The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-03
Minor Notes.


The Ohio Falls iron works, New Albany, re-
sumed operations yesterday.
j. Stouver's barn. at Dillsborough, burned
yesterday. Loss, $500; no insurance.
Ortiz Stein, who was recently acquitted of
murder at Kansas City, has taken the associate
edtorship of the Daily Journal of Lafayette.
Officers and members of the g. A. r. post Al,
of Winamac, on Monday night went to Lafayette
and assisted in organizing Fahler Post, No. 397,
at that city
James Oldham's house, in Center township
Rush county, burned down, consuming all the
contents. Loss about 81 900; partly insured in
the Rush Company, Farmers Company and
the Continental.
The explosion of the boiler of the saw-mill of
the Scott Bros, near Bowerss Station, Mont
gomery county, which killed John Scott, was
caused by turning the water into the boiler when
almost dry
John Cross, an inmate of the Knox County
Asylum, attempted to commit suicide, and has
probably succeeded He cut two gashes in his
neck from ear to ear, and opened the muscles OF
both arms near the shoulder.
Rev j. III. Barnard has been duly installed as
stated pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church
of Madison. President Fisher. of Hanover Col
lege, DR.. Brown, of Madison, and Rev. Mr..
Trimble of Seymour, offciated.
Rev. Dixon c. Williams, president of the Y.
NJ. c. A. of Labanon Tenn, has been conduct
Princeton, and within the past ten days is said
to have converted over 400 Princetonians, many
persons going to hear him who have not before
been inside a church for twenty years.
In the Montgomery county court the case of
James Cunningham was called up and change
of venue taken to Clinton county Cunningham
was arrested on the same charge for which VIM.
E. Shular has been sentenced to seventeen years
in the penitentiary, for the murder of VIM Sayre
in Callehan's saloon, in Charlottesville, on Dec.
90 1884
At place know as Bear Wallow in the back
woods several miles from Nashville, Robert and
William Robertson were attacked by three
brothers named Stuart, between whom some
old grudges existed. They fought like despera-
does, using clubs, knives and pistols. All the
parties were horribly beaten up, one badly cut
and one shot Two places. 1t is thought one of
the Robertsons will die. .e.se the Stuarts was
arrested and the others escaped.
The first annual commencement exercises Of
the DePauw law school, at Greencastle, were
held on Tuesday, the dean, Hon. A c. Downey,
LII. d.. presiding. Remarks were made by
DR.. j. G. Ridpath, and Judge Byron K Elliott,
of the Supreme Court, delivered an address
The graduates were A. n. Nlunden Lexington;
l.. S. Forbes, Bloomfield; Wilbur w Fisk,
Greencastle; Fred l.. Buskirk, Bloomfield; j. G.
Ibach, Huntington, and Edward Carr, Blooming
ton.
On Tuesday, at David Hulse's saw-n,i two
miles south of Scpio, the boiler exploded.
Anthony Cleaver, the engineer, was instantly
killed. David Hulse was terribly burned, his
thigh broken in two places and he cannot live.
Morton Hulse's skull was fractured, beside which
he was badly burned and injured internally. He
will probably die. Alfred Hulse had leg and
several ribs broken. John Hulse, one-armed
son of the proprietor, was the only person who
escaped uninjured. The boiler had been in use
since 1866. The cause of the explosion was an
insufficient supply of water in the boiler
Robert Bryce McPhun, of Louisville, KY,
who recently figured in the extraordinary extra
diton case at that place, where a detective
nabbed him who had come all the way from Cal
cutta, India, has started big enterprise on the
Indiana side of the Ohio river. In connection
with company of Louisville capitalists, he has
purchased large warehouse in New Albany,
paying therefor $4,000 cash, the building to be
converted into a carbonate factory. The stone
to supply the raw material will come from
Meade county, KY, near Brandenburg, and is a
pure white limestone, which is reduced to a
powder as fine as the whitest flour. The firm
will give employment to large number of men.
They will ship their carbonates to all of the lead
ing cities of the United States. The carbonate
can be made into a fine cement. McPhun dis
covered process, the secret of which is worth