The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-17
THE STATE AT LARGE.


| house OF representatives.
There sre at present go students.in at
tendance at the spiceland academy.
Philip Theaurer, OF Attica, had his thumb
taken off by buzz saw few days since.
In the January apportionment of the
school fund, DeKaib county gets S, 1882.
The amount of revenue collections made
IN Lafayette during December vas IS, 256.41.
The First National bank OF Lafayette has
| reduced its capital stock from 5000, 600 20
| 100000.
A burglar recently went through the Al
hon post Office, but only realized about SIS
for his trouble.
Eighteen pensioners of the war Of 1912,
residing in Indiana, have died during the
centennial year.
Counterfeit fves and tens on the national
banks OF Richmond, Lafayette and Muncie
are in circulation.
All of our exchanges speak of the late cold
snap, when the mercury fell fro u 16 TO d
degrees below zero.
Mppecanoe county has drawn froms the
state treasury $l6;097 on account OF the COM
mon school fund.
The Union agricultural and mechanical
| association of Union City have increased
their capital stock to Sl0,000
Solomon Perrin. OF Brownstown, was Sc
riously wounded a few days since by tie
discharge of pistol which he had in his
pants pocket
The Richmond Jefersonian On Monday
of this week, William Rogers of Clark
township, killed seventeen quails at one
shot. Too thin.
AlonzO Watkins, resident of jamestown
township, Steuben county, committed sui
eide on Wednesday of last week by hang
ing. He had no family.
Evansville Courier: The charter question
hangs fire. The large array of legal talent
that is concentrated on 1t should bring the
matter TO speedy solution.
Logansport Pharos: A man created quite
an excitement in a Fourth street saloon
yesterday by exhibiting an enormous jack
rabbit weighing nearly twelve pounds.
A little girl of Franklin, named Oracle
Overstreet, fell into the fire az the residence
| of her father, and before being rescued was
| SO badly burned that she is likely to die.
w. II. Yoder. OF Atlantic. Cas- county,
| Iowa, committed suicide at Goshen on We'd
| neSday by blowing his brains out No cause
is known why he committed the rash 2c..
couple of scamps calling themselves
SemOn Bros opened candy store in Ken
| dalville few weeks ago. and after getting
in debt as much as possible. lit out for parts
| unknown.
Columbus was visited by the fire fiend on
Monday and tuesday The green house of
! Mrs. Cooper and q storehouse occupied by
! Minas Law were both destroyed. Loss
! $4,000.
| Fort Wayne Sentinel: Henry Wiebke was
| recently victimized by young man in his
employ who forged his name 70 $500 of
notes and embezzled about 500 Of his funds.
1 The young man has decamped.
| Lafayette Coulter: Lafayette, is always
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shoemaker, heard OF the new gold discovery
| last night, and left for the Wood River coun-
Try by the Valley road to-day.
| Cambridge City has 66s taxpayers.
Amount of taxable property, 1914, AL. Tax
es ass assed for 1876, S1,7i7.so. Taxes as
sessed on property and real estate, 81, l0l.9O.
| This includes the delinquent list
Richmond Palladium: horse covered
with white wool, much like that OF sheep,
was the center of an admiring crowd on
| Main street to day. The. horse is a natural
curiosity, being covered with long carly
hair or wool from head TO boots.
| Liberty Herald: During three weeks end
| ing January l, 1877, o. Keffer shipped to
Cincinnati 80 car loads OF hogs, averaging A
hogs to the car, or 4 300 hogs, and averaging
| in weight $50 pounds and paying 10 the
| farmers of the county over SIS, 900.
| Richmond Free Press: Last night about
| s o clock jimmie Rhodess horse and the
! United States mail wagon were taken from
| the east end OF the union depot and no
| tidings of them have been had since. The
/ tracks in the snow showed that the horse
| had been turned round and heaced east
though after leaving the depot all trace was
lost.
Terre Haute Journal: The democrats of
Vigo county and this city occupy the van
tage ground in the political fed. A fair
| working majority exists in the county and
the city is close enough TO make local cleo
| tions bring out the best men for the various
| offices. If no mistakes are made and the
| organization is kept IN efficient condition, il
! will be entrusted with the city and county
| government for many yesrs to come.
Muncle Times: Burglars entered the house
/ of Mr.. Hazelton on East jackson street about
| 2 o'clock this morning. Mrs Hazelton wax
| ing up saw the villain standing near her bed
| with a revolver in his hand. She woke her
husband, who rose up, when the burglar
| fled. The family were terribly frightened,
| but could discover nothing missing. Mrs.
Hazelton had received a package ty ex-
| press yesterday, and that is what the scamps
| were after.
Richmond Palladium: Mr. Charles Kum-
| Ter, who has reen experins nting with cleo
| tricity for some time, has now in operation
! at his home one of the most ingenius appli-
cations of the subtle fluid to the wants of
| every day life, we have ever heard OF. He
has an alarm click in his room so connected
| with all parts of the house by wires and bat
teries that when the alarm strikes at
o'clock a. m, his hour of rising. the gas in
the parlor and sitting room is lighted, and
the fire lighted in the kitchen stove.
Lafayette Courier: A Wabash conductor
brings big story from Berlin, a station on
the line of his road. At that place he saw
81, 800 in silver which two men had found.
1t appears that the treasure was buped UNI
der an old building on farm near Berlin
| by a farmer who died about a month ago.
The sons of the deceased have been search
| mo for the treasure ever since the death of