The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

| Bismarck HedllH Is IoJ quite SdtlS-
| factory.
Russia will spend $5,000.0oO on her
| navy the coming year.
! Motorman Axtell was killed in a St.
| Louis street car collision.
In a fire at Memphis 1900 bales of cot
! ton were destroyed. Loss, $4,000
Two more fatalities. the result Of the
| storm, are reported from Manitoba
John l.. Sullivan denies that his wife
! knocked him out with an Indian club.
| The explanation for the ST. Louis
/ double tragedy is murder and suicide.
| NJ. Dupuy was elected president of the
chamber of deputies by a vote Of 29O
TO 81.
valiant still refuses to petition Pres
/ ident CarnOt for a commutation OF his
! sentence.
Eighty deputies have appealed for a
communication Of the death sentence of
/ valiant.
! Two anarchists of the name Of Kior-
! ing and Hildebrandt have been arrested
/ in Berlin.
James Mallory. a stock man Of Bates
| vile. Ark, was run over by an electric
/ car at St. Louis.
! Governor Aitgeld has granted George
! Painter, sentenced to be hung, a re-
spite until Jan. 26.
The sentence of Charles Raferts, the
/ Arkansas wife murderer, was commuted
TO life Imprisonment.
In the AIcKane and other election
/ cases Judge Bartlett denied the motion
TO quash indictments.
Edward Lewis, a young carpenter
waylaid his wife at Cincinnati and shot
/ her dead. Jealousy.
Edward Nichols colored, was hanged
at Austin, Tex, for the murder of Anna
/ Strak March 30, 1898.
The widow of William Makepiece
Thackeray, the distinguished author.
| died at Leigh, Essex.
c. s. Chepplin & p. Schultz. clothiers
at Plainfied. y. J.. assigned. Assets,
/ $2S6 7S6; liabilities, S179,5S4.
The appointment of KentuclIy's pen
sion agent is now settled and Maj. C.
Matt Adams gets the Office.
The trial of John B. Koetting, the
| cashier of the wrecked South Side saw
| ings bank, began at Milwaukee.
George Painter, who was to have been
hanged at hicago, has been reprieved by
Governor Altgeld for two weeks.
At Jersey City the Erie repair shops,
with a number of cars and locomotives,
We're destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000
Augustus Thomas, the playwright.
author Of Alabama" j." "In Mizzouri" and
other dramas. is i'll at Rochelle. N. Y.
A manifesto issued by ex-Minister
ZOriIle, the republican leader of Spain,
announces the early advent of the re-
public.
At San Francisco w. F. Beck & Co,
! commission merchants, assigned. Liza
bihties $4,000. Creditors will be paid
in full.
Edwin NJ Field, son of the late Cyrus
W. Field, was released from the insane
asylum and was taken to New York TO
stand trial.
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| the Washington authorities that unless
his quarters are fixed at once he will
| move out.
The American steam yacht Valiant has
! arrived at Calcutta. The Vanderbilt
| party will go overland as the guests
/ of the VicerOy.
At ettysburg, Pa. fire in the Eagle
| hotel stables communicated to the hotel
| and completely destroyed 1t. Loss, $780,
! 900; 900 insurance.
! y heavy wind storm occurred in Port
| land, Ore, and Vicinity, the wind reach
| ing a velocity of fifty miles an hour.
| No serious damage.
At Louisville eight suits for damages
| aggergating $4,000 were filed against
| the Phoenix bridge company on account
| OF the recent disaster.
| The residence of NJ. u. Shetterby an
| old soldier near West LCodi, o., burned
| and in the excitement Shetterby dropped
| dead of heart disease.
! An explosion at the Mommoth mine,
Utah, killed Charles Williams, his body
| being horribly mangled. The cause Of
| the explosion is unknown.
The second annual convention Of the
National league of commission mer-
| chants, of which J. J. Phillips Of New
! York is president, began at Cincinnati.
The MISSOURI furnace company. whose
| jlant closed since the Belleville rail
| tions. 1t viii give employment to $50
! men.
Thomas Lidgerwood, dealer in gro
| ceries and liquors at New York, as
signed TO Charles A. Duviver. The as
| sets and liabilities each amount to
| $4,000.
The Frank I. Frayns theatrical COM
| pany stranded at New Castle Pa. Two
| bears were sold in order TO get enough
| cash to take the ladies Of the company
| To Pittsburg.
At Springfield, III, an appeal TO the
| supreme court of the United States was
perfected in the celebrated Benton-New-
| by case. Judge Allen fixed Benton's
| bond at g, 500.
| At Chattanooga Charles Oscar Keller,
| the noted adventurer, was convicted and
| sentenced to seven years penal Servi-
| tude for defrauding the Chattanooga
| brewing company.
The suit of W. r. Lapham for twen-
| ty-fiVe thousand dollars damages for
| libel against ex-Secretary John w. Noble
| of the interior department is now on
| trial at New York.
| Representative Quigly has introduced
bill in the Kentucky house prohibiting
| the organization or continuance of So
| cieties whose object is 10 discriminate
| between Christians.
| The Penokee and Gogebic consolidated
| mines in Wisconsin and Michigan, owned
| by the COlbys, Rockefellers and others,
and capitalized for $6,OOO,0OG, passed into
| the hands of receivers.
Hermann Guttman, a surgeon from
| Nuremburg, committed suicide at Ber-
| lin by opening twelve main arteries in
| his head, arms and feet. He was ad-
! dicted to the mOrphia habit.
The suits of Mrs. Mary E. Smith Hay
ward against w. +. Hayward at Chad
| ron, Neb., have ended in an award of
| absolute divorce to the husband and of
| the greater share of property to the wife.
At st. Louis w. T. Gempp. standing
| before a mirror, blew his brains out with
! a revolver. He was head OF the Gempp
| & Miller soap manufacturing company
A complication Of diseases unhinged his
| mind.
Another suit for $4,000 damages was
| filed against the Phoenix bridge COM
| pany. The plaintiff is w. r. Owens
! who sues as administrator Of John r
Owens, who lost his life in the bridge
accident.
Nine laborers working on the new rail