The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-02
Minor state Items.

Gas has been found at Jacksonville.
Gas has been found at Lafayette at 100 feet
The depot at Valparaiso was burned yester-
day. loss 5000.
Earlham college students have organized a
Lincoln league club.
c. r. Watkins Of Goshen has failed. Liabil-
tiles and assets S,OO0
Numerous city elections occur tomorrow
throughout the state.
A small fire occurred at the Terre Haute
house Saturday morning. Loss 5000.
Judge Lowry, of Fort Wayne, threatens the
Huntington Democrat with a libel suit
The estate of the late Judge Malott, of Knox
county, is valued at $4,000 more or less.
The saloon of Edward Lucas at Nashville,
burned yesterday. Loss, $500; insured for
$1,000.
Mrs John Feighner of Union township,
Huntington county, gave birth to triplets last
Sunday.
The venerable John Talcott has closed his
twenty-five year term OF Porter county jour
nalism.
James Whey Of Logansport was thrown
from Il hose carriage Wednesday and severely
injured.
Knox county peach cherry and strawberry
crops have been damaged by recent cold
weather.
The money has been subscribed and plans
prepared to build a $1,000 opera house at
Bloomington.
The wooden ware factory at Martnsville has
closed up for an indefinite period. Sixty men
are out of work.
The new and handsome Vigo county court
house opened up permanently for business
Saturday morning.
The largest white oak is growing in Pike
county. 1t is twenty-five feet in circumference
and fifty to the first limb.
E1Har -bo hoe, .baT IL,
years in the Jacksonville Christian church,
has been transferred to the Madison charge
The Rev. w. ID. Hunter, sixty years of age.
OF Muncie cut off his right hand yesterday
while operating buzz saw.
In a fire ut Logansport Wednesday the eyes
Of a horse were burned from their sockets lie
was afterward shot TO end his misery.
\ large Lincoln League has been formed al
Valparaiso, with Hon. Mark l.. DeMotte as
chairman aud George w. Carr as secretary.
Miss Minnie 81. Shelly, tfteen-year-old girl
OF Galveston, village sly miles north of Ko-
komo, is reported missing. She was last seen
Saturday.
Delegates from Ohio, Missouri, Kansas, Ken.
lucky and Indiana will make up the district
convention of the Bna Birth which meets al
Terre Haute May 20.
The furniture for the new Washington county
courthouse has arrived and is being placed in
| pOsitiOlp under the supervision Of Mr.. II. T.
Sinks Of indianapolis.
The Air Line railroad has paid Miss Anna
Smith $500 in compromise of her $1,000
damage suit for injuries received by an nc
cident on the road AT English over year age
The democratic ticket leads OF with -four
names beginning with M-Mats0n, Myers
Miers and AIunsOn. As Col. Bill Pratt has FIRE.
quently said, it is hard to beat four ola kind
LOganspOTt P6ar0s.
Charles Horning, brakeman on the j., NJ
e |. cement train. while coupling cars at Speeds
switch, five miles from Jeffersonyille wac
caught between the cars and crushed so seri
ously that il is thought he will die.
II seems that peculiar disease is prevalent
in the southern part Of Harrison county. 4
number of persons have died recently after a
very brief illness, during which they suffered
greatly. The last death was that OF Edward
Punk, a robust young man, who had never