The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-12
From Exchanges ana correspondenO.

From Exchanges and correspondence.
l.. W. Munhall is holding revival meeting at
| Portland. s..
post of the G. A. r. is being organized at
| Edlnburg.
Burglars are operating extensively in Rush
| vile and vicinity.
Fish seining ia said to be practiced extensively
| in the vicinity of Columbus.
Ice men are harvesting large quantities of
| twelve-inch Ice at Lafayette, Ind.
the Ohio Falls Irou-works will complete re-
pairs ana start up again next week.
The TippecanOe County Medical Society will
ESTABLISH medical dispensary for the poor of
the city and township.
Mr.. A. s. Helms has sold his paper the " ORTIZ
ington Times, to the Morrison Brothers, and Mr.
Frank Morrison will be editor.
South Bend projects a railroad via Buchanan
ana Berrien Springs To a port oil Lake Michigan ,
chleny FOR cheap transportation.
land patent signed by James Madison, Pres
1dent, was presented at the recorders office at
Richmond Tor recordiOn Tuesday.
The city officers of Evansville, by action of the
city council, will have wait for their pay, as
city orders are sely at only 80 cents
Mrs. Martha Burke fell while crossing Market
street, near West Fifth, New Albany, and sus-
tanned a fracture of both arms near the elbows
Mr.. Wilson Naylor has purchased the Terre
Hante opera-hOiise. His competitors in bidding
therefor were M. H. Spades and William English,
| Of Indianapolis.
In a shoru time DOC Hilton a former resident
of Henryville, will be released from the South
ern Prison, after serving a twenty-one years
sentence for manslaughter.
A Laporte woman who was visiting in Argos
Marshall county, elbowed another woman whom
she disliked off narrow sidewalk into the mud,
and had to pay $l1 for it by the Judgment of the
squire.
walnut knot supposed for several years to
be worthless on account of decay, was recently
sold for between 5000 and $500 for expectation
TO Europe. 1t grew on the farm of Joseph Jack
son, near Centervie.
ha nm nf vi 70 In
vile, Dayton 81 Eastern railroad, on condition
that it pass through Richmond, is again being
agitated. Manufacturers are all favorable TO
giving the proposed aid.
Rumor reports an early reorganization of the
famous Mclean Chairfactory, of Lawrenceburg,
Mr.. Mclean, the patentee Of tho rockers. retir-
ing, and Z. L. Matthews, either by himself or an
| association, succeeding.
A. G. Elliott. of Goshen, and Phio ]. Parmen-
ter, of Elkhart county commissioners, have be-
gun libel suits against Gen. NJ. s. Haskell, ask
ing $4,000 damages for words uttered and pub
lished declaring that they had acted fraudu-
lently In he sale and purchase of a poor farm,
ana asking their resignation.
Ono of the oldest buildings in the State built bv
General George Rogers Clark in the old town OF
Clarksvile, at the foot OF the falls or the Ohio,
two miles ana a half west of Jeffersonvie. on
the north hank of tho Ohio river, was burned
last Saturday. This house was of heavy hewn
logs and two stories high. 1t was made very
strong, that IL might he used as fort.
A suit was filed in the Circuit Court at Wash
against a nto- DR., Thomas L. Eads, a
ing malpractice, and asking $4,000 damage.
On the 10Th of December last Lytton's son,
eighteen months old. was scaded by the upset
ting of a tub of boiling water. The Doctor
called to attend tho child. Lytton alleges that
the defendant neglected The case and was absent
seven da! s, during which time the child died.
ILLINOIS.
The ice-brdge at Warsaw is safe, and many
teams now cross the river there daily.
The Spring field woolen-mills last month made
about &c, 600 yards of staple cSssmeres.
Harvey Sage, veteran of the war of 1912,
died at Pekin, leaving wife and two sons
Isaac Ssvins, a brakeman, was knocked off
train at Spencer by bridge and instantly killed.
Aurora has two suits of $1,000 each on its
hands for injuries sustained by defective side
walks.
Elegant strings of pike and black bass are be-
ing caught through the ice on Pekin lake, Taze-
well county.
The Peoria Turnverein has decided to build
two-story building. with a 5Oxl50 feet hall, on
Second street.
The Illinois State Grange will meet in an an
nual convention in Decatur jan g. IL and Is.
Two hundred delegates will be present.
Bald eagles are plentiful this season in the
woods near Pittsteld, Pike county. Five were
seen the other day, flying out Of rifle shot
Colonel John A. Sheets, of Freeport, died Of
heart disease on Monday. He had served sew
eral years as a lieutenant in the regular army.
The movement for the narrow -guage railroad
shape, and two Rock Island capitalists
are taking quite an interest init
j. A. Cotton, of Taylorsvlle. Christian county,
was in Peoria the other day, and took back with
him the Peoria trap for a scaffold from which
Trojan, the murderer of Mckinney, near Ston-
ington, some time since, will dangle on the 18th
inst.
The aggregate true value of farms in Peoria
county is estimated at 500, DOC, 900, and they
pay taxes annually of over 100000 1t is said
there are fewer mortgaged farms in Peoria
county than any other county in the State, ex-
cept Knox and Fulton counties.
On Sunday night the sheriff OF Fayette
county going into the Jail to look the pris-
oners in their cells current of air extingulshed
the light, when two prisoners named Fred Smith
and William Phipps, who were out in the CORR
dor, ran out and escaped Phipps remained out
two or three hours. but the weather being bit
terlv cold, he came back to town, where the
next morning, he was taken in and again placed
behind the bars. Smith ia yet at large.
Mr.. WM, BAssETT. farmer, South Bend. 81. Jo-
seph county, used RrOWn'A Iron RiLLera auceaaa-