The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-16
Minor state Items.


Bloomington is enjoying building boom.
The White Caps are muttering in Orange
county.
Horse thieves are busy near Charleston.
John Shelley lost two horses Sunday night.
John Wright, ST., one of the oldest citizens of
Vermillion county, died last week at Clinton.
His funeral was the largest ever seen in New
port
The Studebaker mansion at South Bend viii
be rebuilt on most magnificent and expensive
scale. The building burned last week cost
100000
AT the Waterloo fair Friday, two horses
tered in the races ran away on the track, break
ing the sulkies and injuring the drivers quite
severely.
A child of John Corvis If Richmond, aged
eighteen months, was fatally burned Monday
morning while playing with matches, which set
fire to its clothes.
Hugh Mason and David Campbell have pur-
chased the drug and book store OF j. +. Law
son at Spencer Mr.. Mason is a well-known
commercial traveller.
The distinguished evangelist Dwight /.
Moody will lead the bible readings at the state
convention of Y. NJ. c. A., which will meet
next month in Lafayette.
/. n. Whitehead of Laporte, a dealer in
agricultural implements, mas made an assign.
ment. Liabilities $4,000. The assets will
amount to nearly the same.
Claud Leslie, Fort Wayne lad who left
home FIVE years ago, and was supposed TO be
dead, returned home Saturday TO the gratihca-
ton OF his father and family.
Adam Bakers residence, three miles south
east of Monroevlle, burned Monday night,
with all its contents. The family was absent at
the time, and il is believed TO have been the
work of an incendlary.
Franklin county is credited with a popula-
ton of 25 600 does not contain a single colored
person. has not had a prisoner in her county
Jail in the past five months, and is good for
1850 democratic majority.
James Gordon, aged eighty, died suddenly
while sitting in his chair at his home in George
town last Friday. He went to Cass county IN
1888, and was one OF the original contractors on
the Wabash & Erie canal.
As James Hull living ten miles west OF Fort
Wayne, was driving home the other night he
was struck on crossing by a passenger train.
Hull was thrown out and instantly killed with
his horses. He leaves a large family.
In April next the Rev. c. w. Lynch, presid-
ing elder of the Warsaw district North Indiana
conference of the methodist episcopal church,
will have completed his thrty-eighth year OF
active service in the methodist ministry.
While out hunting Sunday near New Albany,
Edward Smith was accidentally shot by his
cousin, Frank Brown, who mistook smith in
the bushes for a rabbit. Forty shot lodged in
the arms and legs of Smith. inhicting serious
wounds.
A number of the Wa!hen heirs at Jefferson
vile are making strenuous objections to pay
ing their portion of the S19,250 awarded to Miss
Kate Twanny. They claim that the verdict is
exorbitant, and that they will use every means
in their power to have it set aside.
The grand jury ut Madison has indicted
George Schick for murder in the first degree.
a motion to quash the indictment over
ruled by Judge Friedley, and the trial was set
down for next Wednesday. Schlick shot and
killed Dick Cisco in Madison last August.
A mortgage for $3.50. 600 has been filed in the
recorders Office in Charlottesville in favor Of
the American loan and trust company OF New
York. 1t is given by the Water supply com
panv of Charlottesville and the money is to be
used TO buy the Charlottesville water-works as
soon as the affairs of the latter corporation eau
be adjusted.
Mr.. NJ. w. Lee, secretary of the Indiana tar.
III reform league, proposes to visit the several
counties of this congressional district and hold
meetings in each. The Hon. +. V. Brookshire,
our congressman-elect, will accompany Mr..
Lee. Their appointment for this county is at
this place on the evening of Wednesday, Oct
23-SULiUdn Democrat.
Marion Shields. prominent farmer and a
member of the G.. A. R., died last week near
Salem, and his friends requested that the lu-
neral be conducted by his late comrades. The
interment was in the Hicksite Quaker cemetery
but the church objected to the ceremonies at
the grave because the firing Of guns was part
thereof. Much feeling was created in q. A. X.
circles in consequence and the action of the
church was severely criticised
The saloon men of this city have effected a
permanent organization and chosen officers.
The object of the association is TO see that
under the increased license every man who sells
liquor In less quantity than a quart at time
shall sell il under a license. The wholesalers
and the drug stores viii be rigidly looked after,
and some of those who have forgotten to call at
the city treasury. will be reminded of the
Observation-Disclosures Leader.
Miss Ruth NJ. Wells, a Fort Wayne lady re-
Gently deceased, bequeathed TO the city of Fort
Wayne certain real estate for the benefit of
blind and crippled persons. as stated In THE
SENTINEL atthe time of her death 1t is now