The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-26
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

Democrat.
The grocery store of E. b. Botorff was
broken into Monday night and robbed Of
about $40 in cash.-Kokomo Tribune.
The name of Harry Stormont Of Prince
ton will be presented for doOrkeeper of the
next Indiana house of representatives.
George Glaze hauled big log measur-
ing 1,4O0 feet, which required ten horses
10 draw it from the woods.-Muncie News.
]. lowering Jones of Philadelphia has
presented to the Lafayette club sixty-eight
volumes of excellent Observation-Disclosures
Courier.
In Middleton a new high school building
TO be erected will cost $4,000 and the con-
tract Is to be let next Saturday.-Ander-
son Democrat.
Benjamin Tappen Of Liberty, in run
away, sustained fatal injuries, his skull
being fractured and his body badly bruised.
Richmond Item.
A young child Of Fenton Cooper, living
east Of Edinburg, was attacked by a
vicious mule and the animal was killed to
save the child from death.
A German lady arrived in Hammond
Thursday with eleven children. Notwith-
standing the number and the long distance,
all presented a bright, neat appearance.
Crazed by excessive drinking and
grieved at the loss of her child Mrs. Dora
Gerald sent a bullet through her brain
Monday afternOOn.-Terre Haute Tribune
Jesse SllpAeys VINO was on Ine COW
catcher of locomotive, lost his hold and
tumbled off. and it was found that his left
shoulder was Observation-Disclosures Demo-
crat.
n. B. Jeffries is the owner Of a COW
that gave birth to three calves Saturday
night all Of which are of good size
healthy and bid fair to ive.-Brookvlle
Democrat.
Fred Smith is at Seymour in a critical
condition from blood poisoning. the result
Of a scrath on his hand. He will lose his
arm and may probably lose his life
Columbus Herald.
The late Eldridge Anderson, who died
Thursday, aged eighty-nine years, left an
estate valued at SO, 600. Mrs. J. d. Gallo
way of Huntsville Is the only child
Columbus Herald.
y dry battery for use in all electrical
alarms has been invented by Godfrey w.
GOSs OF the L7clede electrical works. 1t
is said to be a most ingenious and valuable
inventiOn.-KOlzomo Dispatch.
Ralph Steers has an acoustic telephone
stretched from his home to Jim Steers's
home and it is proving a great success.
There is No battery or bell connected with
the phOne-Washington Gazette.
Diphtheria is raging at Summitville to
such an e."rcnt as to necessitate the clos
ing OF the schools. They will not reopen
until the death rate among children begins
70 decrease.-Anderson Democrat.
The Fulton county commissioners have
made an order for plans for new court
house to cost no over $4,000, the plans
to be submitted Jan. s next and the con-
tract to be let a. the March term.
Joe Elk, one of the last Of tie Potta-
wotomie Indians at CrumstONn, this
county. dropped dead in his cabin on
Wednesday evening at supper time. He
was quite old.-South Bend Times.
At St. Magdaene Mrs N0urit and her
daughter-in-law died the same day. They
were living in the same house and were
buried in the same grave. Mrs. Nourit
leaves five little children.-Madison Demo
Graf.
William Weinland and wife celebrated
their golden wedding at Hope Monday.
They came to this county from Pennsyl-
vania and settled at Hope where they
have resided for the past sixty years.
Columbus Herald.
At Vincennes Monday night Miss Nora
Walker, aged seventeen, eloped with John
Eanady, aged tWenty-siX. The girl is the
beautiful daughter of Stephen Walker of
Red Cloud, Knox county. Canady was
farm hand in the employ Of Walkers
leighbOr.
Henry Chasteen, near Holman, out hunt
ng coons with his two brothers and three
logs, climbed a tree TO dislodge a coon
limb broke and threw him TO the ground
md before his brothers could rescue him
NE dogs attacked AMI badly injured him.
New Albany Ledger
In Hammond we often hear of men beat
NJ their wives, but over at ChestertOn this
rider Of things seems to be reversed A
Door. forlorn husband over there has ap-
'lied for a divorce because mis- wife beat
Iim. turned him out Of doors and called him
I thief-Hammond News.
Benjamin Boyd and George Rayner, the
TOung men arrested at Bunker Hill some
lime ago for stoning Panhandle passen-
Ell
Peru, Tuesday, and on plea Of guilty
were given fifteen-day Jail sentence and
80 fine.-KokomO Tribune.
A key of beer on the track of the G.. R.
& 1. railway at Portland last Tuesday
stopped a passenger train. 1t is only fair
70 say in behalf Of the enterprising citi-
Gems Of that lively little city that the keg
Of beer had been lying there only a very
shore time.-Winchester Journal.
In the superior court Thursday morning
The case came up Of Joe Brown versus La
Iayette street railway company. in which
the plaintiff sues for damages sustained
through the loss Of a limb by being run
over by a street car. The suit was COM
promised for 81, 0OO.-Lafayette Courier.
Charges Of incOmpetency preferred
against Miss Bertha Hull, teacher Of the
Bowman school in Portage township, have
been considered by Trustee Krueper, Su-
perintendent Bair Of the county schools
and Superintendent Moon Of the city schools
and a verdict rendered in favor of the
teacher. Miss Hull has an average stand
ing Of SS.-SOuth Bend Times.
Mrs. John A. Ross noticing some thing
wrong with dog lying on her porch IN
dertOok to drive it away. The brute sprang
at her, but she escaped him, and the dog
then passed her going toward the child
in the doorway. Mrs. Ross was brave
enough TO pass the dog and snatch the
child from danger and procured a revolver
and shot the dog.-Frankfort News.
Tuesday morning, in the circuit court.
Frank Lambert was arraigned for larceny
and at the head Of the list OF witnesses
subpOenaed appeared the names of the
three greatest pugilists in the country,
and the were all Marion business men.
They were James Co-bett, John Sullivan
and Charley Mitchell The name Of John
FitzsimmOns was also on the list.-Marion
Leader.
A case Of smallpox is reported from
Johnson township. 1t is located in the
home Of VIII Brown, near Holiness bridge.
The person who is afflicted has been work
ing for Mr.. Brown. A health officer from
St. Joseph county went there Saturday
and quarantined the place. DR.. Chaffee OF
this city will attend the case. Quite
number Of persons were expOsed.-LapOrte
Herald.
Fred KiloOrn's lady barber has arrived
and Fred now has more than his share
OF trade Several Crown Pointers have
purchased hair fOrcers and anything and
everything to make boards grow Byron
Morton has been shaved seven times in as
many days. and several giddy youths who
are barefOoted on the tops Of their
craniums. crowd the barber shOn tn have