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


There are over three thousand Sons
Of Veterans in the state.
The dairymen Of Anderson have been
caught watering their milk.
The price Of corn dropped / cent a
bushel in the central markets Tuesday.
August Keel. living near Jonesville,
has threshed over g. 100 bushels of wheat.
1t IS reported that the grape crop in
the New Albany neighbOrhood is almost
a failure.
The dairy men at Anderson have been
caught watering their milk. Prosecu-
ton will follow
Corn IS reported active" in the CEN
trail markets, but the price of wheat con-
tinues to decline.
Northern Indiana farmers fear that
their corn crop viii be greatly short
ened by the drouth
Canada thistles have appeared in the
northern part OF the state and farmers
are greatly annoyed.
Engineer Little, who was nearly killed
in the COchrane railroad wreck, died
Thursday in Seymour.
One car load of nutmeg melons was
shipped north from here Monday night.
Seymour Democrat
SeTersburg's canning factory will be-
gin operation this week. and afford en-
ployment To sixty people.
Albert Platt, a machine hand, had one
arm entirely torn off in an accident on
a farm near Logansport Tuesday.
Nutmeg melons continue to- ripen slow
" The crop in the Seymour neighbour
hood viii be much below the average.
Insurance men are puzzling their
brains in trying to find out how farm
barn burnings occur with such frequency.
The melon crop of this neighborhood
is fully one month late and il will be
much below the averag e.-Seymour DEM
Ocrat.
If 1t pays better to feed wheat than
corn 10 hogs, at present prices, why
not feed them all they want?"-SeymOur
Democrat.
The Allen boys threshed S56 bushels of
oats in five hours for Charles Boyer Of
thu Mccullough neighborhood. Saturday.
-Jedersonville News.
Charles Lee and Horace Teveabaugn,
employed in a malleable iron-wOrlls at
Whitelv. while connecting pipes. were
terribly burned in a natural gas explosion.
4. J. Ross was notified by a telegram
that his half brother. l. w. Ross. was
seriously but not fatally injured by being
struck by an engine at MurphysbOrO, H.,
Neutrality-suspicious. Democrat
It is said that the wheat crop in this
state will be 100000 bushels more than
the estimate. The average yield
throughout the central part of the state
is twenty-five bushels an acre.-Jener-
sonville News.
The other victim OF the midnight drive
on the Lafayette pike last week is dead.
Earl Cunningham passed away at 10
o'clock Monday morning after several
DAYS OF uncOnsciousness. He never rail-
lied sufficiently to tell anything Of that
ride or to say NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
vile Argus-News.
J. W. Rittenhouse. who. while serving
a long sentence In the prison south for
counterfeiting. made his escape twelve
years ago. has been captured at a small
town In Texas. He VIII at once be re-
turned to the penitentiary. Rittenhouse
is of the notorious family of counter
feiters Of the same name.
The remOdeling of the Aetna house al
Brownstown recalls that this hosiery was
erected IN 1913 by a man named craig.
il was the first brick building erected be-
tween Cincinnati and St Louis, and Ii
Vas known FAR and near as the Brick
Tavern" 1t was a great stopping place
for traders and travellers Dem
ocrat.
BY undertaking the Eastern Illinois
cement company the Western cement as
sociation. which is composed of the
various mills around the falls, viii fur
nish 100 900 barrels Of cement TO be used
in street repairing I'm Chicago. This will
give work t. large number Of cement
NIL employees who have been idle for
many months.
Adam Kellar Thursday lost six large
Tat hOS5 the hogs were overcome by
the heat. Four others would have died
in a snort time If Mr.. Kellar had not
hauled water to them. The hogs were
without water but a few hours and went
from "a piece Of timber land into a stub
bleheld in which they perished.-Colum-
bus Republican.
EeT-ar
George ". Berry. who was insured for
$4,000 inthe Indiana travelling mems assO-
citation on June !, 1893, and was injured
Oct. Z, 1898. In such a way that he was
laid M seven weeks. which, at S25 per
week Is S175 He sues for $500 The
COMPANY refused to pay because Of some
features of the case.-SOuth Bend
Times.
John r. East was at Bedford recently
10 attend a meeting Of the creditors OF
W. G. Winstandley, who failed several
months ago. There We're 800 creditors
at the meeting, whose claims amounted
TO 5000 Col East was the attorney
for the creditors. He says if the prop
erty is we'll handled that it viii easily
pay all the debt against it.-Blooming-
ton World.
on opening a box car at the depot,
WatermelOns, lemons, bananas, hams,
etc, We're found strewn over the floor
mashed and mixed into a conglomerate
mass, while nearly every box in the car
had been broken into. The cargo con-
sisted of fruits and candies. The car had
probably cen entered at Cochran, as a
staple had been drawn and put in place
again.-Osgo0d Journal.
Coroner Johnson has been complinnented
on every hand for the words Of censure
he uttered in his finding over the remains
Of Miss Louise Frankfort against her
seducer and destroyer. They should burn
deep into the soul Of Haines who by his
own confession is guilty Of the poor girls
destruction. The atmosphere Of Elkhart
should be made too hot for so cold
blOOded a wretch.-Goshen Times.
The delegates from Harrison county to
the democratic state convention at Indi-
annapolis, on Aug. 10. are james w
brewster. Anthony Kannapel, Charles H
love, Philip jacob, Ambrose Collins
NJ Resch. David A SImler. Edward e.
Love, Smith Askren, Thomas Eurton
James A. McRea and Joel F. Russell.
Harry Finley returned Tuesday from
st. Louis. where he attended the pho
tograDhers' national convention. MIR
Finley enjoyed himself very much. and
what Is more gratifying, received the
gold medal for the most excellent aver.
age work. This is the first time that an
honor ike this has been conferred upor
citizen Of JeffersOnville and Messrs
Finley are very proud Of the distinction
as they have a right 10 be-Jefferson-
vile News
Saturday night Mrs. Harmon b. Payne
received a dispatch from her son Everett
at Nashville Tenn saving briefly thai