The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-13

| vailed during last month, while finer
/ weather could not have been wished for
/ during the blooming season Yesterday
| he picked nineteen bushels and the day
| before tweIty-fouF and a half bushels OF
| berries, while the total yield from his
two-aere patch has been eighty-three
| bushels up to date. Among the other
| growers are Thomas Newsom, Ed Peel,
Morton Mall, Alonzo Allen, Phineas
| Parker and Levi Newsom, Isaac and
| Richard Hart of near South Bethany and
Willis Waters of Elizabethtown also own
! large patches.-Columbus Herald.
Charles A. Korbly jr.. of the Madison
Herald passed down from Indianapolis
| to Madison Monday on the morning train
| He left Madison Sunday last a week ago,
went 10 Louisville on the beat; then
mounted his wheel, at Columbia, and set
| out on his trip to Frankfort, Harris
burg, High Bridge. Lexington and Mays
| vile, then by boat to Cincinnati: then by
wheel again TO Hamilton, Brookville.
Nashville. Shelbyville and Indianapolis.
He left Harrison, o., at 1880 Friday
morning arriving at Rushville at p. m,
and reaching Shelbyville at 1880 in the
dark and rain, and on to Indianapolis
Saturday. He reports the roads good all
the way, but up one hill and down an
other in Kentucky. He lost one day at
Lexington on account of a cut tire The
entire distance travelled was 400 to 500
miles. Philip Pouge of Madison accom-
panied him as far as Rushville on his
trip. then left for home.-Columbus
Times.
A very serious explosion of gas oc-
CURED at the electric light station Wednes-
day afternoon in which three persons were
more or less burned and the building was
badly shaken. Engineer Mart Symons.
his father, John @. Simons Of Galveston,
and John Knote of Jerome were caught in
the burst of the fame following the ex-
plosion and seriously burned. The acct
dent was caused by natural gas which
had accumulated in the furnace under the
first of the four boilers of the battery, and
shook the building like an earthquake.
The front of the furnace was blown out,
one corner of the roof of the boiler room
was lifted out of place, and the big
double doors We're torn from the hinges
and the walls directly opposite the front
of the furnace was shattered. The boilers
themselves are not injured to any great
extent, and the light service suffered no
inconvenience from the accident, the sec
ond pair of boilers being put in use.-ko-
kOmo Dispatch.
Col Denote of Valparaiso and his re-
publican friends have uEsheathed their
long knives and now threaten an open
warfare against Little Billy owen, the
one-horse parsOn and dude eX-congress-
man who helped to defeat Col. Denote
for congress in 1882 Here are a couple
of thrusts. which are made through last
weeks Porter County Vidette (repub-
was the guest of Marcus NJ. Towle. the
Hammond millionaire who planned and
executed the outrage upon the Hammond
convention and disfranchised Lake coun-
~ with its 5000 republican voters. Mr..
owen should select better company" AL
so: 1T is asserted by those who attended
the Hammond convention that William u.
Owen was in the conference that planned
the Acknowledgement OF the Lake county
delegation and that he sanctioned the
M Is talx
if true it places Mr.. Owen in very en-
barrassing position.-Winamac Journal.
The Hon. A. p. Edgerton of TT Wayne
delivered an address Memorial day at
Hicksville. o. During the address he
touched politics as follows: Every man
who becomes a candidate for office vol
untary submits his reputation to the
ordeal of public examination. Surely if
my vote is requested i'm favor of any in
dividual, il is my duty to myself and the
community to inquire Whit are his quail
tications; what his morals. Is he en-
titled TO public confidence? What are
his pretentions TO virtue and integrity?
What is his character? What are the
evidences on which it is founded? Char
acter and general conduct are cOrrelative
know both FellOw-citizens, permit me
to say that the greatest duty you owe
TO each other and TO the community is to
study to know who and what manner of
man Is every candidate for Office. Be-
cause he wants ii and pleads for it gives
no strength To his claim. Is he honest?
Is he capable? Do you and your friends
want him to serve you in your inter
ests, or will you permit him TO serve
/ himself in his own?
Saturday night. after the entertain
ment at Music hall. Dick ChaSteen and
Tom Plat, with couple of Chasteen's
daughters, started for their home, sew
eral miles southwest of the city, in a
twO-seated blackboard. When some dis
lance out they passed a drunken lout
named Lane, from LadOga, in whose
buggy was a Balhincher, name unknown.
AS soon as the Chasteen party had
passed Lane dashed his horses with the
whip, causing them to spring almost
into the blackboard of the Chasteens.
Old man Chasteen, who was on the rear
seat, seized them by the bride bits and
by main force threw them around, up
setting Lanes buggy and throwing him
and his companion out in the road. The
noise frightened Chasteen's horses so
that they began plunging and finally
threw that whole party out in the ditch
and ran off. Chasteen and Plat, thor
oughly angry, went back to lick Lane
and his. companion, and were doing so
in the most approved style when the
victims of the punishment drew revolvers
and opened fire on Plat and Chasteen.
who fled Fortunately no one was seri-
| ously hurt. No arrests have been made.
-Crawfordsville Journal.
Old She'd is gone! Everybody who
has lived in Bloomington during the past
twenty-five years or more knew "Shed"
Langley. He was noted character about
tOwn-quiet, inoffensve, and had no enc
mics but himself He put in the time
| doizg chores, and the money chiefly went
| for liquor. 1t was conceded that his mind
waS not properly balanced, and two or
! thste years ago he was sent to the insane
hospital at Indianapolis. but he did not
| stag long. During late years he had been
| making his home with his sons in this
| city-his wife having died some time ago.
Tuesday shed was about town as usual,
| and along about Z o'clock in the evening
was seen going down the railroad. When
| he got to the bridge over the branch just
| below Third-st. he halted and attempted
| to get upon the railing to sit down. He
made one or two attempts in that drec-
| ton, each time falling forward. In max
| ing another attempt he got upon the rail-
| ing. but Immediately lost his balance
| and went over backwards, falling a dis
| lance of about fifteen feet. His head
| struck the corner of large stone, cutting
| a cash in the scalp, and his neck was
| broken. Those who witnessed the acct
| dent rushed to the spot, but got there only
| in time TO see the dying man give his
! last gasp. Had he struck the ground a
| foot or two further north. the fall prob
| ably would not have killed him.-Bloom-
ington Courier.
Augustus Cronkhite. the wealthy treas
urer of Warren county, who came out
$4,000 short in his official accounts, has