The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-02

holiday, and was about to take the bartender
into custody when a brawny ex-policeman.
named George Parrish, stepped up and felled
Stanley with big cane, and then jumped on
his form and gave him terrible beating. The
city marshal happened to appear and he took
Parrish into custody, while Stanley was taken
home.
Auditor Iavelle of Daviess county is recov-
ering from his recent mshap. His horse took
fright and ran of, and Mr. Lavelle was thrown
from the buggy. He head struck on the ground,
which was frozen, and he lay for some time un-
conscious.
After having made two unsuccessful attempts
to run away from her parents in Franklin
county, Kentucky, Miss Amanda Hand sue
ceeded in Guiding her watchful parents. and
with Thomas Simpson eloped TO Jetfersonyille
Friday and were married.
Mrs Esther NJ Lawrence of Richmond five
years ago, in a fall, broke her hip, from the
effects of which she never recovered, and she
died Sunday aged eighty-four. She was resi-
dent of Wayne county since 1887, and her hus-
band, Edmund Lawrence, who died In 1854,
was one of its noted pioneers.
For the past three years the work of draining
the swamp prairie land lying between Hunt
ington and Fort Wayne, along the line OF the
Wabash railway, mas been progressing. The
prairie is of immense size, and next season sew
eral thousand acres of hitherto worthless land
will be plowed up and put in grain.
Sylvester Smith was arrested at Wabash,
Friday, for forgery committed in 1886. He
sold forged note on John Shafer, farmer,
TO DIR. Depuy. Reward was offered, but Smith
kept in hiding. He also robbed his father-in-
law, Brandenburg, in Huntington county. He
confessed and will 90 over the road
Fire originated in the boiler-room of the
Wabash school furniture factory Tuesday and
spread TO adjoining rooms where quantity OF
church furniture was in process of manufac-
frtra A. - he, let ohn rah
at Kendallville was destroyed. The entire loss
fOots up $1,000, with 5000 insurance.
Mrs. Marion Iddings, who, with her four
children, disappeared two weeks ago from her
home in Putnam county, writes from Frankfort
that the cause of her mysterious disappear
ance" was cruel treatment on the part of her
husband. Her father is a resident OF Frank
fort, and she is now making her home with
him.
An attempt was made to wreck the Lake Erie
4 Western passenger train between Cassville
and Kokomo Monday morning. The train con-
sisted OF Jour passenger coaches, heavily laden,
and had the attempt been successful the loss OF
life must have been appalling. A large lot OF
rocks has been placed upon the track, and had
any locomotive struck them the entire train
would have been wrecked.
Patents have been granted the following In
dianians: James ID. Clemens, Hanover, slate
cleaner; Michael Clune, indianapolis, bed
lounge, j. ID. Deeus aSSlgnOr TO N. III. OaJln,
Terre Haute, anti-friction compound. also me-
tallic packing ring; Levi III. Roberts and c. L.
Sanford, assignors to L. c. Atkins d Co., In
dianapolis, buck saw frame; Christopher c.
Sharp, indianapolis, pessary; Silas 7. IOunt,
Lafayette, spectrum.
DIR. Thomas III. Harrison, president of the
state board of benevolent institutions, and fvr
fifteen years past editor of the Lebanon
Pioneer, has retired from the latter position
for the purpose of engaging in journalism in
a more extended field. The Pioneer will here
after be conducted by Ben f. Mickey, a
worthy and capable young gentleman, who has
practically managed the paper for ten years
past.
There was Jail delivery at Lafayette Christ
mas night. Six persons escaped. The escape
was effected by cutting out a block of stone q
foot square and six inches thick. Two iron
bars an inch and One-eighth thick were also
cut just above the cell, and they left the way
open to the garnet. A rope ladder made out Of
bed ticking enabled the prisoners TO reach the
ventilator and gain the roof, and descent to the
ground was made by means of the ladder
The Jail fence was scaled by means of a shed
and boards. Three of the prisoners had been
indicted by the grand jury for bgamy and
robbery, two for burglary and one for larceny