The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-08
GENERAL STATE NEWS.


for $4,235.
Eliza breeding and his wife of Edin-
burg celebrated their golden wedding an+
niversary Friday.
A d. Eldridge shipped ten coops Of
poultry to North Vernon Saturday
Seymour Democrat
Elias j. Bayliss OF Charlestown has
Vi plat of that town drawn i'm 1923, which
is In a good state of preservation.
Twenty thousand pounds Of sunfower
seed have been shipped from Bridge
port this fall, so far, and still more to
follow.
English has held a public meeting in
favor of removing the county seat OF
Crawford county from LeavenwOrth to
that town. The Leavenworth people and
newspapers ridicule the idea.
Trainmaster Landers of the Indianap-
oils q Vincennes railway states that
the corn crop on that line is seldom
better than this year, and the late frosts
are ripening it In a fine manner.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Murphy of South
Bend have nine daughters and the whole
family visited the worlds fair recently.
The story goes that the girls were tied to-
gether with a twenty-foot cord, and
they attracted no end Of attention.
The Laporte authorities have COM
pleted the work OF removing four hun
dred bodies from an abandoned GEM
etery, and although no new graves have
been made since 1862 many of the bodies
were found in an excellent state Of
preservation.
The new united brethren church in
OrinOco was formally dedicated Sunday,
Bishop Kephart presiding at the cere-
monies. The sermon in the morning was
preached by Bishop Kephart and the
dedicatory address in the afternoon by
Elder Sweeney.
The other day a Seymour COW broke
into a kitchen and ate a half barrel
OF apples, a large chocolate cake and
other delicacies. The family has been
watching the COW ever since, anxiously
expecting her TO give an abundant sup
ply of neapolitan ice cream.-Shoals
News.
The author of After the Ball." who is
said to receive 81, 200 a day profit from
the sale of the song. ought to be gener-
Gus enough to pay the ten dollars fine
of a young man in Mishawala who was
arrested a few days ago for disturbing
the peace by singing the song on the
streets.
Last year. when the Ligonier fair was
not financial success" says the Ban
ner, the managers without hesitation
borrowed enough money TO pay the pre-
miums In full. Every man got Just what
he was promised and there was no seal
ing Of from 80 to 70 per cent. as seems
TO be the practice in other fairs this
year"
A party of fishermen We're over on a
bayou of the Wabash river on fishing
excursion last week, when Sam Alkire
caught a bass twenty-five inches long,
which weighed over five pounds 10
Reed had a tin-type made Of ii and one
or two drawings life-siZe. There are no
affidavits attached, hOwever.-Sullivan
Democrat
Mrs. Tohill, as administrative of her
husbands estate, sued the E. & t. H.
railroad company for the death Of her
husband, who was an engineer on a
freight engine and was killed by a col
lisiCn below Vincennes. After remain
ing out about twelve hours the jury re-
turned verdict of $4,000 for the plain
tiff-Sullivan Democrat
John WarveI, a Panhandle freight
brakeman, was run over and instantly
killed Sunday. He was one Of Conductor
Curtis's crew, and was employed on the
short local run between Dunkirk and
Bradford. He fell off a car at Dunkirx
while switching, a number of cars pass
ing over him, mangling him horribly. He
was a single man and lived at Bradford
Mrs. Mile Tate arrived Sunday morn
ing from Lawrence, Kas., with the body
of her brother, Oliver Cobb, who was
killed there the middle of last week
The remains were at once taken to Mrs
Tate's home where the funeral occurred
Sunday. The masOns were present and
assisted in the ceremonies and accom-
panied the body Of their brother to it's
last resting place at the cemetery
Marion Chronicle.
Near Sedalia the skeleton Of an In
dian chief has been unearthed on the
farm of John Bossworth in a fair state
OF preservation An old stump Of a
tree which had grown over the grave
indicated that the body had been buried
there several hundred years ago. On
each side of the head, on what are sup
posed TO be ears, but which look like
old pieces Of leather, there were five
coils of gold wire.
Mrs. Margaret Durand died at South
Bend Tuesday, aged nearly eighty years.
She was a nurse in the union army for
about three years in the late war. and
was near Island No 10 at the great
bombardment there. being in company
with the late Mother Angela of st.
Mary's academy, who was also among
the army nurses in the war. They were
stationed at Mound City, where there
was an extensive union hospital.
Monday morning when the south
bound train arrived at this station a
man was found lying dead drunk on
the platform between the engine and
baggage car in a dangerous position.
The conductor removed him and Mar
shall ShatIuck hurried him to the Jail,
where he sobered sufficiently by after
home. He hailed from Goshen and
blamed a lot of Sturgis tOughs for pour
ing the whisky down him.-Lagrange
Standard.
Gottfried Poehlman has been taking In
the worlds fair and returned Friday
evening. While on an illinois Central
train going over from South Chicago TO
the worlds fair grounds Mr.. Poehlman
was relieved Of his pocketbook contain
ing s35. He caught the man, big, good
looking fellow, right in the act and ap-
pealed TO the conductor and trainmen TO
help him recover the same, but they
seemed 10 "stand in with the pick
pocket for they would do nothing.--South
Bend Times.
The local glass unions We're notified
Saturday mOring that at a meeting Of
the National window glass-wOrkers' as
ISOLATION at Pittsburg last night it was
decided 10 notify the manufactures
that If the scale was signed by Nov. 20
the Workmen would permit the manu-
facturers TO hold from one-half to two
thirds Of their wages until next May to
help them over the present depression
in the business. A clause was also in
serted in the scale for a revision in the
wages in the event Of a reduction In
the tariff. Forbes HoltOn, president of