The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-15
Yesterdays Proceedings of the Indiana
Yearly Meeting of Friends, in Ses-
sion at Plainfield.
Murderous Assault on a Fort Wayne
Woman with a Flatiron.
Mormon Elders Tarred and Feathered-
Shocking Case of Infanticide at Shell
byville, nI.--Minor Notes.


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MUNc1E, Sept 14.-The ast-bound Decline
express train on last Monday night carried
and brought to this city package said to
contain SIS, 900 in currency. The package ar
rived and was received all right by Mr. Aus
tin Case, night-baggageman at the depot. He
took it and deposited it in a small safe which
is kept in the baggage-room for that purpose.
This safe he locked, and thought no more Of
his charge, supposing it safe. The next
morning he went to get the package
in order to forward it to its des-
tinatlon, Frankfort, Ind, and found
the baggage-room door open lit having also
been locked the night beforel the safe
door unlocked and standing wide open,
with the S., 900 package gone. There is no
clew to the parties who committed the rob
berry, and it is as yet entirely shrouded in
mystery. The safe in which the money was
placed is one of the old kind, locked with a
key, having no combination lock, and there
fore very insecure. The matter was kept
very quiet until last evening, in order to
give the detectives several of whom are now
in the city, chance to work up the case
before it became generally known.
This is the third $1,000 package
that has been taken from the
United States Express Company at this place
within the last three years. 1t is thought
that somebody has counterfeited key to
both the baggage-room and the safe door,
and by the use of these is making himself
rich. The men connected with the Office
here are very reticent and express no opin-
ions as to the matter. They will not so
much as tell who sent the package or to
whom it was directed at Frankfort. The
fact that the robbery is so often repeated
leads to the belief that there is something
like an organized band along the line, whose
business it is to commit such acts.
Western Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PLAINFIELD, Sept 14.-Western Indiana
Yearly Meeting met at o'clock for religious
worship. Prayer was offered, followed by an
earnest exhortation by Rev. J. H. Douglass
of Ohio who labored earnestly to impress
upon the members of the meeting the great
religious responsibility resting upon them.
Promptly at o'clock the first session of
the twenty-fifth yearly meeting convened
the men and women sitting in separate meet
ings. The meeting was opened by prayer,
asking divine blessing to rest upon the meet
ing throughout the week. Reports were re-
ceived from the different quarterly meetings
showing all the delegates present except H.
Reports were also received showing the
care-takers of yearly meeting nearly all pres
ent
Credentials of visiting members were then
received and accepted, as follows: Isaac
Sharp, England; Levi Cox, of North Caro-
lima; Sallie Forshee, of North Carolina David
B. Upgraft, of Ohio; ]. H. Douglass, of Ohio;
Seth c. and Hulda Reese, of Indiana; Edward
Hadley, of Iowa; Amos Davis, of Iowa; John
H. Hadley, of Iowa; Joel H. Kenworthy,
of Kansas; Thomas HI. Hill, of Kansas.
Following was the appointment of the diff
ferent committees necessary to the work of
the meeting.
The meeting here listened to the reading of
the general epistle from the London Yearly
Meeting, sending words of greeting and ad-
vice to their brethren in America.
The afternoon session convened at 1:30
o'clock. Opened with devotional services.
Amos Doane was appointed clerk, with
Hiram Hadley and Simon Hadley as his as
sistants. The appointments were unani-
mOuSly COnCurreQ IN DV Cne meeting.
The annual report of the Bible-schools
committee was presented, and shows the
schools in a prosperous condition. The re-
port shows the following interesting points:
Number of schools, 70; number enrolled,
6528; average attendance, 3,4S9; not attend
ing, 3170; number of teachers "a; number of
Sabbath school conferences, "a; number of
training classes, 1; number of mission schools,
q number of libraries, 15 number of vol
umes, 1,5l2; amount of money raised by the
Sabbath schools, 81, 1885, 80. An interesting
discussion took place as to the reliability of
the above statistical report, a number claim
ing it did great I'M Justice to the church.
Prof. Dennis, of Bloomingdale Academy, fol-
lowed with an interesting talk on the Sab
bath-school of the future.
Credentials were read for the following
additional ministers from a distance; Mar
tina E. Newly, Ohio; Rachael S. Daily, Kan
sas; lydia G. Miles, Doublin; Ann TAYLOR,
Ohio; Malissa NJ. Hill, Missouri; Martha S.
Maddox. Ohio; Esther HAT, Iowa; Lydia
Wheeler Kansas.
Meeting listened to reading of annual
epistle from Ireland Yearly Meeting, sending
words of greeting
Meeting adjourned at o'clock.
AS will be remembered, there were, few
years since, some very serious dissen sons in
the society, growing out of alleged infrac-
tions of the discipline, and departures from
the established modes of worship, finally
ending in the division Of the Western Year
ly Meeting and the transaction of their bus
mess separate. The ''old style, "or orthodox,
Friends werein the minority, but, however,
still maintain their organization, and are
holding their yearly meeting at Sugar Grove
Church, two miles from this place.
Mormon Elders Tarred and Feathered.
BRooKvILLE, Sept 4.-For several weeks
past a couple of Mormon elders have been
prowling around in different parts of this
county, preaching their creed wherever they
could secure the use of church or school
house. They spent considerable time in the
neighborhood of Laurel, and were given ac-
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