The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-20

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Il. G. Mcdonnell, carpet dealer, Fort Wayne,
has assigned; liabilities, 1913, 600.
Oscar Woods, of Kingston. is in jail at Green
field for shooting Fletcher Grant. The wound
is not serious.
A the Knox county fair grounds, on Saturday,
Ephram Alton stabbed his younger brother,
Henry, in the breast, inflicting probably a fatal
wound.
j. H. Cain, on Friday, shot and killed a fine
specimen of the bald eagle at -Four mile Spring,
near Jacksonville. The bird measured five feet
four inches from tip to tip Of wings. The spec
linen is to be stuffed.
The Knox county fair, just closed, has been a
great success. j. W. Eek, a ~bieyclist, in a race
against d t~rotting horse, lost, the horse making
five miles in 2324 On a firm track the wheel
man would have beaten.
The Lafayette Journal has passed into the
hands of w. J. Florence, George S. Bonnell and
Frank w. Gregory. Mr., Florence will have
principal control, Mr., Bonnell, business manager
and Mr.. Gregory, managing editor.
The attempted train wrecking at Silver Creek
bridge. near New Albany, on Thursday night, is
being investigated. 1t is the the opinion that
the work was done by a railroader, who knew all
about throwing a train from the track.
The excitement in the neighborhood of Union
vile continues without abatement. Miller and
the Eastridges have in the past three or four
weeks committed many burglaries, aggregating
in greenfield township alone over $1,000.
Frank Stout, a we'll connected young farmer
Of Carroll county, has been placed in Jail at Del
phi on a charge of horse stealing, the horse hav-
ing been taken during the Voorhees, rally on the
18th. II is hoped there is some mistake in the
charge.
William Cushman, a farmer just married a
few weeks since, living in the eastern part of
Allan county, was killed, on Thursday light, by
falling through a hole in the barn floor, striking on
his head and shoulders. He went up to throw
down hay for the horses after dark, and accident
ally stepped into a hole in the floor.
Daniel Richardson, a farmer living near Troy,
left home about two weeks ago, having about $40
in his possession. He intended to borrow $50 more
at Troy, with which to buy some horses. He was
disappointed in getting the money, and on his
return home stopped at q saloon three miles back
of Reno. While there he boosted of and showed
the money. He drank heavily before he left.
Since that time he has not been heard from until
this morning, when he was found three miles
from home with a bullet-hole in his breast and
his head crushed in. Suspicion rests upon two
sharpers, cattle drovers, who were in the saloon
and left shortly after Richardson.
Henry Easteridge, his son, Hiram Easteridge,
and his daughter, Mrs. Miller, shot by an Or
ange county mob at Uniontown, that county, last
Saturday night, are all reported dead. Enoeh
and Elijah Easteridge and James Miller, the lat
ter the husband of the women that was
shot, and all of them noted desperadoes, are
still at large, though Miller and Elijah Easter
idge are wounded. Jesse Mayfield, a highly re-
spected farmer, who went out on Sunday to aid
in the search for the two Easteridge boys and
Miller. has not since been seen or heard from.
1t is supposed he came upon the desperadoes in
the woods, and was murdered by them and his
body Secreted.