The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-07-03

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Minor state Items.
Col Dick Thompson will crate at Rockville
July 4.
Mrs. Layman of Spencer was seriously burned
Wednesday.
w Ransom, prominent citizen of BIichi-
gan City, died Monday.
Cartersburg has organized live stock and
agricultural association.
Senator Voorhees, is announced for speech
on the tariff at Bloomfield July IS.
The wife of the Rev John Fairbank, formerly
an old resident of Fort Wayne, died recently at
Jacksonville, Mich.
w. n. Lake the long-distance pedestrian, is
engaged in walking off 412 half miles in Az half
hours at Rockville.
A company of Indiana and Kentucky people
began boring series OF twelve gas wells at
Henryville, Monday.
Curtis Troth, aged twenty-five, a resent
graduate of DePauw university, died Tuesday
at Vandalia, Owen county.
John Harton of Seymour, aged sixty-ive, fell
out of cherry tree Wednesday morning and
was very seriously injured.
Thursday morning the son of Jacob Weaver
of Wabash was drowned in Elkhart river while
bathing. The lad was twelve years old.
The double baby belongs to Upton county.
1t was born six miles west of Sharpville, not
very far from the Howard line, but Upton
claims the honor,
Rockville is getting to be "horse town"
Five of her best horses are now out on the cir
cults with every prospect OF making large win
nings this season.
Ex-Postmaster Fields of Spencer will make
the race for clerk of Owen county. lie made
first-class postmaster, but being democrat,
had to give way to a republican.
John Leechman, aged seventy, a respected
81 Of fad ut lie in
Center Point, Sunday, from the result of
snake-bite received a few days ago.
Angola has a new bank. w. G. Croxton is
president State Senator Carver vice-pre sident
Harry Scott, recently of the Lake City bank at
Warsaw, cashier, and Paul Croxton assistant
cashier.
While Mrs. Charles Fischer of Brazil was
building FIRE in the kitchen stove Monday,
using coal oil as an agency, the contents of the
can ignited and exploded with serious, if not
fatal result.
Seymour and its township contain 1.54S
voters, of these 1866 are within the city limits.
The entire population OF Seymour Is 6,S3l as
recently enumerated, gain of 1850 over the
census of 1880
William Bennett, son of the chief of police
of Richmond, has disappeared, and is thought
to have gone to st. Louis. He was night watch
man at the Wayne works, and loss OF sleep is
supposed to have unsettled his mind.
The three-year-old child of William Fairbank
of Columbia City last Tuesday tumbled into
cistern situated beneath the kitchen floor. 1t
was some time before the body was discovered,
and the parents of the little one are frantic
with grief.
BENJAMIN Steifel and Isaac Springer were ar
rested Wednesday at Butler for violating the
revenue law. They are charged with running
a saloon in another mans name, and the spec
ial tax enacted by the government does not
permit this.
II. Woofard and lady" of Columbia City
we're fired out of three Fort Wayne hotels Mon
day night. A telegram was sent to Columbia
City, but no such man is known there, so that
it is probable that the fellow has enticed the
'lady" away from home.
Contractors are now engaged in trans
ferring huge petrifed turtle weighing $1,000
pounds, from the quarry in the Putnam county
edge of Park county to the railroad, from
whence it will be shipped to Cincinnati parties,
who will exhibit it at that place.
An unknown man, apparently about twenty
one years old, was found dying near Evansville
Friday He had severed an artery in each arm
and died soon after being discovered. lie was
well dressed and had apparently prepared him
self deliberately for self-destructiOn.
Walter McGrayal of Columbus, aged four.
teen, while working with knife. drove the
blade into his wrist, severing artery. He
had sufficient presence OF mind to compress the
artery, while he ran nearly two miles to ply
stefan, and in this way saved his life.
The DePauw canoe club Will take its second
annual outing during the next two weeks. The
route this year will cover about one hundred
and forty miles, and includes Eel and White
rivers. During the trip special work will be
done for the university in botany and zoology.
Judge Banta of Franklin recently elected
dean of the law school of the state university,
has accepted the position and will resign as a
member of the board of trustees, of which he
is the president. He will receive q salary of
s., 900 per year, the term to begin in Sept. and
last for six months.
The daughter OF James Dixon aged seven
teen whose parents reside at Scipio, started for
Columbus to enter domestic service several
weeks ago. Wednesday her parents became
alarmed over her continued silence and discov-
cred that she had never reached Columbus,
and that all trace of her had disappeared.
G. w. Breckenridge, township trustee, has
fled with the county auditor the enumeration
of the white and colored inhabitants of Wayne
township over twenty-one years of age. 1t
shows that the township has 1852 voters. This
is a good per cent. of the total county enumera-
ton, which is something over 13,OOO.-Fort
Wdvne Sentinel
The odium that overlook Ben Harrison for
his treacherous treatment of Mrs De La Hunt
and the indignation at the disregard of the old
soldier in his appointment of the pension
boards throughout the country has had its
effect on little Ben, and he is now inclined TO
go back on the promise made to Tom PrItch-
ard, that he should have the Franklin postofhce.
At least Uncle Gabe 0verstreet who went to
Washington to urge up the appointment, is re-
ported to have been informed by the presi-
dent that he would give the Office to an old
soldier.-FrdnktiR Democrat.
The Monroeville postotics racket continues
without cessation. A committee was in Fort