The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-25
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

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ducks, squirrels, etc. chance for their
white alley."-Mt. Vernon Democrat.
A Goshen school boy Is said to have
brought to his teacher a letter from a
physician stating that this boy is unfit
to attend school for 304 days" The
long and exact period aroused the sus-
picions of the teacher, and he discovered
that the doctor had written ''3 or 4
days" The boy had changed it to 30l
days.
A young lady examining and pricing
some hosiery in a Laurel store recently,
finding a pair that she liked, asked the
clerk chow high those came?" Green
Clerk: why, don't know exactly, but
/ think about two inches above the
knee You may step into the back
room and try them on II you like
Connersville Examiner.
Uncle Sol Hixon has his wood house
full of wood nicely corded eight feet
high, which he has ranked all himself.
Uncle Sol Is nearly lightweight years
old, has a wooden, which is the best of
the awo, so he says, and he can do a
big days work yet. His health is better
this fall than for a number Of years
Middlebury Independent.
We have a sample of corn on our desk
raised on some of the swamp lands re-
claimed by the big ditch lately construct
ed through this county. 1t is as fine as
one could wish for and will average at
least seventy bushels to the acre. Mr..
Randolph Hire has one field of seventy
FIVE acres that will yield at least 5000
bushels.-Ligonier Banner.
The family of John K. Well1er near
Ramsey Harrison county, is terribly
afflicted. Mr.. Welker, his wife and four
sons are all Frustrated by typhoid fever.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Welker are thought to be
past recovery, and two OF the sons are
so low that their lives are despaired of.
The other two sons are showing some
indications of improvement.
Miss Nellie Agnes Vancleave, a Green
castle girl and daughter of Tilton a.
Nancleave will be married Monday at
Kol0omo to Charles +. Burns The
groom Is a wholesale oil merchant of
Chicago, and the bride, who is beautiful
and accomplished. has served as his
stenographer and private secretary for a
long time.-Greencastle Democrat.
1t has been four days since any
peaches came to- South Bend by ex-
press over the Michigan Central and the
busy peach season is at an end. During
the busiest time three car loads of
peaches came here by express over that
line each day. Several days the express
peaches were received over that
peach market and no mistake.
DR.. Clark was called seven miles south
of the city yesterday 20 attend Jacob
Martin, who. the messenger said, had
! had some fingers mangled in a hay cut
ting machine. Wnen the doctor arrived
at Mr.. Schafner's he found that he had
not only lost all his fingers but good
I portion of his hand. The result was that
! the hand was amputated two inches
above the wrist.-Elkhart Review.
/ At a wedding in Aurora, Ind. recently
( the contracting parties were James w.
/ Chase and his step-daughter, Samantha
e. Cloe. His present wife is the daugh-
ter Of his second wife and becomes the
/ step-mother of her half sister, a child
| about twelve years old. He has been
| married three times and is about forty
| FIVE, while the age of his bride is TWEEN
| ty-flve.
! The Ohio Falls iron works, that has
been idle for two weeks, will resume
| operations in all departments next Mon
| day. During the temporary suspension
| of work at these mills an immense new
| fly wheel and two large cog wheels have
/ beer set up, giving the mill additional
| power and capacity. The Ohio Falls
| iron works has orders sufficient to keep
it busy.
A German at Batesville, Ripley
| county, has received a patent on a one
| wheeled road cart, which he styles a
monocycle. The vehicle goes upon a
single wheel, and it's inventor claims
| that Ii has many advantages. The trav-
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| through woods. through narrow gates
and over rough ground. The cart is
drawn by one horse.
w. B. Godfrey has turned over the
| postofice at New Albany to his success
sor Charles w. SCHNEIDER. Mr.. Schin-
der has made the following appoint
ments; Thomas J. Harmon, assistant
! postmaster; Miss Fanny SCHNEIDER, mon
| ey order clerk; w. B. Richardson, en-
| gineer. Within few days Mr.. SCHNEIDER
| will appoint a Janitor for the public
| building, and this will be all the ap-
| pointments for some time.
| Leonard Miller. one of the Stauntor
burglars. has given the information that
| il was Edward Alexander and Edward
| Thompson who robbed William Modesto
! of s26 in cash the early part of last
summer while MODESTO, in state of in
toxication. was lying in the rear of the
store building Of Cooper & Biller. Mode
| sett had drawn his pension money that
| day. Thompson has not yet been ar.
| rested.-Brazil Democrat.
William Nobes, residing west Of Pur.
due, was the victim yesterday of another
| accident, dislocating his left wrist while
saving timber on the Madendorf farm
| four miles west. Mr.. Nobes seems tc
| be q victim OF fate against that good left
member. Recently he mashed finger
and that having no more than healed
| when the thumb was mashed. Yester-
| OttyS ACCIDENT was 10 the wrist. Mr.
Nooes says the elbow is due next.-La.
/ fayette Daily Courier.
John Dougherty has been peddling lead
| pencils about the city for some days
| and Officer McConlogue found him in the
| railroad yards yesterday morning drunk
and arrested him. At the calaboose the
officers were searching him, when he
4 took handful Of nickels and dimes from
his pocket, put them in his mouth and
| swallowed them 1t is needless to say
| there Is money In that man, but the Of
| ficers cannot get IL. He went down.
| Richmond Daily Indepenent
The final test Of their new car coupler
WAS made yesterday by the Anderson
| steel and forging company, and the test
| proved more than satisfactory. AL
| though the test was the most severe one
| by several tons burdens yet applied the
| coupler worked like charm. The com
| pany will now perfect arrangements as
| rapidly as possible to manufacture the
| coupler In use on some Of the railroads
/ within q few weeks.-Anderson Herald
A pitiful case is reporter from Mar
tinsville. Lizzie Rodgers has been liv
| ing with her stepfather, Mortar c
gantown. Recently he drove her from
home. Friday the girl went to a woods
| near by and gave birth to a child un
| attended by any person. Both lay Their,
| all day In cold and rain, and the child
| found and is being cared for, but hei
condition is serious. She is only twenty
| three.
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