The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-22
STATE NEWS.
WATERLOO, Dec. IS. 1874.

REFLEX OF THE INDIANA PRESS.
ALLEN COUNTY.
The Gazette chronicles two seduction cases
at Fort Wayne, one the handsome daughter
of a hotel keeper, the other a poor but at
trsctive waiter girl at the Robinson House.
The name of the latter is Mary Collins, and
the author of her ruin. is X. Q. Holden, a
married man from Plymouth.
BROWN COUNTY.
The M~artinsville Republican states: A
short time since, a son OF Tom Cochrane, the
bricklayer, was 70 ling with a loaded pistol,
when it was accidentally discharged, the
ball taking effect in the breast of his little
sister, seven years old She fingered in
great pain for nine days, when death put an
snd to her s~ufferings.
BENTON COUNTY.
An immense circle hunt, embracing the
entire prairie range where the strange beasts
abide, is organizing for New Years day. 1t
is expected that thousands of men armed
with guns and whisky will be in the expe-
dition. Those who value their personal
safety had better stay away. The hunters
will be more dangerous to lite and limb than
the wild nimals
The last news of the beast is that its tracks
nave been measured, where. in getting over
a fence, it jumped fully fifty feet at one
bound.
oAss COUNTY.
The new city superintendent of schools in
Logansport, Mr.. Waltz, brought one Miss
who is so rude and abusive that only seven
pupils out of the forty remain in attendance
at her school.
CRAWFORD COUNTY
The petition for the removal of the county
seat from Leavenworth to Hartford has
been withdrawn on the part OF the petition
ers, as the county at the present time is I'M
able to bear the increased taxation neces-
sary to a removal of the county seat.
CLARK mi
FL. ~Stierheim, of Charlestown, trustee
of the Methodist Church, lately forbade the
tolling of the church bell at the funeral of
Henry Strumpf, because a brother of the de-
ceased is engaged in the whisky business.
If you want any witches hung, take them
down to Stierheim. He is the man for such
business.
ELKHART COUNTY.
The Observer learns that Frank Nc
Kinstry and Jack McGill, now in jail ct
Goshen, had laid plans TO murder Sheriff
Miller in case their trial should result in
conviction. For this purpose they had been
supplied by their wives, who visited them
at stated times, with knives, pistols, hand
saws, etc., with which to effect their escape.
SAYS the Review: The first case OF perjury
ever tried in this county was that which &C.
eupied the attention of the court yesterday.
Heittsman, McKinstry's bar tender, was
tried for false swearing in the case brought
against Mr.. M. tor keeping q house of i'll
- n -
turned a verdict of guilty, and he was SEN
fenced to four years In the penitentiarY.
A heart rending calamity occurred in the
family of John Z. Whitmer, eight miles east
of Goshen, a sew DAYS ago, by which two
children, aged respectively two and foul
years, were nearly burned to death.
Daniel w. Stote became so morbidly i'm.
pressed lest he had buried his vile alive
! that on Monday he drowned himself in &
mill race at Elkhart.
FAYETTE COUNTY.
The enthusiastic Examiner, of Corners
Vile, the Hon. VIM. s. Holman
for presidential candidate in 1876 at the heaC
of its columns. Now, il Mr.. Holman il
nominated and e~lected-well, just bear tn,
Examiner in mind.
HowARD oUNTY
!, Some people complain of butter in tn,
market that is not sailed enough. That wa
not the fault with some brought into Koko
!, mo the other day. The rolls were simply
s butter shells filled inside with common salt
{ The salt cost one cent a pound and Wild
4 ridge and sellers paid % cents for il. Tha
woman is @ second cousin of Lots wife.
COUNTY.
The Sueeeland Reporter describes a reli
gious meeting of unusual interest at tina
point during last week. Services CONSTANT,
, crowded by attentive hearers and over on
/ hundred at the altar for prayers. On Sun
day, the 18th, a new church was dedicated il
the presence of ], 900 people. A most pro
) found silence pervaded that vast, waiting
3 multitude, whilst the prayer of dedication
I was offered. The solemn ity of the occasion
) was deeply felt by all, and as the words o
? the prayer poured forth, hundreds were i'm.
{ pressed with the nearness of the Redeemer
and we're almost persuaded to say, 81 will
) rise and go to my Father"