The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-06
into the proprietor's eyes and escaped with

into the propretors eyes and escaped with
the watches.
Fred Schroeder, driver, was struck and in
stantly killed while crossing railroad track at
Steubenville, o.
The case Of the Hamilton gas light and coke
company VS.. the city of Hamilton, was decided
In favor of the city.
Mary Burkhardt, aged nineteen. was burned
to death at Bellaire, o. Her clothing caught
fire at an open crate.
James X. Radclif shot his brother-In-law,
Lewis d. Cottrell, at Pomeroy, o. A family
quarrel was the cause.
Five of the leading fairs of the Southern
Ohio fair circuit have withdrawn and formed
an independent circuit.
A married woman at Lexington, KY, last
Friday took her husbands savings and left
with street-car driver.
1t is reported at Washington that Congress
man Butterw orth will be offered cabinet po-
sition by Gen. Harrison.
Edward Pardew, a prominent merchant of
Wynne, Ark, was shot and killed by
known person In saloon.
Mrs. Emma Althouse of Attica n Y, has
been asleep for a month. All efforts to awaken
her have been unavailing.
A damage suit for $4,000 has been COM
menced against the Pennsylvania railroad
company, at Youngstown, o.
Young August Tonic, who attempted the
triple murder at Delhi Mich, Saturday, has
been captured by the officers.
Two apparently respectable women were ar
rested at Cincinnati for shOplifting. One of
them acknowledged her guilt.
Buell. Keeny aged fifty-five, of Springfield,
Mass. is under arrest for beating his old father
TO death with his fists. Whisky.
Mollie and Lucy leo, two sisters, aged re-
spectively sixteen and eighteen years, are miss.
ing from their home, Cincinnati.
Fire at Clear Lake, Mimi, destroyed the
Cerro-Gordo county bank building opera
house and several other buildings.
Miss George Boos of FostOria, O., has dis
appeared. She left notes saying that she in
tended to JOIN an opera company.
G. G. Mandt, an editor at Mt. Horeb, Wis,
who has been quite severe on the saloon inter-
ests, was called to his door and shot.
An epidemic of scarlet fever, dphtheria and
typhoid fever is raging at West Aliddlesex, Pa.
The cause is attributed to bad drainage
Charles Straw's clothes caught in a shaft.
while he was oling machinery, near New
Albany, Ind, and he was crushed to death.
A reward of several hundred dollars has
been offered for the arrest of r. w. Rowden,
the absconding Judge of Logan county, Col.
William II. Wallace of HammondsvilIe, O.,
Is said to be the oldest postmaster in the coun-
try. He has served continuously for fifty-nine
years.
As the outcome of a wager, John OFT walked
from ChillicOthe to Washington G. H., o., and
return, distance of fifty-eight miles, in twelve
hours.
Senator Allison of Iowa after having been
booked for the treasury department in the new
cabinet, positively refuses to accept the po-
sition.
Stephen r. Layton. was shot at Columbus,
O., by Mrs. Lima Baker, who claims that he
was attempting to enter her house against her
wishes.
CLo-lou NJ Dill
in bed near Walnut Springs, Tex. 1t is sup
posed that Balch shot his wife and then killed
himself.
Messrs. Ives and Staynor, under arrest in
Newport for Incorporating funds of the
G., IL. d. railroad, have as yet, been unable
to secure bail
Benjamin Lum, bookkeeper for a savings
bank at New Haven, CT, was accidentally
locked up in the big bank vault and imprisoned
for fifteen hours.
A towboat's boiler exploded at Pittsburg,
completely demOlishing the vessel, wrecking
another towbOat, killing two men and serious
ly lnluring two others.
Cakes Ames, who is worth 100000, eloped
at Anthony Park, Mimi, with Miss Emma Wat
son, an assistant pOstmistress. Ames is a cousin
of the governor of Massachusetts,.
Senator Sabin of Minnesota had a long con-
ference Friday with President-elect Harrison.
He declared that his visit was a social one
and disclaimed any cabinet aspirations.
Detective Crawford. who went TO Ripley. O.,
to investigate the mysterious disappearance of
Eb Cheney, the travelling salesman, was unable
TO find the slightest clew to the mystery.
A reward of 800 has been offered for any in
formation which will lead to the recovery of
the body of Eb Cheney the travelling salesman
who disappeared from Ripley, O.. Jan. %.
The senate committee on military affairs has
reported a bill to retire Gen. Rosecrans with
the rank of brigadier general. A house bill
proposes to give him the rank of major
general.
A fourteen-year old girl living near Logans-
port, Ind, confessed to the burning of a dwell
ing and other buildings, claiming she was paid
800 for committing the act. She is thought to
be insane.
The will of the late Albert F. Eberman of
Lancaster, Pa, gives 5000 to the endowment
fund of the Moravia theological seminary at
Bethlehem, Pa, and $4,000 to the Moravian
church at Lancaster.
Senator Allison's declination of a cabinet
position is regretted in Washington. Justice
Miller, an Iowa man who is ready to retire
from the supreme bench, is mentioned for the
treasury department.
Gov. Foraker has written letter to the
prosecuting attorney of Ashland county Ohio,
requesting him to investigate the recent White
Cap outrage at .Jeromeville, with a view to
Furnishing the guilty parties.
At st. Paul, Mimi, Louis Waller is suing
Reidell & Nelson for $1,000 because, while con-
veying the body of his son to the grave in a
carriage, it was run into by defendants team,
the coffin broken open and the body exposed
to view.
Gov. Lee of Virginia addressed secret meet
ing of democratic merchants at Richmond on
the 30th inst, and warned them that unless
they paid their licenses in cash instead of cou-
pOns the democratic party in that state would
be driven from power within the present year.
Standardized Higgins of Delaware was in In
dianapolis last week. He says that he had two
objects-One to give Gen. Harrison his views as
to the course to be pursued toward the South
and the other to urge him to appoint Gen,
James II. Wilson his secretary Of way.
1t is said that County Clerk Sullivan, of In
danapOlis, has gone TO Canada to escape prose-
cution for forgery. He is still under bond in
the tally-sheet cases, and as they come within
the extradition treaty, he could easily be re-
turned His total liabilities are placed at
$4,000.
Mr. Blaine's friends in Washington assert
positively that il is settled that he is TO be Sec
rotary of state Mr.. Alison's friends say that
he has not yet decided to accept the offer of
the treasury department. He doesn't want TO
leave the senate. Others say that ne positively
refused TO go into the cabinet.
At the close of the week there was but little
change in the leading features of business in
commercial lines. Provisions were dull and
easy but flour sold more readily. Wheat
ruled firm, corn and oats steady, rye easy and