The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-28
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

/ lar gold piece for the bill and kept it as
| a souvenir Recently Mr.. Rocker saw
/ statement i'm effect that this identical
/ bill was valued at 500 by money cOllec-
/ tors, but he will make no effort TO sell
/ IL.
our readers all know John w. Bech-
! dot. who has been engaged i'm the manu-
| facture of tile at COllett. four mics
/ south of this city. Mr.. BechdOlt has
/ been involved i'm debt for years and in
stead Of adopting the injunction. Mans
/ extremity is Gods opportunity" and
! turning his case over 10 the Lord, he
| took a different course. 1t Is said that
| he got "A number Of prominent farmers
! in the vicinity of Collett to indorse for
| him on notes amounting to $50 after
ward raising the amount to $3.50. There
are q number of such notes out. At
the time of his absconding. he was act
ing as justice i'm Pike township and it is
claimed that he has gone also with con-
siderable funds belonging To said Office.
AS yet no clue has been obtained AS
| to his observation-disclosures CONNER
cial.
now in the orphans home at Mishawaka
is a daughter Of the woman with whom
Jonathan W. Nickles. late trustee OF
Union township. recently ran away. The
child was sent 10 the home by Nickles
as township trustee and il was done
probably 20 pave the way for the exc
cution of his plans. The child's first
name was written in ink. but her family
name was written with "A pencil and SO
dimly that it might be taken for almost
anything. After being left at the home
the girl cried and told the matron that
the name they called her was not her
name. Nickles's bondsmen, Adam
SCHNEIDER John Deitle and Chris Fuchs,
today mailed a number of postal cards
TO different points Offering 5000 reward
for the apprehension Of the fugitive
South Bend Tribune.
Last Thursday evening the republicans
of this town had what one OF the en-
thusiastic disciples of that organization
said was "a regular love feast or. in
other words, dandy time" in their
club room under the Model. State Chair
man GOWdy. accompanied by two candi-
dates for state offices. was present and
actually made some of his hearers be-
lieve that the republicans had already
carried the state and all they had TO do
was To wait and count the votes after
the November election this fall, He said
the panic brought on by Reeds billion
dollar congress, the sherman silver law
and the Mckinley bill was expected to
do the business, and he urged the work.
ers to howl calamity and use il for all
there was in il! They all nodded assent
and said You bet" and the meeting
acknowledgement Democrat
young lad stepped into one of the
stores the other day and. with an air
of a millionaire ordered a fifteen-dOll2r
suit Of clothes. and told the clerk that he
would have the money as soon as the
snow left the ground. He had been work
ing at a gOod-paying business, and IL
was but a matter Of a short time when
his bank account would place him among
the solid men of the county, but the
heavy fall Of snow had placed a check
upon his further progress. The clerk.
all eager to know what good luck his
young friend had struck. asked him
what he had been following. Taking his
cigar from his mouth. and sending a
curl of smoke toward the ceiling. he said
that he had been picking out the mug
gets of gold from among the stones and
clOds on the streets of Portland. He got
the suit.-Portland sun.
Huntington is one OF the greatest
towns in the world for sensations. \
synopsis Of the latest is about as fol-
lows: \ mans wife becomes a lunatic
and is sent TO the asylum The man
has on deposit in an old hair trunk $500
in gold. silver and greenbacks. When
the wife was gone he employed a girl
blind in one eye. to do the homework
The man says all of the money except
SIS disappeared before he discovered the
loss. In the meantime the girl had been
To indianapolis and secured a glass eye
which added so much to her beauty that
a young man popped the question, she
accepted with loving gratefulness and
they We're married. Now the man with
a bank account in a hair trunk charges
the glass-eyed bride with being the
cashier of his deposits. but il is proba-
bic he handled the cash and she was
the recipient-ROchester Republican
Among the many Indians that be-
came distinguished i'm one way or an
other and We're we'll known To the early
settlers. Anthony Ni-gO was the last of
his race 10 remain here until his death.
which occurred in Plymouth in 1873. He
was born somewhere in the then terri
tory Of Kosciusko county in the year
1895, and he was therefore in his sew
enty-third year when he died. He moved
into Marshall county in 1928. and located
near Ben-ak village. in the region of
where TippecanOe town is now located.
His head was not clear as 10 numbers,
but he said there was heap Indian
here then" His father was of the Pot
tawattOmie tribe and his mother of the
Miami tribe. He claimed TO have be-
lOnged TO the Miami tribe in accordance
with an Indian custom Of designating
the tribe the pappOoSes should belong TO
from the mothers side of the house.
Plymouth Democrat.
Last Sunday the people OF the hotel
Etna were treated 10 a bit of romance
which may result all right. but some APP
peared to doubt it. The particulars are
these, as near as we can find out: A
and young farmer Of Lawrence county
became engaged through the medium of
unknown correspondence. Sunday the
event eliminated in marriage The bride
groom Immediately left and his bride of
a few hours remained in town. rather
trusting to her own resources for her
Sustenance than tO depend on him. What
they will do in the future we know not
but We know this that all young ladies
who engage in such pastimes should
take warning from the events Of Sunday
and remember that the most consumate
villain may wear immaculate linen, and
command better language than any hon
est. upright man that ever lived
BrOwnstOwn Banner.
For budding minister Cal Armstrong
certainly distanced all previous records.
The stories of his eXtravagancess told i'm
court We're bad enough and are con-
siderably improved upon by subsequent
newspaper variations. realizing COM
pletely the ideal British plunger. says
the Anderson Herald. One feels inclined
TO imagine that he must have enliVened
his theological leisure by reading the
French and English novels i'm which
the dissOlute young nObleman CANDLES
drinks, races. is lavish To the corps de
ballet and finally goes OFF the stage in
a duel, "A suicide, or abscOnds TO America
with some other mans wife. Going to
the state prison north was rather too
prOsaic an ending for such a career. So
our hero vanishes dramatically through
the conveniently open door of the koko-
mo jail. If his companion had been a