The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-18

and y. D. Cook and hve others, convicted
of murder in No Mans Land and SELL
fenced to be hanged.
A gang OF burglars which has been OPP
Grating extensively in Pine Bluff, Brink
ley, Little Rock, Ark. and Memphis,
Tenn, was broken up by the arrest of the
leader, John Watson.
The packing house of A. ID. Karling
near Malaga, Cal, was destroyed by fire.
Fifteen thousand boxes of raisins and
large quantity of vineyard material were
burned; loss, $4,000.
4. ]. Davis, who claims to be the illegit-
innate son of the late Millionaire Davis of
Helena, Mont, denies that he has COM
promised his claims to a share in his
fathers estate for 100000.
The explosion of the boiler in Churchill
" Owsley's Touring mills at Windsor, Mo-,
killed Walter Beaman, Engineer Charles
Sturdivant and ii. L. Smith and Tom Till
berry, boiler makers of Sedalia.
Mrs. John Lsrkin, wife of a riverman
and Mrs. Elizabeth Marquis wife of city
fireman, residing on Mound-st., st. Louis,
claim to be heirs 70 fortune of 81 1000, 900
left by Lord Radcliffe of England.
A bill to amend the Michigan local
option law proposes to squarely reverse
viz f'ANNNAS CO oAtnAs AAlD pAdh II w OOh-
sIder that every county is a prohibition
county until it is proved otherwise.
The scale of prices submitted by the
committee TO the convention of United
mine-workers at Pittsburg allows Indiana
So cents for screened coal, % cents for run
OF mine and so cents for channel coal.
Richard Mandelbaum of the firm of F.
Mandelbaum q Sons, wholesale liquor
merchants % EronnicoO laff L.
for Australia, leaving the firm embarrassed
to the extent, it Is reported, of 100000.
Nicol & Strong, Kansas plumbers, filed
suit against the Master Plumbers associa-
ton, claiming $4,000 damages. The asso-
citation expelled them from membership
and then cOnspired to ruin their business.
Eleven persons are lying at their homes
in North st. Louis in precarious condi-
ton from the effects of eating some pois-
oned cheese. Mrs. Kate O'Bell may pos
sibly die. The others will probably re-
cover.
Two men who answer perfectly the
description of the man who brutally muir
dered Capt. Greenwood's wife ct Nnpa,
Cal, Monday night and then drugged and
shot Greenwood, were arrested in Sacra-
mento.
Michael Luby, who came from ST. Paul,
was found in his room at Chicago suffer
ing from the effects of poison, and died
shortly after. His roommate, Alexander
McQueny, and Frank Reilly were arrested
on suspicion.
The national builders convention
adopted the report OF the committee on
uniform contract and the use of the con-
tract was recommended to exchanges
when its use was practicable under the
laws OF the state.
The mother OF the Morales BOYS of Ora
ham. Tex, two of whom were killed by a
mob while In custody of deputy L. S.
marshal enroute 10 Fort Worth Jail. has
brought suit against Marshal Cabel for
$4,000 damages.
The actual battle with the earth in the
preparation for the world fair at Jackson
park has begun IN earnest. There are
now about fifty men at work, but the
number will be rapidly increased to a
thousand or more.
The authority OF one of the most promi-
nent brokers of Pittsburg is given for the
statement that the Thomson-Houstona and
Westinghouse electric company have
combined, and will hereafter be run under
the Edison management.
Preparations are being made to organize
a sub-trust at Austin, Mimi, of the orgsni-
zation known as the Farmers national
trust. it is said that the organization
numbers between fifty thousand and sixty
thousand in the Northwest
Judge Altgeld OF Chicago has decided
that Frank Cole must be restored to MEM
bership in the Northwestern travelling
mems association. Cole was dropped
from membership after suffering para
lytic stroke and losing his reason.
At meeting of the stockholders it was
agreed TO reopen the American national
bank of Kansas City. The capital stock
OF the bank was placed at 100000. The
bank will reopen with 100000 in cash in
It's vaults and other good securities.
1t is thought the bodies of the drowned
miners at GAINESVILLE, Pa, will be recov-
cred in a week. The strain upon Mrs.
Muskovitch, whose husband and five
boarders are among the victims, has
proven too severe and her mind has
given away.
The merchant tailors' convention at st.
Louis elected: President, b. r. Merwin
of New York first vice-president, Lewis
+. Lindsay of st. Louis; second vice-presi-
dent, John Bradley of Pittsburg treasurer,
Chase L. Hyde of Chicago; recording Sec
rotary, w E. Meritz of Washington.
1t is evident that the shortage of ].
Eidridse Pierce of Wilmington, Del, alb
sconding secretary of the City loan assO-
citation, will amount to $4,000 instead OF
S47 ,05l, rs recently computed. 1t is be-
lieved the assets of the concern are now
about $4,000, against $4,000 this time
last year.
Robert P. ZoOk, w. Minton and w. P.
SeashOltz of st. Joseph have been arrested,
charged with forgery. Minton and Seas
hOitz are real estate agents, and their plan
! of swindling was to sell land and give
| bogus deeds therefor looks connection
with the case is that he acknowledged the
deeds as a notary public.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Holden and Edward
Holden, who confessed they killed Harvey
Russell at Monticello, H., have both been
| indicted for perjury and they will be
taken back to Monticello and tried. The
sentence will be added to their term OF i'm
| prisonment for murder. They swore they
did not know anything about the killing
! The National miners convention
| adopted a resolution that all miners and
/ mine workers in the United States de-
mand the eight-hour work day, May l,
next, and that no miner remain in the
mines longer than eight hours. The sys-
| tenn of idle coal days is to be abolished
and the executive committee is instructed
to provide means for the enforcement oil
the eight hour per day system.