was wrecked
| near Macon Mo. Five oil tanks exploded and
| sixteen loaded cars burned. Brakeman Joe
! Klotz was fatally injured.
| During the progress of the funeral services
| over the remains of his wife, Ambrose Van
| tassel OF Elizabethport, y. j., dropped dead.
Excessive grief the cause.
A mortgage for Sis,0OO,OOO, given by the
| Columb bus d Western railroad company to the
| Central trust company of New York, has been
| filed at Birmingham, Ala.
The residence of the Rev. F. c. Clarke, near
| Virginia Beach, Va, was destroyed by fire May
| o. Mr.. Clarke his two daughters, a son and
niece were burned to death.
The murderers of George w. Richardson,
superintendent OF the San Pedro coal and coke
mine of Carthage, n. NJ, have been captured
Richardson was killed May 10.
William Collins, recently on trial at Circle
vile, o., for wife-murder, entered plea of
guilty of murder in the second degree, and was
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Mr.. Gladstone was knocked down by cab at
a street-crossing in London, Thursday. Some
| body helped him up, and he then pursued the
cab-driver aud had him arrested.
Daniel Keller, q Pennsylvania farmer, re-
Gently saw Carter, the bunkoist, at Washing
| ton, o., and he claims that he was victimized
by Carter 10 the tune OF 3, 200 in February
last.
A clew TO the persons who caused the recent
wreck on the ST. Louis & San Francisco near
Sullivan, Mo-, is said to have been discovered.
D. Weichert, one of the injured passengers, is
dead.
George Wilson and James Rountree, young
| farmers living near Brownsville, Ala, quar-
relied about girl last Friday and agreed to set
tie their differences with pistols. Wilson was
| killed.
| Proceedings have been instituted at In
dianapolis for the appointment of a receiver for
the order of the iron hall, and an examination
of the books of the order. The court refused a
receiver Saturday.
Lafayette Pennard of PhGnixvile. Pa, is
recovering from a trance, in which he lay for
| two days, during which time he supposed
to be dead. Notice of his death had been pub
lished in the papers.
One man, with revolver in each hand,
jumped from the brush by the roadside and
| robbed mail stage near Shawano, Wis, sat
Qrday. There were six passengers. II is not
| known how much he got.
1t thought that the Parnellites have decided
upon a new movement, The remark of Parnell
that the Irish members might withdraw from
the imperial parliament is considered signif-
cant of the new departure.
The schooner H. s. Tern has arrived at San
! Francisco, bringing Capt. SAKE and his crew OF
six men of the schooner Addie G. Hasseltine,
which was wrecked on one of the Marshall
islands in terrific gale March 10.
At Pine Bluff, Ark, Saturday, a man named
| Chalmers saw a negro named Brown cruelty
| beating mule with a trace-chain and forced
him to desist They met afterward and the
negro assaulted Chalmers, who shot and killed
| him.
An intended visit of Emperor William and
| King Humbert to Strasburg, upon becoming
| IvpouY in, Eropce oousad foil in r,ricps in fha