The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
From Exchanges and Correspondents.


From Exchanges and Correspondents.
Hon Horace Biddle is suffering from erysip-
DePauw College now has nearly 100 regular
pupils
The ice extends fifteen miles into the lake from
Michigan City.
The coal miners at shelburn are on a strike for
~ per cent. increase.
Porter county will have a new courthouse, to
cost 100000 when completed.
The county treasurer has discovered vein of
coal on his farm near Vincennes
The postoifice at North Manchester has been
promoted from fourth to a third class office.
John Foster, aged ninety years, and soldier
OF the war OF 1912, died near Columbus on Fri
day.
More farm dwellings will be built in Clinton
county the coming year than any one previous
year.
The Lawrenceburg Presbyterian Church wakes
up the sinners with new bell weighing 835
pounds
The Hancock Jeffersonian has chang ed hands,
the purchaser.
The Terre Haute Daily Democrat has sus-
pended publication until after the spring NOM
mating convention.
Fairbanks & Duenweg, of Terre Haute made
shipment of 400 barrels OF spirits, on Friday,
to Marseilles, France.
The Jeffersonviile Plateglass Company has
capacity for the manufacture of 1000 square
feet of Llste-glass per day.
GrantsDurg. Crawford county, will set her
claim forth before the county commissioners of
that county for the county seat,
., The Lafayette Paper Company has bought the
Telford pork house of c. B. Robertson and W. j.
Ball, for which it pays 100000.
Mr.. Wilson Hisey, an old and widely known
citizen OF Harrison county, has been declared in
sane, and was on Friday taken to the Insane
Asylum.
The Edwardsport mines, which have been op-
Grated Tor number OF years, supplying most of
the coal used by the l. & v. railroad, are nearly
exhausted.
Mrs. Eli Parrett aged sixty years Iof Parrett's
Crossing, CLARK county, was found hanging in
the tay-mow Friday afternoon No cause is
assigned for the suicide.
Bishop Bowman, Dr. Alexander Martin and
Rev. W. Mckay Hester conducted meetings at
Evansville Yesterday in the interest of Asbury
University, Greencastle.
The McKeen Cadets, of Terre Haute have de-
clued to sue the committee of the Lafayette re-
union held in October, 1881, for prize of $500,
alleged to have been won by the cadets.
William Gaunt, a colored man employed as a
servant at Terre Haute, was arrested Friday
evening on suspicion of being the perpetrator of
murder at Lawrenceburg, KY, several months
ago
young man named Anson Hendrick was
drowned on Friday in White river, near Martins
vile. While endeavoring to save some hogs the
boat which he was in eapslzed, and both he and
The craft went under the ice.
The city council of Peru voted material aid to
persons lett destitute by the recent flood. over
thlrty families are substantially without fuel OF
FOOD. Many cattle have perished and the loss in
Miami county will exceed $4,000
The Columbus Republican has met with that
appreciation which has resulted in a warranted
enlargement. 1t has made Its own Success and
presents an appearance creditable to its mana
gers and TO the city OF publication.
Rev. Samuel Heiss, an old and respected cti-
zen, formerly a minister Of the Evangelical
Church at Elkhart, died on Friday morning from
the effects of fall received a few DAYS since.
He was nearly eighty years old and well known
throughout the State.
If the reports coming in from all parts of South-
ern Indiana are to be relied upon, the growing
wheat crop has been most seriously damaged by
''wlnter-klling." Many farmers claim that the
growing grain has been SO severely injured that
they will be satisfied If half crop is secured at
the harvest Of 1888
Frank Mead, the convict who escaped from the
southern Prison several weeks ago, was cap
tured at Vernon, his old home. When he ar
rived at Vernon his feet were badly frozen, and
he made himself known in order to get warm.
One of his feet badly frozen that ampu-
thtion will be necessary.
There are forty acres OF tiilable land belonging
to the state near the penitentiary, north, at
raised upon these grounds 800 bushels OF pota-
Toes, $50 bushels of tomatoes, $50 bushels of
radfshes, LOG bushels of beets. 10000 heads of
cabbage and forty bushels of cueumbers.
ILLINOIS.
Illinois in 1882 produced 52,3o2,90O bushels
of wheat.
Some of the land about vermilion, recently
has been selling for $50 and SIS per acre.
The Butchers union, at Bloomington. have
advanced the price of beef gig cents per pound
Illinois has 1,7S5 lunatics in the four State
asylnms, 1882 in the county almshouses and
1917 under private treatment.
Including the estimated loss by Thursdays
fire, insurance companies have paid over $780,
600 in insurance losses in Quincy since Decem-
Der 1.
A disease which puzzles the doctors and every
body else, ia prevailing quite generally among
the children OF Bloomington. 1t at first appears
like measles, scarlet fever chickenpox. A
high fever accompanies it, but soon passes of.
Illinois now has at Washington the acting
Vice-president, the Secretary of War, the Assist
ant Secretary Of the interior, the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, the director of the mint,
the Public Printer, and the chief examiner of
patents.
Decatur charges $500 for license and has
twenty-ene saloons. Bloomington 5000 and
thirty -thFee saloons Rockford 1920 and twenty
two saloons Paris $500 and six saloons. Elgin
$500 and fifteen saloons. Danvile $500 and