The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-14
Minor State Items.

brazil wants Jne Indianapolis car WOrkS
to locate there.
Greencastle is making a stiff fight tor
the Monon shops.
Felix Woolsey OF Princeton lost S643 by
burglars Sunday night.
Mrs. George Phillips, a pioneer of Allen
county. died Wednesday.
John Franks of Fort Wayne attempted
to commit suicide Friday.
DR.. Solomon Davis of Scottsburg, a
prominent physician, died Monday.
Chauncey II. Bun of Middleton died in
Muncie Wednesday, aged eighty-six.
Azanah Mullen, aged seventy-two, an
old pioneer, died at H~ortonville, Thursday.
Two hundred cases of tonsolitis are
reported among the children of Martins
vile.
Young Fitzpatrick, killed recently by a
mine explosion in Dakota, was buried
at Brazil Tuesday.
Elder Brewer of Danville will preach at
the Christian or disciples hurch oil
Ihorntown this year.
The store of Richardson & bearing, at
Winslow, Pike county, was burglarized
Saturday night.
The Mormons have made fourproselytes
in Crawford county within the past week.
Two of these came from the methodists.
John Gray, a well-known citizen of
Hazleton, Gibson county, was found dead
in his bed Saturday. rheumatism of the
heart.
George 4. Buskirk is to be assisted in
the examination of the books of Treasurer
Fie us of Orange county, by Robert Wiles
Of Shelby county.
Tell City offers to give the market
square and $4,000 for a new court house,
provided the county seat OF Perry is re-
moved to hat point.
Dennis w. Lam of Bartholomew county
died Monday, aged seventy-one. He was
born in Clark but had lived in Bartholo-
NEW for sixty years.
Very little ice, and that only five inches
thick, has been harvested this year. The
ice-famine croaker is heard at the Laporte
and other northern Indiana ice-tields.
The Jacksonville Ners will offer a
premium for the ugliest man i'll hat city,
the same to be determined by a popular
ballot. All votes for the editor of the
NeWs to be barred.
The county commissioners of Posey
county have issued an order to the effect
that all pauper charges shall be sent to the
poor ASYLUM and not be otherwise sup
ported by the county.
James NJ. Mcbride, who was accused of
blowing up the Jenkins hotel at Plain
vile with dynamite, has been discharged
from custody, a preliminary trial result
ing in his acqulttal.
John c. Zulaur has brought suit against
the treasurer and auditor of Clarke county
to restrain the collection of back taxes on
property unearthed by FAINT the Ferret,
and valued at $4,000
Ezekiel Perego died at his home at
Bonneville recently, aged eighty-seven
years. He had been a resident of War
rick county over seventy years and was a
man of high character and al excellent
citizen.
The Rev. James Campbell, convicted Of
criminal malpractice, on complaint OF
Anna Huntsman of Columbus, and SEN
fenced to the Southern prison for three
years, has been granted u new trial on
newly discovered evidence.
A damage suit has beer filed in the
| Henry circuit court by William p. Pope
against Martha c. Kendall, his mothsr-in-
law. He alleges that she estranged his
wife from him and aIienated her affections,
and he asks 5000 damages.
Arrangements nave been made for a
prize fight between Ed Cory of Crawfords-
vile and Sam Grant of Lafayette. 1t will
be to a finish and for $500 a side, Marquis
of Queensbury rules prevailing. The date
and place have not been made public.
While farmer Horace Mcpherson, living
near Akron, was hunting Thursday he ac-
cidentally shot himself in the forehead,
the load of shot destroying one eye. frac-
turing his skull, from which several pieces
of bone were removed, and badly dis6gur-
ing his face.
A post-mortem examination was held
Friday over the remains OF Chris MARKER,
who died OF pneumonia Wednesday night.
1t appears that while in delirium during
his illness he said that he had been given
trough on rats" The stomach was sent
to DIR. Cottell of Louisville for examina-
ton.
Governor George w. Steele of Okla
bona, who is also one of the members of
| the board OF managers of the soldiers