The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-19


promptly told that Mr. Shaffer was a
resident OF this city. He hunted up Mr..
/ Shaffer, and the meeting was a welcome
one to both.-Huntngton Democrat.
Isaac Bridges, crazed by disappointment
| in love, sought revenge by numbering
| Mrs. Joseph Montgomery, sister of the
| girl who had scorned his advances and
persistent appeals for acceptance. Mrs.
! Montgomery had been to a nearby theater
! and was within a few steps Of her home
| when Bridges stepped from concealment
| and told the woman he wanted 10 talk
with her. She refused TO have anything
/ to say to him. No sooner had the refusal
| passed her lips than Bridges drew his re-
volver.-Terre Haute Express.
For years Laporte county has sought to
| aid in the determination of the destructive
grounding, or woodchuck, by paying a
| bounty Of Is cents per soap for every
| scalp brought to the county auditor. Thou
| sands Of do.-ars were annually paid out in
| this manner. This county bordering on
| Michigan, persons in that state have taken
advantage of the bounty and shipped in
| c.andestinely hundreds of the soaps and
| received the reward on presentation. The
| county commissioners learned of the fraud
| Lately and at once withdrew the bounty
entirely. Michigan will now be short con-
| siderable of its revenue.-Goshen Times.
A Marion man has hit upon a brilliant
| idea, which, when fully developed. will
: surely bring him fame and riches. 1t was
| occasioned by the great number of un-
lucky umbrella collisions which took place
on our streets and the simple contrivance
will consist of little bell attached TO the
handle of the umbrella and operated by
electricity. When the handle is inclined
to an angle of As degrees or more the bell
will commence to ring and continue until
! the upright position is restored This gives
| fair warning of an approaching umbrella
and no one who has been poked and push
ed about over the streets can fail to see
the advantage.-Marion Leader.
DR.. w. II. Peters was employed last
| July to make an analysis of the stomach
I Of Mrs. William Drollinger of Fountain
! county near Coving.on, at the instance Of
| the coroner Of that county, there being
| circumstances attending her deNh which
excited suspicion. The analysis resulted
in finding arsenic in the somach in suffi-
| cient quantities to produce death. Drol-
| linger was indicted by the grand jury
during their session last week and placed
under arrest to answer the charge. Drol-
! linger IS a farmer. living near Covington,
and there having been some supicious cir
cumstances attending the death OF his
first wife there is talk of exhumlng her re-
mains and having them also analysed to
see If any trace of poison can be found
Observation-Disclosures Call.
George Zentel. a German over seventy
years OF age was found wandering aim,
lessly about in Noble township and
brought to the county Jail for safe keep
ing. On his person was found transporta-
! ton from here 10 London, Eng, but he
had no money, and is either so confused
or so childish that he is unable TO give
any Ineligible account of himself. His
steamboat ticket was good for the boat
Trave. a letter from a sister at Elkhart,
Lake Cheboygan county. Wisconsin. was
also found on his person. 1t is supposed
that he was on his way home from a
visit there and has either been robbed
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at Royal Center and claims TO have had
lot of baggage. He is well dressed and
| apparently of good family.-Loganspor
Reporter.
Six cases were tried at Covington last
week involving disputes over the title of
land in Warren county which had been
sold for delinquent taxes. The suits were
all brought against c. n. Williams and Ezra
Voris of Charlottesville. who make a bust
ness of buying land sold for taxes and who
had bought the land in dispute in these
cases. They had bought six pieces of land,
on which the delinquent taxes aggregated
81 500 and the twO-year limit had expired,
and they had secured deeds. Williams &
Voris claimed that after two years that the
land was theirs i'm fee simple the same as
If il had been purchased direct from the
original owners. The court ruled that the
original owners could redeem the land by
paying the amount of the taxes, together
with 90 per cent. interest, TO which the law
a deed.-Attica Democrat.
The superintendent Of police is in re-
ce!pt of an interesting communication from
Mary E. Hoffman of Kansas City. The
Young lady is a daughter Of John Hoff-
man. who recently attempted to murder
Hubert Allies at the ST. Joe hospital and
then ATTEMPTED suicide. Ii was supposed
that Hoffman had no relatives living and
the receipt of the letter was quite sur
prise 10 the officers Miss Hoffman says
the first she knew of the shooting was a
day or so ago when she read an account of
the affair in an old copy of the Kansas
City Star. She was greatly surprised and
stated that her father at one time had
considerable money. Lately, however, he
has been sending to the cir. for cash. Miss
Hoffman is a domestic and says she works
hard for her earnings and wants to know
what becomes Of the funds she has been
sending Hoffman is still at the jai. and
is hopelessly insane. He imagines every
body tries TO prevent him from sleeping
and would kill a man for snoring if he got
half a chance-Ft. Wayne Sentinel
A six-year-oId boy named Willie OFT,
with his parents had gone to the home of
relatives, the father having been invited
to be present at the annual hog killing"
The host had provided plenty of liquid re-
freshments, and from reports proceeded
to do most of the drinking himself. While
the work was under way the boy appeared
the way of those busy with the hog kill
ing The boys uncle. hardly able to navi-
gate, picked up the little fellow and held
him over one of the kettles of boiling
water. No one had paid particular atten-
ton until all were startled by a piercing
scream. The man had accidentally dropped
the child into the pot and the
water in it was of sufficient
quantity to submerge him. The lit
tie fellow almost scalded to death. The
terrible suffering of the child and the ex-
element that followed was sufficient to
materially sober the man, and then he be-
gan TO realize what he was responsible for
Everything possible to alleviate the suf-
fering of the little fellow was done, but
the child died, his eyes having come out
Of their sockets.-Evansville News-Jour-
nal
For forty years there has been a link
missing from the chain of title TO what is
known as Riverside. The link was found
yesterday in the shape of a deed over
fifty-one years old which had never been
recorded Many years ago John Collins
owned this property, and then by some
means one Thomas Collins. jr., became
possessed of it, The records have been
searched time and again for some evidence
of the transfer of title to Thomas Collins.
jr from John Collins but without avail
Yesterday David T. Haines submitted a
lot of old papers to r. c. Griffith for his
examination, and in running over them
the latter found the missing link to the
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