The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-28

or against certain candidates. Rumors
come from Goshen and Elkhart that the
| dsgraceful scenes Of six years ago are
| to be repeated-that Col. Dodge has en-
| gagged three hundred howlers" to en-
| liven the OCCASION, and the news is so
reliable that our esteemed contemporary,
| the Standard, in anticipation of cor
rupt practices, is disposed to warn the
| politicians as follows: The Standard
has this 10 say in respect TO the coming
convention: That 1t deprecates a repe-
tition of the judicial convention Of six
1 years ago; not as to the nominee, but as
| to the influences used in getting delegates
! there. The law since enacted will, if
| obeyed, effectually prevent such repe-
| tition, and it may be we'll to call the
/ attention of the people, and all candi-
! dates at this and the conventions that
will follow, to this law, entitled, An
act concerning elections and nominating
| conventions, to maintain political purity,
| and prescribing the punishment for any
| violation thereof approved March g
1889 Lagrange Democrat
| on the 18th day of March Mr. and Mrs.
| Samuel House of Eicknell arrived at
| their fftieth year of welded life. And
| to pay respect to the occasion they in
| vited their children. with grandchildren
| and greatgrandchildren, brothers and
sisters with numerous friends to come
| and enjoy the day and be glad with them
} ON this one eventful day of their lives.
And when they were invited into the
| dining-room there spread on the snowy
{ white linen was one of the grandest din
ners that eyes had ever beheld. The day
was passed in an enjoyable manner TO
all present. In the afternoon they We're
invited into the house and with Mr.. and
Mrs. House seated near the center, sur
/ rounded by children and friends, the
Rev. w. ID. Woods was made spOl1es-
man for all who were there and after
: a short talk to the aged couple he pre-
scented TO Mr.. House a fine gold-headed
/ cane from his sOn-in-laws, namely, Fred
/ Luking, Henry KiXmiller, John Cox, Ed
/ ward HollingsWorth and John Overbay
/ And to Mrs. House an elegant gold watch
from the children, namely, Ellis, John
| and James, Mrs. Martha Luking, Mrs
! Caroline Cox. Mrs. Alice Kixmiller, Mrs.
| Helen Holilngsworth. Mrs. Estella Over
/ bay There were also numerous other
presents from friends and relatives
| Vincennes Sun.
The remains of the late William
| Crockett, whose sudden death we no
ticed last week. We're conveyed by his
| army comrades 10 the train last Satur-
day and taken to Logansport for inter-
ment. The deceased was a lieutenant
| in the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth
/ Indiana regiment-also Joseph Shields's
| regiment. He had two brothers In the
| service 1t is related of Lieut. Crockett
/ (who claimed to be a uneal descendant
/ oil the Famous OlO DdNlQ NIOckeli) lIdt
he and his brother were once sent back
| from army headqI arters to Cass county
! after q deSerter. The deSerteF had ac-
cepted $500 from a drafted man to repre-
| sent him a substitute, but went no
! further than Indianapolis and there de-
serted and took to the woods near his
i fathers. He was finally located and
| the lieutenant and his brother corraled
! him in a Cass county church, one Sun
day morning. The deserter. who first
| got sight of the two soldiers, rushed TO
| a window, leaped out and escaped. At
ter the war had closed the deserter,
| whom our informant AYERS was repub-
/ lican, through influential friends, got
/ his record Strengthened out, and, If he
is alive now. may be recounting the
| deeds of Valor he performed when
I down South helping to lick the rebels"
! -Winamae Journal.
one of the most revolving stories that
] ever fell on mortal ears comes from
| Burney's station, nineteen miles east OF
! here ON the Big Four railroad. The aw-
] fulness of il renders ii almost impossi-
| BILE to believe While we have no reli-
| able information that the alleged facts
are true, we give them for what they
are worth and do not want TO be under
| stood as Veuching for their truthfulness.
( The way the story goes man named
| Kennedy died some days ago. He had
| been a tough character and IL Is said
had served a term in the penitentiary.
| On the night of the wake five or six
| drunken hoodlums went to the house
where the dead man lay and raised a
| racket by firing off their reVolvers in the
| room over the corpse until the watchers
/ deserted their Vigil and fled, leaving the
| drunken demons in full possession. They
| then, in ghoulish frenzy, dragged the
| corpse from the coffin and stood Ii up in
/ one corner of the room, and II is said
| spit tobacco juice on 1t, and wound up
| by tying plaeards to the CHASTITY limbs
upon which was written vile and indie
cent epithets The story sounds too hOr-
rible to be true. but we give it as told
\ to us. We made considerable effort to
! trace II to a reliable source, and learned
! practically the same thing from two or
| not believe it is as bad as told, we feel
| that there is sufficient In it to justify us
/ in giving il to our readers. as told to
/ us by persons who come from the local
| ty where it is alleged to have occurred
| Columbus times.
| Edward Pascheck. the owner of dry
goods store on w. Eighth-st, this city,
| has filed claim with the clerk Of the
| circuit court to recover $125 from Michael
| Kuscharsd due Pascheck for labor per-
! formed for the defendant. Anna PiZcek
has sued the same defendant for $500.
| The plaintiff alleges that she was en-
ployed for eighteen years by the defend
| ant as a domestic and Kuscharsli neg
| lected to pay her. The filing of these
claims recalls an almost forgotten muir
der committed two years ago last fall
| Michael Kuscharski and his wife resided
| on a small farm south of the city and
one morning Mrs. Kuscharski was found