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

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$4,000.
The governor has approved the bill
passed by the Illinois legislature appro-
priating $500, 900 for the worlds fair and
the bill fixing the legal rate of interest at
5 per cent. and the contract rate at per
cent.
grand requiem mass was celebrated at
the City of Mexico for ex-Emperor Maxi
milan and the two generals, Mexia and
Miramon, who were shot with him, it be-
ing the twenty-fourth anniversary OF their
death.
George B. Newall, as referee of the New
York Equitable fire insurance company,
has filed his report recommending DISCO
luton of the company and the appoint
ment of John Miller, the president, as re-
ceiver.
The French chamber of deputies has
voted approval of duty of three francs
on maize, with provision for the tenn
porary admission of the grain free, if to
be used in the manufacture of alcohol for
export.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the HolcOmb national bank of
Toledo, O., to begin business with a capital
of $500, 000 and the First national bank of
Kslispell, Mont, With a capital stock of
$4,000.
The injunction suit to restrain the con-
solidation of the Lac.ede gaslight COM
PAW and the Municipal electric lighting
company of st. Louis has been dismissed,
the deal looking to a consolidation having
fallen through.
A proposition from the general assem-
bly, of the United States TO have a con-
sensus of creed was laid before the general
assembly of the presbyterian church at
Kingston. Ont, and referred to the pres
byterisn council.
Turpine, Tripone, Fasseler and Feu-
verier were sentenced to four years i'm
prIsonmeut and fined for their connection
with the sale of melinite, the new French
explosive, to the Armstrong gun manu-
featuring company.
The British residents on the Cook
islands have induced the natives to feder-
ate aud to elect representatives who will
meet shortly at Paratonga, the chief of
these islands, in order to frame identical
laws for the whole group.
It is stated on good authority that
a thoroughly organized and pledged body
OF boomers and home-seekers will shortly
enter the Cherokee strip, cut all the
fences and burn the grass, thus forcing
the cattlemen Oh the land.
The returns issued bv the French board
OF trade show that during the month of
May the imports decreased 7312S,000
francs and that the exports decreased 81
062, 900 francs as compared with the cor
responding month last year.
The Clover club of Philadelphia was
banqueted at Chicago BY the Fellowship
club Of that city. Henry Watterson of
the Louisville Courier-Journal Mayor
Washburn OF Chicago and Sol Smith Rus
sell, the actor, made speeches.
The steamer Al-Ki, which has been
chartered by the Z. S. government for
service in Alaska. will be used as a prison
ship and will be stationed at Onalaska, to
which place all the crews OF sealers caught
violating the law will be taken
Samuel P. Blogden, president of the
North British fire insurance company and
of the New York board of fire under
teen 10 report upon the ACCESSIBILITY Of
forming fire insurance association.
Additional liabilities of Murietta & Co.,
London bankers. have been discovered,
which will require a further subscription
of $4,000 to avoid a calamity. Money
for temporary relief was raised among the
stockholders after a stormy meeting.
The Chicago gas trust, which has been
in danger OF determination, has effected
compromise by which, beginning June /,
| 1893, il reduces the price OF gas to 81 for
private consumers and will pay into the
| city treasury 81 per cent. oil its gross re-
| ceipts.
The French chamber of deputies has
fixed July 10 as the day on which the re-
| duction OF corn duties shall take effect.
The chamber also exempted exotic oil
seeds from duty, excepting poppy cotsea
and rape seed on which the duty is four
| francs
J. Dewing & Co.. book publishers and
! dealers in fine art goods, San Francisco,
have issued a circular TO creditors offering
to compromise indebtedness by paving %
cents on the dollar. The outstanding OBJ
legations OF the firm are said to aggre-
gate 100000.
The Westmorelands, one of the most
| desperate gangs of robbers that ever oper-
ated in this section have been, captured
and jailed on the evidence OF bow named
| Sherman Phelps. who gave the authori-
ties the story OF one OF their murders of
I which he was a witness.
The broomcorn growers have filed arti-
cles of incorporation in Kansas. 1t is I'M
derstood that this is the first of many COM
panies of this kind to be organized by the
| farmers for the purpose of enabling them
to hold their farm products until they can
get good prices for them.
The congregation OF the Allegheny, Pa,
reformed presbyterian church, the Rev. j.
r. J. Milligan, pastor (recently deposed
by the synod, has unanimously with
| drawn from the reformed presbyterian
church and will seek admission to the
united presbyterian church.
Three bridges of the Lake Erie & West
ern railroad, between Crandall and Farm
dale, H., were destroyed Wednesday
| night by a cloudburst, which flooded
Form creek valley. Five other bridges
were crippled, and several trains had mar.
row escapes and all were delayed.
The secretary Of the interior has re-
called his instructions to the commits
sioner of the general land office in the
matter of the adjustment of the grant to
the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba rail-
road company, and has designated day
upon which the company may be heard.
The New South Wales election returns
received up to the present time give the
government twenty-eight members and
| the opposition twenty-five. OF the later
sixteen are labor candidates. Sir Henry
| Parkes and other ministers are elected.
Mr.. Dibbs, the opposition leader. is de-
| feated.
The Hester block burned at Marquette,