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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1902
Page
8
Friday June 27 entries list classes heavy draft coach and harness light harness and sweepstakes. Prizes include first premiums of 5 dollars in several divisions second and third place payouts and a $10 season credit for horses owned by Sheridan Horse Company. Shoeing by Wm Long also offered.
The entry list covers multiple classes from Drafts to Roadsters and Turnouts with first place prizes ranging from $5.00 to $10. Includes awards of flour, Full Roller Process by White Rose, and goods from Smith & Anderson, Peelle's Stock Food, and other sponsors. Participants include Jim Fisk W A Wainscott Ethel Wolf H. B. Wiles Jay D Prince Echo and Lon Henderson among others.
Sheriff Bray arrested Orlando Shaul alias William Reasoner at a Cicero area home on forgery charges. Shaul allegedly presented a $720 counterfeit check at Westhera bank posing as William Reasoner, signed by William Qoflerton. Cashier Cox spotted the irregularity and Blorton confirmed forgery, leading to the warrant and jail cell. Shaul, 42, denies guilt and claims to have been in Westfield on Saturday.
Monday afternoon Judge Neal overruled the motion for a new trial in the Brown murder case and sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment. Brown requested the court to ask prison officials to refrain from punishing him during spells. Sheriff Bray notes no peculiar behavior in six months of residence. Brown is the first Hamilton County man to receive a life sentence for a crime committed within the county. He will be taken to Michigan City in several days.
The State of Jolietville brings charges of ripe an virs against Dr Redden. Walter Boyd faces a circuit court jury with Meade Vestal as special judge. Prosecution by Beals Shirts Fertig and Puotias Sk. Boyd. Defense by Stuart Reagan and Samuel Ralston of Lebanon. Many Western county residents summoned to testify. Local prominence shows mixed interest as the case nears a week long trial. Redden’s bond appears small though attached signatures total over 50000.
William Moalier, jailed for the Newton Junis murder at Atlanta last fall, is failing in health and may not live to complete his two year sentence. He works in the boiler shop and is described by Deputy Warden M M Barnard as a model prisoner.
Tyler Cruthers faced a preliminary hearing on a dissolving charge of aiding in a fraud against Lucius Stout. The hearing before Squire Matthews set for 9 o clock Monday ended with Cruthers bound over for circuit court trial. Bond fixed at $2.00. Cruthers could not post and remained jailed.
A motion for a new trial was filed with Judge Neal on Monday afternoon in the C. CO. Brown murder case. The filing asks for a rehearing on grounds that the evidence did not warrant a first degree murder verdict. the jury had sentenced Brown to life imprisonment.
The county board of review met in an annual session Monday morning and will continue in three weeks. It will revise township assessor lists, hear objections to assessments and equalize them. The board includes Auditor Powell, Treasurer Lennon, Assessor Nagle, Floyd Zimmerman and Thomas Grillin.
A collection of condolence resolutions from Porget me not Temple No 217 Sheridan Lodge No 170 and Rebekah Lodge No 50 mourning the death of Mrs Jacob Pritsch and expressing sympathy to her husband Jacob and daughter Bessie. The actions include publishing in Sheridan News, spreading on lodge minutes, and draping the lodge charter in mourning for thirty days.
Local column highlights health in the neighborhood as families visit relatives in Benton county and Indianapolis. Residents report corn being laid by, social visits to Kirklin, Peru and Denver, and upcoming events including the Joseph block completion, a Robinson Circus street parade, and a street fair in August.
Noblesville and nearby towns report residents and events including Alets Hutchens teaching this winter and entering Bloome ington University in three years. Geo W Powell returns to the farm as seven in ten express dissatisfaction with a jury finding in Jolietville.
Rochester Indiana notices a Maine hunt package with special rates for fall travel via Chicago and Erie routes. The offer includes a through car, no charge return, stops at Niagara Falls Boston or New York, and a two deer plus a bull moose for parties joining. Deadline referenced next January license law.
Attention Farmers. Weekly end prices for Kempton Indiana reveal poultry and hides rates. Chickens 42-4? cents, hens 14 1 2 cents, roosters 2 cents, turkeys 8 cents and 5? 61-2 cents for old toms. Hides 7 1-4 cents and five cents for pans.
Stormy weather dominated the past week in Hortonville. Clyde Robbins plans a new house on his father’s farm near neighbors Henry Plew. Leota Hines has recovered from illness. Mary Roberts visited cousin Ethel Henley in Westfield. Ost on Osborn supplied wood. Friends Church held Sunday night children’s exercises with a large, pleased crowd and good music.
A warning about unscrupulous imitators using the Chase name to sell Dr A W Chase Nerve Pills. The ad urges buyers to insist on the signature A W Chase D or the genuine portale. It promotes cures for nervous exhaustion insomnia and blood purities and notes the Buffalo based firm. Also prospect of Jno G Clark of Westfield paying high prices for horses at Central Livery Stable each Friday.
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