The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30
Minor state Items.

Goshen will have a free-mail delivery Feb 1.
Lorenzo Fisher and Charles Geneson, old
citizens of Valparaiso, are dead.
Charles Davis and wife of Otisco Clark
county, have celebrated the sixty-third anni-
yersary OF their marriage.
A student named Unruh attempted 20 COM
nit suicide at Valparaiso Thursday night with
stryehnine. Disappointed III love the cause.
Lucien 6. Matthews, at one time one of the
proprietors of TIE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL,
is reported dangerously i'll at his home near
Louisville.
Joseph Henry was drowned near Vincennes
Thursday night. lie lived at Billet Station,
ILL.,, and was attempting to cross the Embarass
river with team.
The Greensburg Standard appeared as usual
last week but under adverse circumstances
in consequence OF having been burned out
Thursday night.
\ part of the farm and several articles Of
personal property Of ex-Auditor Brewster Of
Harrison county were sold recently at sheriff s
sale on decree OF foreclosure of mortgage.
Milton NJ. Thompson, recorder of Allen
county and Frank Alderman, members of the
old Thirty-eighth regiment Indiana volunteers
arg making visit 10 some OF the battlefields in
Tennessee and Georgia in which the regiment
bore an honorable part. In the battle OF Ben
tonville. Y. c.. the last considerable
engagement in which Sherman's army was en-
gagged Thompson lost q leg.
Owen county will have no delinquent tax
list this year, and We congratulate the tax-pay-
ers upon the fact. While there is some dein.
quency, the amount is not sufficient to justify
It's publication, therefore, the auditor aud
treasurer have deemed it expedient TO 60 with
out publication. If we but look at our neigh.
boring republican counties we can easily as
certain the difference between democratic and
republican rule.-Speacer Democrat.
A number Of gentlemen Of racing procliyites
met an evening or two since at the Wayne
hotel, Fort Wayne and the talk turning upon
the relative speed Of horses owned in that city.
A team race for 500 side was arranged be-
tween pair Of trotters and pair of PAGERS.
The trotters are w. ii. Watts chestnut horse
and Capt. +. T. BOltz's horse, George B." The
PAGERS will be Joe Y. Bells and A. u. Cressler's
fine animals. y. w. Pearse will drive the trot-
tiers and John Hooper the PAGERS. The race
will take place at Swinney park first good day
and good track.
L. II. Moore, business man Of Columbus,
is suffering from a peculiar ailment, which,
physicians state, is almost certain to result IA
tally. There is an obstruction of some kind in
his stomach, and for over three months not a
particle of substance has passed into the in
testines. He has been kept alive by liquid
food, which, after serving as nourishment
is elected from the stomach by way of the
mouth. An operation will be performed upon
him on the Goth by indianapolis surgeons with
the view OF removing the obstruction from the
stomach. He is very much emaciated, apd his
chances of surviving the operation are very
small.
In referring 70 the reported death in Wash.
ington OF L. ID. King, editor of the Hendricks
County G0zette, that paper says: while q
number of his brethren of the press were en-.
gagged in getting up the usual obituaries, inter