The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-25

Barney Stewart, a lawyer OF Waka-
| rusa, was gathering hickory nuts one
day last week, and while climbing tree
and when about thirty feet from the
! ground the limb upon which he was
holding broke, precipitating him to the
ground. The shock to his system was
| so severe that he has been in critical
| condition ever since, with little hope of
| recovery. One arm was broken in such
| a manner that it is thought amputation
will be necessary If he survives.
Tippecanoe county has certainly con-
tributed its share toward the worlds
| having contributed il wiz be quite a
surprise when it Is known that the rail-
1 road companies here up to the present
| time have sold to residents of this coun-
ty nearly 10000 tickets. and it is low
1 estimate TO say that the entire amount
| expended by the above number is not
| less than 100000, and still they say bus
mess is dull.-Lafayette Daily Courier.
Saturday night at O'Clock Jacob Alt
adder and Fred. Steinhauser, farmers
from Posey county, Were robbed by three
1 masked men on the Mt Vernon road.
OF late more than four farmers are re-
l ported to have been robbed while return
/ ing home. The amounts stolen in each
case were small, however Last week the
authorities were notified of case which
occurred on the road leading to the ST.
Joseph cemetery. AS yet they have
made no discoveries.-Mt. Vernon Demo-
| crat.
| Calvin Gibson has brought suit at
| Brazil against the T. H & /. railroad
company for damages in the sum of $1,000
! in consideration Of the death of his son,
| Thomas Gibson, aged seventeen years,
who, as alleged. lost his life by being
| violently elected from train by the
| employees of the road. while moving at
| the rate of fifteen miles in this city on
/ the 5th of June last, the wheels of the
| In, "
| when thrown from the train.-Greencas-
I tie Democrat.
The bodies in an old graveyard at La
porte are being removed to another plat
to make room for modern improve
! ments. over one hundred graves have
been opened so far. In the majority Of
the graves nothing but a few decayed
| bones and a skull are found, while in
others the bodies are found to be in
| partially decomposed condition. The re-
mains of one woman, who was buried
| In 1881, were found TO be turned COM
pletely over, as if she had been buried
alive, and had turned in her grave
| Goshen Democrat.
Aaron Furley sold to B. H Hancock
this week nine two-year-old mules that
average 1,1Si pounds. four of which
| averaged 1905 pounds. They were
! bought by the pound at 1913 cents per
pound. This is the first we ever knew
of mules selling that way, and they
We're the finest and latest lot of mules
we ever saw. They were bought for a
| sugar plantation in the South. Mr..
| Turley has been feeding them for sew
eral months for the market and realized
a handsome profit from them.-Orleans
Examiner
Chief of Police Lewis of Connersville
| received a communication from j. w.
! Stout, sheriff Vigo county. to be on
! the lookout for an escaped convict
/
! picking pockets. While on the way
| from Terre Haute to Jeffersonville he
| jumped from the train at Seymour and
! escaped. He is about twenty years of
age and claims Anderson his home. He
| is telegraph operator, claiming TO
| have worked at Hyde Park. reward
| of $50 is offered for his capture and
detention.
The Ripley county court house stood
in need of a new coat of paint, and
thereby hangs an interesting tale Of the
| county commissioners. The board of
commission rs ordered the court house
painted. awarding the contract to Fred
w. Bohnen at a good price. Now come
all the other contracting painters in the
region around; they testify with one &C
cord that the contract has been awarded
at price double what it should have
been. 1t also appears, from their state
ments that no one but Mr.. Bohnen and
| the board knew that a contract was
about to be awarded.
A meeting of the patrons Of the Ash
boro public schools was held at the
! school house last Friday night A mo-
| permitted to re-enter theeschool without
correction and punishment on which
seven votes were cast for and four
against, nineteen of the thirty present
| not voting at all. Of course, the meet
ing ACCOMPLISHED and settled nothing.
| b., toll
| VfouSly. The young man Jones was
elected from the school by the principal,
Henry Cromwell, for violent interference
| with the punishment of another pupil.
Fred Weik walked rapidly down Jack
son-st. Wednesday morning with an inn
mense pane of glass under his arm He
was reared back like Bismarck on dress
parade and eagerly shifted the bracing
| October air, feeling that 1T was good to
be alive. But monster, cruel and re-
lentless, the terrible octopus of terra
flrma, had camped on his trail 1t laid
Tor him. His foot struck a banana peel,
| the glass was shivered into a thousand
pieces and Mr.. Weik-was Jared. A by
stander says Fred addressed the wide,
wide world for some time in all the
dialects ever heard in Flanders.-Green-
castle Democrat.
The dead body of a child, which APP
parently had not lived many hours after
birth, was found In brush pile at
| New Albany wednesday by two young
negroes. The body had been placed In
a pasteboard box and thrown over the
embankment under the trestle of the
New Albany Belt and terminal railroad,
and the absence Of decomposition showed
| that II had not been there long before
1t was found. The only mark on the
body was a bruise upon the left tenn
pie, but that was probably caused by a
fall. Coroner Starr was called and ex-
amined the corpse, but was unable to
determine whether the infant had ever
lived.
Last Saturday night Lew Brown and
some other parties got into a difficulty
in saloon on N. Second-st., but soon
smade up and Brown thought the matter
all settled. About midnight Mr.. Brown
started to his home on u. Perry-st. and
Just before reaching there some one shot
at him. the ball taking effect in the thigh
of his left leg. The party was so close
that Mr.. Browns coat caught on fire
from the discharge of the revolver. Mr..
Brown, says he does not know who did
the deed. He says he hasn't any enemy
in the world that he knows of. A doctor
was summoned who dressed the wound
and says he will soon recover. Mr.
Brown is teamster in the employ OF
Charles Halter.-Vincennes Sun.
For some time Mr.. and Mrs. Clint
Haggard have not dwelled happily to-
gether and few weeks ago they con-
cluded to separate. This morning Mrs.
| Haggard, In company with their eight
1 VA n-f.1d ff,a1r be Oh T~~4< g.