The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-04-10
Minor State Items.

Huntingburg voted itself city last Wednes-
day.
The farmers near Macy are organizing against
the binder trust.
Burglars stole s125 in cash from the residence
of Barbara Zoeller at Madison Thursday
night.
Clinton Gerard, young democrat, recently
tried for illegal voting at Rensselaer,, has been
acquitted.
The Oklahoma fever has struck Kokomo in
mild form. The organization Of a colony Is in
contemplation.
DR.. Cotton and Mr.. Corn are struggling for
the Jasper postofice. Cotton or Corn may be
king OF the burg.
Samuel Horton caught 4S6 pounds of fish
Wednesday near Leavenworth in net that he
had set over night.
Capt. w. R. Myers, late democratic candi-
date for lieutenant governor, has decided to To-
cate permanently at Anderson and practice
law.
The residence of John Rutlege at Utica was
totally destroyed by fire Friday night. The
furniture and most of the household effects
were saved.
j. Dow, who sued the c., H. & /. railroad at
Liberty for injuries sustained, claiming 5000,
compromised the case, receiving $500 He then
departed. leaving large board-bill and attor-
ney's fees unpaid.
William Williams of Terre Haute, aged fifty
eight, was crushed Friday morning by heavy
locomotive boiler head falling on him, and
death was instantaneous. He leaves widow
and one daughter
John w. Lowell and Charles L. Henry be-
came involved in personal quarrel in Judge
Chipman's court at Anderson Thursday. The
lie passed, but friends interfered in time 70
prevent serious result.
In the case of Sullivan, administrator, VS. the
Pennsylvania company, the jury at Plymouth
md rod a YER lQt Of inst he
pany. This was for the killing OF the husband
of the plaintiff by an accident more than two
years ago.
William Hudnell, aged sixtY-five, has had to
skip out from his home near Macy, as the
White Caps gave him notice that If he wanted
to live In peace with a certain woman that he
must have the sanction of the church. He
preferred to run away with her TO Rochester.
George B. Hiser and Miss Matte Brubeck
were married at Rockville last Friday. MIR.
Heiser is rising young journalist, and he will
soon associate himself with Samuel Riley of
Brazil where the young couple just married
will make their future home. They are spend
ing the honeymoon at Franklin
Edward Powell, one of the river pirates who
plundered and attempted to burn the town of
Bethlehem, and subsequently broke Jail March
9, has been captured at Bonneville, KY. He
had kit of burglars tools with him, and let
tiers (evidently s'olen) addressed to w. f. Bas-
sett under which name he passed.
At Nashville, Saturday, Posey & Son sold
their hve-year-old stallion Russia, No. 1875,
by Nutwood, No. 900; first dam, Renia Vic
toria, by Hambletonian, No. 10; second dam by
Volunteer, No. 90; third dam, Old Clara, by
American Star, to Col Goodlet and DR.. Nc
Gully, managers of the Buenaventura stock
farm, GAINESVILLE, Tenn for $4,000. Posey u
Son purchased Russia at the McFenan sale in
1886, paying 1850
Thursday last wholesale haul was made by
thieves at the village of Huntertown, ten miles
north of Fort Wayne on the Grand Rapids &
Indiana railway. The railroad company's sta
commercial travellers and others had stored
there, we're broken open. The thieves, after
robbing the depot, broke into the general store
of Reuben Cone and carried away quantity of
quinine and tea. They also broke into the
barber-shop of Joe Ketcham and stole eleven
razors.