The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-30

/ and left Tor ms nome on the 10 a. m
train. He reports this trip very dis
/ agreeable one. and the result a disap-
/ pointment. The Rev. Mr.. Northcott
was stationed in the Freetown circuit,
! Jackson county. twelve years ago. and
had two stations in his circuit in Brown
| county.-Columbus Times.
The damage suits Of the Harshbargers
| Of New Ross against the Big Four rail-
| road have been compromised. the plain
| tiffs having wisely concluded that 81,
| 500 in the hand is better than $4,000 in
/ The bush The cause of action dates
| back to a dark. gloomy evening last De-
cember when Mrs. Blanche Harshbarger
| alighted from the passenger train at
| New Ross and in making her way off the
| platform stumbled and fell over pile
| of lumber. no precautions having been
/ taken to warn the ignorant passenger
/ sustained permanent injuries and sued
/ Cor $4,000 damages. Her husband, Mil
| tcn Harshbarger. felt that he. too. had
! been damaged and filed a suit for 5000.
| The grounds of action were good, but
when the railroad people made overtUIes
and suggested that they were willing 10
| give up $500 on compromise, the
| plaintiffs concluded to accept rather than
| abide the many legal crooks and curns.
/ the chances on securing a heavy verdict,
/ and finally the chances on converting
| judgment into cash. The above amount
! is the largest ever secured in a railroad
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| Charlottesville Argus-News.
! During the progress of the conflagra-
| ton Saturday morning a no less eXcit-
| ing scene was being enacted in the hand
some residence of James A. Arthur,
/ which by the way. was in the midst of
| the threatened district. The incandes-
| cent electric circuit was "short-cir-
Quilted" by the breaking of the wire
| near the burning factory and almost
! the full force of the current was thrown
! into Mr.. Arthur's residence. Then en-
| sued a most wonderful and alarming
! pyrotechnical display. Balls of fire
! bounded about the rooms, kissing SER
| penis of flame darted over the carpets
! sheets Of light blinded the limited and
! affrighted audience, livid lines of gold
! described immense geOmetrical figures
! and bluish-white flashes filled the apart
/ ments. None but the ladies of the fam
/ lily were present and some lively
i scrambling was done by them. Some
/ one thought of the switchboard and a
| little turn of the lever put a stop to the
display. which, though brilliant was al
| together too near at hand to be enjoyed.
/ Small holes were burned in several car
| pets, a Jable-cloth was damaged and ar
| ticles Of furniture stamped with old Ju-
| pliers trademark.-Goshen News.
One of the gang Of sharpers, who. for
| several years, have made it practice to
! frequent Michigan Central passenger
trains between Chicago and this city, and
/ swindle passengers by card games and
| other tricks, came to grief Sunday and
/ was arrested. The man got on one of
| the West Michigan cOmpanys trains at
! Hyde park and before reaching Twelfth
| St had succeeded in robbing a passenger
/ of S17. a private detective of the COM
/ pany, who had been chasing these con-
| fidence men for some time was on the
| train also. and arrested the fellow. For
/ a long time these human sharks have
1 nnOnlp o
| have noticed the men many times while
| waiting between trains here for fresh
| victims. The men became so bold during
| the worlds fair year that they openly
boasted in places where they idled away
| their time while here that it was no
| trouble at all to pick up plenty Of money
| by their wits on the Central road. They
| always had lots of money and seemed
/ to have no fear of mOlestation. OF late
| the railroad company has been bothered
more than usual by these fellows, and the
| public will feel safer when the entire gang
| are rosecuted.-Michigan City Dispatch
| DR.. Cunningham. pastor of Center
| church, is one of the few supporters OF
DIR. Briggs among the ministers of the
| Charlottesville presbytery. He is ind.g-
| nant at the action of the general assem-
| bly, in assuming control of the theO-
! logical seminaries, and does not hesitate
| to express himself. Said he: This action
| of the assembly is revolutionary. 1t is
| papistic in tendency, in fact, step
| ROme-Ward 1t seems that we are to
| have an infallible church 10 decide in ad-
vance how we shall think. 1t means
| that the millions of dollars of endow-
ment belonging TO the various seminaries
/ is to be under the direction of the as
sembly and that not professor, nor
even a trustee. is to be employed or
! elected without the approval of that
| body. Instead of progressive leaders in
/ the religious thought of the church the
| seminaries are to be harrassed and
driven at the caprice of the assembly
| There will hardly be a split in the
church, but the result will be just the
| reverse of what the assembly wanted
| That is, there will be a growing indie
| pendence on the part of ministers and
| individual churches and a decreasing
| respect for the action of ;he assembly
| The proportion Of four to one in favor
| of this reactionary proposition surprises
me and L cannot believe that this as
| Sembly is representative of The church
at large. "-Crawfordsville Journal.
Col. f. L. Patrick. DR.. Howard, En-
| gineer McClung. promoters of the build
| ing of the Indianapolis, RockpOrt &
| Chattanooga Southwestern railway, ac-
eompanied by Mr.. Small, representing a
| company of New York bankers, arrived
| here this morning from tour Of inspec-
| ton of the route formerly surveyed for
| the proposed new railroad They have
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| to this city, and in interviewing Mr..
| Small. who represents the capital, he
said to us: 1--WE have gone thus far
| over the route from Owensboro, Ky, to
/ your beautiful little city, and / can say
/ am happily pleased with the country.
| There is plenty of coal and stone to de-
| velop, and you need a north and south
| road to develop it. The country through
| which the survey runs is very much in
advance of what i expected to find.
| Whether the New Workers Will put their
money in this road now depends on nay
report when we reach Indianapolis; for
| that purpose / am sent here. / will now
say that If the country between here and
and IndianapOli shows as much promise
as the country I have passed through,
| my report shall be made favorable to its
construction. beyond a doubt" Continu-
| ing, he said: IF we do put our money
in this road, it will be done quick, and
ground will be broken before six weeks
| Further, L cannot now say more than
that / am entirely pleased with the
| route. "-Orleans Progress.
The identity of the body found in the
| swamp on George KOehlinger's farm in
| Adams township is no longer a mystery.
| Yesterday Lieut.. Lapp began an inves-
| tigation which resulted in establishing
| beyond question that the dead woman
was Mrs. Wilhelmna Henkel, aged sew
| enty-fOur years, and who for the past
| ten years has made her home with her
son, Ferdinand Henkel, a matchmaker
| living at SO Shawnee-ave. Mrs. Henkel
| for long time had been the victim Of
| harmless dementia, and gave her people
no end of trouble keeping track of her.