The Indiana State sentinel., 1893-08-23
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/ but arrived too late, The young man be-
ing beyond medical aid.-Kendallville
/ Sun.
A woman residing at Mulberry re-
! Gently bought some chickens of travel
\ ing huckster. She put them in a big hen
| house and thought them safe. The first
| night the whole collection Of chickens
was stolen, but while she was bewailing
| the loss she found purse near the hen
| house door-e II contained $2S5 in bills.
| That day the huckster returned, ostensi-
/ bly, to inquire about the chickens. He
looked as IL he had lost something, how
| ever. She told him that the chickens
/ had been stolen, but that the thief had
| dropped s2S5 in the act, and she knew
| II would prove conclusively who the
! guilty party was If he claimed the money,
| she had concluded 10 deposit 1t in
| bank, as her own. This she did, and no
one has come to claim the bills.
A force of fifty men is now engaged on
| the Momence rock. From LaPorte to
! Momence by air line the distance is not
more than seventy-five miles. Measured by
| the sinuous windings OF the Kankakee
| river the distance is more than $50 miles.
! Through this space the river twists along
fiat, marshy valley of from five to
twenty miles in width, broadening oc-
| casionally into a lake or breaking into
numerous branches and inclosing low,
willow-fringed islands. The Momence
| ledge has been termed the key to the
Kankakee valley, and for years the land
! owners along the river have sought
means to cut through it. Now that two
| great states are about to drain the wind
| ing Kankakee thousands Of acres of rich
| land will be reclaimed.-LaPorte Star
On Monday evening, with the depart
| ing day, the Hon. Marshall A. Moore
| departed this life, after a short sick
ness, in the sixty-second year of his
| age. Deceased was one of Greencastle's
| long time residents and stood high in
the estimation of the people. He was
| an able attorney, a neighborly neighbor,
and as an official was true to the
trusts reposed in him-he had been
/ mayor of the city and long served on
the board Of school trustees of the
city. The funeral took place from the
| family residence, Wednesday morning
| and was largely attended. The Rev.
/ T. H. Willis, pastor Of Locust-st. metho-
| dist episcopal church, of which the de-
ceased was a member conducted the
| funeral services, assisted by DR.. Alex
ander Martin.
Mrs. Joe White, a weak-minded wo-
| man near Quincy, who was formerly an
| inmate Of the state school for feeble
| minded, made a complaint last week that
| three young men, Everett Duncan and
| two Of the Asher boys had made GRIM
| inal assault on her. Sheriff Johnson
went out TO look for them, but before
| they were found they went to Gosport
/
| turned them over to the sheriff. They
| had an examination before Justice Wam-
pier Saturday, who decided there was
/ not sufficient evidence to bind them over
| for the grand jury's action. They ad-
| mitted that they had been unduly inti-
1 mate with the woman, but said 1t was
| with her consent. There is much indig
| nation over the affair at Quincy.-Spen-
| Ger Democrat.
The latest eccentric individual headed
4 y.
shen reached here Sunday morning and
! breakfasted at the Hattie house. The
| hotel register bears the name G. j. Cues
| ing, Pottsville. Pa, and it is learned that
/ the fellow started from that place sew
| eral weeks ago. He is pushing a small
wheelbarrow ahead Of him on which Is
| borne little keg of beer. The keg is
| painted up in fancy colors to attract
| attention and serves to advertise brew
| ing company. tin cup hangs at the
side Of the wheelbarrow and small dog
| trails along attached to chain. The
| outfit cannot fail to attract attention,
| which is probably the aim of the pro-
| moters. Mr.. Guessing pays his bills as
he goes and asks nothing but the right
| of way to Chicago-Gosheh News.
| This morning William Bensman of
| Waupauk O., walked into the city lead
ing his barefoot daughter, Emma, five
year-old lassie, with merry, twinkling
f, brown eyes, hearty, contented laugh and
a playful disposition. The pair were
4 tramping to Huntington. where relatives
| reside. Both the father and daughter
/ were in rags. Seven months ago the
| mother died, after a lingering illness,
/ and the family were reduced to destitu-
| ton. Bensman and his daughter walked
4 fifty miles to Fort Wayne since Satur-
| day, and the little girl has endured the
| trip better than her father. Officer Nc
/ Crory asked the little girl to go home
| with him for dinner. She said she liked
| her papa and would not leave him alone.
| Friends purchased them ticket to
Huntington, Ind.-Fort Wayne News.
Saturday morning a man bare-headed
and bare-footed with two rocks in his
| hands and a wild glare in his eyes
| rushed into the Farmers and Merchants
| bank, where j. L. Allen happened to be
| standing talking with receiver Liven-
good at the teller's window. He struck
| Mr.. Allen in the breast, at the same time
| declaring he would defend himself. Mr..
| Allen took in the situation at once and
| with the aid Of bystanders disarmed him
and took him to jail, where he was Sc
curely locked up. The unfortunate man
proved to be Lew Hayden, a son-in-law
! Of Squire Hickman, and man well
l1onwn to most people living east Of the
| city and in the vicinity of Layton's
Station. where he lived. The next day
| he was taken with great difficulty to
/ the insane hospital at Indianapolis
4
| Emory Stidham OF Brown county ar
| rived last night Emory is over six
| feet high. and proportionately large. His
| clothes were not of the latest pattern.
| and his boots were number fourteen and
| covered with "yaller" clay. The boys
| soon gathered around Emory and began
"settin' 'em up" and after swallowing
| enough mixed drinks to kill an ordinary
man, began playing billiards and got up
/ on the billiard table with his feet He
| soon became stupid drunk and dropped
| into an easy chair out front, till taken
| to Jail by Policemen Burrell and Bloom
| enstock. Stidham was once In the in
| sane asylum. 1t is no credit to the fifteen
| or twenty young men who got this de-
| mented being in this drunken condition,
| and IL Stidham is punished for intoXca-
| tion they should be punished for fur
| nishing the whisky and getting him
| drunk and mistreating him in this man.
| ner.-Columbus Times.
The city was startled Tuesday morn
| ing by the report that the dead body
| of a man with seven bullet holes in his
! head had been found in the Vanhook
woods west of town. A man living in
that vicinity brought the word and
Coroner Bronaugh was telegraphed for.
| He answered by instructing Mcclure g.
| Scott to bring the cadaver to the city
| and he would be over on the first train.
| dray was chartered and the under-
takers, with the usual complement Of
| pall-bearers and all the newspaper men
| were soon upon the scene. A dtligent
search was Instituted but all efforts to
| find the "stiff'' were fruitless Finally