The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-08

w. f. Decker, the gas-well driller. is
] just drilling the last wells called for by
1 his contract with the Indianapolis gas
trust company and the indianapolis citi-
| zens' company. They jointly contracted
/ for thirty wells, nineteen of which are
| already in and three more just ready
to start. Among the nineteen wells are
| some of the best ever drilled in the coun-
| ty. He expects TO close a contract with
| the company for another thirty wells to
| be drilled before the first of the year
| The Trust company's territory lies eight
! miles northwest OF the city, while the
| citizens wells are near Lapel.-Anderson
| Democrat.
| Last year, for the purpose of getting
J ahead with his work. Mr.. PoindeXter
| plowed a piece of land in one OF his or
| chards late In the season, well on toward
winter. This year they noticed that the
| fruit in this piece was entirely exempt
| from the curculo. Col. Wiley's theory
Of the matter is. that after the egg is
! deposited in the ground there is a period
] when IL is in a soft state, and If the soil
Is disturbed at this time the insect is
! killed in development. For this reason
he is now trying the experiment of late
| blowing I'm his orchards. This is an i'm
, portant test and the result will be await
ed with interest-Jeffersonville News.
A disastrous fire occurred at st. Louis
! Crossing late Saturday night. The gen.
| eral merchandise store of Brooks q
| supposed the hand of an incendary is
| responsible for the burning. When dis
! covered the confagration was too far
| advanced to save the building or any
| of the contents. All is total loss. The
| loss on the stock is estimated at nearly
$4,000; insured for $4,000. The loss on
! the building, which was owned by A. II.
! Cook, Is $1,000; insured for $500. The
fire originated in the oil department. sit
uated in the rear Of the building.-Co-
| lumbus Herald.
Van Conn, living near Lincoln, Neb,
came in Saturday and visited his brother
| John Conn, on the old farm in Wash
| ington township. He found his mother
| at his brothers house, and a happy re-
! union INDUCED in yesterday. About
forty relatives and near friends were as
| sembled and partook of an elegant din
| ner. MIR. Conn left Marion twenty years
ago with not a dollar in his pocket. He
| is now the owner of a good-sized farm
near Lincoln, Neb He has not been in
| Marion since that time. He left Sunday
! night for Chicago. where he will spend
! day at the fair, and then journey to
| his home in naturalization Chron-
| icle.
Saturday evening a blaze started,
| probably from a defective hue, I'm
| Howard Shank's general store at Deer
| Creek and before the flames died out
| the business portion of the village had
| suffered a heavy loss. Shanks store
| was burned to the ground with
| $4,000 loss to contents. J. c. Newer
| owned the building. DR.. B. d. Bradfield
| Of this city was a heavy loser by the
! fire, a store room. a blacksmith shop
| and a residence belonging to him being
destroyed. He had $1,000 insurance on
| the buildings. Several other buildings
| were more or less damaged by the fire,
which was the most disastrous in the
| history of the town, the total loss prob
ably aggregating 7OoO-Logansport
: Journal.
The Loyal order OF moose has a row
on its hands. Fred Lee of this city,
John A. Wise of Cincinnati and John
Snyder of Charlottesville. representing
the National loyal order OF moose, went
to Indianapolis last week and prepared
an injunction suit to be tried in the
federal court against H. .. Sontag Of
Cleveland, who, they allege, is trying to
usurp the constitution and bylaws Of
the old order and start new one. with
himself as grand dictator. Sontag was
defeated for that office at the last cleo
ton and it is now claimed that his &C
ton in starting new order is prompted
by jealousy. He was in Terre Haute for
several weeks last winter when the lodge
in this city was insututed.-Terre Haute
/ Express.
/ Now that the fair is at it's end, 1t will
1 be an interesting thing to know how
many Richmond people attended. In
| quiry at the ticket office here makes
] known the fact that nearly six thousand
| tickets to the fair have been sold from
| this point since May OF course num-
! bers of these were purchased by nom
! residents, but at the same time hun
/ dreds of Richmond people went to the
/ fair by other routes, many by the way
/ of indianapolis. Such being the case,
| ii is presumed that at least 5000 Rich
mond people saw the sights, which will
/ bear comparison with any other town
I in Indiana, where passenger competition
I is at it's minimum. 1t takes many a
/ dollar away from home, but it went
I rofitably.-Richmond Item.
| Monday evening Mrs. Elliott E. Nc
/ Kaig, one of the most estimable ladies
! Of Noble township, returned with her
daughter from the worlds fair. She
and her daughter alighted from the
train at Peoria Junction and walked to
+ their home, two miles distant. Arriv-
+ ing home she complained of being
/ greatly fatigued and shortly afterward
/ retired for the night. Yesterday morn
1 ing her daughter went to her room to
call her for breakfast and was horrided
| beyond measure to find her mother Iy-
| ing cold in death. The family was AT
once called and general CONSERVATION
prevailed in the household. From the
\ condition of the body it was evident that
| death had occurred some hours pre-
viously.-LOganSpOr Journal.
D
/ and the murderer or murderers Of the
/ Wratten family will not be tried this
term. Nor will they be arraigned until
/ the January term. In the meanwhile
] they will probably be kept safely, under
! indictment in the prison south, where
! they will be safe from mobS. 1t is prob
/ ably all the better for this delay. Time
| will be given the state to make out a
/ good case, and if innocent men are in
| volved in the horrible affair they will
| have ample time to clear their skirts.
/ Let the people who have been outraged
! by the occurrence of this atrocious muir
| der in this county be patient and rest
| assured that justice will be admins
! tered with as little delay as possible.
| Justice pursues with a leaden heel, but
strikes with an iron hand."-Washing
ton Democrat.
At Salem, Washington county, five
white caps, who had engaged in the
whipping of a woman. one of them being
her husband, received sentences for
rious periods of time to the penitentiary.
Three of them were sentenced for five
years each and the other two for shorter
terms. 1t is a wholesome sign to read
of the punishment Of these outlaws. 1t
looks from this that this system of crime
would begin to be quite unpopular and
in a few years become obsolete. 1t is
certainly time The state has been dis
graced too long with their disgraceful
proceedings. Good, strong allaopathic
doses like the Salem judge administered
will have a strong tendency to blot out
the white cap business completely and
those who are the most frequent vio-