The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-07

day purchased the morning and weekly
Fort Wayne Journal, and will continue
the publication as a live Democratic paper.
No editorial changes are announced.
State Notes.
A new fruit tree swindle has been ex-
posed in Howard County.
A soldiers reunion will be held at Elk
hart August %, % and "a.
A Tariff Reform Club of the Hendricks
League is being organized In Huntington
County.
The Prohibitionists OF Floyd county will
cleo. delegates to the State convention,
next Saturday.
The Mlshawaka ladies are about to in
stitute an art loan at that place for some
landable object.
From the present prospects there will be
very large tobacco crop 'set out" in
Warrick county this year.
Mrs. Jemima Pruett of Jackson County,
pioneer and highly respected lady, died
at the age of sixty this week.
The Democratic Congressional Conven-
ton Tor the Third district will meet at
Jacksonville on the 18th of May.
The directors OF tine Seymour District
Fair Association have fixed the dates for
holding the next fair September II to 10,
1888.
The North Indiana Conference M. E.
Church will meet in its annual session at
Wabash, March 2S, Bishop Merrill, of
Chicago presiding.
Mr.. John Maholm, an officer at the
Northern Prison, was married In Shelby
vile Tuesday evening to Miss May Byland
and left with his bride for Chicago.
The quakiDg asp industry at Altoner is
on the boom, and no small amount of once
worthless but now valuable material is be-
ing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sentinel,
NJ. @. CARRIER, OF the Madison Courier.
denounces as falEe the charge that he was
prominent in the Brennan election frauds,
perpetrated in Jefferson County in 1878.
1t is said that the farmers around about
Valparaiso are unable to supply the de-
mand for vegetables by the Normal stu
dents and large quantities are shipped in
each season from Chicago.
The Indiar Conference OF the Evangeli-
cal Association will meet at Decatur, the
first week OF April. There is about sixty
ference VINO are expected to be in attend.
ance.
Archy Comstock, OF Kokomo, who has
been in Paris, France, for some time, has
started on an extensive tour embracing
Genoa, Marseilles, Algiers, to Tunis lover
lAndl Naples, Rome and Venice, bringing
up at Kokomo, Ind, U. S. A, by June 1.
A boy tramp, twelve years old, slept at
South Bend Friday night. He was on his
! way from Chicago to New York, and was
evidently a thoroughbred, as he had not
been washed in some time, and the officers
can not tell positively whether he was
white, black or yellow.
From all the reports that have so far
come in touching the condition of the fruit
buds, it Is noted that the prospect for
pears, peaches and cherries is very promis-
ing, and il no accident happens from now
on there will be an immense yield.-Hunt-
ipgburgh Independent.
There has been filed with the Vigo
County Recorder an old parchment of q
public land deed from the United States
to Joshua Junier. of Vigo County, dated
| October o. 1885 Andrew Jackson's name
as President was signed on the deed by A.
j. Donelson, Commissioner of the General
Land Office.
Mr.. William Henry and his brother Fred
are the champion wood.choppers of this
section. Several days last week the boys
walked over one mile to their work and
put up eight cords of four-foot wood each
day. The timber was taken from the
stump every day. Who can beat this rec
ord?-Wabash Times Urbana Item.
The wheat throughout Southern Indians
has the appearance Of being damaged con
siderably. The heavy ice and severe freez:
during the month of January was quite
severe on the late wheat, especially. IL TIT
remainder of the season shall be favorabl,
the crop may be fair one, but certainly
the prospect, at this time, is anything bu
MISUNDERSTANDING Courier.
Possofices all over the country are re
ceiviDg circular letters from the Postofic
Department directing the strict enforce
ment OF that section of the postal law
which makes it imperative on the post
master to advertise In newspaper or pos
q manuscript of non delivered letters b,
the postmaster. 1t also requires the charg
and collection OF one cent each on a.
letters that have been advertised.
woman described as "neatly sttired
, petite and with q sweet, sad face, la
been "doing' South Bend. She confesse
! to the City Marshal that ii was bnsines
that she had been engaged in for .,,,
time: travelling from r ,.cs 20 place solici
ing money under the plea Of destitutio
and receiving quite large sums, occasion
ally. She wrote clergymRn-letters and th
lists OF citizens herself and tore them u
when she had thoroughly canvassed
, town. She claimed she took this means {
{ support an invalid husband and child.
A Wabash train dispatcher found 1t In
possible to use one of his wires recently
Z Upon investigating he found that an oil
, farmer had passed light wire over th
telegraph wire, allowing one end to han
down upon the ground while the other
rad carried into his dwelling. The wir'
; touching the ground as it did. of cours
destroyed the circuit and rendered th
telegraph line useless. The granger ha
, no desisns upon the railway company
', messages, in thus tapping its line; all b
wanted was to collar" enough Of its ele'
tricity TO cure his rheumatism. He faile
to get the desired shocks, because he onl
had one end of the wire In his house. Th
line repairer quickly yanked bis "pater
medicine" down.
The Buckshoals Silver Company ore, {
. Dubois County, now pans out $500 per tor
At present s 900 tons of ore are in sigh
L and fha tom Of HauzxilIa nnhoia Hou p 4,