The Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Ind.) 18??-1920, 1870-07-14
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zens in Edinburg.
The coal miners arc on n strike IN
Clay county.
The nail works in Terre Haute have
suspended work.
The tax for school purposes in Terre
Haute is fifteen cents on the SlO0.
Greensburgh claims for itself the
champion female wax-chewer of the
State.
The indications are that the popula-
ton of this State will approximate
1900, 900.
A Frenchman with q dancing bear,
travelling through the State, receives
a great deal of notice from the press.
Two schools for the instruction OF
German children in the German lam
guage have been opened in Terre
Haute.
There are thirty-siX practicing ply
sicans, twentythree churches and
fourteen Touring mills in Howard
county.
\ large wigwam is under process of
erection in Terre Haute, 10 be used for
Republican meetings during the ap-
preaching campaign.
The Rush County Teachers Institute
will meet on the 22d OF August. Miss
Nebraska Cropsey, of Indianapolis,
will be one of the instructors.
Michael Miller, German laborer,
in Aurora, committed suicide on the
18th inst, by hanging. Pec1niary
troubles caused the act.
The citizens Of Rushville are indig-
nant because their Town Marshal spent
some seven hundred dollars in repair
ing a railroad crossing. They call it
Democratic economy.
At Charlestown, on the 9th inst, a
colored man, whose name is unknown,
fell from n construction train on the
Ohio and Mississippi Ralrood, and the
train passed over him, cutting of his
head.
a man named Benjamin Durbin,
residing in Lexington, Scott county,
had both his arms and his left shoulder
blown entirely off by the premature
explosion of n cannon, while engaged
in firing n national salute on the even
ing of the fourth.
Anderson has few fast men. Col.
TON Stilwell drives pair OF horses
worth one thousand dollars. One l.
snow white, the other black rs n ra-
ven. Major Wildman drives Nasty,
two forty horse, for whom he has re-
fused six hundred dollars.
On Monday an unknown man
jumped from skiT into the Ohio
river, opposite New Albany, to swim
to the shore, but before reaching il he I
was drowned. Another man, name I
also unknown, Fell from log floating I
in the Ohio river, near the same place, |
and was drowned.
A note from Colfax says two young
men by the name of Conner. brothers
of the section foreman on the Louis
vile, New Albany & Chicago Rail-
road, were drowned in Potato Creek,
near that place, on the afternoon OF
the Fourth. They went into the water
to bathe, got beyond their dcbth, and
were drowned.
The bloomington Progress says:
"a farmer came 90 town last week
with ham of medium size, and with
The proceeds OF its sale paid for n bar
sufficient 10 last several weeks. This
is the first time in the history OF the
country, we believe, when small
ham was worth more money than a
DaIIcl vi TouT.
\ few nights since, Halussn, Scott
county. was the scene OF fatal cut
ting afiray. Two men named Sweet
and Clark, became engaged in fight,
during which Clark cut Sweet In the
breast, 40 that he can not possibly live.
Clark was Immediately arrested and
taken TO Lexington, where he was
lodged In Jail.
AT Marshall, on the Fourth, small
child was run over by an omnibus and
killed. 1t was upon one side Of the
street and its parents on the other.
The mother called to IL to come over.
The child attempted 10 cross, but on
account Of "a dense cloud Of dust, did
not see the approaching omnibus,
filled with people, nor did the driver
see the child till too late.
The Bloomington Progress says:
'The chicken crop j. above the aver.
age this year, we are Informed by
farmers. The health OF the young
chickens is unusually good-the chol-
era, that decimated the ranks OF chick
endom so fearfulIy in other year.,
having thus far failed to put in an ap-
pearance. Indiana Conference viii
meet in this city on the 3ist OF August.
We learn from the Lafayette Courier
that AN old man. very much under the
influence OF liquor, laid down and
went TO sleep on the side walk on
Ninth street, just midway in front OF