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

Frank Shriver lost three fingers in a
! saw mill at Petersburg.
Ferman Nice died at his home in
| White county Tuesday
Sixty persons united with the Bluffton
methodist church last Sunday.
The Brownsburg canning factory will
| Degln operations in a few days.
The quarries at Smithville are now
running, but not with full force.
| J. J. Dawson of Vincennes was knocked
down by the lightning Wednesday.
b. F. Baker of Chicago is in the melon
belt shipping nutmegs to this city.
The premium list for the jackson
county fair will be out in a few days
Mr.. Adam Ruppel died suddenly in
Lafayette Wednesday, aged siXty-one.
The Columbus pOstoffice will pass into
democratic management Tuesday, Aug. l.
! Five clipping couples from Kentucky
were married Thursday in Jeffersonville.
Four carloads Of nutmeg melons have
| been sent north from Seymour this week.
| The Hagerstown fair association ex-
| poets an average Of 5000 people per day.
There are thirteen patients taking the
gold cure at the Charlestown Kelley in
stitute.
The old settlers of Miami county will
meet at Chilli the second Saturday in Sep
| TENDER
The wheat crop of Perry Innis Of Rush
! county averaged thirty-three bushels to
/ the acre.
! The royal temperance legion is prepar-
/ ing to give an entertainment Aug. II at
( Seymour.
| A tramp had his toes cut off in at
] tempting to board a train at Mitchell
/ Wednesday.
| Sixty acres of Hendricks county land
near Stileville were sold recently for
/ $50 per acre.
The old republican pension board of
Jackson county held its last meeting
| Wednesday.
w. N. Mcdonald is making 80 900
/ slaves at his several plants in Jackson
I county daily.
/ the Flora Leader has renowned in
/ dependency and shacNled itself to the
J populist cause.
Mrs. Josephine Fry Of IaGro died at
/ the Logansport insane hospital Thurs
/ day, aged thirty-twO.
! Flora's hoof and ladder company is
now rugged out to fight fire with plenty
/ Of ladders and buckets.
N. Kysar Of Jackson county has a fine
! crop of potatoes, some of which weigh
/ more than pound each
During the past month there have
! been seventy-five houses burglarized in
/ Valparaiso and $4,000 stolen.
/ A boy named Sweet was killed at
I y
/ train on the Glover Leaf road.
] Despite the alleged hard times, many
! buildings are going up and much i'm
| provement is being made in Seymour.
1t is feared that the failure of w. c.
DePauw of New Albany will materially
| iniure the DePauw university at Green
| castle.
! c. c. Davis lost his store room and all
/ of it's contents by fire near Oakland
/ City. 1t was the only general store at
that point.
| A large, fine-looking man, over six feet
| tall and weighing over 200 pounds, is
working the masonic relief committees
| in southern Indiana.
Altogether the wheat yield in this
neighbOrhood is very satisfactory-above
| the average in quantity and quality
! Seymour Democrat.
Nicholas Cullom committed suicide at
| Jefferson by cutting his throat last Tues
day. He could not find any work to do
! and grew respondent.
George McNiece has a wheat yield of
| twenty bushels and NJ. L. Bottorff' s
crop yielded twenty-one bushels to the
| acre in Jackson county.
Home grown watermelons will soon
be en- the market. Growers say the
prospect for a large and fine crop is
! decidedly good-Seymour Democrat.
w. T. Pritchard has been threshing
out ABOUT ABOUT Twelve hundred bushels
of wheat day with his outfit since the
harvest season is on.-Franklin Star.
/ George w. Burnham, the man that was
| wanted in Princeton for breaking into
| the store of A. S. Ford, was run over
and killed by train in st. Louis Mon
! day.
Jacob Stark, living four miles north of
| Winamac, was relieved Of $3.50 by thieves
! Sunday. The family had gone away and
! the robbery was committed in broad day
light.
A Shelby county couple wanted to get
married and were so bashful that the
minister had to take them away off from
all beholders and say the ceremony TO
| them.
Henry c. Dooley, near Corydon, and
| compelled him to surrender $40. which
he had saved up for the purchase of a
team.
Rush county teachers will greet with
| delight the announcement that Prof. An
drew Graham of the orphans home is to
be one of the instructors at the county
institute.
Harry Hibben, The Sentinel swindler
is an old Connersville boy, his father hav-
ing lived here twenty-five years ago, be-
ing a methodist minister.-Connersvill
Examiner.
The watermelon crop will be a little
]
The nutmeg melon crop is the best that
has been raised in this neighborhood for
| years.-Seymour Democrat.
John A. Porter, a switchman for the
Evansville & Terre Haute road. fell be-
tween a locomotive and a car at Evans
vile Wednesday and his head was sew
cred from his body.
Alexandria is jollifying over the loca-
ton of the Kelly works of Louisville,
KY. a factory which. when in full oper-
alton. will employ about five hundred
SIX lied laborers.
l'he blood hounds failed to find any
trace of the person who burned Albert
lows barn in Lawrence county Friday
night. The owner of the dogs said the
trail was too old.
The poultry department of the Jeffer-
son county fair will be one Of the leading
features. The premiums are large on
all varieties. Seventy-nine cash pre-
miums are offered on poultry.
Farmers should look out for the wind
mill sharpers. who are finding many vic
Tins i'm neighboring counties. They sell
windmill agency territory for what
appears in the agreement signed by the
victim TO be small price conditioned
upon the sale Of sl25 worth Of windmills,