The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-23
From Exohanges mnd Correspondenoe.

In the past three months the Methodist Church
at Michigan City has raised and applied about
ST. 90 to the discharge of their church debt.
Jacob II. Hauck, of Greenfield, has been de-
clared Insane. He ia well known among the
business men of the State, who will hear Of his
misfortune with regret.
Mrs. James Ryan, for several years u resident
of Ridgeville, dropped dead at her home, on Sat
urday night. She leaves a large family Of small
children. Heart disease was the cause.
Frank Foster, merchant, died at Lexington,
Scott county, on Sunday, of sickness and insan-
Try. He was 80 years Old, brother to Captain Fl.
b. Foster, of Madison, and leaves "a wife and two
children.
Suit against ex-Auditor Primus P. Culver was.
ON Saturday, ordered by the Tippecanue county
com missioners for ,005. 80, money claimed to
he due the county from Mr.. Culver ON account
of fees Overdrawn.
1t is rumored that two of the wealthy mem
hers of the Second Presbyterian Church Of Madi-
son propose to guarantee the salary OF Rev. DR..
Wilson at an advance If he will return to that
city and take charge OF the church.
The first number of tho Indiana Republican, a
weekly paper published by McPheeters Il Brad
bury, Of New Albany, is at hand. It's politics ia
Indicated by its name. 1t is II neatly printed
and well edited forty-eight column quarto, and
deserves success.
"Rev." George H. Austin, who was sent from
Madison last fall for five years for forgery, died
in the State Prison South mt jeff rsOnville on
Sunday. His wife, who is an invalid, resides ut
Brooksburg, seven miles east of Madison, with
her two little children.
The Lawrence Fair Association has elected
oI11cerS as IOllOWs: PRESIDENT, .. ". VOOFhiS:
vIce-presldent, John W. Apple; treasurer, Levi
Bolander: general manager, j. II. Thomas; secre-
tary, W. b. Flick. The next fair will he held
Sept. IL TO Is, inclusive.
The annual election of officers of the Wabash
County Agricultural Society took place on Sat.
urday. The cnntest was very warm. Following
are the successful candidates: President, n.
Bannister; yice-presideht, Q. G. King; secretary,
Fred Snavelly; treasurer, IL. r.. CoRte; marshal,
Harry Wheeler.
A prosecuted school mu'am in Wayne comfy
has had TO give nm her school hpcduSe q foolish
fellow persisted in following and admiring her.
She cannot escape his pensive gaze, 90 where
she will, and he has been warned by "A Justice of
the peace TO cease his prosecutions, or he will be
placed under bonds.
John Wilson, a tailor living IN Wabash county,
mysteriously disappeared last Thursday. and
nothing has been heard of him since. II is
thought that he wandered away during a fit of
temporary insanity, and that he has died from
exposure. lie leaves u widow and one child in
des .itute circumstances.
Charles McKeever, of Richmond, went homo
on Saturday u little drunken than usual. and
vented his spleen upon his family. His daugh-
ter determined to end 1t, and calling III a friend,
the two overpOwered him and tied him to the
lounge, and then went out and called in IA police.
man, who arrested him. His fines and costs
came 10 S34, and not being able to liouidate as
well rs liquor, he vii! board 1t out at the Jail.
ILLINOIS.
Charles Turner, an old, well-known and re-
spected citizen of Elmwood, near Peoria, shortly
after dinner on Sunday committed suicide nv
ATA VI
was sixty-six years of age, and leaves a family.
TIE last of the clerical force of the Joliet Steel
Company have been laid off. The works are now
completely idle, sofar rs the steel company is
concerned. Official information is to the effect
that the mills will not be put in operation before
April 1.
The scarlet fever is raging in Roodhouse to
such an extent that all the SCHOOLS have been
closed. and all public meetings. including
churches, amusements, etc. have been forbid
den. Every house IN which scarlet fever exists
is posted and quarantlued.
The grand jury ut Ottawa has returned four in
dictments against the JacksoDs-three sons and
the old condemnation epbezzlement as pro-
prietors of the Seneca Bank, which recently
failed under suspicion of crook dness. On
S. turday night judgments were entered up
against them III the Circuit Court in about eighty
suits, amounting to $4,000
The attendance during the last term at the
Stale Normal University was unusually large
in all departments, II the normal department
there were: Ladies, 2e4; gentlemen, DC; total,
$50. High school department: Ladies, 81; gem
tlemen, 66;. total, lo5. Grammar school de-
partmeut: Ladies'. 81: gentlemen, 70; total 1919.
Primary department.: Girls. "A; bows. %; total,
Sc. The total enrolment is $50.