The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07
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with heavy bolts. Electric appliances
have been aided, by which, it is claimed,
the fortress can not be taken by surprise.
kokomo has granted a franchise Tor an
electric street railway 10 MesSrs. Snow Il
Avery of Detroit. Three miles viii be in
operation by Sept. 10.
the capital stock OF the new pottery
company at Charlottesville will be $4,000
and as soon as one-fiuh OF this is SUBJ
scribed work will upon the
necessary buildings.
Since the disappearance OF the snow in
Jackson county the wheat Is found TO be
in an excellent condition. The grain Is
deep rooted and every Indication point
to a large crop next season.
John Harper, an old citizen OF Fort
Wayne, died "wednesday. The surviving
members of the family are james B. and
Benjamin f. Harper. the Fort Wayne at
torneys, and three other children grown
up.
Edward A. Coleman Of Montgomery
county is a candidate for ~doorkeeper of
the house of Representatives. Mr.. Cole
man will undoubtedly get the united sup
port of this, the Eighth district.-Terre
Hdute Gazette.
Forbes, aged t~wenty-four, son of James
FL lott, the Parry Sound poet. who lives
in Goshen, WAS drowned last week in Can
ada by breaking through the ice on
Georgian bay. The deceased lived in
Goshen for several years.
A new paper, a German one, the Free
Lau5e, will be published in Michigan City.
The first issue will appear within a month.
About thirty of the prominent German
citizens of Michigan City met there Mon
day and organized a stock company for
the publication of the paper. The capital
stock is 5000, divided into 100 shares OF
$50 each.
At Hudson, Mich, Saturday, Neil
Beazel, aged seventeen, and whose home
was at Ligonier. boarded a freight train
when The brakeman threw a stone at him
and in lodging he lost his equilibrium
and fell between the cars, XII ling him in
stantly. On the same day Frank Beazel,
bro,her of the deceased, had his hand
smashed while coupling cars on the Pan
Handle raj road
The culture of peppermint on the re-
claimed marsh lands in It. Joe county has
become a material industry, and the far
mers who have gone into the business are
doing well. The Woodward brothers
during the last season had sixty acres of
mint under cultivation, and next season
will devote 100 acres TO the fragrant
weed. Extensiv- stills and apparatus for
extracting the oil are being erected.
Mrs. Woodwork will not find the even
temper prevailing in her flock on Four
teenth and Lucas-aye. when she returns
next week, that was existing when she
folded her tent preparatory to her depart
ure for Indiana, some months ago. The
pastor, the Rev. 4. Douglas, and two of
his assistants. F. Wheeldon and j. T. Ahle,
are at daggers point, singing the lie with
reckless rsndom.-N. LOUIS POS-Dspdtch.
From various parts of the state comes
the news that farmers are not r garding
the quail law, but instead are killing them
bv thousands. So great has been the
slaughter of these birds in Floyd county
that the officers are looking into the mat
ter, with q view of bringing the violators
to Justice. The birds were not only killed
bv pot shots while huddled together in
the snow. but they were trapped and
| melted Observation-Disclosures Ban
ner.
William E. Henkel has purchased the
Edqle OUTFIT and will NOV, the better part
of it to Talledega, Ala, or some other
southern point, where he VIII, with other
new material, establish a Grover Cleve-
| land. free trade, democratic paper. He
saws he will bend all his efforts toward
lifting the South from the lethargy forced
upon it by a war that butchered a million
and a half white men to give as MANY ne
groes a ballot, the value OF which they
can never realize RockriJe Tribune.
The Button Banner begins this week
its forty-second year. The editor says:
For more than ~forty-one years IL has
stood the faithful advocate of d-mocratic
principles. honest government and eco
,1,,.ooI .I,.s-satraffo Of tho 1ffafr= ~
the country. The Banner is the rightful
successor of the Repub icGn BUg'c, which
was establis ed in Button in 1887 by
Thomas Smith, a democrat OF the "old
school," The Bugie was succeeded in De-
cember, 1s49. by the B utfton Banner,
though the first issue of the Banner did
not appear until January. 1850. Samuel
G.. Upton, an attorney of the town, and
Lewis :. Grove, then county auditor, were
the projectors, Mr.. Upton being the editor.
The Banner ever since its first issue has
been constant and true to the principles OF
democracy.
The Newport Hoosier State gets the fol-
lowing good one oil on Charles Berry, the
Veedersburg NetCs editor: "A good many
wears ago, when Berry first embarked in
the printing business, old John Ro' inson's
agent struck Waynetown and had a lot of
quarter-sheet bi Is struck off on cotton
cloth. The order was filled, but fer some
reason the bills were never ca led for and
they were lett on Berry's hands. Cotton
goods in those days were very high, and
as Berry was having a pair OF pantaloons
made at the ~tailor'e, he took the bills over
10 the shop and had the tailor sew them
together and then cut into lining for his
pants. As the months rolled by The panta-
looms grew threaibare, and one day, while
loaiDg around A bert MuhleiSen's saloon
at Charlottesville, he got into a racket with
Jap Porter, who, grabbing his pants, sccl-
d~entally tore the seat out, leaving about
one foot of lining expo ed to view. This
in itself would have made the BOYS smile,
but thy laughed until the tears came
when they oD>erved standing ont boldly