The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-22
Minor Notes.

A street railway is to be built between South
Bend and Mishawaka.
Louis A. Moffet, of FIT Wayne, brakeman,
was killed at Bucyrus, o., while coupling cars.
Erastus Johnson has been arrested, at Cincin-
natl, O., for stealing horse from j. l.. jones'
near Muncie.
Henry Menke. Of Osgood heretofore well
Thought of, has been heavily fined for giving his
wife, who is old and deaf, severe beating
Nellie Baxter and Alice Mason two bad women
from indianapolis, are in Jail at Greensburg, for
attempting to shoot a man named George Ripper,
on the street
The prospect of silver in paying quantities in
the central part of Pike county is attracting con-
siderable attention. test of the quartz has
shewn 10 per cent, or $40 per ton, of the ore, and
lead shows 20 per cent
George Greigh, of Altoona, Pa, fell from an
Ohio e Mississippi passenger train, yesterday,
at North Vernon. and was killed. 1t issupposed
that while he was asleep he rose from his berth,
and walked off the platform.
John Hill, of the Logansport spoke factory,
a married man whose wife is childless is miss
ing as is also Mrs. Fred Joyce, the wife of a
fellow workman, and the mother of four
children, whom she took with her.
At the Democratic primary election at Madi-
sob, the following ticket for city officers was
clerk, John A. luck; assessor, Frank Noder;
marshal, Calvin Cisco water works trustee, A
G. Pogue: councmen, John Kirk John Bartron,
George Wolf, George Smith, e. j. Collins.
A gres: sensation was occasioned in Lafayette
on Monday by the discovery Of a large number
of human bones in the heart of the city. The
sensation was soon spoiled by the explanation
that the bones are the remains OF two Indians,
dug up while excavating road through an old
Indian grave yard near by and which had been
reburied.
On Sunday George Street, near Fayetteville,
went to get his invalid wife a glass of water.
when he fell over dead. His wife lived only
three hours later. They were both quite aged.
Street had no brothers. sisters, nor children, and
be decided $40 G0o of his estate to the directors of
Butler University, in trust for the missionary
cause of the Christian Church. As his wife lived
the longer her relatives will contest the will.
The authorities of Notre Dame are negotiat-
ing with the South Bend Gas Company for gas.
The gas company propose to lay mains to the
city limits, point near Notre Dame cemetery
the college authorities to continue them to Notre
Dame and st. Mary's. The expense will be
about equally divided, the estimate being 3d.
600 for the gas company and s. 900 for the uni
versity It costs about 81, 900 year to light the
two institutions
The trial of James Dennis, at Charlottesville,
charged with being an accompice of the murder
81 Cotey. is creating strong feeling the senti-
ment as to his innocence or guilt being about
equally divided. turbulent scene occurred in
court yesterday when Lawyer Paul. who in the
Coffey trial appeared for that criminal now APP
pears on the side of the prosecution, called
Lawyer Doty "a liar for which Judge Britain
promptly fined him $40 for contempt of court.
George Delvin. in jail at Huntington, charged
with tho murder of William Newcomb, and
with intent to kill Policeman Baumgartner.
come time ago, broke Jail on Monday night.
The wife of the sheriff allowed Delvins wife
to enter the Jail, and Delvin. who was in
the corridor, broke out knocking the woman
over and rushing out through the sheriffs resi-
dence and down the street Delvin is twenty five
Tears of age. five feet five inches in height,
heavy set, dark hair and heavy mustache. He
dark suit of clothes and black SLOUGH hat.
The village of Dalton is ali torn up over an at
tempted suicide that is out of the usual run.
The wife of jefferson Richardson, we'll to do
farmer of Franklin township got up from the
breakfast table, and going into the kitchen, be-
gan beating herself over the head with an iron
poker, inficting number of CHASTITY wounds
Her husband and some of the neighbors rushed
IN, and after desperate struggle wrested the
weapon from the womans hand Her face and
head were terribly cut and bruised and the
room very bloody. Mrs. Richardson is supposed
to be insane, and lunacy inqdest will be held.