The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-17
Minor NOIeS.

Minor Notes.
The Loucks- Louthain trial cost Cass county
| 5000. and nobody has been benefited by it,
The Tippecanoe Baptist Association will hold
| a convention at Charlottesville during the last
| week in September.
| On the 25th of this month the citizens of Vim
| cennes will decide by ballot whether they want
! water works or not
| A female scientist in Charlottesville believes
that all contagious diseases are transmitted from
| place to place by flies.
The second revised edition Of the Universal
| Cycopedia of Law by w. w. Thornton of
| Charlottesville has been issued.
In attempting to Jump from load of hay
| which was upsetting, David Moore, of Wave
land, fell across the front wheel and broke sew
| era ribs
has been lodged in Jail at Greenfield. charged
with an attempt to kill Miss Lydia Vandine
| near Warrington.
The search for Lanning and Chapman, who
committed the rape upon little Mary Kennard,
| near Montpelier continues, and it is thought
they will certainly be captured.
Warren Carter young farmer living near
Cartersburg was found lying by the roadside
suffering from conclusion of the brain and died
soon after. He was either thrown or fell from
his horse.
Mrs Celia Hunt, we'll known in Rushville
0leC very suddenly OF rD6umatlSW at IACrOSS.
N. NJ, she having gone there for her health
Her remains will be brought to Nashville for
interment.
While a number of Lafayette men were anus
ing themselves with peppering English sparr2ws
by means of air guns, random shot struck Pat
rick Creagan in the leg, infcting an exceedingly
painful wound.
Wiley Stansbury, of Elwood. married man
who passing himself off as single, INDUCED in a
love episode with young lady of New Castle
was rotten egged and severely beaten on his re-
turn home on Tuesday.
A committee, consisting of Mayor Stillwell
COuncilmen S. NJ Robbins, Al Romnger and
Fred Banded, and others, will leave Crawfords-
vile on Monday for an inspection of the water
works of Logansport, South Bend, LaPorte and
Peru.
The members of Rev. W E. Loucks's church,
at Logansport, together with large number of
his friends. gave him rouslng compliment in
the way of a surprise party the other evening.
The muscular minister is a great favorite in Lo-
gansport.
Michigan City people are making desperate
| efforts to raise donation of $50, 600 for the
| establishment of glass works in that city That
sum has almost been raised and the citizens are
confident that they will succeed in raising the
| entire sum.
| e. B. Martindale has made a proposition to
the City Council of Shelbyvile to place water
| works in that city. The matter has been re-
|
ton is very favorably received by large mum
! Der of citizens.
On Tuesday night burglar entered the farm
residence of Charles Hairless, about three miles
from Anderson. Hairless awoke and attempted
| to capture the invader, who shot him through
the knee joint Physicians say that amputation
will be necessary.
The Christian Sunday school will have pic
mic at Frankfort on next Wednesday. Addresses
| will be delivered by Rev. w. d. Owens, l.. L.
| Carpenter and others, and excursion trains will
| be run from indianapolis, Iogansport Dephi
| Upton and other points.
July 81 will be Grand Army day at Island
park, Rome City, Rev. Abram j. Palmer of
| New York city, will give the history of Com
| pany d, of which he is the only surviving mem
Der. Rev. j. H. Wilson, of South Bend will
lecture on Ten Months in Andersonville"
Frank Vines, eighteen years old, is in jail at
| Osgood, charged with an attempt at rape upon
| Elizabeth Leferry fifteen -year-old girl whom
| he stopped IN wood while she was upon an
errand to a country store. Her screams brought
| help, and the scOundrel fled, but was afterward
! captured.
Lafayette Courier: William S. Reynolds is
shortly expected home from Florida where he
has been for a month. collecting material
| for museum. He will bring home with him a
| carload of living and inanimate curosities
among which is a monster live alligator, king of
| the Florida lagoons.
crowd OF young hOodIumS threw rotten eggs
| and other missiles into party of children who
were enjoying themselves at an ice cream fete at
| Frank Christs at Liberty. Many of the little
| ones We're struck in the face and others had
| their dresses ruined. The young miscreants
were arrested and will be punished.
| The party that went down to explore the new
| cave, one mile from DePauw station, on the Air
! line railroad, have returned with fine specimens
| of stalagmites and stalagtites They were in the
| cave all night, and think they travelled about
| three miles. The cave is said to be d very fine
| one, and in many respects rival of Wyandotte
| Rushvilie Republicans The troubles between
| Hon. Archibald NJ. Kennedy and his wife, of
| which something has from time to time reached
| the public, resulted in the commencement of
| suit by Mrs. Kennedy for divorce and alimeny,
| last Monday. Pending the sitting of tbs Circuit
| Court she has returned to her former home, at
| Attica, in this State
| Mrs. Maria Densford Ross, one of the victims
of the Jeffersonyille tragedy Of Tuesday, was
resting easy yesterday, and the attending sur
| geon thinks she will be on her feet in a few
| days Alfred III. Ross, her husband, held a
| So 600 policy in the Knights of Honor. This
| money will be paid to his mother. as the policy
| was in her name and not in that of his wife.
There has been considerable trouble between
| the farmers of Montgomery county and the toll
| roads. Several gates have been demolished and
| other damage done to the roads. On Wednes-
| day, Larkn Branch tore down the gate on the
Terre Haute road. and was arrested, and will be