The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-09
State Minor Items.

Field and forest fires are raging near
Franklin.
Columbia City tax payers have voted
for water works.
The Richmond hod carriers have or
ganiZed a union.
Wheat sold at 80 cents per bushel at
Seymour Thursday.
The new Odd Fellows hall at Lewis
vile has been completely
John Donhost has twenty-five acres
OF fine corn in Jackson.
Madison defeated the Columbus hall
club Wednesday by 20 to IA.
An old settlers picnic will be held at
Hall. Morgan county. Tuesday, Aug. 10.
The Osgood fair is in progress with a
large attendance and creditable show.
Commissioner Hunsucker of Vallonia
has fifteen acres of very fine watermel-
ons.
Richard Madden of Jackson county has
harvested sixty tons of fine timothy
hay.
The upland corn in southern Indiana
is beginning to suffer from the want of
rain.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Ricoie. a resident
of New Albany for sixty-one years, is
dead.
A hairless calf and spotted like
leopard was born recently in Floyd
county.
Mrs. Henry Shroyer, widow of the late
Henry Shroyer, died at Cambridge City
recently.
Samuel and Simon Fox left Richmond
Monday for permanent residence in Gin
cinnau.
James w. Robertson. an old and es-
teemed citizen Of South Bend, died
tuesday.
John o. Hardesty of Anderson is talk
ing about starting daily paper in
Logansport.
The steamboat John F. Fowler was
burned near New Albany Monday night.
Loss, $4,000.
A scourge of oId-fashioned black po-
tato bugs is reported in some parts of
Parke county.
Maxwell Stanley and his wife. of JEFF
ferson county, have just celebrated their
golden wedding
Mr.. and Mrs. Christian H. Miller cele-
brated their silver wedding Thursday,
at Fort Wayne.
The wheat of T. S. Nugen on sixteen
acres. near Lewisville, ged forty
| two bushel to the acre.
Terah Scott, ninety-eight years old,
| ex-trustee Of Oregon township, Clarke
county, died Wednesday.
| Hibner & Able of Seymour sent a
! large consignment of live stock to Gin
cinnati Thursday night.
James Whitson and Austin Downs
were the first TO deliver home grown
watermelons at Seymour
Jacob G. Woolley, aged fifty-five, form
merly ]. NJ. & 1. railway engineer, died
/ at Dundee, KY, Thursday.
Mrs. l.. l.. Shields has just finished
harvesting It's tons Of timothy hay on
her Jennings county farm.
! Wilson Bros. shirt factory of Logans-
+ port has closed down temporarily. Two
hundred girls were employed.
Bud Hazard has sent 100 crates of
nutmeg lemons to Anderson in the past
two nights.-Seymour Democrat.
A COW on the farm of John Mullen
near New Albany has for the second
time given birth to twin calves.
! Joshua Burris Of johnson county has
I just closed the threshing season, having
I threshed 1900 bushels of wheat.
Richard Cornell. an old and we'll
known citizen of Cambridge City, was
buried Wednesday. He was eighty years
old.
Princeton and Patoka played ball Sun
day at the latter place and the game
stood 10 to in favor of the Princeton
club.
Twenty cases have been sent to Van
derburg county on a change of venue
from Posey county within the past three
years.
Henry C. Boyer Of the Seymour melon
section claims the belt this season as
! usual as the champion nutmeg melon
: raiser.
John Fox and Braxton Foist Of Red
ding township. Jackson county. are
grinding 1.4OO bushels OF wheat for
stock feed.
The checker match, played by postal
cards, between Greensburg and Edin-
burg resulted In the former winning six
games straight
The Huntington branch of the Broth
erhood OF locomotive engineers has re-
elected G. Nj. Keller master Of the order
for the fifth time
william Ensminger OF Shelbyvlle
threshed 357 bushels OF wheat from hf-
teen acres OF ground; about twenty-four
| bushels TO the acre.
Wednesday night a freight car was
robbed at Huntington. The door was
broken open and twenty pairs Of mems
and boys shoes taken out.
Percy Morgan OF Wales arrived In Gas
City Friday for the purpose OF con-
ferring with L. c. Boyd concerning the
establishment Of n brewery
Mike Finke's wheat yield. in Jackson
/ county. was twenty-seven and one-half
bushels. and Henry Persingers had a
yield OF twenty-four bushels to the acre.
The Holiness camp meeting that has
grounds on the Knobs west OF New Ale
bany for the past twelve days, closed
! Monday.
Miss Harriet Butternold OF Goshen
| and Harry Mathiot Patton OF Cairo. ILL.,.
woro married Thursday night at the resi-
denee OF Mr.. and Mrs Dwight III. Hawks
in Goshen.
The Rockport Democrat says there n
nm old eolored lady living In Roekport
who claims TO bo ils years old. Her
namo IL Mrs. Minnie Harmon. She has
| outlived Ave generations.
Isaac Hunt OF Harrison township,
Wayne county employed 90 watch
| Grimes OF Richmond, who persisted I'm
picking biackberriea.
| wednesday evening ut the residence
Of Cyrus Trees In Manila. John ID.
! Green OF Arlington and Miss LaVanche
Trees were united In marriage by the
Rev. McNeeley OF Rushvillc.
The threshing outfit OF Lympus Amos
| g. Co OF Shelbyvilie threshed wheat on
nineteen different farms. made twenty
nine settings and In twelve and three
quarter days hulled out 1i7O0 bushels,
James Graff OF GRANVILLE and Miss
Lille Wells OF Poseyville eloped 20
Mount Vernon Thursday and were mar
! ried The squire said she was the
prettiest bride that he had ever mar
! ried.
A sheibyville man went home the
| other night and thought he saw n big
snake I'm the yard. He got n Ratchet.
chopped II into small pieces and the next
morning discovered that IL was piece
| of hose.