The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-11

1 lions were adopted Dy a rising vote
! Washingto Democrat.
Notwithstanding the secrecy of the
railroad officials in regard to the matter,
| IL has leaked out that an attempt was
made to wreck the fast Panhandle ex-
press near Galveston Sunday night The
would-be wreckers tried The open-switch
plan. but their work was discovered be-
fore the arrival Of the train.-Kokomo
Dispatch.
At Marian Hill, on the Air line, Sun
day. Oct. p, the new catholic church,
built entirely Of stone, will be dedicated
The services will be very elaborate and
Bishop Chatard with thirty-five catholic
| priests. will be in attendance. A large
number Of catholics from New Albany
and Evansville will be in attendance
New Albany Ledger.
| We see that some foolish people are
appealing to Governor Matthews for
arms with which TO protect themselves
| from attacks from catholics. So far a IS
we are copcerned the governor may keep
the guns to shoot the Roby rascals, and
| II we get into trouble we will call on our
! catholic neighbors to help US OUT
Rushville Jacksonian.
The excursionists from Philadelphia
! and Wilmington Del, who came here
| Thursday returned FBiday. They were
| driven over the entire city Thursday aft
| ernoon and We're pleased beyond express
sion They stayed all night at the York
| morning
| tain tracts Of land lying on the west
| side.-Marion Chronicle.
| Last Saturday three young sports,
| Harry Godfrey, "Kif'' Wable and Sylves-
ter Beehter, were arrested at Oswego,
| east of Leesburg. on the charge Of hav-
| ing robbed the postOffice at that place
! last spring, and Jailed at Warsaw. God
frey became scared and turned states
| evidence, giving away his old pals, and
he was released on bail.
The surveyors have been at work
| around Owensburg for a week or two
| trying TO find a route to widen the Mar
| row Guage by abandoning the tunnel.
| A route was surveyed south of the tun-
| mel and a report made. 1t was very
| unsatisfactory and they were returned
to survey one on the north side, which
! has just been completed.
| In the court house at New Castle re-
| Gently two small boys, each twelve years
of age, We're brought before Judge Bun
| dy charged with stealing a horse and
buggy. They were from the Children's
orphans home, and plead guilty. and
| the judge. after talking kindly to them
and giving them some good advice, re-
| turned them 10 the home.
| 1t is not generally known that a marble
| slab in the burying ground in Jackson
| township, Porter county, marks the
grave of Charles Osborn, from whose pen
| came the first pamphlet ever written adj
| United States. A movement is now on
| foot to. rear a monument over his rest
ing place.-Michigan City Dispatch.
Horatio Thornton has left at the
| Pharos Office some ears of corn grown
| on his farm north of the city that COM
pare favorably with the best yield of
| past years noted for corn crops. One of
| the ears has twenty-eight rows of
| grain, and the entire yield was fine,
well-developed ears. Cass county is still
in II with her corn.-Logansport Pharos.
S. p. Vanhorn of Harrison township
says that one Of his hens-just an every
| day HoOsier hen-laid a phenomenal egg
| last Saturday. The egg is OF ordinary
| size, but on the small end is a double
| shell as though patch had been stuck
| on, on which is the raised letter &C."
| perfect in every particular This is an
off-year egg certainly.-Brazil Democrat.
| The local board of underwriters of
| Evansville is responsible for the state
| ment that some of the larger insurance
| companies are notifying their agents to
cancel all policies as soon as they expire
| as 1T is the purpose of the companies to
| withdraw from business in the state.
| Two reasons are assigned: One, the
| heavy losses sustained; the other, un-
| friendly legislation.
A new swindle is worked by a fellow
| who visits a farmer and pays him two
dollars for the privilege of posting up
show bills on his farm. He takes a re-
| ceipt from the farmer, and that receipt
later turns up in the form of a note for
a good sum. The scheme has been worked
| in the southern part of the state. Give
no receipts on prepared blanks Or bet
ter yet, give no receipt to strangers.
1t is now pretty we'll established that
| Muncie's smallpox epidemic originated
from a band of gypsies who last April
| were encamped in the woods north of
town. 1t is recalled that man in the
! camp was afflicted with an eruptive
| disease and some who saw him at that
| time pronounced IL smallpox. Parties
| who visited the camp were the first
| afflicted with small-pox-Muncie Times.
Nellie Gray. whose escapade at Valpa-
| raiso some weeks ago in stealing a
| horse and buggy, and giving her per-
| suers a game race of over thirty miles
| before being captured. published at the
4 time, viii escape prison sentence only
| to go TO an asylum. A court Of in
| quiry has declared her Of unsound mind
| and application will be made to have
| her placed in the asylum at Logansport.
\ Orla Brown left Friday morning for
| Chicago where he will show off Nelson,
| the great pig wonder Of the West. The
| hog in question is the largest produc-
| ton OF this kind we ever set our eyes
| on, weighing about 500 pounds and as
! finely a built animal as one cares to
| see. II he don't chase the red ribbon to
| it's hole in the national exhibition of
wonders we miss our guess.-winchester
| Democrat.
| Monroe Countryman OF Diego, this
| county, an advertisement Of whose dis
| appearance was made known in these
| columns a couple of weeks ago, is still
missing. He was at one time an in
| mate Of an insane asylum and IL is
| feared that his old mania has returned
/ and that he has wandered away and
| may have met violent death. He has
| now been absent more than a month";
| Logansport Journal
At the fair grounds Wednesday after
/ noon Vanhouten of Elkhart and Mel
/ Meredith of this city got into a dispute
| over the race and the former knocked the
| latter down and was severely Furnishing
him when Frank Rowell appeared on the
| scene to act as peacemaker, in VIII oh role
/ he had to use his fist, and he sent Van
houten to grass in good order. Frank
| RoWell lost his entire shirt front in the
| scuff1e.-Goshen News.
A Lake county jury has mulcted DR..
| c. s. Kellogg in the sum of $4,000 for
| malpractice. The doctor set Hugo
Strahls broken leg, but the plaintiff was
| left a cripple for life. This was the sec
| ond trial the first resulting in a verdict
against the doctor for $50. He made it
worse by appealing. although the Ches-
| terton Tribune intirnates that the de-
| PENDANT is execution proof and that
Strahl can collect nothing.
| Representatives of the Chicago indie
| pendent Order of Foresters of the state
| Of Indiana held a meeting at Hammond
Thursday. The object OF this meeting