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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1880
Page
1
German gardener Godfred Lentz dies after locking himself in a burning room on the Three Notch road near Bainbridge. Neighbors save some belongings while Lentz perishes, leaving a wife and two sons. report notes prior drinking and odd behavior. Other items mention Boston laudanum suicides, an Altoona leg injury from a bath incident, an alligator rumor, and a Mamie Priest death poem from Bainbridge dated July 31, 1880.
Real estate transfers include Samuel Dillingham to Richard H. Bowen for two Putnamville lots at 60 dollars, Sheriff P. C. to Anamas Michael for Cloverdale acreage at 200 dollars, and several other transfers in Franklin Greencastle Roachdale Warren townships with prices ranging from 30 to 1 900 dollars. The list covers church, land, and lot transactions among residents such as George M. Foster, Mary Butler, James Larkin, Sylvester Elliott, Phillip Carpenter, H Ellis, and others.
The Drovers Journal notes Caicaco Hog receipts 15 000, shipments 4 000, market active firmer higher with common to good hogs 4 50 4 90 per 100 lbs and best hogs around 5 00. Beer Cartle cattle receipts 4 000, shipments 800, prices 4 10 4 80 for natives 2 50 3 00 grassers, Indians scarce. stock yards report Indianapools hogs 4 85 5 15 per 100 lbs and wheat 92 93 cents No 2 red.
The Colorado man Tenase trusted three supposed compatriots in Paris, losing about $9,000. He returned to friends in America with help from an American consul and plans to restart his life. A series of distant crime notes follow, including a fatal murder inquiry in Moberly and other wrongful acts.
A round water bottle sunbeam lit a house fire in Alyth Scotland. A Lynn Massachusetts pear tree yields ripening fruit on one side and blossoms on the other. In Berks County Pennsylvania a nest in a tree twelve feet high produced eggs hatched there. Reading Pennsylvania man aged sixty five has thirty two marriages and forty one children. Berry Bradford of Church County Georgia found dead at plow handles, third in family to die at the plow. A two-toed snake with lizard-like feet was found on a Gwinnett County Georgia farm. A 22 year old Virginia penitentiary inmate, educated and well mannered, serves a long sentence for horse stealing. Judge Thomas of Albemarle Virginia has thirty two children. A St Paul and Pacific elevator in Minneapolis damaged by a worm that eats boards and drains wheat like a sieve. Ephraim Allen shot by British rangers in 1813. bullet recovered. A Kentucky chicken hatched on Col Ive Reynolds farm had four legs and pawed actively. George I H Gubin in Amity township Pa. injured leg chasing a frog after a revolver fired by accident. A Vermont well forty two feet deep freezes in winter. a nearby gravel pit stays unfrozen and vents steam. A Portland Maine sea captain over fifty has never voted for president due to travel but plans to vote for Hancock and English. John Keeton in Cumberland County Kentucky soothed bees into his legs and carried them home. A De Moines Iowa four year old found a revolver and killed his baby sister. same day an eleven year old Cincinnati boy killed a girl while handling a pistol.
John W. Sutherlin killed a seven foot monster snake that emerged from a stump after dogs attacked an earlier black snake. The reptile, which drew frothy mouth and frightened horses, held two young rabbits and two frogs in its belly. Thirteen snakes were killed in the episode.
The North Putnam Sunday School Union schedules a convention at Grove land Methodist Church on Saturday August 28 1880 with a full morning and afternoon program including devotionals lessons committee appointments and talks by H J Van Duyne Mrs Mary Allison C F Lane W A Smith and others The day features a basket dinner and concluding reports and business The piece also recounts Fred Hoyt’s dramatic 50 mile ride from Park City to Echo Utah where he murdered Sheriff Turner’s son and was pursued and jailed without plea or resistance.
A Sunday baptism occurred in a penitentiary quarry with two convicts recently converted to the Baptist faith to be baptized in a clear pool at the bottom. Guards stood as sentinels around the stone walls as the minister spoke and the converts answered in hushed, solemn tones.
Centaur Liniments claim to heal Burns and wounds and ease rheumatism in humans while treating sprains lameness and rheumatic pains in animals. The advertisement promises cheap quick and reliable relief for both people and beasts.
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