The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-21

the entire party and then followed her wayward
husband all over town trying to get him to 60
home.
The November number of the Wabash, pub
ished by the literary societies of Wabash
College, came out yesterday, and is creditable
magazine in every particular.
Garfield, in Montgomery county has a man
who raised turnip thirty-one inches in diam
eter aud weighing eight pounds; and man who
has a corn-stak seventeen feet high
A survey and location of the Huntingburg,
Tell City 81 Cannelton railroad will be made dur
ing the coming month, and contracts and work
will be let on the road in February next
The store of Sterstetter & Ramsey, at Ramsey
station. was destroyed by fire. together with the
agricultural Implements furniture and post
Office, which in the building, involving a
loss of fully $500
Frank Edmonson, living three miles south of
Clayton, died on Thursday of paralysis of the
stomach; aged eighty four. The deceased was a
very wealthy farmer and one of the pioneers of
Hendricks county.
The barn of John Schaefer, at GAINESVILLE,
Harrison county, was destroyed by fire. Two
horses and n colt, several cows, large lot of
grain, hay and farming implements were con-
sumed, involving loss of about 5000, with no
insurance.
AT public meeting of the G. A. R., of South
Bend, last evening" ex-Department Commander
Edwin Near was presented by the department
sentation speech was made by General Carna
han, of Indianapolis.
A short time ago farmer living near New
Washington stole seven hogs from another farm
er living in the neghborhood. lie was sus
pected at once, and delegation of farmers
waited upon him and found the hogs in his pos
session, cut up for winter use He paid the
owner $35 for them.
Bradley Winsted living one mile east of Clay
ton, was gathering corn one day this week, when
his team of horses became frightened and ran
away. In attempting to stop them, he STUN
bled and fell under the wagon. which passed
over him and broke one leg, besides inhicting
severe injuries about the hip.
Mcpherson Post G. A. r., Charlottesville.
will hold campfire on the evening of Dec l.
at the Music Hall in said city. The exercises
will consist of songs and papers prepared for the
occasion by G. M. Travis, B. R. Russell, Ed
Snyder S. D. Smith, S. F. Ensminger, r. e.
Bryant, Mr.. Sprague and Mr.. Carnahan.
One night this week burglars entered the
house of j. S. earle, in Planfeld, and stole
silver watch and % cents They then entered
Pleas Almonds residence. and stole watch and
80 cents. Mr. Almond was awakened by his
wife, and arose in time to see the thieves getting
out through a window. They afterward
tered the residence of Ellis Jessup and flche6
$1.75.
A chair of "Germanic Languages and Phiolo-
gy," has been established in the Indiana Unvers
ity. and Dr. Hans c. G. Won Jagemann. now of
Earlham College, has been called to fill it. DIR.
Won Jagemann is a graduate (Ph. D.. of Johns
Hopkins University, and is considered one of
the most earnest and promising original workers
in the field of philology in this country, as we'll
as one of the most successful teachers of Ger
man.
At Fontanet, Vigo County, Joseph Murray, his
wife and five children were all attacked with
milk sickness. Mr.. and Mrs. Murray have died.
and boy seven years old is considered beyond
recovery. These are genuine cases of milk-sick-
ness caused by drinking the milk and eating the
butter from affected with the disease. 1t
is no longer secret that this disease is caused
by cattle eating the weed known as eupa-
forum ageratoides, commonly called white
top" or autumn bloom. (which is specially fatal
if eaten after frost