The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-02

ment Ii turns out TO be an ironclad prom
issory note. such as has been used with
telling effect in the past
]. d. Wallingford has been appointed
receiver of the Diamond grocery store,
A B. Crawford, proprietor. at Alex
andria. The store was at one time the
leading grocery Of the city.
The Plymouth Democrat says that the
dispatch sent from that city stating that
c. l.. Morris large factory had closed
down, throwing a large number of men
out of work, is malicious lie.
Railroad men say that the wheat
movement is about one-half as heavy
as it was at this time last year. Farm.
ers who are not compelled to sell are
holding their grain for better prices.
Patrick Carroll at the Bass foundry.
Fort Wayne, was horribly burned Tues
day by a natural gas explosion. His
whiskers and hair were entirely burned
off and his neck badly Olistered.
Tuesday Henry Horn, with an Adj
vance Cyclone thresher, on the farm of
| Smiley Boaz in Flatrock township,
knocked out 1883 bushels of wheat in
eleven hours running time.-Columbus
! Herald.
w. r. Golden of Gas City was present
| ed Monday with a very handsome cane
made of bone and horn, consisting Of
| 4S1 pieces. The present comes from G. L.
| Crouch. who had the cane made at Nc
Keesport. Pa.
The Rossville school board has en-
| ployed c. NJ. ShafOr principal; Mrs.
| G. NJ. ShafOr grammar teacher;
| Genevieve Price. intermediate instruc-
| tor, and Valley Walter, primary teacher
! for this year.
The Bonneville Enquirer has long been
| the leading democratic newspaper in the
! First district after the Evansville Cou-
rier Since the death of its editor, Mr.
Swint the Enquirer has gone into re-
| publican hands.
Unknown parties placed strychnine in
the spring supplying the family of Peter
| Frakes of Boone township, Harrison
county, with water and afterward burned
several stacks of wheat and oats be-
longing to them.
The Lagrange Democrat estimates
that, Notwithstanding the reduced rail-
| road expense that is sure to follow the
| inauguration of the rate war, the worlds
fair will easily take $4,000 out of La
! grange county this summer.
Monday, Dock Boone, on John Mo
| berley's farm, near Rays crossing,
| Shelby county, killed black snake
seven and half feet long. His snake
/ ship was running after men who were
| pitching wheat in a field.
A lady in Frankfort has a chicken
| that the SUMS rays Matched out The
| egg did duty as a nest egg in a basket,
| and when the lady went to gather up
| found the chick just coming out of the
| shell.
Flora played Russiaville Tuesday at
Flora, the score standing q to in
| favor of Flora. Flora has played two
| games with Delphi winning both, and
| one with Wheeling and won it-a total
| of four games all the new club has
played to date.
Pat Duffy of Mills Corners says that
nine years ago was hotter summer
than this season. He worked for eight
| weeks upon the construction Of the
| Bryant pike, during which time there
| was no rain and the dust was from four
] to eight inches deep.
| The city engineer of Washington is
| busy surveying the ground for the new
orphans home. 1t is to be a brick
| structure ninety feet long and seventy
| be laid now, but the contract for the
| building will be let Aug. p.
The following officers of the Daugh-
| tiers of Rebekah were initiated Tuesday
| night in Shelbyville: Noble grand Mrs.
| Stella Friday; vice grand, Mrs. Anna
| Weakley; secretary, Miss Anna Flaitz;
| financial secretary, Mrs. Louisa Neu;
| treasurer, Mrs Emma Deprez.
The West Lebanon Gazette says that
| the Hoosier lumber and manufacturing
| company will shortly move their head
| quarters from WilliamsDort to Bakers
| field, Cal The company will also be
| reorganiZed and christened the Kern
| county lumber and investment company.
| There have been no marriage licenses
| issued for twenty-three days. This in
activity in the marriage market is at
| tributab1e to the hard times. the hot
| weather. the Sherman law and the Nc
| Kinley bill. 1t is thought the panic will
| only be emporary.-COlumbia City Post
The plan to connect DunEdrk and
| Redkev by an electric railway is to be
| go. The franchise was granted Thurs
| day evening Both towns will be lighted
with electricity from the power house
of the railway, which will be placed mid
way of the two places.-Hartford City
| Press.
An old farmer stated a day or two
| ago, that he had never seen more
| favorable season for saving crops than
the present one Hay, oats and wheat
| have been cared for without damage
| from rain, and the corn crop has not
| suffered materially up TO this date
| Seymour Democrat.
Joe Williams. who attempted to crimi-
| nally assault Mrs. Davis at Watson,
| Ind. Wednesday and narrowly escaped
| mob violence, has acknowledged 10
| Sheriff Donovan Of Jeffersonville that
| his home is at Bowling Green, KY,
| where he says his wife and mother con-
| duct restaurant He says he is an eX-
| convict Williams stands an excellent
| SHOW OF getting q lOlS NSi III IL PiiN
| Tommy Mathews, NJ w. Bruner and
| VIII Thompson and son have gone to
| Marshlands, near Warsaw, where they
| will be Joined by Frank Cutter or In
| dianapolis. There they Will begin their
| trip down the Tippecanoe river and the
| Wabash TO Lafayette, floating In canoes
a distance of about three hundred miles
and requiring two weeks time.-Craw-
| louisville Argus News.
Mother Champion, living between the
| crossings north of here, is past seventy
| years of age and the mother of sixteen
| children. She threshed last Thursday,
| at which time she shOuldered two
| bushel sack of wheat, something OF
| task for the average man. Something
of her strength can be figured when We
| recollect that few ladies' ever saw the
| time in their lives when they could
| shoulder one bushel Of wheat-Angola
| Herald.
S ,rne are criticising the Incidentist for
| saving over" down from" and up
| from such and such place in our items
| as being improper. 1t is no information
| to us to tell US il is improper, but we
| use them for variety. Country papers
| are allowed more improper range In
| their expressions than city papers. II
the editors were to get proper in all
| ing them smart" and too big for
their position. Wabash Incidentist.
The latest joke the boys have on Andy
| Pichard is his rather vociferous and
frantic attempt to stop a funeral pro-
cession one day last week. He wished
| to see Zimri Maris, who was at the
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