The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-17
INDIANA INTELLIGENCE.

Prepare for county fairs.
Senator VOORHEES, will speak at South Bend
on July p.
John Ryan was drowned at Fort Wayne
Wednesday.
Another republican paper is talked of in
ConneIsville.
Temperance meetings are being held all
over the state.
A prisoner escaped from the Newcastle
Jail last Sunday.
Four cents per bushel is what they pay for
what threshing at Newport.
The summer art school at Purdue has
opened with 10 pupils enrolled.
Indiana is to have Is more money order
post offices established within her limits at
on6e.
I Professor Wiley, of Purdue university,
who is now on the briny deep sailing to the
old country, will remain in Europe about
six months.
1t is lovely for the corn; you can hear it
grow. 1t is lovely for the wheat. So buy
PAIN leaf fan and don't say another word
about the weather.
The canning factory at Greenwood, John
son county, will consume the products of $50
acr,s of sweet corn and 800 acres of toma-
toes this season.
Three hundred aud eighty-fve thousand
fol.t hundred and fifty-fve dollars and three
conts is the amount of resources of the La
fayette savings bank.
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Bend have employed Beecher to lecture to
them on the 17th He Is the greatest "Du.
roe that travels just now.
Richmond Independent: Three small boy
from indianapolis were run in by the police
last night They are suspected of having
csc tped from the refOrmatory. One of them
YVES so small th flhe crept out between the
bars at the station house.
Miller, one of the Bartholomew counter
feit5rs, who was a fugitil from justice, has
just been overtaken and captured up in
Ohio, and brought back 10 his native jun
giles and lodged in Jail at Columbus.
Seymour Democrat A new pest to the
farmers of jefferson county has appeared in
the shape of a little black bug that has COM
pletely destroyed the oats crop. One farmer,
thinking to save his crop commenced cut
ting it, when the bugs Immediately attacked
the corn.
The Upton county normal opened prompt
~ at the time appointed, on July About
% students were enrolled, and there are
COCA reasons 10 believe that that number
will double itself during the first week. The
Instructors are energetic and pleasant The
students seem wide-awake, and success is
almost certain.
franklin Jeffer:onIan: The largest and
grandest wheat crop ever harvested in Indi-
ana is now being tbreshed, and even at
eighty cents per bushel will put vast sum
OF money in circulation, and the result of
this crop alone ought to make times a little
brisk and doubtless will. Farmers should
push the threshing business lively while
good weather lasts. Seventy TO seventy-five
&c MS is what new wheat is worth.
at Peru, cay or TWO ago, Wabash en-
CINE, used OF wood train, was in the round
house, when a loafer got on the cab, and at
the request OF john Shea, a wiper, ATTEMPTED
to back the locomotive. He pulled the
throttle and she backed, but when he tried
to stop her he failed He and Shea jumped
off and the engine kept on going until she
ran into a coal train, which she pushed off
the track, tearing out 20 feet OF the coal
house, and doing altogether about $500 dam
age. A collision with the accommodation
,1oI foot