The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The schooner Mary and Ida, given up as
| lost, arrived at San Francisco.
Nine additional indictments were found
by the Chicago grand jury in the election
| fraud cases.
| Frank Craig, the Harlem coffee cooler, -
| has issued a challenge 10 fight Peter Jack
son for 1900 and the best purse offered.
The New York City Woman's suffrage
| league gave a pilgrim mothers dinner in
| honor Of the pioneer women of New En-
| gland.
| of 100000. Miss Hattie Lovejoy, head
milliner for a firm, jumped from a third
story window and was probably fatally
! injured.
At Linn, No, Emil David was convicted
| Of the murder Of Frank Henderson by
! giving him poisoned whisky. David re-
sented Henderson's intended marriage to
| his sister.
w. ]. Quinn, ex-treasurer Of Mesa coun-
! ~, California, who pleaded guilty OF en-
| bezzling $4,000 Of the county funds, has
| been sentenced for five years. He lost it
! in gambling.
! The jurors in the case Of the state
| against Horace Steel, the gainesville 90
! banker, who was indicted for forgery in
| connection with the savings bank failure,
were unable to agree and were discharged.
| Eugene T. Casey, a clerk in the Cow
! hgtOn CKy) postoffice, was arrested and
/ marked money taken from a decOy letter
| found on him. He confessed. 1t is esti-
mated he has taken between $1,000 and
! $1,000 from the mails within year.
| The examiners report Of the embezzle-
| ment Of Cashier Frank A. Mexican of the
! Indian head national bank Of Nashua, n,
| H, shows a shortage Of 500. $50 and
| there are quite number Of disputed ac-
counts which it IS thought may increase
! the amount.
Chinese highbinders are on the warpath at
| San Francisco
The California orange crop is estimated at
| 2,7O0 loads.
Over 100000 in gold Will De shipped from
| New York today.
Or. Kissell. the Dubuque pension swindler
| pleaded guilty ana was fined $500
| The various United States electric traction
| companies Of Dayton have consolidated.
| The dry goods store Of Ed Bauer Of Dayton
sS8.oC Sa' e'0SSu ." judgments asS'eSa0ns
Foster. Munger & Co.'S sash door and
blind factory of Chicago burned Loss, $50, OoO;
| insured.
The steamship Elbe. which sailed from
New York for Germany, took out 81. 10000
Gold to the amount of $4,000 was with
| drawn from the sub-treasury at New York
| for export
The breweries of St Louis owned by an
| English syndicate are preparing to concen-
I
! Anthony Martin. a Cincinnati butcher. shot
his wife three times and killed himself. Mrs
! Martin may recover.
| General Booth Of the salvation army is
| conducting an active campaign in Cali
| fornia and Oregon.
Mrs. John A Cox, who killed her husband
| at Gray's Station, KY, Tuesday with an
| AK, has been arrested.
/ Fire at Napoleonville, La, destroyed seven
| blocks, including most Of the business portion
! of the town. Loss, Sl25,000.
B. P. Waggoner. general attorney of the
! Missouri Pacific, was taken i'll on a train
between Atchison and Topeka.
| A gas main OF the New Martinsville, Va,
| gas company burst, killing James Clegg
| and seriously injuring six others.
The jury at Pueblo, Col, in the case Of
| United States Marshal Taylor, who shot
| Jack Leach. returned verdict OF guilty.
| A Chinese agent is in Washington negotiat-
| ing with Senior Mendonca, minister for Bra
| I'll, for the purchase of the Nictheroy and
| the Audrada.
The residence of DR.. Webb at Clinton,
| Miss, was burned and Joseph Hughes, a
| student at the Mississippi college, persisted
| in the flames
Edward Rose, the wife murderer, was
gree at Urbana, o., and Immediately SEN
! fenced for life.
f. p. Harrington, treasurer Of the Brewer
| savings bank and well known dry goods
| merchant of Beaver, Me-, committed suicide
| Financial troubles.
The reclamation of $4,000 acres of
| swamp land IN the interior or California
| has proved failure, the project having
| cost the state $1.700.O0O.
At Nashville. Tenn. fire destroyed the
stores Of W; r. Bryan & Co, c. F. Wall &
| Co., c. n. Martin & Co. and Pearls, Stockel
& Waller. Losses aggregate $4,000.
| Wholesale dealers in oleomargarlne are
closing up as a result of Justice Harlan
| decision sustaining the Massachusetts law
| pertaining to the sale of butterine.
John Stanley and Clarence Cox will be exc
cuted at Maysville Tenn, today; The men
| murdered Squire Henry Snodderly and his
! wife in Union county last February.
! The Meadowcraft brothers of Chicago, con-
! victed of receiving deposits after the bank
was insolvent, were. each sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary and fined SIS.
The editors chair of frarper's Weekly
| which, since the death of George William
| Curtis, has been vacant, will, in the future,
| be occupied by Henry LoOms Nelson.
The dry house of Firmin.ck's big glucose
| plant al Marshalltown, Ia, was destroyed by
| fire. Adjoining buildings were badly dam
| aged. Loss $4,000; insurance one-half
| Paul NJ. Swain, a we'll known business
| man, who has for years been engaged in the
merchandise brokerage business, is missing.
1t is said that he is financially involved.
| The arrest of Postmaster T. H. Hutton Of
| Bossier, La, by Postoffice Inspector Frey is
| announced. Hutton was charged with rem
| dering false accounts to the department
| The South Carolina senate killed the Jim
| Grow" car bill which passed the house after
| a hard fight. The senate was almost unan-
| imous in it's opposition to the measure.
Judge Graham at Denver mas decided that
| the law prohibiting insurance companies
! from writing policies on the lives of chill
dren under ten years Of age is unconstitu-
tional.
At Colorado Springs the coroner's Jury
/ held an inquest over the remains of Richard
| Newell who shot and killed by A. w
| Van Houten. A verdict of murder was
| found.
The decision of the arbitration committee
| against the miners of the Massillon district
| has aroused a storm Of resentment and it
is believed that another strike will be de-
! clared-
The Cardiff block, a four-story structure
| in which were the First national bank and
| KalZ's clothing store, was burned at Norris
| town N j.. The total loss is estimated at
| $4,000.
The miners of the Pittshurg district, who
| have been in convention for the past three
| DAYS az Journed without taking the respon-
| sibility of advising a strike against the 3D.
| cent scale.
| Cook was almost totally destroyed by fire.
| In their efforts to extinguish the flames,
both Mr.. and Mrs. Cook were probably ia
| tally burned.
The largest sale of domestic cotton goods
| ever made at auction took place at New
| York Twenty-Seven thousand and thirty
| three packages were sold, amounting to
| about $2,000,000.
| The United States circuit court in the case
| of the United States VS.. the American Bell
| telephone company has handed down a de-
| cison at Boston declaring the Berliner tele-
| phone patent void.
| Postmaster Stearns of Durango, COL is
| 81 500 short in his accounts. Stearns's pre-
| decessor, who was appointed by President
| Harrison, was relieved on account of a
| shortage in his accounts.
| A divorce has been granted to Mrs. Ger