The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-07-17
Minor state Items.


this afternoon.
Minor State Items.
Willie Rector aged sixteen, was drowned at
Anderson Tuesday.
Reuben Spires of Morgan county lost his barn
by fire Sunday night.
Daniel Erwin of Adams county lost his barn
Tuesday night by FIRE.
DR.. d. W. Hore died of the fux at French
Lick Springs Monday.
Fort Wayne gentlemen have decided to have
a weeks racing in August.
Mrs. Laurent acknowledgement old resident
OF Fort Wayne, died Friday.
Capt. Finley, a prominent farmer and in
fuental citizen of Scott county, is dead.
Edward Miller, colored, of Cincinnati was
killed by the cars at Batesville Thursday.
The peach crop of southern Indiana has be-
gun to move. 1t is much above the average.
Garrett Mohning aged sixty-eight, re-
spected German citizen of Jackson county,
died Thursday morning of paralysis.
Wheat-thrashing is now in full blast in Jack
son county, and the yield is from twelve TO
thirty-hye bushels per acre, and the grain is
full and solid.
Eighteen convicts in the prison south have
been pardoned by Gov. Hovey, several of
whom had previously served sentences for
grave Ofienses.
county Saturday. A man who saw him says
he did not look as if he had been badly beaten
up by Sullivan.
T. r. Vaughan, clothing dealer of New Cas-
tie, has assigned all his property TO Dr. J. T.
Thompson for the benefit of creditors. Liza
bilities and assets unknown.
Oats IN southern Indiana that were thought
to have been been killed by the drought have
come out since the late rains, and in many in
stances the yield will be very heavy.
Mrs. Mollie Adair of New Washington while
attending to her household duties Tuesday,
was stricken blind. Her eyesight was always
good, and no particular reason can be assigned
for the misfortune.
T.. X. Templer, young attorney of Muncie
has been appointed a messenger to President
Harrison. Gen. Tom Browne and some Della
ware county republicans secured the position
for the young man.
A disastrous rain-storm occurred at Scots
burg Thursday, raising the creeks higher than
they have been within TWENTY-FIVE wears The
corn was badly damaged, and low ground wheat
and oats washed away.
Andrew Martin baker, had natural gas put
in his oven Saturday, at Newcastle, and when
he went to light it an explosion resulted from
the effects of which he was severely burned
about the head and arms.
James N Weaver, eolored constable was
arrested at Marion, Saturday, for ack-mailng
Weaver's practice was to arrest people on trivial
charges and release them on the payment of
from s. to S. He was bound over in the sum
of 500.
The elegant portrait of Gen. Anthony Wayne
now on view at Renner. Cratsley & Co.'S. book
store by Ambrose MacNeil, r. S. A, is pro-
of portraiture ever shown here.-F'Ort Wayne
Journal.
The many friends Of Dr. ]. NJ Mansfield, re-
Gently OF DePauw university, are in painful
anxiety regarding his fate. The Los Angeles
Tribune of June n contains an account of his
| supposed drowning in one of the December
floods in that state.
Upton county again comes to the front with
freak. Sunday evening Mrs. Reuben Ryan,
living near Upton gave birth to a female child
having double head. The child is otherwise
perfectly formed. 1t has four eyes, four ears,
two fOreheads, two mouths and two noses.
Since the recent consolidation of the Bee
Line with the Big Four road, the joint monop-
oily has been looking for new fields of conquest.
IL is pretty certain that they have their eye on
| the BIuncie road and some assert that its pur-
chase is virtually closed.-FOrt Wayne Journal.
The Hon. Simon Edsau of Fort Wayne re-
Gently celebrated the eightieth anniversary of
his birth. There are alive to-day just two peO-
pie. Isaac Klinger and James Lucky, who were
residents of Allen county when Mr.. Edsall
stepped into its borders in 1922, in company
with his mother.
The farmers are in arms against the Fort
Wayne pipe line company, growing out of the
fact that one farmer was dangerously injured
by natural gas explosion while lighting his
| pipe, and petitions are circulating and meet
ings are being held calling upon the county
| commissioners 10 abate the line a nuisance.
A veterans reunion viii take place at Marion,
beginning July 80 and concluding Aug. /. The
old soldiers of Delaware, Grant, Blackford and
| Madison counties will be present in force.
| Tents and ratiOns TO accommodate free 1900
| old soldiers, organized sons of veterans and
woman's relief corps. A sham battle will be
| fought
The youngsters at Corydon caught the mob
/ law contagion. arising from the lynching of
| Deavin and Tennyson, and a lad named Caugh-
| lin, accused of stealing knife from a comrade,
was euticed into the woods and would have
been lynched by his companions but for the
accidental presence of a man, who stopped pro-
| ceedings.
When Senator Voorhees, secured the APP
| pointment of Mr.. Reagan as postmaster of
| Terre Haute, four years ago, he was savagely
denounced for the act. Mr.. Reagan was spoken
of as grossly unfit for such position. Four
| years of service gave him the enviable reputa-
/ ton of having been the best postmaster Terre
| Haute ever had.
A new presbyterian church was Organized at
Ligonier, Thursday. The Rev. w. B. Town
| send preached to a crowded assembly in the
evening. Nine persons joined or professed
their faith; ten persons had their letters, and
| twenty-three more united with this nineteen.
/ forming church of forty-two members. Five
adults and one child were baptysed.
Miss Ce Dora Lieuellen, teacher of constitu-
tional history in the college at Danvilie, sewers
J her connection with the college at the close OF
/ the present year, and in September will become
| alaw studentin the law department OF the State
university of Iowa. Miss Jieuellen was ad.
mitted to the bar some three years ago, and at
that time was the only lady member of the bar
/ in the state.
William Meyer was fearfully mangled near
| Fort Wayne recently. He drove into the field
with a spirited team and attached them to the
| mower in waiting The horses took fright at