Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — HEWS OF OUR STATE. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Crimea—roisters About Our Own People. Indiana Fairs. The following is a list of Antes, places and names of associations and secretaries: July 29 to Aug. a—Putnam county fair, Bainbridge. A. R. Allison. July so to Aug. 2—Delaware district fair. Middletown, P. R. Hodson. July so to Aug. 2—Ripley county fair, Osgood, W. C. Leslie. Aug. t> to 9 Wayne county fair, Hagerstown, J. M. Hartley. Aug. 12 to ic—Howard county fair, Kokomo, O. L. Moulder. Aug. 13 to 15—Grange Jubilee fair, Wirt Station, Thomas Watllngton. Aug. 18 to tß—Jeiferson county fair, Madison, D. 11. Demaree. Aug. 13 to lt>—Henry county fair. New Castle. A. I). Ogborn. Aug. 19 to 28—Boone county fair, Lebanon. E. G. Darnell. Aug. it) to 23—Tipon county fair, Tipton, W. R. Oglesby. Aug. 19 to 24-Spencer county fair, Rockport, C. M. Partridge. Aug. 2u to 23—Newton county fair, Morocco, A. E. Purkey. Aug. 20 to 23—Maxlnkuckee fair, Marmont, J. H.Koontz. Aug. 20 to 23—Delaware county fair, Muncie, M. S. Claypool. Aug. 20 to 24—Dearborn county fair, Lawrenceburg, J. S. Dorman. Aug. 21 to 24—Warren country fair. West ' Lebauon, M. A. Judy. Atta. 2« to 30—Hancock county fair, Greenfield. Elbert Tyner. Aug. 2ti to so—Clinton county fair, Frankfort, Joseph Heavtlou. Aug. 20 to so—Johnson county fair, Franklin, W. S. Young. Aug. 20 to 30-Harrlson county fair, Corydon, Amos Lemon. Aug. 26 to no—Bridgeton union fair, Bridgeton, F. M. Miller. Aug. 211 to 31-Oakland City fair, Oakland Clty.R. (’. Barber. Aug. 27 to 31- Scott county fair, Scottsburg, Joseph H. Shea. Aug. 27 to 31—Remington fair, Remington, Jasimr Guy. Aug. 27 to 31—Grunt county fair, Marlon, H. G. Hamaker.

Aug. 23 to 31—Paoli fair. Paoli. A. W. Bruner. Seiit. 2 to o—District fair, Boswell, Win. H. McKnlght. Sept. 2to 7—Tippecanoe country fair, Lafayette, Wm. M. Blackstock. Sept. 2 to 7—Spencer county fair, Chrisney, I*. C. Jolly. Sept. 3 to o—Washington county fair, Salem, C. W. Morris. Sept, a to 7—Shelby county fair, Shelbyville, E/K. Stroup. Hept. 3 to 7-Pike county fair, Petersburg, W. A. Oliphant. ’ Sept. 3 to 7- Warren trl-county fair, Warren, G. Fleming. Sept. 9 to 13-Montgomery county fair, Crawfordsville, W. W. Morgau. Hout. 9 to 13—Vigo country fair, Terre Huate, W. 11. Dungan. Sept. 9 to 18—Daviess county fair, Washington, John Downey. Sept. 9 to I:l—VermHllon district fair, Covington. W. T. Ward. Sent. 9 to 14—Gibson county fair, Princeton, W. B. Kight. Sept. 10 to 18- Lake county fair, Crown Point, W. L. Allman. Hept. 10 to ts-Kentland fair. Kentland, H. Strohnm. Sept. 10 to 13 -Rush county fair, Rushville, W. L. Klug. Hept, to to 14—Huntington comity fair, Huntington, Adam L. Bock. Hept. 11 to 14—District fair, Macy, Ira B. Hurst. Sept. 10 to 20—Trl-Stato fair, Evansville, R. L. Akin. Sept. 10 to 20—Cayuga fair, Cayuga, J. 8. Groundyko. Sept. Io to 2t—lndiana State fair, Indianapolis, Charles F. Kenedy. Sept, to to 21-Dubois county fair, Huntingburg, D. Rcntpholer. Sent. 17 to 20- Lagrange county fair. Lagrange. L. M. Rowe. Hept. 17 to 20—Agricultural and Industral fair, Plymouth, Chris Fisher. Hept. 17 to 20 -Wabash county fair, Wabaali, W E. ( oato. Hept. 17 to 20—Porter county fair, Valparaiso, K. H. Bench. Sept. 23 to 27—Jay county fair, Portland, Geo. W, BergMnan. Sept. 23 to 27-Flora fair, Flora. C. E. Nobeg. Hept. 23 to 28—Fort Wayne Driving Club meeting. Fort Wanie, IL O. Rockhill. - Sbflt. 24 to 27-LuPorte county fair, LaPorte, J, VchA Dorland, B<ji>t 24 to 27—Fayette county fair, Connersville, W. F. Downes. Hept. 24 to 27—Monroe county fair. Bloomington, C. R. Worrell. “ Sept. 24 to 37—Bremen fair, Bremen, Henry H. Miller. Hept. 24 to 28—Vermillion county fair, Newport, John Richardson. Sept. 30 to Qet. 4- Eastern Indiana fair, Kendallville. J. 8. Uonlogue, Hept. »o to Got. 4—Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan fair. South Beud.DlxoW. Place. O t. 1 to o—Bedford fair, Bedford, 8. T. 2!oUman. Oct. 1 to 4—Poplar Grove fair, Poplar Grove, A. D. Woods. Oct 1 lo'4—Randolph county fair, Winchester, D. E. Hoffman. Oct. 2 to 5 Fulton county fair, Rochester, Geo. V. Dawson. Oct, 7 to 11—Northeastern Indiana fair, Waterloo. M Klpllnier. Oct 8 to 11—Steuben county fair. Angola, H. L. "US? 3 to 11—Iknfrbon District fair, Bourbon, G. Di Estlnger. Oct. 14 to IB—Knox county fair, Vincennes, J. W. Emison.

