The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-15
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STATE ITEMS.

The City Council of Lafayette have
ordered a new clock, of magnificent
style, for the City Council Room.
| Three rooms in the Bates House
indianapolis, were entered and robbed
one night last week by dextrous
thief.
There are twenty five paupers con-
| fined in the Jefferson County poor
house-seVenteen males and eight fe-
males.
| About $50, 900 worth of stock have
been subscribed by the merchants of
Terre Haute In the new Merchants
Express Company. m
A boy by the name of McHenry,
residing in Switzerland County, was
accidentally killed one day this, week,
by being thrown against a saw log
Three months in the county jail
is the risk taken by those who COM
nit grand larceny in indianapolis.
1t is not strange that there is so much
stealing done in that city.
A little girl named Struble was
burned to death on Monday of last
week, near Lafayette, by her clothes
taking FIRE from burning brush. She
was eight years DID,
The Congressional Convention for
the Seventh District, meets at Terre
Haute on the first Thursday in june.
Judge William Franklin, of Spen-
Ger, Owen County, has been elected
President of the Indianapolis and Vim
cennes Railroad.
A colored girl was detected in set
ting fire to a house in Lafayette on
Friday last.
South Bend was excited the other
day by the report that human body
had been found near a drug store in
that city. 1t turned out to be part
of a skeleton belonging to doctor,
which had accidently been thrown out
doors with some rubbish. e sf9
Between the 1st of january and the
LIST of May, the ST. Joseph Iron Com
pany of Mishawaka, have shipped
1900 two-horse steel plows and 5000
double shovel plows. Pretty we'll for
a small town. se g9
A young man aged II years, named
Silas Laidlow, was killed in Penn
Township, st. Joseph County, on. the
18th inst, by the breaking down Of
swing in his fathers barn, in which he
was amusing himself o. sN H
The house Of a widow lady named
Campbell, was burned near Nlishawa-
ka, on Saturday a week. There were
several hundred dollars in gold in the
house, a large portion of which was
found in small particles, by washing
the ashes and rubbish in pans after
the old California fashion.
A number Of children in Lafayette
a few days ago got hold of a six pound
shell, a trophy from Rich Mountain,
and built fire on it to explode it
just for fun The shell hung fire,
but while the children were at dinner
itexploded, scattering the FIRE in every
direction and wounding a calf brows-
ing near.
A young man named Hugh Shea,
had an examination before u. S. Com
missioner Kimball, on Thursday last,
at indianapolis, ON charge of passing
counterfeit money, and was bound
over in one thousand dollars for his !
appearance at,eourt. a,a9 5;
a man, named Frank Stockman,
was arrested in South Bend, few days
ago, for stealing a. draft from lady,
whose husband, c. B. Doty, is in Cali
fornia. He had been in the neighbor-
hood but short time, but had won
the confidence and esteem of all his
acquaintance.
RAILROAD CONVENTION. At
meeting of the railway officers held at
the Bates House, May 10th, for the
purpose of advancing rates. The rail-
ways of the West were very generally
represented, The following rates we're
adopted from the points named to
New York, all rail:
Gin. and Rich.Sl 20 81 IS 81 90 so 81 81 10
Dayton & Union 20 ] As GO o 521% / Is |
s sYL; Quincy. % 70 l go ! Is e % g
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