The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-07
THE STATE

THE STATE.
Greencastle is to have poultry fair soon.
Smallpox is reported to be raging in Fit.
Wayne.
Spotted fever is prevalent in Harrison
county.
There has been SO days of sleighing at
South Bend.
There are 624 prisoners in the penitentiary
at Michigan City.
The game law protecting quails COM
meneed yesterday.
1t cost $9S.56 to run the soup house at New
Albany last month
BASIS foundry in Fort Wayne, turns out
125 car wheels each day.
The lime manufacturers of Huntington
use 10000 barrels a year.
Monticello is going to have lodge of the
Knights of Pythias order
Greensburg has 81 destitute families now
living on the charities of the city.
New Albanys latest sensation is a four
year-old mule only IL hands high.
Fort Wayne is going to have a special
water works election on the Goth of Feb
ruary.
Luther Benson is stirring up the dry
bones OF the Temperance people of New Al
bany.
There.are 1876 pianos, 324 organs and melo-
deems, and 1912 sewing machines in Allen
county.
bus wheel company was sold at auction
yesterday.
Nancy DeMoss, of Jay county, died last
week She was the first white child born in
the county.
Part of the workmen at the Star glass
works at New Albany are on a strike for
higher wages
The number of rations issued to the poor
from the soup house at New Albany last
week was !, 40S.
The poultry association, of Fort Wayne,
are making great preparations for their APP
preaching exhibition.
The police of Fort Wayne raided gamb
ling house Saturday night capturing twenty
players and the Layout"
The Evansville. Washington and Chicago
railroad project is agitating the minds of the
good people of Warriek.
Ed Marsh, of Spencer township, Posey
county. raised 5000 bushels of corn from 100
acres of ground last season.
Mike Scully has accomplished the remark
able feat of liking LOCO miles in 200 con-
secutive hours at Terre Haute.
The police force of Evansville are going
TO give a ball. Are they paid to dance or
watch the property of citizens?
The total collections of the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago railway at Warsaw
last year aggregated $3S, ASP 60
The contract for the Steuben county Jail
was awarded to LetZenberger and Zollers of
Fort Wayne. Their bid was 81, 047.
The receipts of corn at Lafayette during
| the past week have been larger than during
the same space of time for some years past.
Porter county has organized thief-catch-
/ ing association. This is complimentary to
the officers elected and paid for the bust
ness.
The annual session of the grand lodge of
| the independent order of workingmen of In
| diana will be held in New Albany in Feb
| ruary.
The Knapp family, of South Bend, who
narrowly escaped death by poison last week,
are now kicking around with the rest of the
world.
Burglars are plying their nefarious trade
4 very actively in Fort WAYNE. Scarcely a
night passes that some residence is not bur
| glarized.
Fort Wayne proposes to elect her chief fire
engineer for tlEree years instead of one, as
heretofore. and will amend her charter to
that effect.
There were fs=e funerals in New Albany
/ Sunday, two OF the persons buried having
died last Wednesday. Sunday funerals are
/ fashionable.
st. Joseph cOunty's bill for the house of
| refuge for little less than three quarters of
! the year 1876 is just SS77.71. the expense for
| keeping IA boys.
A couDle Of Greensburg church members
INDUCED in a little explanation of a per
! soRal difficulty between them which resulted
in fight while in chgsrch.
The paapeTs of Terre Hsute procure orr
ders from the township trustee for groceries
and provisions. and order the .grOcers to
send them turkey and erenberries.
Fort Wayne Gazette: A boy IL years of
| age, living in FreBchtOwn had tooth ex-
tracted the other day which produced a
hemorrhage, resulting in death.
A we'll organized band OF thieves seem to
be operating I'm the southern part OF the
state, as nearly all of our exchanges from
that section give details of burgiaries.
The creditors of the state prison south
met at the prisoH yesterday and presented
| their bills TO the investigating committee
now there for them to pass upon them
South Bend Herald: good many bare
arms and partially uncovered breasts float
ing around our ball rooms Just now.
Where's the MARSHAL aud ordinance $50?
The police force of Lafayette seem to do
| little else but look up street lamps. One
| thousand one hundred and thirty nine
lamps were reported out during the month.
Miss Jennetta Tryon. of Raubs station,
Cass county. has completed quilt contain
! ing %. S0l pieces, Isl blocks. each block
being about three-fourths of an inch square.