The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15
GENERAL STATE News.

all his household furniture while his
wife and daughter were at the world s
fair and left for the Indian territory.
Burglars al Bicl1neH blew open the
iron safe in John DOnaldson's store Fri
day night and took $40 in cash. a lot of
clothing and other articles TO the value
of $3.50.
The divorce suit of George f. Boots
OF Butler has been compromised. Mrs.
Boots returning to her home. and Date
Miller, the cause of the trouble, to leave
the community.
b. +. Bitter announces that he has
sold the Huntington Democrat to Rob-
ert J. Day, jr.. who is now in control
Mr. Bitter will devote his attention to
the Farmers Guide, an agricultural pa
per established by him.
party of girls who were out Hal
lowe'ening'' Tuesday night at Month
cello threw a stone through a window OF
a house occupied by ID. b. Stafford and
family, striking a child. Stafford fired
into the crowd with "A shotgun, hitting
three or four of the fair serenaders. The
next morning the doctors were busy
picking out shot.
Diphtheria is raging in the country
adjacent 10 ElwoOd. and a general cpl
demic is feared. In the vicinity Of
Dundee a number Of deaths have Oc-
Cured, and the disease is reported as
spreading with alarming rapidity. Three
OF the township schools have closed,
and the others will be forced to sus-
pend If the epidemic is not checked.
The state board of health has been ap-
pe2led TO-
The worlds fair has closed and of its
success every Indianian has just reasons
to be prOLG, for thousands upon thou
sands Of them contributed their mite in
attendance to make it such To them it
was a field Of study opened up: visions
OF the resources and developments of un-
known lands were before them at every
step They made sacrifices to 60 but
We're amply repaid for il. To them IL
was an Indl1na affair, as they JOY and
glory in triumph as much as though
Chicago was the metropolis of Indiana.
-DelUhi Times.
Burlington is all torn MP over the
sudden and mysterious appearance of
diphtheria in its most malignant form.
Five children of Senator j. NJ. Beck
were stricken with the dread disease
and one OF them died Tuesday night
The others are not expected to survive
the attack. Up 10 the present time the
cOntagion has been confined 70 the
home Of Mr.. Beck. but It is quite likely
that the entire village has been exposed
TO the disease. The schools are prac-
tically deserted now, although no Of
fetal action has been taken to close
them.
Judge u. p. Baldwin. in a recent
speech on Hard Times" at Indianapolis,
said: "The general proposition 1 am
now maintaining is that we are suffering
from a periodic collapse and suffering in
common with other nations, and that
this collapse would have come under
Harrison, had he been reelected, just
the same as under Cleveland, for it is
nOn-pOlitical in its cause. The assertion
that this is a Cleveland panic is worse
No1r rnrrlHr1ff nh Of
the small-fry g. o. p. organs believe in
that sensible argument.-MOrgan County
Gazette.
Coroner HaTrOd held the inquest rela-
tive to the death of DR. George N WOr-
ley Of WilliamspOrt, and his verdict was
10 the effect that the deceased met death
at his own hand by swallowing a large
dose of morphine. Coroner Harrod
stated TO a Journal reporter that Dr.
Morley told Mrs. Worley about three
hours after he had taken the morphine
that his hours on earth were numbered :
that he had taken morphine, and would
not receive medical attention. The doc
tors words We're too true, for he ex-
pired at IL a. n. Thursday.-Ft. Wayne
Journal
Norman Keever and George Bell, re-
siding FIVE miles east Of town, captured
an Odd-lOOking tramp Monday night and
brought him 70 Jail. The tramp was
first discovered in Bells residence and
he gave chase to the man. being Joined
by KeeVeT The man had on four or
five suits Of clothing and wore hair
about a foot long, which had probably
had not felt a comb in five years. He
was placed in Jail and given a clean
shave and hair cut which materially al
tered his appearance. He is evidently a
lunatic out on a vacation.-White Coun-
" Democrat.
CreaLrino of tho prouosifioD 10 c,,r
press by congressional legislation a Ger
tain secret order, the LOganspOrt Phar-
Os says: This a p A. organiZa ton
cannot exist any great length of time
The people are too tolerant and prize
liberty too highly TO permit such a So
ciety to become very strong. The know
nothing party lived long enough TO do
some harm. but il never did any good.
Its name became a synonym Of narrow
ness and Intolerance. \ man who is
unwilling to grant TO others the same
rights that he himself enjoys is not
a good American"
The divorce suit Of old Harvey Tom
linson and wife occupied the attention
OF the court last Thursday. Mr. Tom
linSOn alleged in his complaint cruelty
and deseTtiOn on the part OF his wife.
She came back at him with a general
denial and the result was a pretty thor
Ough airing of both characters. The case
was bitterly contested and the smut
mill kept busy. Judge Harvey refused
TO grant the decree and old Harvey is
just where he began. Some fourteen
years ago Tomlinson got divorce from
his wife and she was awarded $4,000 and
he married her again 70 avoid payment.
-CrawfOrdsville Review.
Ralph Tarhs III bought a soup bone for
the Tribune's canine attachment yes
terday. A man whom hunger no doubt
forced to do such disgusting thing
took the bone from the dog, and wrap-
ping it in a handkerchief. started of
toward home. with Ralph, who had wit
messed the act, in close pursuit. When
Ralph overlook the man with the bone
he made him carry II back and return
st to the dog, who was licking his chops
in contemplation Of what he had lost
The poor man is 10 be pitied. but nc
doubt he viii never again try To rob
a dog Of a bone, especially when the
master is in sight.-SOuth Bend Times.
1t seems that the shooting Of Gus
Marsh near Mauckport. Harrison coun-
", by Daniel FulkersOn, was not an
attempted assassination nor from am
bush. a report from Harrison county
today is to the effect that Fulkerson
had been hunting and that he and
Marsh met on the highway and renewed
an old quarrel. and that threats of vio-
1ence We're made by both parties, Full
kersOn finally raising his double barrel
shotgun and firing the contents Of both
barrels into Marsh, after which he ran
on. FulkersOn Is said 10 be a harum-
scarum sort Of fellow, owns no property
and is not considered Of much account
Marsh IS improving and will soon be
able 10 be out. Fulkerson is in Jail at
CorydOn 10 await a hearing.-New Al
bany Ledger.
A funny incident occurred on Nickel