The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-16

Vista, No. 445, S.; Kosciusko, No. 81, Warsaw,
3d. Charity, No. 80, Perrysville, $40; Coatsville,
No 357, .$l0 members No. 1857, personal, $40;
Boswell, No. 463, $l0 Dunreith, No. BAL, $l0
Lexington, No. 405, $16 Mozart Lodge, No 531,
city, $40: Monticello No. 1O7, So; Prairie, No.
APO, Shelburn, S.; Eel River, No. All, Logans-
port S.; David G. Kern, of No. Ill, s..
A subscription of $50 was received by tele-
graph from the Lodge at Mount Vernon.
The relief expedition down the Ohio river
will start from Madison this evening. Eight car
loads of provisions were forwarded to Madison
last evening and the work of loading the boat
will begin this morning. The cargo of supplies
dition to this large stock of clothing and bed
ding will be taken. Six hundred
bed comforts and blankets were pur-
chased yesterday. The equipment of
the expedition is as complete as it can be made,
and it is calculated that the stock Of supplies
will be sufficient to give rations for ten days to
every destitute person along the river. At Ev-
ansville an additional supply will be taken on
board for points below there. The steamer
THE City Of Frankfort was chartered at Cincin
natl yesterday by Mr.. Malott for the expedi-
ton, and it will reach Madison this morn
ing A. d. Lynch, president OF the Board OF
Trade, and Worth Merritt went to Madison last
evening to make arrangements for the loading of
the boat. The party which will make the trip
on the steamer leaves this city this morning, and
will consist of V. T. Malott, J. A. Closer, w. P.
Gallup, Colonel Eli Lilly Harry Adams
Mayor McMaster, DR.. e. S. Elder,
/. s. Gordon, Worth Merritt and a representa-
tive of the Journal. Dan NJ Ransdell and r.
O. Hawkins brought the steamer down from
Cincinnati yesterday. Governor Porter and
Albert e. Fletcher will join the party at Jeffer-
sonville on Monday morning N. S. Byram, the
chairman of the committee, will attend to the
relief work here during the first of next week,
but will join the expedition at Evansville; and
will go down to Shawneetown. 1t is expected
that the boat will arrive at Evansville on
Wednesday or Thursday.
Rev. DOddridge, pastor of Fletcherplace NJ
E. Church, will preach on 1.-THE Flood to-nor
row morning.
College Corner, O., yesterday sent three bar
rels and one box of provisions to the relief com
mittee.
Collections for the relief fund were taken up
in the public schools of the city yesterday, but
as the contributions have not all been re
ceived, the report will not be made until next
week.
AS most of the members of the relief com
mite will leave for Madison this morning to
start on the expedition down the river, no meeting
will be held, except the one on Change at noon
to-day.
Horterse Pugh, a child of sixyears, yesterday
gave the relief committee all the money she had
accumulated in her little savings bank, amount
ing to a dollar.
The c.. H & L will be able to enter Cincin-
natl by Monday, when excursion will be run
from this city, under the auspices of Marion
Council No. 16, o. c. F.
A railway excursion to Madison. from Indian
apolis and intermediate points, under the aus
pices of the When clothing store-the entire pro
ceeds less the cost of the train TO be devoted to
morning and return the same evening at $50
o'clock