The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-20

Onions are selling at 81 per bushel to
produce dealers at Seymour.
All gamblers and fakirs are positively
denied admittance to the Bedford fair
grounds.
The grape crop in southern Indiana
is reported very large and the quality
excellent.
The Vincennes. spoke factory has re-
sumed work, giving employment to forty
idle men.
Many farmers are blowing for wheat.
The rains have frightened the outlook
for fall planting.
President Fisher of Hanover college
fell from a ladder Saturday and was
seriously injured.
George Knost of Brownstown township
raised eighty bushels of onions from seed
planted on One-third Of an acre.
Some wheat has already been sown in
the Seymour neighborhoOd. The work
will be pushed from this time forward.
William Morris of New Albany has
been declared insane and ordered sent
to the hospital for insane at Indianapolis.
An unclaimed horse and buggy, left by
q stranger and worth about 5000, await
an owner at the Smith livery stable at
Columbus.
Miss Rary c. Rich, who has been con-
Quoting a select school In Atlanta, Ca,
for three years, has returned to her old
home at GAINESVILLE, Ind.
Hillabold, aged nine years, was shot in
the left eye by Louis Cohen, fifteen years
old. The wound is serious.
Miss Minnie Kilgus, a young lady of
Jacksonville, who accompanied her
father TO the worlds fair, is unaccount-
ably missing at Chicago, and her friends
are greatly alarmed.
The most destructive storm that ever
visited the vicinity Of Borden, Clark
county, took place Friday evening on
the knobs. Sweet potatoes plants, veg
etables and whole fields of corn were
totally destroyed.
o. B. Waldo killed a copper-head
snake at Rising Sun Sunday. 1t had
thick, hard, triangular head and was
thfrty-two inches in length. This species
has become little rare and the bite is
said to be as poison as that of the rattle
snake.
The Elkhart Review says the large de-
structiOn Of fences in the late drouth by
fires has turned the attention Of farmers
to the cost Of lumber for fences, and the
superiority Of wire fencing. The woven
wire fences are vastly better than rail or
board.
Last Thursday Thomas NJ. Maddox, a
highly respected citizen of Linton, we'll
known all over Greene county. while
returning TO business from dinner fell
stricken with heart failure, expiring in
a few minutes. Deceased was about
hfty-fiye years Of age.
r. f. Savidg. a South Bend laboring
man, advises his fellow workmen in the
Tribune "to refrain from those extrava-
CANT and unnecessary things, such as
drinking. smoking and chewing tobacco.
BY abstaining from these you can lay
up something for crisis like the present
when it comes"
Attorney William Plgg is no more.
When he broke jail here last summer
he left a note to Sheriff DillOw stating
that he would return for trial but ne
cannot now fulfill his promise. He was
shot and almost instantly killed by tie
marshal of Chrisman. H., Thursday
evening OF last week.-HoOsier State.
Saturday Ida Bennett Of Columbus
made an affidavit that she misunderstood
the purport of the papers drawn up the
day before, upon which the affidavit was
based on her statements, and now swears
that the charge against her father is
wholly untrue. that no improper conduct
ever occurred on the part Of her father
toward her.
John Woods. colored wants the
mother Of that colored baby left at his
door to come and get it. Use on to dat
woman's racket, an eff she don't come
after dat young IN I'll des hab 'er sent
to Col kelly's bodin' house at de jail"
John lives on Galt-st. and the baby was
eft early Saturday morning.-New Al
oany Ledger.
Some unknown man grabbed a pretty
girl on s. Main-st. in Middlebury on
Saturday night and kissed her then
broke and ran. She says she does not
know who her assailant was. The IN
dependent says. 1T is causing TO little
excitement and now il is impossible for
the mammas TO keep their daughters in
after dark"
While Martin Kendall was returning
home from the cornerstone laying he
was thrown from his wagon and Sc
verify injured The wagon wheel passed
a nal m Ga In
wound. His left ear was also cut. The
injured man IS not IN a dangerous con-
ditiOn, although his wounds are pain
ful.-TiptOn Times.
Clara Belle Potts, aged twenty-four,
In q ut Of QeliT1um. cut her own throat,
dying almost Immediately. She was the
daughter Of Sam Potts farmer, near
Glendale. She was troubled with
epilepsy and had been under the care
of a physician. The coroners verdict
was in accordance with the above facts.
Washington Democrat.
o. W Riddle. employed at the New
Carlisle freight house, was engaged in
loading freight into cars by means Of
cart In going down an incline the
wheels struck some obstruction; the
heavily loaded cart got the best of Rid
die and the handle few up tearing his
mouth open nearly to the ears and
breaking both jaw bones.
The Daviess county fair association
paid all the premiums in full and came
out in the hole between 500 and $500.
The receipts this year were Sl.140 less
than last year. The falling off is at
tributed to the drought, the scarcity OF
money, the worlds fair and the fact
that the fair held too early in the
season.-Washington Democrat.
On Monday Ross Newkrk came near
losing his house and barn A passing
train set a stubble field on fire and the
wind was taking the fire toward the
house and barn. Neighbors gathered in
and extinguished the fire and saved the
buildings. Mr.. Newkirk desires to thank
those who aided in saving his property
from destruction.-Tipton Times.
The Nappanee News says that a real
ghost story comes from the country
near La Plaz. It is said that the De
Wolf farm in that vicinity is haunted by
one Thompson who had gone hence"
about one year ago-died in the woods"
where the winds playing through the
cranberry and whortleberry bush sang
his requiem. The old mans ghost seems
TO have come back for a purpose-that