The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-30
Minor Notes,

The price paid for Mrs. Cougars Herald is
| given as 81, 900.
twenty-five thousand tons of ice will be
packed at Warsaw this winter.
Mrs. H, q. Leonard, wife Of the late Green
back Anti-monopolst candidate for Governor,
oled at her residence at Logansport on Sunday.
l.. Mont, of Terre Haute saloon-keeper, was
closed yesterday by attachments. J. W. Wright,
confectioner and toys, was also closed on an at
tachment for 81, 100.
a man who refuses to give his name has been
taken to the Tippecanoe county poor-house. He
was found near the battle-ground, with both
feet frozen, and will probably die.
Jacob Scheurer wiping out locomotive boil
er at Evansville, from which he supposed all the
steam to have been let off, loosened the FIRE
plug too far, and an explosion followed He
was so badly scalded that he can not survive
Harvey A. Scribner, who has been cashier and
virtual manager of the affairs of the New Albany
National Bank for twenty years past, will retire
from the position Jan. /, to give place to Merrill
A Weir, who has purchased large interest in
the bank
DR.. Washburn, of Lafayette, has sued the Big
Four road for 100000. He narrates that during
the convention times he boarded train to ride
to Chicago, and, not being furnished seat was
knocked about in the baggage car, and received
injuries resulting in abscess
Francis R. Spalt .of Minneapolis, Mimi, for
merly proprietor of restaurant at Andrews
mas recovered u JuuglnenG OF So0U from Une How
ard insurance Company, of Toledo, Spalts res
idence burned down, two years ago, and on some
techncality the company resisted payment of
| the loss
Adam GLASGOW of Jonesville, who has been
drawing pension Of $72 a month since the close
of the war, amounting in all to about ST., 2S0,
has just had the same stopped it having been
discovered that his blindness, for which pension
was granted, was of date prior to the beginning
of the war
The Hunting Association, of New Albany, is
preparing to oppose the proposition urged by
some parties to enact a law prohibiting the
shooting of quail for three years. The oppo-
nents say there are more quails in the State
than ever known before, andithereis no necessity
for such law
At Crothersville fight took place between
George McCasland and Mr.. Rodenburg over
an old feud. A Mr.. Brown, an innocent party
in the trouble, tried to separate the eombatants
A general fight was the result, and in it Brown
shot McCasland in the abdomen, from the effects
of which he is not expected to recover.
South Bend Register: 'There is a family of
five persons, consisting of father, step mother
and three children living in the upper story of
business block in a room twelve by twenty feet
1t is dark room, with ventilation except the
door, and even the trausom over that is boarded
up. The occupants of the room depend entirely
on artificial light"
H r. Lowe &c Co., the contractors who built
the Toledo, Cincinnati and ST. Louis Narrow
gauge railroad, have filed suit against $50 citi-
zens of Marion to recover $25, 900, which as in
dividuals they pledged to pay as bonus to Sc
cure the road. Nearly every business and pro
fessional man in the place is made defendant
and the case will be one of the most hotly CON
tested legal contests in the States history