The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-03

the governor urging MIN 10 remit the
me against him. This the governor did
today, and the clerk. sheriff and prose
| cutor RENTED the costs which thus
made him free.-Columbus Herald.
Wall-st methodist church was recently
! thrown into a state OF excitement and
utter surprise by a faithful and Jealous
member asking for her letter The lady
has lately become enamoured with the
new sect of feet-washsrs or Second ad-
ventists. who recently held a campmeet-
ing on Silver heights. Efforts were made
by the pastor and prominent members OF
the church to dissuade the lady from her
intention Of leaving the church IN which
she had been a good member for a life
time, but 1t avalled nothing Failing in
this they took the position that the
lady's mind was weakened by religious
excitement, but this was received with
scorn by the lady and her family. The
letter was granted and the lady has cast
her lot with the now sect.-Jenersonville
News
Prof. II. r. Wardell. the splritulllst of
Lafayette, who was under arrest for per
petrating fraud, but not until after he
had carded the papers SAYING that the
pretended exposure at Button was a lie
and people making il were blackmailers,
has recalled his card and admitted the
truth of the exposure. He was taken 10
/ Button yesterday and a report is re-
| ceiVed that he has promised, I'm case
| ton In that city tonight In which he Will
show up the tricks by which he has
successfully bewfldered the public as
an alleged medium for nearly twenty
/ years. His recantation has occasioned
much surprise among spiritualsts In
northern Indiana, who heretofore had be-
| lieved in the truth Of his alleged mani
| estations.-Logansport Journal.
Daisy Powell. a fourteen-year-old girl
residing near Rockport, secretly left her
home last week Thursday and came to
| this city, where she was met by G.. G.
! Johnson. a fair fakr, who had entlced her
| 10 forsake home and parents. She made
/ the acquaintance Of Johnson at the Rock
( port fair, who p-ayed on her credulity In
| such a manner as 10 gain her confidence.
! He represented himself as a single man
/ and promised 10 marry her. If she would
/ come with him. Her mother soon discOV-
| cred her disappearance and followed her
! to this city, where. with the aid OF Mar
shall Thacker, she soon found her hayward
! child and took her back home with her.
/ Johnson, who Is a married man and has
I family at New Albany. succeeded in max
! ing good his escape when the irate mother
/ put in an Observation-Disclosures News.
J For nearly two months the officers over
! the country have been searching for John
! Landreth, a slick diamond thi=f. whose
/ latest exploit was at Edgewood, Ill,
! where he broke into q jewelry store and
/ carried away a large amount of valua-
/ BILE stuff Since that time the detectives
! here have been watching for him. Fri
/ day morning Detective Lehnhard learned
! that a man working on George Horn
| by's farm, five miles from Evansville on
! the McCutchanvllle read, answered a
! description of the much-wanted burglar
Accompanied by Special Detective
! Hutchens he drove out 10 the farm in
! the afternoon and surprised Landreth.
/ He made no effort to get away. The
| EdgewoOd officials have been notified of
! the capture and will take the prisoner
| back to the seat Of his crime.-Evansviiie
| Courier.
| Mayor Frost and wife own q fine Nal
! tese cat. Monday Mrs. Frost was c,ean-
! ing around the stove, and While STOPPING
and working away she heard the cat
! jump in the window, and presently she
| fe.t the cat playing with something
| her dress, which was spread out behind
! her. Looking around 10 her horror, she
/ saw pussy Playing with a snake. which
was all coiled, head erect. and puss
! singing TO 1t and tapping It gently with
| its paw. The lady gave a piercing
! Shrek, jumped upon the table and
| clambered out Of the window. frightened
! almost to death. She finally mustered
| sufficient courage to get the garden rake
| reach IN at the window kill the unoffend-
! ing serpent and thus end the story. But
| when Mrs. Frost sees the cat now she
| will almost scream, and that overgrown
|
| vile Examiner.
The warrant charging murder in the
| first degree was read to Levi Wrinkle in
his cell by Deputy Sheriff Croson Tues
| day afternoon. When the officer had
| finished reading the paper Wrinkle smiled
| and said. "All right, boss, I'll be there"
He places much reliance in the verdict
| of Coroner Mattox. which justihes the
| theory shown at the inquest that IL was
done in se.f-defense, and regards the eff
! fort to convict him as a mere matter Of
| form He also expects much consldera-
| ton from the fact that Charles Williams,
whom he killed. was a worthless and
, .-1ngerous man, who had stabbed several
IN. 1t will be proven. the state claims.
! that Wrinkle shot Williams while the lat
| ter was inside the house leaning against
/ a window siu, and that the gate between
| the two men was closed. 1t will also, it
| Is claimed. be shown that Williams had
| no knife, as was claimed by Wrinkles
/ friends, at the time of the inquest
( Terre Haute Express.
! Connecting New Albany with Jeffer-
sonville and Louisville is a branch of the
/ Pennsylvania road known as the Dinkey
| line. Over this road the passenger trains
| operated by the Pennsylvania company
/ pass every thirty minutes, and also at
| intervals the Monon trains, which go
! from New Albany TO Louisville over this
| line. Several times during the past week
| the Pennsylvania trains have been sig
nailed to stop at Stites's station, located
| about two miles from New Albany. In
each case the engineers and hremen have
| seen what appeared 10 be a man stand
/ ing in the middle of the track frantically
waving his hands. When the train
: stopped nothing could be seen of him,
( the figure disappearing as If into the
! air. The Monon train has also been
7 stopped in the same way. AS this cross
/ ing is not flag station the trains would
/ not stop unless tagged in such a way as
! TO give engineers the impression that
! something was wrong. The crews all
| claim that 1t Is an apparition. AS they
are all steady, well-known citizens, and