The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-23
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY oOIOBER

and the branch shops at Chicago to go to st.
Louis. Ii is believed that Mr.. Bass would look
with favor on an offer of 100000. and that
figure is not an improbable ofer.-foTt Wayne
Journal
The Monon Times which very truly describes
itself as "a live local newspaper" ia booming
Monon for the worlds fair. Il publishes
map in which Monon is presented in the center
OF vast section of country, with Indianapolis,
Louisville, st. Louis and Chicago as outlying
villages: The Monon guarantee fund, according
to the Times, is $l00,0O0,O00,OOO.
Macklin Jeffries, pioneer Of Rush county.
died near Charlottesville, Monday night He
was born in Virginia in 1902, and married to
Mary Turner, OF North Carolina, Feb. Is, 1926.
He removed to Indiana in 1888, and immedi-
ately became identified with the development
and progress of the state. He was noted for
his philanthropic disposition. He leaves 9
family OF nine children.
Louis +. Eddy has filed suit in the Scott cir
cult court against the Pennsylvania railroad
company, in which he asks $500 damages for
personal injuries received in attempting to get
on q moving train. Jonathan Everhart asks
$4,000 and GeorgelPatton S, 900 from the same
company for personal injuries received by
train striking their wagon at a street crossing.
AlvarO Hays asks 5000 damages for SANDER
from j. 5. Morgan.
Judge William Fl. Coombs, Judge John
NAOLElS anu non. Andrew ELLISON, OF THIS
city, were among the orators of the day at the
dedication of the new court house at Albion,
Ind, on the 10th. Judge Morris spoke on the
Early Bar of Noble County," Judge CoOmbS
on the Early Courts of Noble County" and
Mr.. Ellison on the Court House Is a symbol"
Other speakers were Thomas X. Marshall r
Yves. Mcbride, E. r, Wilson, Nelson Prentiss
and j. w. Adair. II was notable gathering
OF brilliant men.-FOrt Wayne journal.
The republican postOffice racket at Monroe
vile has ended. George Webster will succeed
Hugh Stewart who withdreS in the interest Of
harmony to accept a clerical position at Wash
ington. and he is now at the capitol with both
feet IN his new berth. He neutral in the
Stewart-D Davis edelsheimcr fight there. Not
content with this, the president has appointed
Joseph B. Davis government agent for the Sioux
Indians, one of the latest places in the far
West. This is the place ex-Sherif Will Shelter
was after, and his chances are ridden down by
Harry Hanna and Andy Purman. who backed
Davis. Purman went to Washington with
Davis and closed the deal.-FOn Wayne SeTlti-
nel
Considerable excitement is manifested in Or
ange county, near Paoli, on account OF several
lncendiary fires occurring there during the past
few nights. ii is intimated and believed that
| White Caps are at the bottom of these out
RACES. On Sunday night four stacks of hay
| belonging 10 Thomas Braxton, wealthy farmer,
were burned, and on the following day Mr..
btAAAVn huu a gbuuE ndultu lluuulteOu
arrested on the charge of arson. Huddleson
gave bail and was released, and on the same
night large straw stack belonging to Mr..
Braxton was set on fire and consumed. The
! White Caps whipped two men in Harrison
county Monday night.
On the LIST Of August Mrs. Richard Maddox,
| with her little daughter started from Bedford
| on visit TO her husbands sister at Loogootee.
! But instead OF getting off the train at Mitchell
| she kept on 10 Louisville From there all
] truce OF her was lost until few weeks ago,
when her husband received a letter from her,
| dated at Indianapolis in which she stated she
I had lett him forever, and by the time he re-
ceived the letter she would be on her road to
| California. Later on he received another let
| ter that was mailed on the Louisville & Knox
vile railroad and sent to indianapolis under
cover for the postmaster 20 mail to Bedford,
/ since which time nothing has been heard from
her.-Aew albany Ledger.
/ II all the stories told by quail hunters were
/ true il would not be long till the country was
/ depopulated of these birds. One hunter says
he killed eighty-one quails in two days hunt;
another that be killed seventy-six in n single
day, another sixty-four. another ffty-six, an
! other hfty-tYe, and so on through twenty
others whose claims ranged from thirty TO fifty.
! But there are a few honest quail hunters. One
| ot the best shots in the city said: 81 hunted
hard all day with rs good dog as there is in
the state aud GOT thirteen quais. ] think very
rev OF the pest snOlb get over twenty In n nara
! days work / have found quails very scarce,
and they are always very wild from the regi.
mental fusilade with shot guns on Them
| Aet0 Albany Ledger.
Patents have been issued to the following
citizens Of the state: Charles II. Auspach and
| J. j. Wilhelm, Cedar Grove, band cutting
| feeder for thrashing machine; Elias c. Atkins,
| indianapolis, cross-cut saw; George l.. Beck,
| Lebanon, washing machine: John b. Carter
| and j. w. Pertz, assignor OF one-half to NJ. ).
| Eiberling, Kokomo, and +. $. Levi, New York,
machine for grinding wood; Wallace H. Dodge,
MishawalSn, pulley; Charles G. Graham. Craw-
louisville, shaft attachment for carriages; Jesse
/ /. kester, Terre Haute assgnor OF one.fourth
| to O. T.. Duffy, Washington, electrical metal
| detector; Charles p. Lancaster, Paramount,
| gate; Adolph +. Prahm, indianapolis, signal
/ lantern; William II. Shoup, Middlebury,
/ churn; Frank NJ. Smiley, Goshen, car-bmke
! William w. Smith. Elkhart, inhaler; Isaac NJ.
Thompson, Franklin, gate; Edmund c. Wester-
welt, South Bend, sulky pillow.