The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-07-31
Minor state Items.

Inc Mlaml county WneaL crop is showing
magnifcently.
Peru methodists are building a thirty-thou-
sand-dollar church edifce
The corn near Mooresville and other portions
of Morgan county is looking unusually prom
ising.
F. NJ. Roots and E. Dwight Johnston with
their wives of Connersville have gone to
Europe.
Three street-car drivers were attacked by
highwaymen at Fort Wayne Tuesday night.
The latter were vanquished.
NJ D. Pollock Of Deer Creek says that wheat
in that section is running from twenty-five to
twenty-five bushels to the acre.
Work on the E. G. & r. road is progressing
day and night and cars are expected to be run
ming into Seymour before August closes.
Everett, aged fourteen, son OF Davis Bearley,
had his arm cut of at New Castle, Thursday,
while attempting to board a moving train.
DR.. William Williams, the oldest practicing
physician in Wayne county, died Tuesday at
his home in Whitewater, aged seventy-six-
Luther Denny of Lebanon was killed near
Lafayette Thursday. He was caught in the
running machinery of his mill and crushed to
death.
The Seymour city council Thursday night
tried to repeal the two-hundred-and-ffty-d
liquor license, but failed by the vote of the
mayor.
One hundred Italians were brought to Fort
Wayne Tuesday to work on the gas mains. The
native workmen do not take kindly to the
scheme.
The Ddciess County Democrat announces that
James c. Lavelle of Washington will be a can
didate for the democratic nomination for aud
itor OF state next year.
Seymour has lilliputian wonder in baby
seventeen days old that only weighs one pound.
The little lady is healthy, lively, and can be
easily hid under pint cup.
The masons of Crawford county have given
a contract for the erection OF a public building
for a masonic hall, banking purposes, offices
for physicians, attorneys, etc.
DR.. Camden Mckinney, while handling
pistol, Friday at New Castle, accidentally dis
charged the weapon. The ball passed through
his left hand, making bad wound.
George W. Gillespie of Mud Lick, near Mad
ison. aged fourteen started out on hunting trip
Wednesday. and in falling over a log mis- gun
was discharged. killing him instantly.
The colored voters of Greene county met last
week and passed resolutions denouncing the
republican party and its officers. They pro-
pose to stay with their friends.-S1atiUdn Times.
A number of little children played doctor at
Goshen Friday and administered a dose of
poison to Mamie, the two-year-old daughter of
William Rope, from the effects of which she
died
Several boys played at Wild West show
Thursday at Jacksonville. During its progress
Roy Howard accidentally shot Win Payne in
the jaw, breaking the bone. The wound is
fatal.
Elder Hall, young evangelist from Butler
university, has been holding series of success
full meetings at Rensselaer,. Ten accessiOns to
the local church there have been recently
made.
Men of means at Amboy, which lies on the
extreme northwestern portion of the natural
gas belt, have organized to supply the small
towns and villages along the Panhandle road
westerly rs far as Bunker Hill.
The Hon. Rufus Magee ,ex-minister to Norway
and Sweden, returned to LOgansport Saturday
and in the evening he given a reception at
the opera-house by his friends, irrespective of
politics. The Hon. G. n. Fitch presided.
allen Darnell, leading farmer near Balm
bridge, has made an assignment for the benefit
of creditors. II. c. Darnen is assignee. The
Indebtedness is heavy reaching probably
$4,000.
The 6rm of Wacker & Ireland. general mer-
chants at Brownstown, heretofore considered
one of the strongest in Jackson county, has
been forced TO an assignment. Liabilities large,
and cannot be estimated at present. Assets
unknown.
The Washington Critic asserts that the
friends of James B. White late representative
from the Fort Wayne district of Indiana. are
confident that he will secure the gubernatorial
nomination on the republican ticket in Indiana
three years from next fall.
A corps of engineers, employed in the L. S.
geodetic survey, has been sent to secure the
topography of Brown county and are now en-
camped on the summit of Weed Patch hill,
where a tall signal tower was erected by the
government few months ago.
Joseph Reichard. an old soldier of Forest,
was badly injured in Frankfort last Wednes-
day. His horse became frightened at the cars,
and Mr.. Reichard was thrown TO the ground.
His arm aud collar bone were broken, and he
sustained other serious injuries
Monday evening Ira Porter, a minister of
All-Saints church at Lisbon, Randolph county,
was arrested for alleged criminal assault and
was placed under bonds. This is the second
minister arrested on this same charge within
two weeks in the same township.
James Vincent of Warwick county, confined
at the prison south for attempt to murder, and
serving a second term, made his second sue
cessful attempt at escape Thursday night,
riding away Warden Patterns horse and
dOg-cart. The latter were recovered at Cory
don.
Farmers tell us that their wheat crop is first
class and that they intend to sell at once.
They claim that the market will open at 20
cents and that the first opening of the market
is the best. They don't TO wait and take
less, and in this they are sensible.-Ldgrdnge
Democrat
Henry c. Garriatt of Wilkinson says that
the letter Is IOunu on some oats near L orr
Wayne is not unusual, and that be noticed il
thirty years ago. He suggests that the good
farmers of Allen do not lose any sleep in an
ticipation of war, pestilence or famine on ac-
count of the "B"
Congressman Martin of Button announces
that he will receive applications for appoint
ment of a cadet TO the L. 5. military academy
at West Point and also one alternate, until
Aug. 3, 1889. No one need apply who will be
under seventeen or over twenty-five years OF
age June IA. 1890.
Capt Bogardus Of the Oklahoma wild west
combination and Ed Voris, local shot OF
Charlottesville, Wednesday afternoon shot al
twenty-five English sparrows each, thirty yards
rise. The score was one of the finest ever made
in the county, each killing twenty-three out OF
the twenty-five birds.
Henry Kelley,s deputy sheriff of Bartholo.
new county, was beaten over the head and ia.
tally injured late Saturday night with heavy
club in the hands of William Penny. The at
tack was made by Henry because Kelley went
walking with his (Henry'sl daughter against his
command Henry is under arrest.
Tuesday during the progress of a case in
court at Fort Wayne, the FIRE bell tapped, and
without offering the judge an excuse, the jury
meu darted out of the box and down the stair.
way, TO the scene of the conhagration. This
was n new feature TO the Fort Wayne contin-
gent, and they say IL was very funny.
tale of sorrow comes from Fort Wayne. A
Miss Day has become insane brooding over the
designation Of her face by an ugly humorous
growth. A younger sister sorrowing over the
misfortune of her sister also lost her mental
faculties and both of the young ladies have
recently been removed 10 the insane asylum