The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-17
GENERAL STATE news.

1 ASSISTANT cashier, LOUIS Schlek, teller;
| Joseph F. Niesse, bookkeeper. and ".
II. Luckett, messenger. - Madison
Herald.
| The new democratic state central conf
| mittee is unusually strong in its make
up. such representative democrats as
the Hon. Allen collars of FIT. Wayne,
| the Hon. John G.. Shanlxlin Of Evansville,
| the Hon. Thomas Taggart Of Indianapo-
| lis, and others, give the committee
high individualized character. NJ. Tag
/ CART Will be the chairman without doubt.
| Frankfort Crescent.
One day during Christmas week.
/ George Loss of this county, wishing to
| celebrate. bored a hole in a huge log,
! filed it with powder and touched il off
J Just now he is slowly recovering from
/ a badly bruised head. a powder-burnt
| arm and several other minor hurts. The
log was blown to pieces and with it
/ took several yards Of Georges best
! suit--Madison Democrat.
| The Mckinley high tariff knocked out
/ dollar wheat and reduced the price OF
/ wool about One-haf. The sale Of horses
I has also been nearly wiped out under
/ the high tariff. and the worst kind Of
/ business stagnatiOn spread over the
/ country when the Mckinley law was in
| fun operation. No wonder there is "A
| demand for the repeal Of n law that
! operates like that.-LapOrte Argus.
I Sullivan has the reputation of being
| While hard times have struck nearly
/ every place this city has escaped with
| scarcely a touch. Business, Of course,
/ has not been quite as good as some
| other years, but every one has pulled
| safely through so far. Nothing could
be more conclusive of the substantial
! progress Of this city. although very
rapid, than this fact-Sullivan Times.
Maj. Louis ~ Centlivre and Driver
Frank Bogash returned from Napoleon,
I O., yesterday afternoon. Mai. CentliVre
added two promising and very handsome
Atlantic King colts TO the Centlivre sta
I bic and made a bid on others. Napoleon
was the home Of Atlantic King before
he passed into the hands of the Messrs.
I Centlivre. and they are gathering in the
/ family Of famed horses as rapidly as
money Will buy them.-Ft. Wayne Jour
nal.
Mr.. Earl Brown, who has been in Ger
many for several years past, is I'm the
city, the guest Of his sister, Mrs. r. \.
! Black He has just closed a six years
contract with the Royal conservatory in
Berlin and will be made first assistant
TO the professor in charge. II is quite
an honor 10 hold this position. and we
are glad TO know that our young friends
ability in his profession is so highly APP
preciated in the old wOrld-HancOck
Democrat.
We regret to announce that J. b. Cor
nell met with very painful accident
yesterday. While carefully feeling
around in a dark cellar for apples his
hand came in contact with the hairy
surface Of a sailed hide which startled
him to such an extent that he jumped
off his feet and crashed his head against
the overhead joist. A physician sewed
up the ugly cash. and now Jacob goes
around with a bump as big as a hens
egg on his craninm.-GOShen Times.
A movement IS on foot to have
lOckpOucu lIaIl delivery on the r. & /.
between here ard Terre Haute, the same
as is carried on the morning and even
ing /. & V. trains This would be quite
an accommodation TO our business men,
as by it they could send orders to Terre
Haute in the morning and get returns
at night. As the mails now run il takes
forty eight hours TO get a return from
a letter sent TO the Prairie city, unless
the envelope carries a special delivery
stamp.-WOrthingtOn Times.
After lingering in an unconscious con-
dition for the past few days "Aunty''
Badly. as she is Familiarity known,
passed quietly away in her room at the
old ladies' home Friday morning at 5:03
o'clock, at the extreme age of 104 years.
two months and twelve days. Since the
accident that befell her Friday of last
week, when she fell and broke her hip
she has been in a helpless condition and
REQUIRED the constant care of an at
tendant to be ever ready TO administer
To her wants.-Terre Haute Gazette.
No legislation in recent years has
caused the comment that has been occa-
stoned by the report of the ma jority
Of the ways and means committee on
the income proposition. The republican
party, true to its devotion 10 the favored
classes, bitterly opposes the plan, but it
now looks like the bill will become a
law. Should il do so the man with an
nf Ia tn
per cent. on the Overplus This will
place the burden on the backs of those
who are able to bear it-BloomingtOn
World.
The newspaper is one Of the most i'm
portant factors of the world, says an ex-
change. II has grown as absolutely nee
essary as ones meat and drink. The
man who does not read the papers is a
fossil and his place would be better filled
by a live man. The woman who never
reads the paper has for the burden Of
her conversation gossip about her neigh
bors. The newspaper keeps one in touch
with the world. II tells what has been
done and what has yet 10 be done. a
home without a paper in il is not COM
plete.-GOshen Times.
Thomas Jones, a prominent farmer OF
Spencer county dropped dead i'm church
at Dale. Ind, last Sunday morning while
teaching a Sunday-schOOl class Mr.
"a
before a reply could be given he fell to
the floor, dying immedia tely. The de-
ceased was an active member in the
methodist church at that place. He was
siXty-five years of age and married He
was as we'll known throughout Indiana
conference as in Spencer county. one Of
his brothers is a prominent methodist
minister, stationed at indianapolis.
Paddy Corbett concluded not to go to
the trouble of turning off the lights last
night when he closed his place on the
Rialto. He simply took his gun and
shot em out Every time Paddy pulled
the trigger out went an electric light.
By the time the gun was empty the
place was dark and a crowd had gath
cred on the outside. When Paddy was
ready TO go home he simply kicked n
glass out OF the door and walked
through 1t cost nobody nothing and it
was his own fun. He paid the freight
and no one was hurt.-Anderson BulIe-
tin.
Tuesday a young man called on
Sheriff Sherry and asked TO be locked uD
He stated that he had collected money
for Sheets, the North Side dairyman.
and had not accounted for it, The fell
low gave his name as r. NJ. Minor He
was placed behind the bars by the
amazed sheriff who was almost dunn
founded by the strange request. So far
as can be learned Minor collected $31 As
and sDant II As vet no charge has