The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-15

cleaned. The building was erected in Nne
'6O's by Jacob Halfman. who for years
carried on the brewing OF beer therein
Ii has since been used as a broom factory
machine shop. poultry packing house
and for various other purpOses.-LebanOn
Pioneer.
Charles Plews and Cora Barnett of
Salem eloped Thursday. coming to this
city, and were married by Justice Hause.
The couple started in a carriage, but the
horse ran away. Then they walked back
To Salem and took the train. The mother
of the young lady was searching for
them and also got on the train, thus
compelling Plews and his sweetheart to
go upon the front platform of the bag
gage car At Pekin the mother got off
thinking the couple was not on the train.
They made their trip 20 New Albany
in a passenger coach. After they We're
married they asked Equire Hause to keep
ii a secret. but under the decision of the
encouragement this is impossible
Jacksonville News.
George Booher, a farmer living three
miles east OF Darlington has marketed
his hogs and made the following state
ment as to feeding them wheat He FED
twenty-four hogs and when weighed be-
fore feeding they averaged 164 pounds
or a total of 1896 pounds. He then had
fifty bushels Of wheat ground coarse and
soaked IN coal water and fed 10 them
After feeding the fifty bushels he then
sold them for So per hundred. They
then made an average Of 200 pounds or
4.S00 pounds in total. or a gain of S64
pounds at cents per pound giving him
$500 for his fifty bushels of wheat and
a small amount OF extra labor, thereby
realizing So % cents per bushel for his
wheat-Crawfordsvil Journal.
The Kokomo natural gas and oil COM,
pany has a natural gas well which it
cannot control. Under the supposition
that the we'll had gone dry the company
undertook to pull the casing. About
four hundred feet down the pipe broke
in two. making it impossible 10 remove
the lower portion or replace the upper.
While pulling the tubing the workmen
were driven away by the immense flow
Of gas, water and oil. which shot into
the air and took fire. A lake was soon
formed Immediately surrounding the
WELL through which the gas constantly
rushes. The company. far. has found
il impossible to put out the fire or stop
the flow, and the well has developed
into a dangerous nuisance. Apparently
there is no way of controlling IL. and II
may be several years before the well eX-
hausts itself
Many Of the neighbOrs and friends of
Mrs. David Dennison gathered at her
home Thursday night TO witness the
blooming of night blooming cereus
grandifiorus. The sight was a beautiful
one. The flower assumed its most bril-
liant effect at 2 CLOCK a. m, having
opened just at midnight. The bud and
stem measured thirteen inches in length,
while in circumference the flower was
twenty inches As far back as the eye
could see a green tint of most delicate
character could be perceived. Close by
was long pedal from which extended
fragile fbers which ended In a star Of
thirteen points and Of the brilliancy of
diamond. The plant is four years old
and this is the first time it has ever
boomed. 1t is of the brown variety
KOkOmo Bulletin.
Marion township has been overrun
with black snakes this season and some
as long as seven feet are reported, with
the assurance that they would night.
The champion story from that section
arrived this morning 1t is TO the effect
that Mrs. Joe Woods, living in that
township, was in her yard and was at
tracted to the house by the crying Of
her baby. Entering the room where the
child was she was Mortified 10 find
huge black snake coiled about the child's
neck and over its body. With rare
presence of mind the mother took her
apron, and Selling the snake by the head
took it out into the yard and killed it.
1t measured seven feet, the regulation
length for Marion township. The Ban
ner Times gives the story as it hears it
Greencastle Banner Times.
The Chicago Record speaks highly of
Charles DENLY, jr.. and publishes a fine
says: "a touch Of romance has been
added TO the situation by the recent an
nOuncement of the secretary'S engage
ment with Miss Martha Orr of Evans
vile, Ind, the former home of the Den
bys. Although they had known each
other for years, the young people had
seen very little of each other until this
summer when Miss Orr visited Pekin
Of the travelling party with the
Hon. John w. Foster. ex-secretary of
state. Miss Orr is beautiful. has travelled
great deal and is wealthy The we'd
ding was to have taken place this fall,
but may be delayed If the China-Japan
difficulty continues much longer"
No one hears farmers say they have
nothing to do. Farmers always have
something to do, but the man who lives
in town and depnds upon days work for
livelihood is heard frequently to say,
II have nothing to do, 1 cannot find
work" This teaches the oft-said ex-
preston, too many people congregate in
cities, who should be I'm the country
working a farm. A man who owns
eighty or 100 acres of land paid for can
live like a king and need be under no
obligation to any one. Towns and cities
are full of men who are eking out
living by a days work, who, If they
had stuck to the farm or gone onto
farm twenty thirty years ago, would
be good farmers today and would not
be on the streets complaining that they
have no work and nothing 10 do
Kendallville News.
Indiana pensions: Original = James
Work, Terre Haute, Vigo county;
Charles Mutchett. Indianapolis. Marion.
Additional-Samuel Danbury, Lena, Clark
Alexander, Gentryville. Spencer county;
John Bilderback. Oakland City, Gibson.
Increase-John S. Barricklow Dillsbor-
ough, Dearborn county; Nicholas Q.