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

were deaf and dumb, cause they were
born that way All graduated at the
| head Of their respective classes at the
| deaf and dumb school, Columbus, o.
/ They were stopping with Mine Host
I Kelley at the Grand.-Connersville EX-
| aminer.
Miss Josephine Tingley graduated at the
/ Chicago itraining school for city and home
| missions on the evening of May 1. She
/ has been given the position Of teacher in
the school for next year. especially in
/ charge of the music. She will remain in
I Chicago this summer under the instruc-
| ton Of Emil Liebling as plano instructor,
| and Madam Genevieve Bishop in voice
] culture. At the recent session Of the ma
/ tiOnal deasoness conference in Chicago
/ Bishop Thoburn expressed an earnest in
/ vitation TO Miss Tingley to go to India
/ as musical director of the English school
I in Calcutta. The proposition is under ad-
visement 10 more fully decide as to its
/ acceptance in the future.-Greencastle
Banner.
On the morning of May 16. a nicely
1 dressed man came to the Mcdonald no
/ tel, Columbia City, and registered as L.
] Mcfarland Of indianapolis, Ind. Had
two telescope" grips filed with fine
representing an Indianapolis merchant
tailoring house. He is about thirty
years old, little stoop-shouldered, wears
black clothes. a derby hat, nice gold
spectacles is about five feet ten inches
high rather spare built dark hair and
mustache. a sleek fellow. During last
night. or this morning early. he slipped
out Of the hotel, jumping his bill Of
SIC. Who is he. and where has he gone?
Who will be his next victim? Look out
for him. Signed I. B. MCDONALD.
The Detroit express on the L. T. & w.
road. due here at $3.50 p. m. had a mar
row escape from accident near Fairfield
last Thursday night The wini storm
Of that evening blew a tree across the
track the station ana che first in
timation Engineer George Redmon had
Of it's presence there was whea he saw
IT from the cab window. entirely too late
TO stop the train. The next best thing
To do was TO open the throttle and strike
the obstruction with all she force posi-
/ BILE, with the hope of clearing the track.
In this he was successful, as the pilot
broke the tree in two and threw the
pieces clear of the track. The engine
was damaged but slightly and the pas
sengerS scarcely knew anything had hap
/ pened. The train arrived at this point
/ on time.-Miami County Sentinel.
Friday evening two men called at the
| house Of John KrideT at Angola and asked
| leave TO come in. Mr.. Krider went to the
window, and, seeing the men with white
| cloths over their faces, instead of opening
/ the door went out the back way and
| started to run away. The white caps pur-
sued him, forced him back to the house
| and made him give up his valuables to-
| wit: Twenty dollars in money and $500
| or $500 in notes. Mr.. Krider is seventy
| years old and lives on his farm alone
| about twelve miles northeast of Angola
| in York township. Two men came to his
house one morning in August last when
| he was eating his breakfast and COM
| PEELED him to give up his money at the
| point of a revolver. They got $3.50 then
and Mr.. Krider thinks these were the
| same men.
Recently the Hon. John II. Lesh made
material change in his business affairs,
| concentrating a deal by which he and
| Frank Abbott became the owners of s.
F. Proutys one-third interest in the
| Lesh, PrOuty & Abbott Co. walnut lum-
Der manufacturers in East Chicago.
These two gentlemen thus become the
| sole proprietors OF a business that has
been gratifyingly prosperous and gives
| indication of a marked increase. Of the
one-third just secured. Mr. Lesh pur-
chased 90 per cent. and Mr. Abbott the
| balance. The latter gentleman remains
IN charge of the business. which will
continue as heretofore, both in method
| Of management and the products manu-
featured. The company is capitalized
at $4,000. The retiring member is a
! resident Of Des Moines, Ia.-Goshen
News.
Nightwatchman Garner the newly
very queer things. Friday night he al
| lowed some of the saloons to remain
open till after u o'clock, while others
he made close at the legal hour. He
| also assaulted one Of our citizens on the
street for no reason except that the
! man was democrat and had voted
| against Garner. Garner said the fellow
was drunk. but this is false; if he was,
this enfOrcer of the law should have ar
rested him, instead Of assaulting him.
Garner thinks he is sure of his four
year lease on the public teat and pro-
poses To carry on high carnival among
those who voted against him, and all
democrats are hereby warned to keep
OF the streets of Warsaw without car
rying a special permit from the cele-
brated chief. Warsaw Dispatch.
For the first time in the history of the
city a genuine coal famine has seized on
Washington, and unless the fall in tempa-
ture is of short duration, there will be
considerable suffering here. Hundreds of
families were caught by the cold snap
without coal and others have only enough
to keep up their fires but a few days
Cabel & Co. and the Wilson company
have not a bushel to sell, and meager
amount which the Whittemore mine sup
plies cuts no figure. Unless the strike is
declared off in a few days and work re-
sumed there will be an unprecedented de-
mand for stovewood. This will be the
case even should the wee Their change for
the warmer. Cook stoves must be sup
piled with fuel and the cold spell will COM
pletely wipe away the scanty supply In
thousands Of homes. The situation is in
deed very alarming one.-Washington
Gazette.
An accident showing the honesty and
integrity of Columbus people in a remark
able degree Notwithstanding the greatest
temptation was offered, happened at the
fire Sunday night a week ago. which
cleaned out a row Of barns and wood
sheds. On account Of the fear that the
fire would spread household goods were
removed from several houses to the side
walks, among which was that belonging
to Charles Smith. engineer at the ice
plant who lives on Seventh-st. A part of
the furniture was a dresser on the top
Of which lay d one-hundred-dollar gold
watch. a diamond ring and a purse con-
tanning 81 I'm money For over five hours
these were exposed 10 the sight and with
In the easy reach of the 1000 people that
had collected at the fire and were not
touched. In fact on account Of the excite
ment the family had forgotten about the
Valuables until long after the fire was
Out.-Columbus Herald.
The editor was at BROOKLYN last FRIDAY
and while there he walked down 10 the
Mcdaniel mill site and was surprised at
the number OF large fish--bass, carp cat
red horse and rock bass-that were play
ing in the water just below the DAM If
a properly constructed fish ladder was put
up there, we could have the pleasure of
catching some nice fish out of White Lick
AS il is, all Of the best fish is stopped
at Brooklyn, where they are caught I'm dip