The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-17
A finan cial crisis prevails in Rio Janeiro.

A financial crisis prevails in Rio Janeiro.
The long drought in Austria is broken
Count Sponneck, Danish minister in
Washington, will be transferred to
Vienna.
The supreme court of North Dakota de-
cided the prohibition law to be constitu-
tional and valid.
Heavy frosts have greatly injured the
vines in the wine districts of Austria,
Switzerland and France.
The lower house of the Prussian diet
has passed the supplementary taxation
bill by vote of2l5 to %.
The fifth biennial session of the Su-
preme Tent OF tho Knights of Maccabees
began at Port Huron. Mich.
Pope Leo received 500 catholic pilgrims
who had come from Germany 10 testify
their devotion to his holiness.
The condition of ]. c. McMullin. vice.
president of the Chicago * Alton railroad,
WAS reported to be unchanged.
The biennial convention OF the supreme
council, American Order OF Steam En-
gineers, is in session in Philadelphia.
The betrothal OF the Duke of York and
Princess Nav of Tee. was celebrated with
family dinner at buckingham palace.
The program for the reinterment of JEFF
Davis remains in Hollywood cemetery,
Richmond, May 81, has been pleted.
Fire at ST. Louis totally destroyed the
factory OF the Great Western mattress
company. LOSS. $4,000. partially in
suFed.
Yesterday was the opening dav OF the
Salon of the Champ de Mars. The exhi-
bition is an evidence of great success for
French art.
At Montreal Courtlnnd Freeman Bridge
man shot and probably fatally wounded
Laura Richmond, or Bridgeman, supposed
to be his vile.
The prominent firm OF BREEDER & Wolf,
Vienna, manufacturers OF carpets, has
failed. The liabilities are stated to be
100000 forms.
The Bank of Victoria, limited has sus-
pended. According to the balance sheet
of last December, the deposits amounted
to over 100000.
A school boy named Gruebar shot
Father Puronka in Almutz, Austria, with
a revolver and then killed himself. The
| priest will recover.
Colcom betsev ribbon factory in ST.
Etenne, department OF the Loir, burned.
The loss is estimated at SI,000,0O0. Sew
era tiremen were injured.
1t is announced that several German
| officers will assist at the maneuvers of the
Italian military forces in northern Italy
near the frontier OF France.
The authorities at Bremen have ordered
q quarantine against ali vessels arriving
from French ports This action is due to
the spread of cholera in France.
The supreme council OF the Catholic
| knights of America began an important
session at Chicago with representatives
present from every state in the union.
The forty-fourth annual convention OF
the Ancient Order of Hibernians is now
| being held in Tammanv hall, New York,
and will remain in session until Saturday.
A movement is said to be on foot in the
| Spanish court, with strong prospects of
success, to raise the degree of the Spanish
re preventative ct Washington to am
| bassador.
The British ship Earl of Shaftesbury,
| Capt. Marqnart, which sailed from New
York on Oct 81 for Bombay, was wrecked.
| The captain and five of the crew were
| drowned.
The division of the German radical
| party has assumed permanent form. The
stronger contingent, under Richter, will
| be henceiorth known as the radical peo-
/ pies party.
In commenting on the report that the
| pope is about to propose general dis
armament the Debats says that France can
have for such proposal hut one reply:
| mon possumus."
The North German Gazette expresses the
| belief that the coming elections will
repair the attack on the prestige of Ger
many, made by the vote in the reichstag
against the army bill.
The dock warehouses at the Basein du
kattendyk have been destroyed by fire.
! The warehouses which were burned con-
! tanned wool. cotton and sugar to the
amount of 100000 francs.
The Joliet rolling mill, branch of the
! Illinois steel company. is closed n all de-
/ partments. The plant has furnished work
for 1000 men. The officers state that the
| present price of steel is the cause.
The committee of the New Yorth lath-
ers union. which was sent to meet the
boss lather, have reported that the bosses
refused to grant the increase from Sl.75 to
| 81 per day, and the men will strike.
The Geneva clock company, Chicago,
went into the hands of the sheriff on con-
iession OF judgment, aggregating $4,000,
4 IN ItNOE Ol W. Iyuos II. M E1yOe ana w D..
| II. Pelton, capitalists of Appleton, Wis.
The OFT & Brewer pottery company, of
which eX-Congressman John Hart Bre er
has been the manager. went into the hands
| OF a receiver at Trenton on Mr. Brewers
application. Liabilities are about Sl37,-
| 020.4 6.
Herr Rizwadovski who is a member of
the Austrian reichrath, ana who owns
land in Russian Poland, where he spends
some time, has been expelled from Po-
land. with his family, by the Russian au-
| thorities.
Every granite quarry at Bedford, Me-. is
| idle. The demand of the quarrymens
union for nine hours a dav and eight hours
Saturday was not complied with by the
| contractors, and a general strike was
ordered. About 800 men are out.
The editor OF the C0rrespoadencia Militar
and Capt.-Gen. Barges of AraQon fought a
pistol duel at Madrid. Barges was
wounded in the thigh. The duel was pro-
| voked by series of violent articles pub
lished by the Correspondence against
Barges.
Henvy rains continue to fell in most every
| quarter Of Texas.
! The Catholic Knights OF America, after being