The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-14
Minor Notes.

David Christopher. of Elkhart, died on Friday
night of lockjaw, caused by a cut on his foot.
Goshen is now going to have the electric light,
the stock for that purpose having been raised.
Miss Belle Hoffstadt had a thigh broken and
Frank Sehlentz a leg broken, while c~oasting at
Madison on Saturday. s"
The Blocks, charged with murder. have been
refused release on bail under a writ of habeas
corpus, and remanded to jail at Greensburg.
An incendiary fire destroyed the barn of Mr..
Louis COrnet, at Mud Lick, jefferson county.
Four cows, one hog and two crops of hay were
consumed No insurance.
YomGRhyons, of Greensburg, who eloped with
Miss Lawrence. of Grant county, Kentucky, was
arrested at Charleston, H., and returned to
Greensburg. The young wife was taken home.
A son of Hugh Lee, of Madison, while hunting,
stepped upon the ice and fell. His gun was dis
charged, the charge entered the right thigh, lac
Grating the flesh III such a manner that amputa-
ton Is necessary.
The order of the Sisters of ST. Francis,
Terre Haute, has sent to the mother house, in
Germany, for twelve or fifteen additional sisters
of the order to come to St. Anthonys Hospital, in
that city. They will arrive in about two months.
The board of directors of the Indiana Prison
South have let out a contract for a large amount
OF prison labor, Brown 81 Bryan, boot and shoe
dealers, of st. Louis, getting 175 conviets-ffty
at 60 cents per day, seventy-fve at 50 cents per
day, and fifty at 81 cents per day.
Isaac Maddy, aged thirty-one, was buried at
Middletown on Friday. The cause of his death
was Addison's disease, so rare that but few in
stances of the same are on record. Five months
since he began to turn black, and became as
dark as any negro of that peculiar color. The
change was the wonder of the community and
the puzzle of physicians. 20 h 81
Jacob Creeelius has been sentenced by the New
Albany District Court to one years imprison-
ment for counterfeiting Crecelius is a man
over sixty years Of age. He owns a number of
farms in Crawford county and several mills. On
his resident farm Thomas Conner and his gang
were engaged in counterfeiting. and old man Gre
celius was one of the dealers in the bogus stuff.
Middlebury is all excitement, caused by the
acquittal of Loomis,, who killed Stauffer with "a
club in that village last August. They gave him
notice to leave the town, or they would take the
matter in their own hands. Instead he attacked
Q. II. Schrock with a revolver, which failed to
explode, aud Schrock escaped. A hunt was at
once instituted for LOOMS, but he had escaped
The Circuit Court of Connersville has begun
trial on the claim of nearly $4,000 of Julia
A. Mason against the estate of the late James
Mason, of Posey township. The case is peculiar
in the respect that it is the claim of a widow for
wages for working for her husband. The
years ago, after entering into an ante
nuptial contract by which the woman
relinquished her marital property rights, and
agreed to accept wages instead. She cared for
the decedent through sickness and age for eleven
years, until his death, and now claims the
amount mentioned. The heirs. who are children
by a former wife of the deceased. have made
her an offer of S., 900, which she declines to
accept; hence the trial.