The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-23

president William ]. Sparks secretary and Cyrus Il.
Nixon treasurer. Captain Nixon, who has managed
the paper the past year. will continue as editor
The funeral of the late Mrs. Williams wife of Hon.
William Williams. of Warsaw will take place on Fri
day. at 10 A. NJ, from the family residence, in that
city
William H. Benefeld, VINO was, perhaps, tho Oldest
ddfellow in Indiana died az Perrysvle yesterday,
aged eighty years, old age being the of his
death.
large stack of wheat on the farm of JOSEPH Pigg.
in Cass township, Sullivan county, was struck by
lightning and burned up. The loss is estimated at
sixty bushels, and was insured
George w. Dowell, the Cincinnati thief, on plea of
guilt to the charge of burglarizg the residence of
j. o. Davidson of Columbus, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for three years.
Eugene Bond the seventeen year-old of W. j.
Bond prominent dry goods merchant of Fort
Wayne is in Jail at that place charged with obtaining
SUIT OF clothes under false pretenses.
The barn of Davis Miner, one and half miles
north OF Johannesburg struck by lightning and
entirely consumed, together with contents consisting
OF wheat. fifteen tons of hay, implements etc. One
horse was burned.
An attempt was made by some unknown person to
outrage young lady named Effe Corothers, of Wa
bash, on tuesday night while she was on her way
home Her screams aroused the neghborhood and
the scOundre fled, undetected.
Thomas Ferree of Boone township, Harrison coun.
ty, has been arrested on charge Of attempting to
rape Mary +. Nibbs orphan girl fifteen wears of
age. The Oddfellows having the case prosecuted
as the girls father ember of that order.
A conductor freight train the Pittsburg
road threw u tramp off the train Adams. The
TRAMP is in st. Joseph s Hospital, at TT. Wayne
his collar-bone having been broken, besides which
other injuries, internal and external inflicted.
While Joseph Mccormack, jr., fifteen years old. a
OF one of the best-known citizens of PeIrysvile
bathing, he taken with cramps in twenty feet
of water and was drowned. Two companions, in their
efforts to him narrowly escaped ike fate. The
body recovered.
Ed. Champ, young tough who broke jail at Ko-
komo last May, and who has been roaming in the
vicinity of Logansport since captured at Delphi
on Monday by the marshal of that city. Sheriff Nc
Reynolds of hokomo went over and secured his man,
and he is safely under lock and key.
The trance evangelist, Mrs. Maria Woodworth is
holding canp-meeting this week at Greentown,
about tel miles east of KokCmo. The attendance on
Sunday about 900 but the accommodate MS were
bad and there Is such manifest at tempt the part
of the gests husband look after the people
ducats Will she wresties with their souls welfare,
that the meeting is not likely to be much of success,
viewed from religious stand point No trance mani,
festations have been reported as yet.
John Campbell, a life convict at the northern
prison sent from Charlottesville several years ago,
has, by of pen knife and scraps of wood cut
out and mountei entire menagere and circus. The
wild beasts, horses, performers and even the ring
master IS in his place, all Of them being conn cted
with simple mechanical conttivances controlled by a
crank. Give this turn and the circus commences,
continuing with astonishing REGULAR y and precision
for several moments. In connection with the circus
is complete Uncle Toms Cabin" outfit the entire
representa- ion in old plantation style. This drama
shows Topsy, Marks. donkeys and hounds who, when
the crank turns perform their parts in such
to put to shame half the alleged combinations
the road.