The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-18

Daniel Gift, of Huntington, has been arrested,
charged with defraudlng a news company OF
$3.50.
Tnomas Robinson, a c~oal-miDer, was killed by
a Vandalla freight train on Sunday morning,
near Brazil
The colored citizens of Lafayette are making
arrangements 10 celebrate Email cipation Day
next Saturday.
The saw. mill of 8. F. Robinson, at Larwill.
was burned on Sunday, involving a loss of
Sc, 500; no insurance.
union at West Lebanon, Warren county, on the
18th, 10th ana 20tn of September.
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor Bard, early and honored
citizens Of Carroll county, celebrated their
golden wedding at Bringhurst, on Saturday.
The houses of william Clark and Wesley Man
Nv, OF Nashville, we're robbed, on Saturday, of
clothing and silverware of the value Of $3.50.
The directors of the Tippecanoe County Fair
AS association have decided to increase their capt.
tai stock SO, 00o-maR1ng the capital $4,000 in
all.
Mrs. Pauline Richards, who was beaten on the
head with a f1at-irOn by her ex-husband at Fort
Wayne, on Thursday night last, is now conscious
most of the time and may recover.
Differences among the membership of the
Nlnuh-street Nj. L. Church, Lafayette, are likely
to result in the secession of a portion of the con-
gregation and the formation of a new church.
Mrs. schaeter, the victim of Saturday nights
tragedy at Evansville, died on sunday evening,
and her husband has been held for murder.
Scheutler, the policeman implicated, has beer
suspended.
The furniture and carpet house of James H. &
W: Il ', Ward r. N Of R haisSettTrib The Mas iissi mads a an assig 70
S47,180.7l, while the assets are estimated at
$50, 130,42.
The residence of James r. White, r farmer
living near Degonia Springs. east of Boonville,
was entered during the absence of the family,
on Saturday, and robbed or a large sum of
money, among which were some curious old
gold coins which had been in the family for years.
Indiana fishermen will be interested in know
ing that the Ouvier Club, of Cincinnati. will at
any time pay 800 to the person catching. with
hook as ana co lane J n = 1 Mart. Of pass Is Telsn1ng rs seven
ly came within half a pound OF securing the
prize.
Thirty-two c~onvicts were discharged from the
State Prison North during the ;1onth of August,
and twenty-eight more Will be discharged dur
ing the present month. Each discharged prisi
oner Is paid SO gate money" upon his release.
This sum is to supply temporary wants until en-
plOyInenti Ia obtained.
Madison Courier: Professor Edwin R. Lewis
has left In our Office for exhibition during few
DAYS specimens of fossil fish from the mountains
of Lebanon, Syria. They are taken from cre-
taceons rocks, a formation not so old as the
Silurian which prevails In this locality These
specimens are very rare, and we advise all in
terested in geology to come aud xalnin them.
A horrible crime came to light In Lafayette on
Saturday; The parents OF Jennie Aiting, an
examination, when it was found she was suffer-
ing from q loathsOme disease. Inquiry devel-
Oped the fact that about ten days slncG the child,
while at play III an isolated place, had been
seIzed by a tramp and a naneless outrage per-
p~etrated. The villain escaped and has not yet
been arrested.
In the spring of 1882, George NJ. Blackstock,
of the Little Wea, constructed an artificial FISH
pond and stocked it with carp two inches in
length. Seventeen months later he took enc out,
and 1t weighed five and ~ half pounds and meas
ured twenty inches in length. Mr.. Blackst0ck
SAYS that the meat was solid and mild favored,
something Detw cen our native black bass and a
butfalo--not so coarse as the latter, nor yet so
fine as the bass. The pond occupies about one
third of an acre, and Mr.. Blaekstock is of the
opinion that il contains at the present time
about 900 of the carp, OF this and last years
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