The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-14

Bloomington, III.
Henry Benan Milter, professor OF rhetoric
and eiocutien, has resigned his chair In the In
diana university.
The tile mill of Amoor Boyd located near
Montpelier, was struck by lightning Saturday
and badly damaged.
The Hamilton county fair will be held at
Noblesville Aug. $780, A good time is prom.
ised by the directory
Hog cholera has again broken out in Jackson
county and Fred White, one OF the best farm.
ers in that section, has lost over fifty head re-
Gently.
The Parke county fair begins at Rockville
Monday, Aug. 10, and will continue until the
23d. The Parke county fair is one of the best
OF western Indiana fairs.
Southern Indiana has produced this season
one OF the largest peach crops ever known in
that section. Brown county seems TO be
humping" herself especially.
The thirteenth annual fair of the Boone
county agricultural society begins Aug. 10 and
closes Aug. %. Boone gives one OF the best
exhibits in Indiana every year.
Charles B. Dougherty OF Button becomes
heir TO $4,000 by the will of his aunt Mrs B.
u. Stults, whose death at the Sanitarium Battle
Creek, Mich, occurred recently.
The old settlers of Clinton county will hold
their annual meeting at the Frankfort fair
grounds Thursday, Aug. Is. Distinguished
speakers and good music are promised.
George Zollman of Medora finished thrash
ing wheat Saturday. He had one field that
made an average of fifty bushels to the acre.
This is the best ever raised in Jackson county.
Asa Howard died last night from injuries re-
ceived from the breaking down of pike bridge
near Liberty which he was crossing with load
OF lumber. He leaves wife and two children
IN destitute circumstances.
The Hon. R. c. Bell left for Mackinac this
| Saturday afternoon TO join his wife. Mrs.
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She expects TO go to Europe the coming win
| ter.-EOrt Wayne Sentinel
The bodies of Ollie Morton and Miss Maud
Salyers, drowned near Brownsville Sunday
night, were buried in one grave in the cemetery
near Liberty Tuesday. The X. of p. lodge con-
Quoted the funeral services.
Miss Mae Harrison of New Corner has caused
a warrant to be issued against Frank Carpenter.
| son OF Councilman Carpenter of Muncie, and
| hersecond cousin, charging him with attempted
criminal assault The young man has fed.
The Brdgeton union fair, embracing Clay,
| twenty-ninth annual exhibit. The fair is eX-
clusively a farmers one, being devoted largely
! to farm products and stock, though racing has
/ been INDUCED in lately.
! During the past few years a number of valu-
! able pearls have been found attached to shells
! in White river, near Rockford. One resident
of that village has realized over $500 from that
/ source, and large specimen recently picked
up by him sold readily for s3S
The trotting associations of Columbus. Edin-
| burg and Cambridge City have combined in a
fall circuit. The race meetings will open in
| Columbus Sept. TO- and will continue three
/ days. At Cambridge City the races will begin
Sept IL, and at Edinburg Oct. Z.
Sunday evening while s. II. III. Mathes, for
merly editor of the Journal at Spencer was
! out riding with his daughter the horse became
! frightened and ran away, throwing both vio-
I " 10 f,ar L.
! daughter. The father sustained only slight
/ bruises.
A cOlored camp-meeting is under full head
way at Spencer. 1t was crowded last Sunday
| Considerable confusion arose while the sermon
/ was being preached, due to the discovery of
/ large black-snake swinging from the branches
over the minister's head, but it was routed out
and killed.
1t is stated that the mayor Of South Bend has
| received a letter from Benedict, Field 4 Co. OF
Chicago, boot and shoe manufacturers, asking
/ what that place will do for them il they locate
! their factory there They propose 10 build a
/ factory with a capacity of 500 pairs of shoes a
! day, and they Will employ 800 hands.
An investigation of the condition Of the
Boonville postoffice shows that William T.
Denny, the fugitive assistant postmaster, is a
| defaulter for S665S, and that his peculations
! began in January last. William Swint, the
| postmaster, is ruined financially, as he will
have to make good the shortage to the govern
| ment.
A cowardly attempt was made to wreck the
/ south-bound Ohio d Mississippi passenger
train at Silver creek bridge near Jeffersonville,
Sunday night Rocks were piled on the track.
! which derailed the engine and caused three
| hours delay. No one was hurt. a short time
ago an obstruction was placed near Watson for
similar purpose.
During alteration between Mrs. kelso
and Miss Edith Hendricks Saturday, at Broad
| bal lat oh fha laff ava
with piece of gas pipe, welded by the former,
! and knocked senseless. She remained uncon-
scious for quite q while, and during the night
| and the greater part OF yesterday she was de-
! lirious. The wound is an ugly one, and may
! yet prove fatal.
Col. William H. Snodgrass, one Of the widely
| known men of southern Indiana and residing
| at Watson, died Saturday of general debility.
He was native of Jefferson county, but re-
moved TO Clark county forty years ago, and
when the war broke out he entered private
soldier and rose to the colonelcy of the Twenty
second Indiana. He was roadmaster OF the }.
NJ. & l. railway for twelve years and for the
past twenty years he has been superintendent
OF Speeds cement mills at Watson.
Indiana patents-Wlliam L. Coffin, Bloom
| ingsport potato planter and seed drill Theodore
! w. Eversole, Garrett, soldering-iron; John III.
| Ferguson, kOkOmO, running gear for bicycle;
! Humphrey G.. Griffith, indianapolis, lantern;
| Alfred R Heath, Covington, car coupling;
] Matthew X Moore, Indianapolis, San0-mOlulng
machine; John p Nichols Marion, exercising
machine; Lucien 4. Cakes, Valparaiso, lamp
| burner; Charles 4. Olcott, North Vernon,
lawn mower; Samuel Smoker, Goshen, broad
cast seed-sower.
| The picnic at Cloverdale recently was a swell
affair in more ways than one. An immense
crowd was there, the excursion train from the
| north alone carrying fifteen well filled coaches.
/ The attractions advertised came OF agreeably
to promise, and some others without having
been promised; for instance, Willis Marks was
| shot in the thigh while on the race track, and
Jerry Curren got pistol ball in one OF his
arms while at a saloon. Sheriff Nestal and
deputies also arrested eight chuck-a-luck and
| other sharpers.-ROckUiHe Eagle.
Grand Reporter j. w. Jacobs Of the K. of II.
of Indiana is said to be the possessor OF a singu
lar power. BY some occult process he can stop
! the bleeding of even dangerous wounds, and he
has frequently been called upon in cases where
| physicians seemed pOwerless. All that he re-
| auires is to know the exact location OF the pa
| tent, and though he be several miles distant,
! the bleeding will cease. He never accepts any
| paw, nor does he want notoriety. Mr.. Jacobs
says il is not necessary that the patient believe
in the healing power. tie learned II when
! quite boy from his sister-in-law.
There are two men down in Columbus, Ind,
| who will probably not stand much of a show
when Gabriel toots his horn. Their names are
Arty Monroe and Nick Herod. They are joint
owners of a story TO the effect that they caught,
with an ordinary trout line, in White river,
monster fat-head catfish weighing 104 pounds.
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