The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-20
THE STATE.

Azalla, Bartholomew county, is now with
out a single medicine man.
The crops in Fountain county are looking
better than for several years.
An old fashioned barbecue is on the tapis
at Terre Haute for the 4th of July.
The city of Madison is now engaged in the
erection of new high school building.
are complaining greatly of the ravages of the
Colorado potato bugs.
The Seymour Reform club, commonly
called RED Ribbon club, > has 2SS members,
of whom 1876 were drinking men.
Fl. Wayne Sentinel Thirty thousand
pounds of wool has been shipped from this
market so far. A little less than last year.
Rushville Republican,: Reports from vari-
Gus parts of the county state that consider
able wheat was blown down by the storm of
Saturday.
The Touring mills belonging to the Com
mons brothers. at Centerville, were burned
Tuesday. The loss is near $4,000, with 81,
900 insurance.
Fit Wayne Gazette: A social fight among
party of tramps at the fair grounds was in
dulged in yesterday. One of the combat
ants was badly hurt.
Some 1000 persons in the city of Rich
mond have signed the Murphy pledge and
donned the blue ribbon, and still the work
goes on. The town is becoming Murphyized
in earnest.
Salem Democrat: A great many fields of
wheat were so rank and heavy that the
wind and rain of the past week LAID them
level with the ground and did good deal
of damage.
Vim. ]. Boomer was found dead in the
yard of his residence, at Evansville, Sunday
morning Death was caused by the rupture
of an aneurism of the large artery leading to
the heart
New Albany Ledger-Standard: There has
been no falling off in the shipment of straw
berries from this point the past two days.
There were 1000 gallons of the fruit shipped
north last night.
Rockville Republican: The steam Touring
mill of A. Holtz, at Waveland. blew up yes
terday morning; the boiler being blown
distance of fifty or sixty yards, up hill No
one seriously injured.
FIT Wayne Sentinel: Some miscreant last
night laid heavy plank slab across the
track of the Muncie railroad near the Grand
Rapids junction. 1t was discovered in time
to preventa disaster.
Seymour Democrat: The three prisoners,
who escaped from the county Jail, have all
been recaptured-two being taken in Jen-
nings county, aid the other in Hamilton
township, tnIs county. They just broke Jail
for exercise.
Owensburg Gazette: Quite contest
arose this week between the auditor aud
county commissioners. r, lative to the settle
ment of claims presented by the township
assessors. At last accounts the commission
ers claimed the ground.
Franklin Jeffersonian: Dunlap & Bro, our
grocery merchants, have shipped since Janu-
airy 70 June /, 1877, $22, 1854 so worth of poul-
try. How is that for the poultry business
these dull times? 1t shows that poultry has
met with ready sales and at good prices.
At Winchester, Indiana, 1900 persons
have signed the red ribbon temperance
pledge. Not drunken man has been seen
on the streets for five weeks, and but one
saloon remains in the place. The move
ment is spreading all over Randolph county.
Rushville Republican: A. report has come
to this place that married woman named
Sheppard, living in the southern part of the
county, attempted to commit suicide last
week by taking large dose of laudanum,
because she thought her husband didn't love
her. Emetics were administered, and she
recovered.