The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-16
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| Miami County Sentinel
Secretary John G. Odell tells the Times
that this may be the last old settlers
meeting, as the business men do not
give II the encouragement Il should re-
ccve and that no side attractions are
| offered for the crowd. These meetings
| have been held on the second Saturday
| I'm August for thirty-eight years. and
tho day has been looked forward 20 as
! the annual time 90 renew old acquaint-
ances The Times trusts they may con-
tlnue indefinitely. Delphi Times.
Mrs w III. Kaufman, who lives at
| Red Key while picking berries, heard
n kissing noise. She discovered her hand
| within n few Inches OF the gaping mouth
OF n sixteen-foot snake. lying on n fcnce.
Settling club she hit the monster on the
| head and started on n run 10 the nearest
neighbours, one-half mile. knocking down
two corn rows In her flight. A posse
was formed and the reptile was dis
patched with n rifle shot. It's stomach
contained n rabbit and three chickens.
While Hamblen Bros, were threshIng
clover on the farm OF James Hege, near
st. Louis Crossing Tuesday. spark set
| fire 90 the stubblea In the clover field
and burned over twenty-five acres, de-
| stroying the next years crop and about
| 800 yards OF fence Two stacks OF straw
were also set on fire and burned. The
fire began 20 spread 40 rapidly that the
| entire community had 90 be called 90
| help fight H. The IRE was nnally
checked by blowing burrows around the
field.
! a good one Is told on Bert Burson OF
| Lakeside IL seems he drove six miles
from home yesterday morning 10 put In
| the day fishing. lie tied his horse 10 "A
| tree and proceeded TO the river. In
stamping about the horse stirred up n
nest OF yellow Jackets that had their
| home at the foot OF the tree, and then
I trouble broke ioose-and 80 did the horse.
Bert was last seen drilling for home,
where he expected TO And the horse. and
he wasn't singing hymn, either.-Pu-
laskl County Democrat.
The barn az Charles Deity. on his
| farm two and half miles east of
Mooresyllle, Lafayette township, was de-
stroyed by fire on the afternoon OF Tues
| day. sth inst. Mr. Deity had Just I'm
ished threshing his wheat and It is sup
posed the fire originated from sparks
| from the stack OF the steam thresher.
! bushels OF wheat, two fat hogs, stack
OF straw. his harness wagon and farm
! ing utensils. The total loss Is about
| 800. with no insurance.
Preston Pennington, who left Perry
! township about thirteen years ago and
| located In CaSs county, Mo, is back for
the first tiEle on visit. Mr. Penning-
ton is well pleased with his new home.
/ which he thinks the garden spot OF the
country He is only thirty miles from
Kansas City, a fine market for all his
surplus product. The wheat was fail
ure in his county this year, but the
! prospects for corn are very fine. For
the first time I'm many years fruit Is a
| failure there.-Lebanon Pioneer.
A gang OF seven tramps held up two
boys who were stealing a ride on
stock train Monday night between La
porte and South Bend, exchanging some
Of their old clothes for the better ones
Of the two boys. After procuring all
they possibly could, they jumped off be-
fore the train reached South Bend. The
tramp nuisance is getting holder every
day and something should be done 10
stop their depredations. 1t will be a
good lesson TO the boys who were
stealing the rlde.-Elkhart Truth.
Dick Tolbert. aged eleven. left home
at Logansport. Sunday afternoon, in
company with his brother, age nine, 10
walk to Anderson. When ten miles out
OF Logansport, the little fellow concluded
ne would go no farther, so he turned
back, but Dick continued the journey.
lie arrived here last evening, having
walked the entire distance I'm two days.
Chief Welker received a telegram from
the boys parents TO be on the lookout
for the boy Dick was found at his
/ Democrat.
The grass is parched by the hot sun
till it Is brown and easily ignited, and II
takes fire quickly from the sparks elected
from locomotive smoke stacks. Several
fires have been started In this way. and
on the Bode farm, near the Hunter
switch, last week, the grass caught fire
from locomotive sparks and soon spread
over the Worrell farm, James Swear
ingen's and Chase's, destroying hay for
| ~. III 81 ufN ttRar If an
the farms Of the others. There Is great
danger from fire, and IL should be closely
watched. Bloomington Progress.
The Jackson correspondent OF the Cow
ington Friend writes as follows to his
paper: 1--WE beg leave 10 make the fol-
! lowing statements in reference 10 our
letter last week: Cd Our report OF the
Sunday-school union was divided and
appeared as three different articles; also.
one division was lost. (2) The union Is
eighteen months old instead of eight.
| COZ Wrong initial letters. a. Local
items appeared under the head OF the
Cain Township Sunday-school Union
| No malice is held toward any one, and
on behalf OF all concerned, we ask par
don OF our readers The above Is In
tended to make all wrongs righted."
The remains OF Mrs. +. ID. Weed were
Inferred Monday at the Oak Grove ceme-
terry after a fitting discourse bye the Rev.
Mr.. Zellers of Hamlet. Deceased was
twenty-siX years old and died from the ef-
fects OF fall the first OF last week.
down a narrow stairway, alighting on
her head and shoulders, seriously in
juring herself internally After the nc
cident she continued to do her own work
until Friday evening, when, while milk
ing she became deathly sick and her
husband carried her into the house and
placed her on bed. Commissions set in
and from that time the sufferer was UNI
conscious.-Starke County Democrat.
Treasurer Notorious wears the belt as
fisherman Tuesday he landed n bass
weighing seven and one-half pounds.
The catch was made at Oak Dale and
II took two hours and twenty-seven
minutes to- land the monster. The fsh
was an old one, the scales on IL being
so hard that knife would not bulge
them and its head was hard and horny.
The exertion put forth in the fierce
struggle came near laying Notorious
out and he has not been able to get
around much since. The fish was sent
to the Cincinnati fishing club that had
offered 500 for a bass weighing six
pounds or more-White County Demo-
crat.
Louis Brashears OF sandborn went to
n sawmill Tuesday and while there
undertook to throw belt from the fly
wheel when his clothing became caught
In the betting and he was jerked into
the ny-wheel and hurled around with
| such velocity of speed that his life was