Minor State New*. John Blackenbtiff’h large barn, near Wabash, burned. Loss $7,000. Wm. Shaw was probably fatally injured in a runaway accident at Shelbyville. Bev. W. R. Higgins, well known presbyterlan minister of Terre Haute, is deal. A fiSh hatchery will be established at Richmond by the fish and game club of that city. Adolph Stano, 8 years old, of Clark’s Station, was drowned while bathing in Lake Michigan. In order to employ the convicts in the prison south a new residence will be erected for the Warden. The Studebakers are arranging for a fine reed and horn band among their employes at South Bend. Thebe is now 14,968 voting strength in Madison County, as against a little more than 12,000 at the last enumeration. William House, commission merchant and peddler, of Terre Haute, was very dangerously injured in a runaway accident. Mbs. Samuel Royeab, aged 72 years, residing in Chester Township, Wabash County, died from injuries sustained by falling out of a cherry tree. Rev. Isabella, who sued the Columbus Herald for $5,000 because the paper accused him of conduct unbecoming a minister and lost the case, has been dismissed as minister of the Second baptist church, Columbus.' The southern part of Porter County was Visited during the past week by an army of grasshoppers, which is literally eating up the crops. Whole fields of hay and com have been taken by them. The damage amounts to thousands of dollars. Fbank Jones, while painting, at Perth, lost his balance and fell from the ladder a distance of about thirty-five feet. His head struck the sidewalk, crushing his skull. He died about noon from the injuries. Mbs. James C. Young, of Brandywine township, Shelby County, lost some cattle by poison a few weeks ago. Later strychnine was found in her milk pans, and the other morning the hired hands found several piles of salt in the field which were mixed with Rough on Rats and powdered glass. Mrs. Young some time ago applied for a divorce from her husband and is fearful for the life of herself and children,

Superintendent of Police Meagher of Terre Haute, will issue a call for a convention of Indiana police chiefs, to be held in that city the first week in October. The convention is to be of chiefs in cities which come under the new metropolitan police law, which affects nearly one hundred cities in the State. The time is fixed to be during the fall trotting meeting. Mrs. Sagers, near Burrows Station, while hitching up a team, preparatory to going to her daughter’s wedding, was crushed by one of the horses against a high board fence and fatally injured. Only a few months ago, during the absence of the family from the house, two of their children ata rat poison, and were found dead upon their parents’ return.