The Indiana State sentinel., 1893-08-23
GENERAL STATE news.

I ace V. Birdsell, Charles T. Lindsey.
( George III. Wheelock, Schuyler Colfax,
Albert Listenberger and Irving A Sib-
ley.
bloomington is in trouble again. A
| COW got into the lot where the reservoir
OF the waterworks is located and drank
up all the water. Now they will have
to wait for rain. We would suggest
| prayers, but the prayers of the wicked
, availeth nothing. g."-Bedford Democrat.
The shipping OF melons commenced
Monday, and the number of cars billed
out has increased daily. The prices re-
/ ceived are good, and If the hot weather
continues, the melon men will realize
some money if other farmers and bust
ness men do not.-Ownesville Messenger.
Mrs. Whitmer. aged eighty-five years,
| a native of Germany is dead. She was
| one of the pioneer settlers OF Madison
/ township, st. Joseph county, having
come from Ohio and located there in
1888. -Four children, thirty-two grand
| children and ten grandchildren
! survive her.
The Indiana conference Of the method
list episcopal church will meet in Trinity
church. New Albany, Sept 3. large
| number or preachers will be present,
/ and rare treat is promised in the serv-
Ices connected with the conference ses-
/ sions. 1t is thirteen years since this
body met in New Albany.
A machine from Franklin county
| threshed in Fugit township. Decatur
| county, s,037 bushels of wheat and $50
boshels of oats off $50 acres. Measure
ment by weight will exceed the machine
/ measurement by an average five bushels
| to the hundred, making an average yield
Of twenty bushels to the acre.
| Wilson Jones, ST., formerly of Dub
| lin, and we'll known all over Wayne
county. died in Harper, Kas., last Fri
| day, the 1lth inst, and the remains
| were shipped by express to East Ger
l mantown, where they were buried Tues
day, alongside Of his first wife. Mr..
Jones was aobut eighty-two years Of
/ age.
A special train with 1000 Swedes on
board passed through this city over the
| Lake Shore this morning. They were
from Chicago and were returning to their
fatherland, with the intention of coming
| back to America, when the times got
| better. Two Belgians left this city this
morning with the same intention.-South
Bend Times, Aug. IA.
Miss Foltz. who has for three years
been principal Of the high school at
Bluffton, has been elected assistant in
| Latin and English at the state normal
| school. There now remain two assist
| ant sin the physical and biological labora-
tories to be appointed and a successor
to Prof. Arnold Tompkins, deposed.-
| Terre Haute Express.
The mystery surrounding the failure
Of ]. L. Rodgers Of Laporte to return
| home from Chicago, whittier he went for
a two days stay, is deepened by the re-
ceipt OF a note bearing the date Of Aug.
| /, and announcing the writer's intention
OF returning the next day. Mr.. Rodgers
had considerable sum on his person
| and foul play is suspected.
The Roby management were not very
complimentary in praise of Hammond s
brave constables. One in authority was
told: This will not do. If you keep
up the ring you must protect your
patrons" He replied: What can we
| do? We can not get police protection.
| We paid a lot Of fellows tonight and
they stand around like sticks"
One of the elephants belonging to
| Robison's show became enraged at this
place last Tuesday and knocked his
| keeper down, and came near getting on
him before the man could get out OF the
way. The other elephant started of at
rapid pace and did not stop until he
had reached point near Mauck's mill,
west Of town.-COrydOn Democrat.
A young man, member of a club in
| Richmond, where games of various kinds
are INDUCED in, has been doing some
tall figuring" concerning his favorite
I game Of doninoes ten hours a day. he
says, and making four moves a minute
continue 11s.000.0OO years without ex-
/
game, the total Of which is 24S, ,52S, ,211, $40.
Gertrude Smith is the name given by
a maiden, not very fair. but rather frail,
| who is now confined in the county bean
cry on charge of burglary. Monday
| she broke into Corneliue Carter's resi-
dence, on the Middletown pike, but did
! not secure anything of value. She was
traced to this city and was found at
Maple Grove beer garden.-Muncie News.
Walter Newman, formerly of Boone
| county, writes the Lebanon Pioneer
| from Walnut Valley, Dinsmore county,
! Kas., that copious rains have assured
| them a good crop of corn in that Sec
and flax are good. Wheat is quoted at
| 40 to 45 cents, oats II cents, fax 70 TO 90
| cents. Fruit is a failure except grapes.
One Of the preachers Of Lawrence
burg Is after those who are backsliding
! in their church-going as follows: "Some
persons always find it too hot or too
| cold to attend church. No excuse. You
would go boating. Some persons say
they have simply gotten out Of the way
| Of attending church. Perhaps you will
simply get out of the way of going to
| heaven"
James Muse. late Of the Twen-
ty-second Indiana battery, who
confined to his bed a year ago with
! paralysis resulting from his army ser
| vice. His pension had been suspended
| since last November under Commissioner
Raum-but strangely the fact never got
into the Indianapolis Journal.-Rush-
Vile Jacksonian.
The prospects for Indiana normal col
lege are growing brighter every day.
| The majority of the faculty has been
| secured and the roll Of teachers will be
completed in a few days. The board
has secured Mr.. Will Furr for president
| Of the college. He is a graduate OF
the state normal and has had many
| years Of experience in teaching and nor
NAL work.-Covington Friend.
Governor Chase, who spoke Thursday
at the Brushcreek picnic, returned to
Indianapolis in the evening. The gov
ernor had a long run and a hard run
| after the Cambridge train, which had
started out. and when he caught ii he
| train. The parson-governor took ii in
| good humor, and nobody heard him say
a bad word.-Columbus Herald.
Some fond father was doing an almost
brutal act last night by booting his little
son down the street. OF course the boy
| was feeling the indignity and the pain
| likewise very keenly and resented IL by
unbroken sobs but yet implicit obedi-
ence. No doubt the provocation was
| very great, as the boy had been smoking
cigarettes, but the more humane pun
ishment would have been by a beech
limb.-Kokomo Times.
Postmaster Rush has received notice
| from the government that the salaries
Of the assistant postmaster, mailing