The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20


The Mooresville revival has closed with fifty
conversions and seventy-fOur additions to the
| methodist church.
Miss McManis the lady whistler of Indian
apolis, was greeted by a large audience at Green
castle Wednesday night.
More than four hundred persons signed the
! temperance pledge at Anderson recently, after
one of Murphys meetings.
The Rev. w. r. Nohes died suddenly at
Flora Tuesday night, aged seventy. lie was
! widely known in northern Indiana.
The L. n. A. & c. road earned in the month
of January S156,272. an increase over the earn.
ings of the corresponding month in 1885 Of
| $20762.
That last gushing oi-well discovered in
northern Indiana was at Portland and not at
Button. as enormously stated in Tuesday
mornings SENTINEL.
Mrs. Pop Wilson of Martinsville, almost
eighty years of age, fell Tuesday night and
| broke her hip-bOne. She is in feeble health
and the chances are against recovery.
Samuel Steele, an old citizen of Owen county,
! has been deaf for years. Recently a piece OF
straw, about an inch long, worked its way out
OF his ear, and his hearing was restored.
Willie Hupp of Logansport jumped from a
freight train Thursday evening, and through
some accident fell under the wheels and was
frightfully mangled, his injuries being fatal
Berry Carpenter, who killed his brother near
] GAINESVILLE, Harrison county, died in the state
! prison south Feb. 9, where he was serving
life term. His remains were taken to Lanes
| vile for burial.
! A fire at Princeton Wednesday destroyed the
! grocery store of Mr.. Groce and the stock and
! building of Valentine Beck. Loss on stock
and building of grocery s., 200, with 81 900 in
suranee. The loss on shoe store 5000. with
81 600 insurance.
! Saturday, Feb. 16, horticultural society
/ will be organized at Mitchell. DIR. Allen Fur
mas president of the state society, will be pres
/ ent, and essays will be read by III. w. Curry,
| Ransom Burton, Z. w. Sears, Ed EversOle,
Mrs. j. III. Brown.
! In 1883 Shelby county gave Scott Ray 3,197
| votes and Carpenter 1864. AT the special
| Ewing received 2,763 votes and Carpenter
| 2,340 Decatur county in 1888 gave Carpenter
| 2,6S1 votes and Ray 1869 The special election
gave Carpenter 2059 and Ewing Las.
John II. Sawyer of Marion attempted Satur-
| day TO murder his wife, who found refuge at
| the house of neighbOr after being chased
| square by her Infatuated husband with
| butcher-knife IN his hand. Sawyer is in Jail to
| answer the charge OF assault with intent to
| kill.
| The trial of Mary Sauers thirteen-year-old
| girl for murder in the first degree, is in prog
ress at Laporte. The girl is indicted with her
father for administering arsenic to her brother.
| The boy died, and chemical examination of
his stomach revealed the poison in large guam
| titles.
Articles of agreement were signed at Evans
! vile Wednesday between Frank Wood of that
| city and T. +. EdmOnds of Nincennes, in which
| the parties agree upon an eighty-hye-yard
sprint race, to take place at Evansville on Feb.
"a, for purse of 500. 4 forfeit of 500 was
deposited.
The Hamilton county fair association. located
| at NObleSvllle, has agreed to disband, which
will give Sheridan a representation in the state
ASSOCIATION. Preparations are making to hold
the largest and best fair at Sheridan next fall
ever given in Hamilton county. The driving
track is one of the finest in the state.
A series of revival meetings, attended with
remarkable success has just been closed at the
methodist church in Columbus, of which the
Rev. V. W. Tevs is pastor. The accessions
number 100. The Rev. Il. L. Sweeney has also
been conducting successful revival meetings at
the Christian church for several weeks.
d. c. Crandall, who left ByrnviIle, Harrison
county, in the spring of 1888 and went to Kan
sas, got on a spree at his new home and COM
mitted theft for which he has been sentenced
TO five years in the Kansas penitentiary. An
effort is being made 10 secure his pardon. He
was always considered an honest man during his
residence in Harrison county, though given
to occasional sprees.
Saturday, the American soap company of
Marion caused the arrest OF their agent George
W. Spur, on the charge of embeZzling $500.
Spur gave bond for his appearance. lie ad-
mits that he Is ahead of the company in the
to compel the company to settle. He is astOek-
holder in the concern, and wishes to sell his
interest or buy out the others.
After IA delay of several months the
machinery and engine for the new water-wOrks'
plant at Columbus finally arrived from Lock
port, \. y, and work will begin Immediately
at placing it in position. The cost of the new
plant is about fifteen thousand dollars. Column
bus will have, In the near future, new rail
way, with extensive shops, depot, an opera
house, and several new business blocks.
valuable mineral find was made by Prof.
W. w. Borden on his farm, New Provi-
dence, Clarke county. 10 is a deposit forty or
fifty feet thick, containing 10 per cent. of salt
peter and below that a rich alum shale, opened
now to the depth of ten feet. Both crop out In
a large cave, The assay shows also large per-
centage of aluminium and the find is very
valuable. The deposit is practically mex
haustible.
President Ingalls, OF the C., l., ST. i. & c. is
quoted, by personal friend as saving that
there were two things which had placed the
control OF the c., l., st. J.. & C.. stock in the
hands of New York parties: On The double
taxation of railroad stocks. which is driving
the control of all the railroads centering in
Cincinnati TO other states (2) A desire to un-
load some of his cares, which were underInin-
ing his health.
John Linenweber farmer near China jeff
erson county, mysteriousy disappeared from
he had been murdered or drowned. The fam
lily mOurned him as dead The wife or widow
as she supposed herself to be, formed the &C.
quaintance of Madison gentleman, and n
wedding was fast approaching, when who
should appear upon the scene last week but
the long-lOst John.
Alexander l.. GLADDEN., a general merchant
at ScOttsburg, has made an assignment to Mel
win Hubbard for the benefit of his creditors
Depression in trade is said to be the cause
Liabilities about 8 700, and assets estimated at
about 81, 400 GLADDEN. has served two terms
as county treasurer and is at present town
treasurer This is said to be the first assign
ment ever made in Scott county. Consequently
1t creates quite a sensation.
The people residing in the neighborhood of
Brushy Ridge, Bartholomew county, are greatly
exercised over the appearance there of what
they claim TO be a genuine ghost. Ii is said to
be as large as red fox and has four legs and
pair OF wings. The strange and oddly shaped
spook can both walk and fly, and makes
hldeous cries at all times of night. The people
OF that locality are terrerIzed by the I'M
natural being that they cannot be induced to
venture from their homes at night.
William Stillwell, Daniel Corner and James
Sanger, all prominent citizens of Duff town
ship, Spencer county, have been arrested
charged with larceny. They are accused of
hog-stealing, ransacking barns, residences and
committing other depredations They were
given preliminary hearing. Hamilton and
Shlwell were committed to Jail in default of
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