The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-11-20


been member of the methodist church for
fifty-four years.
The Choctaw council has appointed a COM
mittee TO negotiate for lands in severalty and
the sale of the reservation to the United States.
The prison reformers at Nashville, Sunday,
heard sermon by the Rev. o. Z. Fitzgerald
and short addresses by q number OF people.
among them DIR. +. III. Wines of Indianapolis,
Berda Hoffman, beautiful and twenty-five,
got 5000 worth of goods from Marshal Field
and other Chicago houses by representing
herself as the daughter of wealthy citizens alb
sent in Europe.
Orrin w. Tyler, Syracuse travelling man,
has disappeared with young lady, leaving ms
wife ard five children destitute, and the Buck
eye reaper company Of Akron out several
hundred dollars.
The Indiana and Ohio window glassmakers'
trust at Findlay decided to remain out OF the
national combine 1t chose I. +. Hart OF
Muncie president and NJ. G. Findlay of Findlay
secrstary-tre
Can't. ID. NJ. Taylor. OF the ordnance depart
ment, thinks the appropriation for equippng
the militia should be SlOO00OO per year. The
work of uniforming the militia is progressing
without opposition.
A customs station has been established on
the Lake of the Woods, 10 stop the depreds'
tons of Canadian timber thieves, who, Tor years.
have had eight steamers towing logs across the
lake from Minnesota
Aldermen Callen, Daugherty and Maneese
and the members of the Bander detective
agency, were convicted at Pittsburg OF con-
spiracy in matchmaking saloon-keepers who
violated the liquor laws.
American beef imported alive into Germany
sells for 10 per cent. less than the home arti-
Gle, Notwithstanding freight and duties, and
arrangements have been made to import 900
head within two months.
The aristocratio and republican town of
Charleston is all torn up over the sale of n
house in the heightened quarter to Mrs. Young
(colored) by John Sharpe. The people propose
to hold an indignation meeting.
John Jackson and seventeen others have
been arrested for the murder in NO-Man's-Land
of Sheriff Cross and posse of Stevens, county,
Kansas. The murder grew out OF the Hugu-
tonW oodside county seat fight
Fire at New Orleans destroyed the square
bounded by st. Andrew, Franklin, Liberty and
Josephine-sts.-an exact repetition OF an occur
renee ten years ago, even to the saving OF the
German lutheran church; loss $4,000.
"Old Mag" Sullivan was found murdered
under God Bless Our Home" motto at Prov
idence, r. /. In another room her husband
and two daughters, who had probably beaten
her to death, were found dead drunk.
The Kansas railroad commissioners think
local rates are not exorbitant and that they
have no power to do what AtchisOn asked, /. e.
make the rate from Kansas points 20 Chicago
the same of the two locals, east and west from
Atchison.
The Rev. C. s. Sargent was installed rector
of St. James church, Nincennes, Thursday, by
the Right Rev. ID. B. Knickerbaeker, succeed
ing the Rev. A. A. Abbott who recently ac-
cepted more lucrative and broader field at
Evansville.
President Charles c. Bonney of Chicago and
Secy. l.. Edwin Dudley of Boston, have called
the eighth annual meeting of the law and or
der league for Chicago Feb. %. Organizations
are asked to send delegates. individuals will
be welcomed.
The Rev. Mr. Kerr has found a tribe of prim.
tive Indians on San Bias island who know
nothing of civilization. Marriage is performed
by the two parties being placed together in a
crawl on the beach, where the water beats over
them all one night.
Representatives of eighteen national build
ing associations at Chicago elected NJ. ID.
Miller of st. Paul president, George j. Peck OF
New York vice-president Owen Scott OF
Bloomington secretary, and w. j. Richardson
of Chicago treasurer.
The interstate commerce railway association
exonerated the st. Paul on the charge of cut
ting grain rates. If the Union Pacific and
Northwestern roads don't file a copy of Their
agreement the other roads will not longer be
bound by the presidents compact
Gen. SchOfeld recommends a probationary
charged and more liberal scheme of dis
charge, with better treatment OF recruits by
subordinate officers as the best means of pre-
venting assertions. At least $1,000 artillery.
men, with 1905 guns, should guard the coasts.
Edward NJ. Wendell of Milwaukee, Harvard
student. was arrested for stealing signs in Bos
ton. He said he was told by 'tbe fellows" thai
the only way to get ahead in Harvard soeial
circles was to bag signs. Every fellow, he
says, has lot Of them, and he was told they
were necessary, and without them he would be
nowhere.
To-day the Missouri secretary of state will
begin revoking charters of 200 companie:
which have not complied with the new anti
pool law; several white lead companies com
piled, showing that the lead trust is broken.
The secretary holds that druggists can not
maintain contracts with patent medicine firms
which fix the prices at which their goods shall
sell.
The will of John Creerar of Chicago gives
about 81 100000 to relatives aud friends; $780,
600 to the Second presbyterian church, Chicago
100000 for a colossal statue of Lincoln,
various sums to charities and churches and
| S2,2j0,000 for a free library in Chicago, to be
known as the "John Crerar Library" from
which all trashy French novels shall be ex-
cluded.