The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-07-31
THE WEEKS NEWS.
Recent Minor Events Briefly Photographed
For "The Weekly Sentinel"

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Five men will be executed in New York
Aug. %.
Six business buildings in Spokane Falls, w.
T., burned.
Another big gas well has been drilled in at
Fostoria, O.
The colfax wv. IT, packing company's
houses burned.
At Troy, n. Y, Friday, James Mccall kicked
New York printers will resist the proposed
reduction in wages.
Mr. Gladstone celebrated his golden we'd
ding last Thursday.
T. O. Lowering e. Co., wholesale gr0cers OF
Chicago have failed.
The new Johnstown, Pa, is to be built on
much higher ground.
High waters at Fredonia, Kas have done
considerable damage.
Francis Milligan killed his wife with an ak
at Paducah Wednesday.
The governor Of Maryland has issued
rant for kilrain's arrest.
English capitalists are buying mines in the
state of Hidalgo Mexico.
The result of the Sioux commissioners work
so far is not encouraging.
Editor J. J. West has been forced out of con-
troll OF the Chicago Times.
Bishop Walsh of London, Ont, has been
elected archbishop of Toronto.
Charlemagne Tower, wealthy lawyer and
capitalist of Philadelphia, is dead.
Milton c. Garltz will be hanged in Cumber-
land, Nd, Aug. so for wife murder.
Anthony Comstock has run down big gang
of green goods" men in New York.
At Stndal, Ind. Wednesday Robert Harris
was cut in two by moving machine.
Stephen w. Dorsey was arrested in New
York, Thursday, for contempt OF court.
The funeral of John Murphy the famous
jockey, occurred in New York Thursday.
James Canaty. Richmond va barkeeper.
cut his wifes throat and then killed himself
Alice Mckenzie. the last victim of Jack the
Ripper" was buried in London Wednesday.
The wife of J. S. Weaver of Greenville. O..
committed suicide with oxalic acid last Friday.
A convict named Brown is serving his ninth
term in the Michigan City lind. J pententiary
Wayne WhItyer was arrested at Lancaster,
Pa. last week, for attempting to wreck a train.
Cincinnati saloonists have decided to keep
their saloons open on Sunday despite the law.
The next annual conference OF the Scotch
Irish society will be held in Pittsburg in May,
1890.
1t is charged that the Standard oil company
is trying to get possession of the Indiana gas
field.
A meeting was held in New York last week
to organize for the proposed worlds exposition
in 1892.
An English syndicate has secured options on
three breweries at Sandusky, o., tor about
$4,000.
The signal service Office says that the wet
season is about over, and that hot August is
probable.
William Byers aged seventeen, was fatally
injured IN a runaway accident near West JET
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Co. have gone TO protest. An assignment has
been made.
The cityof New York has begun active meas
ures toward arranging for worlds fair in that
city in 1892
William Harrison, a comedian whose stage
name Is William Cosgrif, died in Chicago of
heart disease.
The report that Mrs. Heron, a missionary,
was under sentence OF death in Cores is with
out foundation.
Jim Kelly, negro, was lynched at Paris
Ky Friday night for criminally assaulting
Mrs Peter Crow.
Bishop Walsh of London, Ont, has been
elected archbishop of Toronto to succeed
Lynch, deceased.
About fifty tons of provisions will be sent
from Chicago to Spring Valley, Ill., Tor the re-
lief of the miners.
The wedding OF Princess Louise of Wales and
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ceedingly brilliant.
Several men who participated in the lynching
of Kate Maxwell and Jim Averill in Wyoming
have been arrested.
Congressman Butterworth sailed for Europe
Saturday. He will return in time to take part
in the Ohio campaign.
The old soldiers of Greene county o.. have
arranged to erect monument in memory Of
their fallen comrades.
hov- full
state ticket, headed by DR.. j. B. Helwig of
Springfield for governor.
The national order of the knights of friend
ship, colored society, held Its annual meeting
at indianapolis last week.
The effort to introduce the so-called Austria
liam system of balloting into the South Dakota
constitution was defeated.
Not a farmer or resident in the Kanawha val
ley, West Virginia, escaped damage IN the re-
cent flood. Help is asked.
Great restitution is reported TO exist in Writ
county West Virginia, among those who lost
property in the late floods.
1t is stated that Bismarck has prevailed upon
the car to visit Berlin, and that Francis Joseph
will do so at the same time.
rate of one fare for the round trip has been
made for veterans attending the grand army
encampment at Milwaukee.
Wesley Elkins, aged eleven years, has been
placed under arrest at Edgewood, Ia, charged
with the murder of his parents.
The Rev. Frederick A. Howard brought suit
at Jackson Tenn, to recover so, 900 for alleged
libel and got verdict for cent.
A convict named Hill, who escaped from the
Ohio penitentiary, was captured in a cornheld
with stolen horse in his possession.
1t is the general opinion among republicans
that Atty.-Gen. Miller will be appointed to the
vacancy on the supreme-court bench.
At Columbus, o., Saturday, Christ Weinman
killed his wife and then attempted suicide.
The crime was prompted by jealousy.
Gustave Handbook fell from the roof of a
school-hOuse at Camp Washington, o., last
week, and was almost instantly killed.
Chauncey Knifin fatally shot his wife and
killed himself at Lake Mahopac, Ny Wednes-
day. Domestic trouble was the
Mrs. A. ]. Boshell committed suicide near
Carbon Hill, Ala, by hanging herself to the
limb OF tree with hickory bark strips.
Chares Palmer, sixteen-year-old boy who
tried to wreck a train, just ito see the cars
jump" is under arrest at Norwich, Ny.
Supt. Tyler, of the @. & C. road has been ar
rested at New Orleans charged with aiding and
abetting the Sullivan-Kilra prize tight.
Pittsburg manufacturers discredlt the story
that English capitalists will buy up and con-
troll the steel industry of the United States.
The men who lynched James Averill and Ella
Watson. near Douglass, Wy. T., have been ar
rested. They were all prominent stock men.
An eleven-year-old boy in Clayton county,
Ia. last week, shot his father and killed his
step-mother because his father punished him.
A fire in Su Chow, China destroyed $1,000
dwellings, and made 10000 people homeless.
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