The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-23
Minor Notes.

Mrs. Downey, wife of Harry H Downey, n
prominent Sheleyvile attorney, died at Rising
Sun, on Saturday.
The various lodges of Odd-fellows of Rising
Sun will celebrate the anniversary of the order
on the Goth instant
A colored man. at New Albany, died on Friday
of locBjaw, caused by weed accidentally pierre
ing the skin on his hand.
Dick Stevenson, the Warren county murderer,
is Seventy-five years old and partially demented.
His victim was nearly ninety.
DR.. Freeman, of Camden, Jay county, commit
ted suicide Friday by taking morphine.
Financial troubles are said to be the cause.
Only ninety-six reasons assigned by the
attorneys for the defense in the Cougar andler
case why their client should be granted new
trial.
DR.. william Freeman, during the war surgeon
Of the Fifty SECOND Indiana infantry and Seventh
Indiana cavalry, died suddenly, "a few days ago,
at Camden.
Mace Bishop, better known as Jones colored
boy, fell out OF cart at Vncennes, on Saturday,
and it ran over him. breaking his neck. He had
been drinking.
A little son of George Scholar, of sellersburg,
| was killed by the accidental discharge of gun
in the hands of playmate, Friday, while
preparing to go hunting.
A South Bend man has four perfectly formed
| kittens, except that they Joined one to an
other by band of flesh on the side near the
| hips. 30 says the Tribune.
| In his report for the three months up to April
l, 1888, DR. ]. r. Grape, secretary in Vigo cOun-
/
marriages, 100 births and 125 deaths.
AT New Castle at the Republican nominating
election, on Saturday. the following municipal
| ticket was chosen: Clerk, B. +. Putnam; marshal
A. W. Coffin; treasurer, A. W. Lennard.
Henan Negly, aged twenty-five, of Millersvile,
took dose OF morphine on Friday afternoon be-
cause his mother loaned his horse to his brother
against his Will. stomach pump saved his life
The report circulated few weeks ago that
Mason Long, the well-known temperance lee
turer, bad been drowned in the Ohio river, is un-
true. mrs. Long has been much annoyed by
frequent letters of inquiry and oondolenee.
John Barley, farmer, aged forty years,
hanged himself at Lafay ette, aturday. He
was dead when found. He was subject fits
and leaving his team in the field he went to lhe
barn, and placing rope around his neck, jumped
from wagon.
Senator James H Willard, of Bedford, has filed
suit in the Circuit Court against the Howard Aid
and Endowment Association, of Indtanap polls,
a policy to him and has declined to refund money
paid when the fraud was brought to the notice
of the company.
The story telegraphed from Madison to the
effect that q man had killed his wife mt Utica on
Friday yard-wide lie. Some Mulhatten who
went up from Utica TO Madison on the mail boat
told the story as a Joke. The man alleged to
esteemed citizen
On Friday night, cracksmen blew open the
vault and outside safe door in the Warren county
treasurer's office, at WiBmsport, but failed to
get into the mOney-drawer, containing several
thousand dollars. The lock was badly damaged.
The burglars obtained only n small amount of
money, which was in one of the outer eomnar TT
receipts and notes were destroyed by the ex-
pl OSiOn.