The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-16
INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings Of
All Kinds in the Two States.
Two Persons Drowned By the Upsetting of
BOat--A Little Girl Fatally Burned
Son ISLANDERS His Father.
INDIANA.
Two Persons Drowned by the Capsizing Of a
Small Boat.

Two Persons Drowned by the Capsizing of a
Small Boat.
Special to the indianapolis Journal!
EVANSVILLE, April 15-Last Friday group
Of four people landed at the city wharf in a
destitute and starving condition. The party was
composed of Mary Draper and daughter, Mrs.
Diapers uncle, James Carmichael and his
niece, jamie Davis. They were afoat upon a
wretched continuance formed of two canoes, over
which was built platform. They were cared
for by the county authorities but refused to stay,
and on Sunday morning started on down the
river in their miserable apology Of boat
They Travelled slowly, and had only reached Dia-
mond Island, near West Franklin. The river at
this point is very wide and Deep About o'clock
this morning sudden squall arose, and in
an instant the boat was overturned and
all the occupants thrown into the water. Mrs
Davis and little jamie Davis sank at once and
were drowned, but Carmichael succeeded in Sc
curing a hold upon the overturned wreck, and,
as he chung there, Mrs. Diapers little daughter
arose to the surface and he seized her. The
squall having subsidized, he succeeded in reaching
shore with his grandniece. He carried her in
his arms half a mile to a farm house, where
seriousness, but without avail. Men have been
busy all day searching for the bodies of Mrs.
Draper and Miss Davis, but have been unsuc-
cessful Carmichael was at one time well-to-
do farmer residing in Paoli, Ind, but met with
reverses, and was trying, he says, to get down
the river to some point where he could rent a
small farm.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
HARTFORD City, April ia ripple of ex-
element was caused here to-day by the rumor
that one William Jobes, an ex-postmaster and
justice of the peace at Catawaba, Clarke county,
O., was wanted there to answer a charge of
forgery. The foundation of the rumor is an
article published in the Springfield o., Tran
script, copy of which paper had been mailed to
Postmaster Rackmor, of this place. The article
states that Jobes had a number of anxious
creditors at Catawaba and that son Of his,
who is now in Jail at Urbana for petit larceny,
declares that the old man forged a note for $500,
got the money on it, and eloped with Miss Emma
Lehman, a young lady who formerly lived at
Chicago; also, that his wife is still living and is
in an asylum for insane at Dayton. In an inter-
view with Squire Jobes, to-day, he said to your
correspondent that he came here from Catawaba,
a few weeks ago; that he is not guilty of any
forgery and had nothing to do with the Lehman
girl, as reported in the Springfield paper. Miss
Emma Lehman, who also resides here, having
removed here with her fathers family about
the same time Mr.. Jobes came, says that
she knows nothing of the financial affairs
of Mr.. Jobes, and that there is nothing of the
elopement business. She thinks that that part
of the story gained credence from bit of gossip
started in the neighbornood of their old home
last winter, when, accompanied by Mr. Jobes
and his young daughter, she came to his place to
The matter is involved in mystery, but it is
probable that the charges of forgery and elope-
ment are mere fabrications of Mr.. Jobes's son,
who has been refused aid by his father in get
ting out of Jail.