CASS COUNTY, INDIANA
NEWS


Logansport, IN.
Oct., 7, 1897.   On Tuesday night the wife of Rev. T.J. Legg, of 1414 Spear street, this city, was stricken with apoplexy. Mr. Legg is the state evangelist for the Christian Church and left home Tuesday night and his friends do not know his address. Mrs. Legg is still unconscious.

Logansport, IN.
Dec. 30,1898.  The Northern & Central Indiana Poultry Association’s coming annual poultry and bench show will be held in this city Jan. 18 10 25. It is declared by the members of the association that the coming show will be the biggest without any exception ever held in Indiana. Already entries have been received from all over Indiana and many from neighboring states.

Logansport, IN.
May 24,1899.  Col. Thomas H. Bringhurst, age 80, founder of the Logansport journal, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, died at his home here yesterday. For years he has been practically helpless by reason of a railroad accident in which the train on which he was returning from the East was wrecked. He founded the Journal here in 1854 and remained at its head until 1870. he was commissioned a colonel by Governor Morton, in 1862, having recruited of the 46th Indiana Regiment of Volunteers. During the Mexican war he was a Corporal of Company G. First Indiana Volunteers.

Tipton, IN.
Sept. 2, 1899. The 15th annual meeting of the old settlers of Tipton County met at Goldsmith, 6 miles west of this city, today, and it was estimated that 10,000 people were on the grounds and more than 100 old settlers, who have lived in the county for more than 40 yrs. Dr. Puckett, of  Kokomo, spoke in the morning, but the principal address was made in the afternoon by Senator Charles W. Fairbanks, and for more than an hour he held the large audience with his eloquent talk of early pioneer hood. The Senator was amazed at the large audience that greeted him. The only accident during the day was to Stites Pritchard, age 89 , who ran against a wire that threw him down and cut an ugly gash in the back of his head.

Logansport, IN.
Feb. 24,1898.   W.F. Huff, a barber, living at Lucerne, was found this morning, injured and badly frozen along the roadside about 2 miles east of Metea. Mr. Huff was in Rochester yesterday, and started to drive home late in the evening. Near the point where he was found his horse wandered from the road and became entangled in a barbed-wire fence, and in attempting to extricate the animal Huff was injured so painfully that he was unable to seek assistance, and spent the night in his buggy. the horse, in its struggles, became so badly entangled in the wire that it fell and was drowned in a ditch by the roadside. Mr. Huff’s condition is considered serious by the physicians in attendance

Logansport, IN.
Sept. 23,1898. The Logansport Land and Improvement association has been formed, and articles of incorporation will be filed within a few days. The capital stock of the association is placed at $50,000, in shares of $100 each, and the amount of stock held by any single individual holder has been fixed at 20 shares. The object of the association will be to induce manufacturing establishments to locate in Logansport and to render any needed assistance to those already here. The association will work in harmony with the Business Men’s Association.

Logansport, IN.
Sept. 23,1898. Marshall Wilbur Fisher, of Noblesville, and Hershley Newby, a merchant of Sheridan, were here last night endeavoring to locate Frank Terry, alias Ferry, who is wanted by Newby for passing a worthless draft to the amount of $30 and who was supposed to be in this city. Terry had been located here by Charles E. Higbee, a commercial traveler for a Chicago wholesale grocery house, who had also been worked by Terry for a small amount. Terry, with a woman supposed to be his wife, had been stopping at the Murdock Hotel, and Wednesday night he and the woman quietly left for South Bend. As soon as their departure was learned of yesterday the South Bend officers were notified, but they reported today that the couple had not stopped in that city, although their baggage had been put off the train there and had been taken charge of by unknown parties. It is said that Terry is wanted in Indianapolis, Elwood and Russiaville, and other Indiana towns.

Logansport, IN.
Oct. 11. The general store conducted by James Egman at 12 Mile, this county, was entered by burglars last night, the robbers forcing an entrance by means of tools secured from a neighboring blacksmith shop. The safe in the store was blown open with dynamite, but the noise of the explosion alarmed the villagers and before the robbers could continue their work they were forced to run, which they did successfully.

Logansport, IN.
Oct. 11,1899. The surviving members of the 128th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, met in this city today in annual reunion, the session to continue over tomorrow. This afternoon was devoted to a consideration of the business affairs of the regimental association. Gen. Jasper Packard, commandant of the Soldier’s Home at Lafayette, the old colonel of the regiment, presiding over the sessions. This evening a public camp-fire was held in the Circuit Court room, preceded by the annual regiment supper. Tomorrow morning will be devoted to business sessions. The regiment served from 1863 to April 1866.

Logansport, IN.
Oct. 13,1899. The annual reunion of the 128th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers Infantry, closed its 2 day session last evening, after electing the following officers: President, jasper N. Packard, Lafayette. Vice president, Thomas Wood, Logansport. Treasurer, Samuel Sailor, Logansport. Secretary, H,E. Butler, Warsaw. The next meeting will be held in Lafayette in Oct. of next yr.