The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-24

were drowned.
The grasshoppers are reported in large
quantities in Otter Tail and Marshal coun-
ties, Mimi, and much damage is feared
will result to crops.
Mrs. Barbara Reicht, aged thirty-6ve
years and Katie Brady. aged eight years,
were struck by lightning at Altoona, Pa.
The former will die.
Thomas B. Felter of Indiana was APP
pointed a copyist in the pension Office at
$500 and Miss Menta L. Wood in the
patent Office at S720.
Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania to-
day vetoed the compulsory education bill
passed by the legislature few days be-
fore its adjournment.
A receiver has been appointed for the
Abeline fire insurance company OF Huron,
S. ID. All policies will be turned over to
the Hecla of st. Paul.
The emperor of China has ordered the
Chinese authorities to protect all foreign
ers and to punish the natives who took
part In the recent riots.
The Brazilian government has issued a
decree directing that, for the collection of
customs duties, the rate OF exchange is
fixed st POD on the dollar.
The Toronto methodist conference has
suspended the Rev. James Thompson for
one year for preaching the heresy that
there is no material hell"
The Topeka (Kas.) packing house mar
ket, Dowing & Whitlock proprietors, is in
the hands OF receiver. Liabilities, $685.
19l; assets about the same.
Opposite Golconda, KY, II. G. Wisher
and William Krepk and two colored men
were drowned by the overturning of their
skitf in a sudden wind-storm.
Myriads of hop lice have appeared in
the Buyallup valley hop fields within the
past two DAYS and threaten to destroy the
hop crop OF the entire valley.
Stockholders of the Haymarket theater,
Chicago, have brought injunction proceed
ings against the president of the county
and asked for an accounting.
The degree of master of science was
conferred on Samuel G.. Schumacher of the
Indiana state normal school by Mullen
berg college at Allentown, Pa.
1t is reported that Haiku Pasha, the
Turkish governor of the province of Te-
men, with all his staff. has been mas
sacred by the insurgent Arabs.
Pedro Montt, who is commissioned by
the CHILEAN insurgents to obtain recogni-
ton OF their cause from Mexico, is also
accredited to the United States.
At Falmouth, KY, Oscar Downward nd
Scott Whalen, the murderers of Town
Marshal Nogelsong some months ago,
were sentenced to prison for life.
Two children, Emma Lochranda and
another whose name is unknown, were
drowned by the upsetting of canoe in
the st. Lawrence river at Portneuf.
The striking miners at Spring Valley,
ILL.,, have received proposition from w.
i. Scott to pay them twice month and
submit the screen question to arbitration.
The Alaska commercial company has
been awarded the contract for taking two
thousand topas of coal to Onolaska to sup
ply the government fleet during the season.
McCrystal, convicted of attempt to
bride McCRbe, who had been summoned
as tales juror in the Hennessy case, was
sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.
State Controller Colgan of California
will refuse to sign the warrants granting
$500, 900 to the California worlds fair COM
mission, as he holds the act unconstitu-
tional.
An attachment has been granted against
r. w. Durham & Co., grain merchants of
Chicago, for 81, 735 in favor of c. D. Fro
man, who acted as their New York grain
broker.
The radicals in the Italian chamber OF
deputies are starting an agitation for the
abolition of the duty on corn. 1t is
probable that the duties on wheat will be
reduced.
The American cruisers Baltimore and
San Francisco have left lquique. The
Baltimore goes direct to Callao and the
San Francisco will cruise between Iquique
and africa.
1t is reported that the National cordage
company of New York has purchased for
S9,O6O,O00 all the cordage works in Canada,
including that of Thomas Common & Sons
| of st. John.
The commission appointed by the last
general conference of the methodist epis-
copal church decided to hold the next
quadrennial in Omaha during the month
! of May, 1892.
British Columbia fishermen are asking
for the appointment of a commission to
consider the best means of developing and
| inquiring into the fishing industry on the
Pacific coast.
Natives belonging to the Toureg tribes
! in North Africa have been compelled to
leave the Sahara region on account of the
ravages of the locusts, and they threaten
to raid Tunis
Mr.. Parnel has invited E. Dryer Gray
to contest for the seat in parliament made
vacant by the death OF T. O'Gorman Ma
hon. Both sides admit that it will be q
tight contest.
II. Victor Newcomb, one OF Wall-st.'s
boldest spectators, has been placed in a
private insane asylum. He is not vio-
lently insane, but is suffering from soften
ing of the brain.
The high prices of cereals are being
maintained on account of adverse weather
in grain growing districts, especially the
Hartz mountains and the Tyrol, where
snow recently fell.
The national association of undertakers
in session at Detroit will consider the
establishment of bureau OF information
or system OF blacklisting agents OF unpro-
| fessional methods.
Three children living in limerick town
ship, about fifteen miles southeast OF Ill
den, Neb., were drowned in ravine dur
ing storm while trying to reach the
house from school.
At Franklin, KY, the Franklin wooden
mills were burned. Loss on building,
| $4,000; stock, $4,000. John Latham,
one of the owners, and negro man were
probably fatally injured.
The police levied upon goods belonging
| to the Tipperary sureties OF Messrs Dbl
lon and O'Brien and the goods were sold
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