The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06
GENERAL STATE NEWS.


The price of wheat is again advancing
in the central markets.
Peaches in New Albany are bringing
from $1-25 to $1.75 per busheL
The Blish milling company Of Seymour
received 1880 bushels OF wheat last
week
Joseph Burkhart of Jackson county
gathered 1000 pounds Of grapes off twen-
ty-two vines.
state this season. have all been success
full i'm the point of attendance at least.
Immense clover crops are reported
from all parts of the state. At present
there is more money in clover than in
wheat.
No LIQUOR or gaming devices were adj
mitted 10 the Washington fair grounds,
and the result was very gratifying 10
patrons
Lieutenant-Governor Nye has been in
viIed to deliver one Of the addresses in
the Goshen lecture course for the ensu-
Ing year-LapOrte Star.
The state organization of the baptist
church Will hold it's sixty-ifth annual
convention at Columbus, Oct. 2. About
hve hundred delegates are expected to be
in attendance.
Johnny. the little eight-year-old son
of John Cook of Knightsville. fell about
afternoon, breaking both bones of an
arm and dislocating the wrist joint.
A prospective bridegroom in South
Bend tried to bleed his future mother
in-law for $500. but the daughter uncon-
ditionally bounced him. The bans had
been published three times in the Polish
church.
Elmer Smitha held the drawing ticket
at the opera house Saturday night, and
received from Managers Baldwin, Berry
hill and Lockwood q round-trip ticket
to Chicago and SIS for expenses OF a
visit TO the worlds fair.-Lebanon Pho
neer.
he big seventy-One pound catfish
caught by Joe Brooks and Tom Doup ct
al at Ewing, Jackson county, Monday,
arrived here Tuesday in the flesh and
life, by express, and made a dinner for
several hungry NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Times.
DR.. Mcclellan. veterinary surgeon
of this city, received notice from Wash
ingtOn City yesterday that he had been
appointed a cattle inspector for the gov
eminent. with headquarters at Chicago
The salary is $1.40O year.-Washington
Democrat.
Frost came earlier this season than IL
has for several years. Tuesday at day
break the ground and foliage was
covered with a white boar frost. No
damage was done, but it was I'M
pleasantly suggestive of an early autumn
and winter.-Crawfordsvi Journal
A great deal Of gold is in circulation
here at present. both of our banks hav-
ing received consignments Of it. There
are good cOunterfeits of the $50 pieces,
tlSee Of which were detected at this
office Saturday during the course Of
regular business.-BlOOmingtO Prog
ress.
Mny farmers I'm the south part of the
county, who left their wheat standing
In the shocks experienced very much
trouble when they go TO haul il i'm for
thrashiSg by having nearly every bundle
fall to pieces, the binding Irvine being
cut by the neutrality-suspicious. Dem
ocrat.
The First national bank did not open
Monday morning, but will do so as soon
as the cOmptrOller's permission is re-
ceived. Examiner Packard pronOunces
the banks probable condition at opening
as excellent. and feels assured that the
necessary permission will be forthcom-
ing.-Hammand News.
The line officers Of the Howard county
battalion, G.. A. r., have elected the fol-
lowing field officers: Colonel, o. L.
Moulder; observation-disclosures, Josiah STAN
ley, Greentown; major, J. a. Adams
Galveston; adjutant. A. n. Grant; sur
geon, William Scott; quartermaster, G.
w. ttaun. Russia VILE
A South Bend professor discarded his
old-fashioned key-winding watch and
purchased a stem-winder. Before re-
firing that night he spent two hours in
winding the timepiece. Next morning it
stopped running and a friend discovered
that the professor had been winding 1t
Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Hon. Samuel McCaughey Of Hunt
ingtOn is dead. He was seYenty-eight
old As far hack
administration he served as postmaster
at Massillon, o., removing to Hunting
ton county in 1851. During his residence
in Huntington he served as trustee
treasurer. representative and school com
missioner.
a bright Clinton county lady said a
volume Of truths in a very few words
She was a, good democratic housewife
and was being chidded by her republi-
can neighbOr about these democratic
times" Well" said she, almost any
kind Of team can pull a load into a
mud hole. but It requires strength to
get IL out"
William Graves. while attending the
worlds fair last week. came near losing
his life by choking on a chicken bone.
The bone was one inch long and one
fourth inch wide and about one-sixth
inch thick and it passed down his wind
pipe so far that it was with the greatest
difficulty that il could be dislodged.-Co-
lumbus Times.
Frank. the seventeen-year-old son Of
Leander Hamilton, living southwest Of
Lebanon, has been missing since last
Sunday. He was dressed in a black
diagonal suit, black stiff hat. new con-
gress shoes, white shirt and blue tie with
yellow stripe. His parents fear his mind
Is deranged from an injury received
when quite young.
The National Association of Hay
makers, which held meeting at Tren-
ton. n. J. last week, win meet next
week at Flora. Attorney G. ". Poague
or that place attended the Trenton
meeting and il was through his efforts
that Flora was selected. Mr.. Poague
was elected vice-chief president of the
association.-Delphi Times.
Talk about women soaring fish awayl
Yves Barnard and Mark Farley took
their wives along and went fishing last
week. They caught a catfish that
weighed nifty pounds. They brought him
home alive $50 folks would believe it) de-
capitated him and cutting him UP into
steaks distributed him among their
eighbors.-Sullivan Union.
According TO the Charlottesville Star
John Robertson OF Green township
Parke county, borrowed $500 OF Wash
Spencer. township trustee, with which
he went to the worlds fair. after which
he returned home and made an assign
ment His liabilities are placed at $50
900 with but $1,000 assets, OF which
5000 is pledged to secure the wave
land bank
wills Wagner, the brute who attempted
to commit an outrage upon little Maggie
Parker last week. was caught at Dan
vile. Ill, Monday and brought to Gov
ington Tuesday, where a preliminary