The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30
Miscellaneous News.


Coal has been discovered in Wells county,
Ind.
Senator Beck is in Cuba. His health is much
Reading, Pa, is flooded with counterfeit sill
yer dollars.
Another big gas we'll has been drilled in at
Findlay, o.
A shock of earthquake has been felt at
Route, Col.
Mrs. Harrison, wife of the president-elect, is
In New York.
Heavy snow storms are reported throughout
the Northwest.
John Whitmer was instantly killed by cars at
McCuneville O.
The work of piping natural gas to Dayton,
o., is progressing rapidly.
John Romerll a well-known railroader was
killed by ears at Aenia, o.
Ed Williams was hanged Jan. p at Marietta,
Ga, for numbering his vile.
w. ]. Blanton was bitten by mad dog near
Greencastle, Ind, Saturday.
Three breweries were seized at Burlington,
Ia, under the prohibitory law.
Fire destroyed Seyen-story building in New
York Saturday. Loss, $4,000.
The Clara Louise Kellogg opera company
went to pieces at Cleveland. ..
An unknown man had his pocked picked of
500 in a street-car at Cincinnati.
The theatrical wardrobe of the late Lester
Wallack has been sold at auction.
There is an epidemic of measles among
school children near Danville, Ill
William Murray crushed to death while
loading saw-lOgs, near Urbana, o.
A large quantity of counterfeit silver dollars
are atoat in western Pennsylvania.
Joseph Henry, a merchant of Billet Station,
H., was drowned at Nincennes Ind.
At Lima, O.. an eighteen-months-old child
was fatally scalded by boiling coffee.
John r. Lewis was run over and killed by
passenger train near Youngstown, ..
Robbers entered a church at NicholasvilIe
KY, and stole the communion service.
Sylvanus Davis, aged sixty years committed
suicide near Springsville, Ind, Friday.
4 delegation of colOred people from Louis
Vile, KY visited Gen. Harrison Friday.
The national bank and three store buildings
at Athens, Tenn, burned. Loss, $4,000
Charles R. B. Shepard of the firm of Lee &
Shepard, Boston book publishers, is dead.
The production of pig iron in the United
States last year was the largest ever known.
All the colieries in the Shenandoah valley
have shut down. About 1900 men are idle.
Mrs Charles Jones attempted TO commit sui
eide, at Anderson, Ind, by taking laudanum.
Mrs. Catherine Cavanaugh, aged one hun
bred and seven, died at Madison, Ind, Jan. %.
William Parker of St. Clairsville o.. became
respondent and killed himself with a revolver.
William Willis, farmer, was trampled to
death by horse, near Circeyille, o., Saturday.
Frenchmen in Cincinnati will celebrate the
centennial of the downfall of the French bas-
tile.
Madison Forgey was bound over at Ironton,
O.. for the attempted murder OF his divorced
wife.
Chief Arthur Of the brotherhood of locomo-
tive engineers denies the report that he is to
resign.
Three men were instantly killed and one
family hurt by a boiler explosion, near Adel-
phia. o.
James Ritson. while crazed with liquor, shot
and instantly killed Archer Mack, at Steuben-
Vile, o.
A seveuteen.year-old girl, named Robinson,
tried to commit suicide with laudanum, at
Lima, o.
AT Lacrosse Wis, a family consisting of
seven persons became sick from eating smoked
sausageS.
James Bradburn, a brakeman, while coup
ling cars at Toledo, o., had his mead crushed
TO jelly.
The boiler of a new locomotive exploded at
Blairsville, Pa, killing one person and injuring
two others.
-Four persons were poisoned near Crawfords-
vile, Ind, by drinking water out of an aban
doned we'll.
G.. G. Sutherland and G. 3. Dewey, shippers
and receivers OF grain and hay, Cincinnati,
have failed
The Hon John McSweeny, the noted GRIM
inal lawyer, is dangerously i'll at his home in
Wooster, o.
An aged woman, named Richter. fell into an
elevator shaft at Cleveland, o., and was in
stantly killed.
Annie Eisenhart, head nurse of the Cooper
hospital, Camden, \. j.. was murderously as
saulted by an unknown man. His motive is
supposed to have been robbery as the pocket
of her dress, containing her pocket-book, was