The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-12
Minor NOtas.

Anderson Wiley, a prominent citizen of Col
tax, was killed on Tuesday morning by beng
run over by the ears. He attempted to cross the
track with a team.
Asa Gong, u wealthy farmer, living near Ell
wood, recently returned from the insane
asylum as cured, has again became derangcd and
returned to the asylum.
Elder Puette, of the Christian Church at
Shelbyville, charged with improper conduct with
a servant girl. has rendered his resignation, and
proposes to clear himself in a suit at law.
Several pieces of quartz, containing gold, have
been found along the banks of Silver creek,
Clarke county, recently, and there is considera-
bic excitement among the people living in that
neighborhood.
George f. Deming, Of New Albany, a young
man who has been on a protracted drunk, at
tempted suicide on Tuesday by cutting his
throat. The wound is serious but not neces-
sarily dangerous unless pneumonia sets in.
Noah TooIe, of Connersville, went to Brook
Vile, on Monday, to see his parents, and while
there was seized with a singular hallucination,
and tried to kill all the members of the family
who approached him. He was sent to the Hos
pital for the Insane.
During the storm on Monday, a mule on the
farm of Fletcher Robinson, near Utica, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed. On
another farm in the same neighborhood a hen
and a number of chickens were struck by the
electric fluid, and instantly killed.
NJ. D. Tackett, prosecutor of the Rush and
Decatur judicial circuit, has been presented, by
citizens of Rushyille, with a handsome gold
watch, as a testimonial of their esteem, and,
more especially, for the tact and energy he dis
played in the prosecution Of Jacob and Elsie
Block.
On Monday night, Mrs. Charles Walker, at
Pendlefon, while cooking supper beside a hot
stove, had her clothing set on fire by a coal from
sne CRATE. An engineer on the Decline noticed
her as she rushed from the house enveloped in
flames, and dashed water over the sbriekine
woman until the flames were eXtinguished. Mrs
Walker is seriously, and, perhaps, fatally
burned.
The last will of the late Harriet Judah. Of
Vincennes, has been probated. All of her vast
esatte is equally divided among her three sons
John NJ. Judah, indianapolis; Noble B. Judah
Chicago, and Sam b. Judah, of Vincennes: hel
daughter, Mrs. Alice Clarke, and the children OF
the late General Lac Noble. The latter will re
reive a fifth, which would have been the share
of their late mother. The estate is worth $3.50,
600 at least
The trial of John c. Cheesman, who shot an6
instantly killed Charles Harris at Walnut, il
Marshall county, on March 16, 1884, and whC
was indicted for murder in the first degree. was
called on Tuesday. There are eighty witnesses
summoned in the case. The defendant entered
was also shot by Cheesman and reported dead
has recovered, and will appear as a witness fol-
the State in the case.
The leaves and branches of the maple trees il
the neighbOrhood of Shelbyville are covered
almost entirely with what, on first sight, appears
to be a sort of fungus, but which, on a closer
examination, proves to be a living insect. Thu
animals have a peculiar attraction for bees
which swarm around them necessarily. The