The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-21
THE STATE.

shops.
The Brookstonites have got the ''spellin'
skule" mania.
cents on the 500.
Mules are being shipped from Monticello
to the West Indies
The prairies southwest of Fort Wayne
were on fire Sunday night.
There were six deaths last week in New
Albany from consumption.
Two prisoners escaped from the Jail at
South Bend Sunday night.
Harrison county had 1879 children who
did not attend school last year.
Miss Sexton, of Shelbyville, has received
$500 in breach of promise suit.
Logansport Chronicle: Ducks and geese
are plenty on the Wabash at present.
In some parts of the country the farmers
are getting ready to put in their oats crop.
Perry county will start $4,000 hoop poles
for the land of returning boards in a few
days.
Over hundred thousand dollars is sent
from Fort Wayne to Cincinnati annually for
beer.
Connersville Examiner: Two more saloons
are to be added to the already large number
in our city.
Out of 131 colored children enumerated
last year in Harrison county 121 of them at
tended school.
gang of burglars are said to be operat-
ing in the cities along the west endsof the
Wabash railroad.
Bend.Sunday night, set its contents on fire
with their pipes.
The Remington agricultural association
will hold their next annual fair September
IL to 10 inclusive.
Connersville Examiner: The wheat fields
begin to look green, in consequence of the
recent mild weather.
Fort Wayne Sentinel: A committee from
Decatur is expected here tomorrow to look
after the hand engines.
Fort Wayne Sentinel: Fifty tramps slept
at the station house Saturday, and 43 of them
huddled there last night.
At Noblesville Saturday three men were
killed and four badly wounded by the ex
plosion of a saw mill boiler.
CampbelPs Touring mill at Columbia City
S17, 900; insurance, $4,000.
Connersville Times: A white girl and
colOred boy of this city are said to be pas
sionately fond of each other.
Terre Haute: The shipment of hominy
feed from this point is about 2, 700 bushels
per day, averaging fully two cars.
Connersville Examiner: Fayette county
can boast of more stink factories" than any
other county of like size in the state.
On Tuesday of next week the Indiana
grand lodge of the independent order of
woikingmen will meet in New Albany.
The Brookville Democrat says that Sun
day evenings are set apart by the young
bloods of that place to get bowling drunk.
South Bend Register: Two or three new
converts walk from this place to Mishawaka
and back every evening TO hear Mr.. Brown.
Fort Wayne Sentinel: The total debt of
the city on the 1st of February was $701,-
290.12 cash ON hand at that time, ST., 500. SO.
Rushville Republican,: This county is
assessed 20 cents on the 800 valuation for
county purposes. Only six other counties
in the state pay less.
An experienced farmer of Jackson county
says not a dozen of peaches will be raised in
that county next season, as. the cold weather
has killed all the buds.
Lafayette Dispatch: OF the one hundred
and fifty thousand dollar donation made by
Mr. Purdue to the university, sixty.fve
thousand dollars remain I'M paid.
Muncie COurier-Democrat: We under
stand that an injunction was filed on Tues
day last restraining the city fathers from ex-
pending any money on the gas question.
A fourteen year old couple passed through
South Bend the other day on their way to
Michigan The papers of that place do not
state how far behind the old gentleman was.
The drug store of T. G. Wrennick. at Nor
ristown, was entered by burglars Monday
night, who went through the safe and took
$500 in money and about $50 in postage
stamps.
Mrs Steele, of Fort Wayne, while out rid
ing Sunday was thrown from the carriage,
from the horse running away, and it is
thought she will die from the wounds re-
ceived.
The New Albany correspondent of the
Louisville News says: At the Star glass works
quantity of blue glass is being manufac-
tured for the benefit of rheumatic patients.
Wen take pane on two
An old colored woman named Judith
Speed, living in Knight township, Wander
burg county, was burned to death Monday
night by her clothes catching fire from the
fireplace, which she was passing.
Kokomo held a special election for city
clerk last week. There were six candidates
for the Office. the successful candidate re-
ceiving 1s5 votes, beating his highest COM
petitor four. The total vote of the city was
500.
South Bend Herald: The new paper mill
was sold last week and passed into the hands
OF the Northwestern Life insurance company.
1t brought $4,000. The decree amounted
to $50, 37031, the largest sale of the kind
ever made in the city