The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-14
STATE NEWS
REFLEX OF THE INDIANA PRESS.


REFLEX OF THE INDIANA PRESS.
ALLEN COUNTY.
man by the name OF Picksley met with
a sad death, last Wednesday, in Smithfield
township. He was working In the well OF
Mr.. Henry Clark, when the damps seized
other party came very near meeting with the
same tate.
CRAWFORD COUNTY.
The corn and potato crops are excellent.
Sorghum molasses of good quality is being
manufactured.
Business Is brisker than ut any time
within three years. The lumber and barrel
trade make Leavenworth lively.
The democrats are looking to the Ohio
election with more than ordinary interest In
Crawford, and are in full sympathy with the
Sentinel upon the financial question.
CLINTON COUNTY.
The Frankfort Crescent says when the new
elected clerk of Clinton county takes his Of
fee, In November, all the county offices of
that county will be filled with soldiers-all
democrats.
One-third OF the corn crop in this county
is said to have been injured by the frost.
DEARBORN COUNTY.
The change of school books is the prlnci-
pal topic of conversation among the people of
Lswrenceburg.
No movement has been made as yet for
Dearborn county to be represented at the
soldiers reunion.
Andrew Wsrst, an old soldier of Napoleon
l.. who wss present at the burning Of Mos
COW, and who suffered the horrors of the
Ill Ill IA N.
county at the age OF 81 years.
Susan Nolan, washerwomsn from Gin
cinnalI, poor victim Of whisky and opium,
was found dead on the railroad few miles
from Lawrenceburg last week. She was cut
up frightfully, and fragments of her body
were scattered along the track for quarter
OF mile.
DEKALB COUNTY.
The De Kalb County Circuit Court opened
with a docket OF 337 cases.
Walnuts and hickory nuts are reported
plenty in the forests of De Kalb.
B. Frank Kennedy has disposed OF his in.
terest in the Waterloo Press to his partner,
G. X. Baxter. Ill health is tho cause as
signed.
PAYETTE CoUNTY.
The express office at Larwlll was burglar
izsd last week to the amount of $50. One
package containing $4,000 had been re-
moved from the safe early In the night,
which WAS fortunate for the express com
psny.
GRANT COUNTY.
Seven car loads of Mormons passed
through this place last week on the Pan
Handle road, on their journey to the land OF
Brigham. They were 300strong, dirty, and he
neither garments of some of the urchins
| looked as though they had been sliding
down the Pennsylvania mountains for eX-
ercise during the delays of the train.
GIBSON COUNTY.
The receipts OF the Princeton fair were $500
| in excess of the expenses.
HAMILTON COUNTY.
Captain John Stevenson, of Noblesville
will bring to the Soldiers State Reunion
the old Il AZ of the Third Indiana, which hC
carried in the Mexican war.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Democrat: Robert Fricke, the Ger
man pianist, notice of whose elopemen
with Miss Rosslind Banks, and capture, wal
published last week. was brought before
| George Barnett, justice, on a charge of rape
| Miss Banks and Fricke were each examined
| the one affirming and the other denying TIT
| charge. The justice held him to answer thu
| charge at the next term of the court in the
sum of $1,000.
| HENDRICKS COUNTY.
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