The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-24
Minor Notes.


Minor Notes.
Vevay is to have chair and crib factory.
Hegewald & Co. are erecting large boiler and
sheetron works at New Albany.
A Charlottesville man is serving sizty-days
term in jail for the theft of a ham.
The Aurora Distilling Company shipped thirty
carloads of beef cattle to the New York market
Monday.
The business house of H. Ford, vevay. with
contents was destroyed by fire. Loss, s., 800;
insurance, ST, 600.
Mrs. lack Williams of Charlottesville, has a
cow from which she claims to make fifteen
pounds of butter week.
DR.. Levi, of Georgetown, who was injured by
being thrown from his buggy is IN dangerous
condition, and will probably die.
Prof A. G. Goodwin, formerly of Clark
county. has been reelected superintendent of
the public schools at Owensboro, Ky.
Ben Young stone cutter residing at Charles
town, has been adiudeed insane by lunacy
commission and sent to the State Insane Asylum.
Edward Fitzpatrick, of Jeffersonville, Indiana
correspondent of the Louisville Courier Journal,
will be one of Collector Hanlon's chief deputies.
j. H. Wilcox, of Charlottesville, has sold his
pacing horse, Billy F., to Pittsburg man for
$1,000. This horse took second money at Chica-
60 last week.
The Daily Business, at Seymour. which sus
pended two weeks ago, has been revived by its
publisher, l.. NJ Boland, in reduced size, as a
one-cent paper.
Mrs N. Field, the venerable wife of DR.. N.
Field. is dangerously i'll. Mrs Field is nearly
eighty years of age, and has resided in Jefferson
vile nearly fifty two years.
Nora Davis, colored girl eighteen years old,
residing the government depot at jefferson
vile, died on Sunday from strNehnine admins
tered by herself on Saturday.
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Santa Fe, Mo-, and Miss Nettie Baxter. daugh-
ter Of DIR. }. w. Baxter, of Vevay, were mar
ried on Saturday, and left for Sante Fe, their
future home.
William Scott, d prominent farmer near
Kingston, was buried yesterday, having died
after a severe struggle with cancer on the
neck superinduced by a gun shot wound received
IN the army.
Near Sardinia, Mrs Rachel Eddleman, sixty
two years old, while milking her COW, was kicked
by mare that was defending her colt from an
attack by the cow. Her injuries were so severe
that she died yesterday.
Prof. John Weathers, superintendent of the
Cannelton public schools, has notified the school
authorities at New Albany that he cannot sccept
the position of principal in the latter city, to
which he has been elected
John Cash. the Owensville car-driver who
accidentally shot and killed Edward Gordon last
Friday night, was arraigned yesterday morning
was readily furnished.
The steamer j. r. Grace. owned by the Todd
Bros, of Vevay, was destroyed by fire while
lying at the Vevay wharf. Cause OF fire not
known She was used for tow boat, and was
valued at 81, 900; insured for s.. 500.
There is loud cry at Lafayette against the
water company Of that city, the charge being
made that the vile DRAWINGS of the old Erie
canal ditch are given tn consumers instead of the
pure pellueid fluid Of the Wabash
The wife and children of O. p Schriver. a
prominent merchant of Greensburg. were visit
ing friends at Evansville when their bright little
boy. four and a-half years old, died from
diphtheria. The burial took place at Greensburg
yesterday.
Jonathan Tichenor, of Upton, twenty five
years old. has been declared insane. His lunacv
is believed to have been occasoned by religious
excitement He is one of Mrs. Woodworths
converts. and was in the trance state several
times during her meeting at that place.
William Jackson, farmer about ffiy-fve
years old. was blowing on his farm, five miles
south of Greensburg, on Saturday when the
pillow struck obstruction. The handle struck
jackson in the abdomen, injuring him seriously.
The horse then became unruy and trod upon
him. The combined injuries caused his death
Light before last.
The wheat harvest has begun On White river
bottoms, Knox county. On the uplands the
cutting will not begin for several DAYS On the
bottom lands there are some good fields of
wheat. Generally the prospect is encouraging
on uplands. with an occasional exception. Alto
gether there will probably be half crop in
Daviess and Knox counties Corn is growing
finely. though the cultivation has been some
what retarded by recent rains. The acreage Is
large
Joseph Pfeffer, of Evansville, employed at
Herrman's furniture factory. committed suicide
yesterday morning by hanging. He was found
in clubhouse with rope around his neck,
and in half recumbent position, having fallen
forward and died of strangulaton. He was
fortyfour years old. and leaves a widow and
eight children He served through the war as
private in the Forty Indiana His self
destruction was due to mental depression. super
induced by excessive drink.
1t is believed that the dead body found near
Shoals is that of the notorious Robert Reeves,
the eldest of the three desperadoes and counter
ieiters bearing tina. name, who have been the
terrors OF Martin and Dubois counties. 1t is
believed to be that of Reeves, as there is a gun
shot wound on the calf of the right leg below the
knee, received while trying to escape the author
tiles at Vincennes, and also the marks Of ak
onlthe toes of the right foot His bearing such
marks citizens remembered; and to show that