The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-11
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

Vile state prison.
Wheat sowing is nearly completed in
southern Indiana.
Grasshoppers are doing much dam
age in Knox county.
]. G. Willkom Of Newry has $4,000
cabbages ready for market.
More than the usual number OF farmers
are planting their wheat with drills this
season.
The corn crop in the western part OF
Jackson county is almost a failure ex-
cept on the river bottoms.
One prominent farmer estimates that
the acreage OF wheat in Bartholomew
county this year will be 40 per cent.
less than last year.
Billie ]. OBlennis, a former employe
of the Bloomfield Democrat Office, Is
managing editor of the Star of Rogers
Vile, Tenn. and is doing well. @
Ammon Heady, aged eighty-fve, and
George W. Mexican, aged seventy-eight,
died recently at jamestown. Both were
highly respected citizens Of Boone county.
The presbyterian synod Of Indiana will
convene in the Central presbyterian
church at Terre Haute Oct. 10 and eX-
tend to the 18th. Two hundred delegates
are expected to attend.
A young lady at Logansport has OBJ
tanned patents on two ingenious inven-
tons, one for a device for unloading
grain cars, and the other for an i'm
proved typewriter holder
A contagious disease is prevalent
among horses in the west portion Of
Orange county that is proving very Sc
we're, and in some cases fatal. 1t is
thought to be a severe kind Of distemper.
Mrs. Katherine Deffenbaugh, the old
est living woman in kokomo, and prob
ably in Howard county, celebrated her
ninetieth birthday Saturday at the home
of her daughter, Mrs William Styer, in
that city
Miss Freddie Kosterer Of North Man
chester undertook to NIL the tank at
tached to a gasoline stove before extin-
gushing the fire. Naturally enough
there was an explosion. in which she was
severely burned
D. S. Maurer reports having raised on
his place this season "some pumpkins"
The length Of one vine is given as 367
feet, bearing nine pumpkins weighing
PIP pounds. the largest sixty-one pounds.
Brazil Democrat.
A five months old baby was burned to
death on White Mans island In the Kan
kakee river recently. It's parents We're
living in a tent and the clothing of the
child caught fire from a spark while the
mother was hanging out a washing.
At South Bend little girl fell into a
rain water barrel Wednesday, head
foremost. and was almost lifeless when
discovered a few minutes later by a
woman who happened to pass by. Res
piration was restored with difficulty.
A catamount. something of that
kind, is making its home in the Jungles
west Of Milford. So far the only dam
age done by the beast is suffered by the
ladies of the neighborhood, as the young
men are afraid TO venture out at night
John Lauster has as usual fine crop
of pumpkins. One of the largest, now
on exhibition at his store, measures in
in its shortest girth sixty inches, and it's
longest circumference seventy inches
weight is seventy-five pounds.-Seymour
Democrat.
Viola DIETRICH, the twenty-year-old
girl who is now under arrest at KO-
komo for leading men into dark places,
where three male chums footpadded
them and took their money, lived at
Camden, where she had the reputation
of being a bad girl.
DR.. William A. Cole died Sunday at
English, Crawford county, after four
months of illness. He was prominent as
a physician and mason. and was also a
local politician and leader He was an
applicant for appointment as collector of
internal revenue for the Seventh dis
trict.
Mrs. E. Wise of near Union, who ran
away from her husband with one George
Thursby, taking a horse and buggy be-
longing to her husband, has returned,
her husband. She returned the rig.
Thursby has also returned to the neigh
borhood.
Special Bank Examiner A. ]. Shuttle
Of Detroit was here Friday and made
thorough examination of the condition
and affairs Of the First national bank
and found everything all right The
bank is sound~as a rock, and no better
can be found in the state.-Frankfort
Crescent.
Laporte young ladies are organizing
unden an instructor in the science Of
sportsmanShip'' the art of duck and
quail shooting. An Elkhart lady, accord
ing TO the Truth, is equipped with a
hunting outfit and nearly always accom-
panies her husband on his little expedi-
tons to field and forest.
John o. Snyder Of North township,
Marshall county, is considered the
champion pickle raiser, having picked
over six hundred bushels Of cucumbers
from four acres. At so cents per bushel
this will make an income Of $500 from
four acres, or at the rate of SO per
acre.-SOuth Bend Times.
John A. Caldwell. west Of Lebanon,
left two ears Of corn Of the Riley's fovor-
ite variety at the Pinoeer Office last
Thursday which weighed three pounds.
One of the ears contained twenty-five
rows. was fifty-eight grains in length
and weighed on pound and ten and one
half ounces.-Lebanon Pioneer.
A young lady examining and pricing
some hosiery ina Noble county store re-
Gently. finding a pair that she liked,
asked the clerk ''how high those came.''
Green Clerk-"Why, don't know exact
ly, but l think about two inches above
the knee. You may step into the back
room and try them on If you like"
Ambrose Rude will be remembered as
having been drowned in the Kankakee
river last April while fishing there with
man named John Eckert. The rela-
tives now claim that there was foul play
as Rude had considerable money on his
person before the drowning, but IT was
missing when the body was found
The Cerealine mill is now again at
work. 1t Is not probable, as we learn
from one OF the gentlemen Interested
that the establishment will be removed
70 indianapolis though economy in run
ming the business may dictate such a
course as will transfer the greater part
or 1t to that place.-Columbus Herald.
TIE Chesterton saloonkeepers have
adopted a praiSewOrthy course regard
ing minors. They have printed blanks
containing the law regarding misrepre-
sentation OF age, and any person whose
age is not known and thought to be
under age, must sign an affidavit stat
ing that he IS twenty-one years old be-
fore liquor will be sold to him.
A farmer friend of the Times, who
lives in Smith township, called Monday
scriptiOn list, alleging as a reason that
he was opposed TO the building OF gravel
roa1s because farmers would have to
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