The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-11
GENERAL STATE NEWS.


| inent citizens, etc.
The story goes that a young doctor of
| this city asked a young lady Of the
cooking club for muffin made with
| her own hands, Said he wanted to
analyze it.-Washington Democrat
The Daviess county populists met in
delegate convention at the court house
| in Washington, Saturday, and nominated
| a county ticket. w ID. Van Horn was
| elected chairman and Patrick Egan and
r. A higgins secretaries.
Andrew Farrell. aged ninety-two, died
saturday surrounded by family and
| friends He was one of the oldest and
most respected citizens in the county.
Among the nine children that survive
! him are Gus Farrell OF this city, James
| Farrell Of Montgomery. Thomas Farrell
of Harrison township and Joseph Farrell
of Texas.-Washington Democrat.
A rather funny incident took place
| here Saturday evening. A dance was
/ in progress and Sheriff Cruill being in
| town, thought he would pass few idle
| moments by looking in on them" His
| appearance created a panic and the par
| Elephants tumbled over each other in
getting from the hall. Not enough could
| afterward be coaxed back TO continue
| the dance.-Wakarusa Tribune.
Several farmers have told the Val
parafso Messenger the past day or two,
that the cold and stormy weather has
| not damaged fruit materially in that
immediate vicinity. They say that pears
| and peaches may be injured, but while
other fruit was maturing rapidly, il has
not advanced far enough to be hurt
| much The cold weather will keep it
back now beyond further injury.
Policeman Marshall drummed up an
| army Of tramps Monday numbering
about forty, whom he escorted out to
the city limits about the water works
and dismissed them with the order not
/ TO return to the city. AS many of them
declared their intention TO join CoNey
| the policeman should have led them
out on the eastern border Of the city
| headed toward the national capital
Brazil Democrat.
| The brief announcement IN the tele-
| graphic dispatches of the death of Thorn
| as II. Daily in a dental chair at Goshen
| greatly shocked his many friends at
| this place where he was we'll and favor
| ably known. He had been spoken Of re
| Gently as a candidate for congress in
this district, but whether with authority
| from himself or not. we cannot say. He
was very bright young man and was
| cashier of the City national bank at the
time of his death.-Warsaw Times.
Uncle" William Graham died at the
meme of his son-in-law, Nick Fudge, on
the Boyleston pike, short distance from
the city, Thursday morning after only
| a few days illness. He was eighty years
| old and had been in feeble health for
| some time. The funeral will be held to-
morrow, at what hour has not yet been
| determined, and the remains will be in
| TERED in the odd fellows cemetery. De-
| ceased leaves two sons and three daugh-
| ters his wife having died In 1871
| Frankfort Crescent.
The law of Indiana allowing a man
who makes an assault on another to go
before a Justice and upon a plea of
n a cd Nv
| of his own choosing, practically fixing his
own fine, should he repealed. The man
| making such plea is generally guilty Of
| an offense much worse than that for
| which he voluntarily seeks punishment.
For years this privilege has been greatly
| abused. 1t is time TO pass a law which
Furnishes the man who provokes and
makes the assault, and hold guiltless
| one who is forced into tight.-Rock-
| Vile Tribune.
Patrolman Garner Monday arrested
| Myrtle Murray, Leo Merrill and Emma
White at Warsaw on a charge of having
stolen $3.50 from Charles Harris, who
| lives in Haughburg. Some time ago his
| house was burned and Wednesday he
received the insurance. He went to see
| the women with the money in his pock-
| ct. In the morning he discovered the
| money was missing and accused the
women of having stolen il. This they
denied, they adding that they, too, had
| been robbed. Harris reported the mat
| ter and the women We're arrested. EN-
ma White confessed TO having taken the
money.
News comes to this city from Johnson
township of the death of one of Frank
Bilsky's children, caused from eating
polk root, and three others are in a pre-
| carious condition. Mr.. Bilsky had
plOwed his garden and in doing so had
turned up several polk roots. and the
n fralr inc
freely of them Later the poisonous eff
fects begun its deadly work. The chill
dren were taken violently i'll, from which
one has died. The others are very sick
but are considered out of danger. Mr..
and Mrs. Bilsky have the sympathy of
the whole community in their bereave-
ment-Vincennes Sun.
1t is with much regret the Times an
nounces the death Of the aged mother
| of State Senator Milton Beck. Mrs.
Beck died at the home of her son near
Burlington on Thursday of last week at
the advanced age Of eighty-three years.
Funeral services were held from the
Geetingsville church Saturday by the
Rev. Mr.. Hale. The remains were buried In
the Geetingsville cemetery. The de-
ceased was a true Christian woman of
the kind whose good influence and char
acter goes far toward making the world
better. You can hear nothing but the
highest praise spoken Of her, of which
she is justly deserving.-Delphl Times.
The boys at Owensburg tell a good
story about Al H attending temper
ance lecture. Before they could get him
to go they told him that Uncle Toms
Cabin was in town and that 1t was not
lecture. When they had all cOngre-
gated at the meeting someone on the
outside began the song, Down in
Mobile" and Al wanted to know If that
was the jubilee singers. Being told that
1t was, he wanted to know if Uncle
Tom" would soon appear. BY this time
the lecturer had appeared and Al, al
most beside himself made rush for the
door, saying he had never seen Uncle
Tom" played that way before.-Bedford
Democrat.
Notwithstanding the number of news
papers published. there are still in this
country people who don't read them,
and such are precious mackerel for the
gold brick swindlers and men of that
stripe. A gold brick shark was in the
city Tuesday on his way TO join the
Wallace show, which will start for Can
ada on the 4tb of May. This fakir had
I'm his grip two gold bricks that cost 70
cents and $3.50, respectively, a sermon
and some clothing. you see" said he
to a friend, what we just need is the
confidence of our man. The rest is easy.
Sometimes / preach. and that's a sure
source for a few suckers. Oh, it's an
easy game when you have the right kind
Of people with you. | have two partners.
Last year 1 made $4,000 Crawford
Vile Argus.
The Hon. James 6 Pritchett las again