The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-07-26

Mrs. Sallie New, widow of the late
Hon. Jeptha d. New, is seriously sick at
her home in Vernon.
demonstrating around Elwood has
come to the point where lynching is a
frequent suggestion.
1t is estimated that the Fayette-coun-
~ wheat crop viii average eighteen
bushels to the acre
A large quantity of new wheat was
refused by Seymour dealers Tuesday on
account of dampness.
The Groubs have sold 12O acres of
Mutton creek land, Jackson county, TO
Frank P. Croft for $1,000.
Jerry Miller of Cedarville, at one time
owner of the land where Garrett stands,
died Saturday and was buried Sunday.
There are lib threshing machines in
operation in Bartholomew county and
the average work Of each is 1000 bushels
a day.
The next quarterly convention of the
Tlppecanoe county Sunday-schoOl union
will be held at Montmorenci Friday,
July %.
T. z. Montgomery of Redding town.
ship, Jackson county, has a field that
yielded twenty-five bushels of wheat to
the acre.
The acreage cultivated in corn and
vegetables TO supply the Seymour can
ming factory is three times as large this
season as last.
Jacob Baldwin. north of Reddington,
hauled 125 bushels of new wheat to the
Cordes Touring MILL at one load with
two horses, Tuesday.
Frank Coleman, employed in the Wash
ington shops, had three OF his fingers on
the right hand cut off while operating
wood worker Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs r. w. Nye have returned
TO Richmond from New Haven, Conn,
with their daughter Augusta, who is
lying at the point of death.
The Bethel baptist association, which
Includes Floyd, Clark. Washington.
Scott and Harrison counties, will be held
at Jacksonville Aug. 1926.
Henry Peoples threshed for Charles
Bill of the Hawpatch 1000 bushels of
wheat in a day and half, the yield from
100 acres in Bartholomew county.
Henry Borcherding threshed ,OS9 BUSH
els or wheat of sixty acres near Sey-
mour and Henry Brettenbrock harvested
$50 bushels of wheat off forty acres
The commencement exercises of the
Indiana normal college at Covington
will be held Thursday, Aug 3. The
graduating class will consist Of ten.
A LapOrte county man brought in over
a hundred woOdchuck pelts in a single
installment a few days ago to get the
bounty money offered in that county.
John Hawkins caught a catfish in the
weighing nfty-tiVe pounds and one Mon
day night that weighed forty-five pounds.
Three thousand sacks of hominy grist
were shipped to Liverpool by the Hudnut
company of Terre Haute Thursday. The
| grain is distributed through the British
| isles.
Sixty persons ranging in age from ten
| to eighty years were taken into the
methodist episcopal church at Worthing-
| ton last Sunday. Eight We're immersed
and thirty sprinkled.
| Calvin Weeks has taken charge of the
| Pike County Leader and announces that
| it is one of the permanent fixtures of
| Pike county, and will continue as a local
| paper, independent of both political par
| ties.
The Prescott CA. To Journal-Mirror
| contains an account of the arrest of
| horse thief by Mrs. ]. r. Lowry, who
! attended school in Logansport and was
| for time popular teacher In Cass
| county.
! Congressman Hammond will leave for
! Washington Aug. l and his family will
| follow about month later and his sons,
| Walter and Frank, will attend one Of
| the colleges of that city during the en-
| suing year.
| The oldest settlers of Clinton, Howard
and Carroll counties hold their annual
| picnic at Burlington Aug. 26. This meet
| ing is always a very large and success
full one, and this year promises even bet
ter than in the past.
Col I. B. Mcdonald is keeping the
| Mcdonald house" at Columbia City.
| The other day he made the following en-
| try on his hotel register: zone w. F.
| Myers, purporting to be from South
| Bend, Ind, a well-dreSsed dead-beat,
jumped his hotel bill and fed. Let him
| fiee'
Tuesday morning while Mr. Thomp-
son, check clerk at the Vandalia freight
house, was handling some egg cases he
| heard a familiar sound. He opened tke
| case and to his great establishment dis
| covered five young chickens. all alive.
| After removing the chicks the sound
| continued. He lifted another crate,
when 10! and behold, there lay six more
chicks.
Several days ago a stranger entered
| Purcells store in Logansport and under
| pretense of examining a ring stole a
| couple of trays Of cheap rings. Wednes-
| day the fellow again entered the store
and stole a hat. Mr. Purcell recognized
the fellow as his former thief just as
he was going out of the door. He gave
| chase in which he was Joined by others,
but the man got away.
Friday a notable event took place at
! Dunreith. Francis w. Thomas, one Of
the leading ministers and members Of
the Indiana yearly meeting, celebrated
| the golden anniversary or his marriage.
| A large number of prominent friends
| from over the state were present. Among
those from Richmond were Jonathan
Baldwin, Timothy Nicholson, William
Hubbard, Daniel Hill and DR.. Dougan
| Clark.
| There was a scheme developed at Rich
mond Wednesday to build a branch line
| from Blossoms station, which is gust
| south of Cambridge City on the Lake
| Erie & Western, through Richmond to
| Manchester o., and thereby connect
with the Cincinnati, Jackson & Macki-
/ naw where the road crosses the Little
| Miami. Both the Cincinnati, Jackson &
| Mackinaw and the L. Z. & w. are in
the Brice syndicate.
The Hon. Francis Johnson has depos-
| tied in the vault at the Merchants safe
| deposit, two books, which alth ough with
| out any intrinsic value, are held in very
| high estimation by the gatherers of
| ancient book lore. One is a copy Of
Paulus Manutius, printed in 1864 -329
| years ago, and the other copy of Teren-
thus, printed 241 years ago. They We're
placed in the vault to remain during Mr.
| Johnson's absence in Europe.-Lafayette
| Courier.
The Order of Chosen Friends at Goshen
| has elected the following officers for the
| ensuing term: Councillor, J. n. Stewart /;
ensuing term: Councillor, j. n. Swart;
| vice-councillor, Alonzo Weatherhead;
| Dill trpa SIlrer- L