The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-19
GENERAL State NEWS.

Charles Robinson, who stole a basket
of lunch, was entenced 70 one years I'M
prisonment in the penitentiary.-Mun
News.
A pearl weighing five and one-half
carats and perfect In shape was found
in the Wabash river.-Logansport
Pharos
The Flatrock creamery, one OF the best
IN the state, was burned last night. Loss
estimated at $500. Insurance. S900.-Co-
lumbus Republican.
Bobble Bell, aged twelve years who fell
from a tree over a year ago and broke
his back, cannot live much longer.-Co-
lumbus Republican.
Albert Miller reports a yield of eighty
bushels and thirteen pounds Of clover seed
from fed Of twenty-one and one-half
acres.-COiumbus Republican.
The house OF Albert Fox. farmer liv-
ing two miles west of the city, was struck
by lightning Saturday night and destroyed
by fre.-Ft. Wayne Gazette.
The Old gas well which was abandoned
northwest Of the city at a depth of 1893
feet, viii be run down 500 feet farther the
first of next week.-Rlchmond Item.
John Sloven, an employe Of the Odds
wagon works, was struck upon the head
by a falling scantling Tuesday and
severely injured.-Ft. Wayne Sentinel.
Anthony Koehler had three fingers
severed from his right nand Wednesday
morning while at work q his planning
mill near the north ALBANY Ledger.
The grand jury of Kosciusko county
has just returned 239 indictments against
dog-owners I'm that county who failed TO
list their CANNES for taxation.-EXchange
An eleven-year-old boy named James
Wilson was arrested and sent 10 Jail and
slated on suspicion. He is suspected OF
rObbing freight cars.-Terre Haute Ca
zette.
c. W. Goinser was struck in the left
eye by a piece Of wood thrown from
machine at the Singer works. making a
penetra ting wound Of the eyeball.-South
Bend Tribune
Mrs. Richard Cunnington has suffered
from cancer of the breast for a number
of years, but 4 is perfectly well now.
The cancer was removed last week.
Muncie News
NJ F. Pansburn, a school teacher OF
Clarkville, stands six feet four and one
half inches in his bare feet lie claims
to be the tallest teacher in the state
Seymour News.
Bert Patterson and Roy Ballard two
boys of this city, while hunting near
Georgetown shot and killed an eagle
measuring six feet from tip to tip
LOgansport Journal.
Tuesday evening while seated a. the
supper table, Joseph ID. Urbine. an aged
resident Of Washington township, sudden
" expired, presumably Of heart disease
Fl Wayne Sentinel.
About 1 o'clock Monday morning James
Terry. employed on the l.. +. & w. rail-
way, while crossing the ash pit at the
round-house. fell in and broke his right
arm above the eIbow.-Lafayette Call.
A large moth, of the species known
the cumming butterfly" was found
Monday morning impaled 10 the window
sill Of a coach in the depot. The insect
was still alive.-Richmond Telegram.
Edward Stanley. the horse thief ar
rested in Anderson by Capt. COburn on
the day of Barnum's circus here and
taken to Muncie. was given four years
in the penitentiary AIOnday.-AndersOn
Bulletin
An elk horn was excavated near Jack
Vile the other day which measured two
feet from tip to tip. 1t was found in
gravel twelve feet below the surface and
was fairly well preserved.-CraWfords
Vile Journal.
Mr.. Daniel Shrader has relic of
value 1t is a piece of the wood OF the
famous warshiD Constellation, in the
service of the United states during the
revolutionary war and the war Of ISL
Albany Ledger.
Charles barrow, a carpenter. while en-
gagged in knocking a studding loose in a
narrow place struck his knee with the
blade OF a Ratchet, splitting the flesh,
large piece being cut out clear 10 the bone.
-Logansport Pharos.
Charles Gibbs a sixteen-year-old boy
sentenced Friday by Judge Mcconnell.
was taken TO Plainfield by Sheriff HON.
burg. His mother. Mrs. Mary Gibbs, of
the South Side. says that he is incorrigl-
ble.-LoganspOrt Pharos.
In runaway near the Union school
house north of Young America Tuesday
evening Jesse Bechtelheimer. an aged
gunsmith Of that place, and his wife were
b0-h terribly injured, the former perhaps
fataly.-Kokomo Tribune.
Henry Zimmerman. who owns a farm
ten miles south Of here. brought to Bell
* McClain's store stalks Of corn raised
on his farm which measure fourteen feet,
with good ears eight feet from the
ground.-Terre Haute Gazette.
August Creel had a very narrow es-
cape from bleeding to death. He was
trimming some trees when the ak caught
IN limb some way and descended upon
his left foot, nearly severing the foot
at the instep.-Elkhart Journal.
William II. Wolfe, aged seventy-one
years, fell from an apple tree on his farm.
near Lanesville, about o'clock Tuesday.
and died shortly afterward. Heart
trouble, it is supposed, caused him 20 fall
and meet death.-Albany Ledger.
Charles Reyniers was taking the meas
urements for a new window pane when
the upper sash fell. catching his left
hand between the two sashes and broken
glass, cutting the bdth Ul TIE manu- Dduly
and severing TWO arteries-SOuth Bend
Tribune.
Miss Cora Bennett, who has hitherto
been a tutor at DePauw. has secured a
position as teacher of Latin in the high
school at Marion. Miss Bennett Is now
one OF the most accomplished young la
dies and teachers in the staoe-Je Jefferson
Vile News.
One of the hardest drinkers in Ander-
son Is an old wOman-a grandmother.
She IS an all-around drinker. and as a
rule goes to the back door of certain sa-
looms where they give her good measure
and calls for the liquor herse.f.-Ander-
son Democrat.
William Whitaker, an employee Of the
Indiana iron company, met with quite
painful accident Friday while at work
in the mill. i large piece Of iron struck
him on the wrist Of the left arm with
such force as 10 completely sever the
main artery.-Muncie Herald.
II. G. Morgan arose Friday night dur
ing a hard rain to close windows in an
other room across the hall. Instead of
opening the room door he opened the door
10 the stairway, falling down the stairs.
His collar bone was broken and he was
badly bruised.-South Bend Tribune.
During the wind and rain storm Sat
urday night the lace curtains in a sec
Warner blew against a burning gas jet
and were ignited. The curtains were en-
tirely destroyed and articles of furniture
in the room amaged.-Lafayette Call.
Miss Amelia Jackson Of Charlottesville