The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-04
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Inc annual tournament of the New Albany
| Shotgun Club will be held Sept and 10.
| The hand of Greenberry Rose. of Jeffersonville
was crushed by huge stone falling upon it
| Hon. o. F. Brown, the largest land owner and
| richest man In Parke county, is seriously ILL.,
Captain John Boyd of Milroy. is the Oldest
| person IN Rush county. He will be 100 years old
| next February
George Tyre was arrested on the Shelbyviile
/ falr grounds, yesterday, charged with stealing
| cattle in Ripley county.
Rev. j. NJ. Reynolds, of Bloomfield, KY. will
enter upon the pastorate of the Christian Church
at Jefersonville, on next Sunday.
The Lagrange agricultural fair promises to be
the best held there for years The managers
are making many substantial improvements.
The safe Of the Gem Touring mill at Rushville
was blown open on Wednesday night. The
| robbers only got 500 in cash and a check for $25
When Soffey the Charlottesville murderer,
was told that Governor Gray had respited him
until Oct. 16 he said WELL that is good, and
wept.
The engine of a thresher belonging to Alonzo
lngersoll exploded on the farm of David Liver
good near Waynetown. No one was seriously
injured.
Joel Wolfe Post G. A. r. the membership of
which is of Rush and adjoining counties, will
hold its first annual campfire at the Nashville
fair grounds on Sept. 20 and 80.
G. F. Ripley, of Terre Haute, father of W. B.
Ripley, who was defaulter from the Lafayette
office of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
road, has satisfactorily settled the affair with the
officials of the road.
The eleventh annual meeting of the Mississippi
Valley Medical Society, formerly the Frislate
Medical Society, will be held at Evansville on
Sept. 8, and TO- DR.. F. w. Beard of Vim
cennes, is the president
The first number of the Decatur County
School Manual monthly edited by seperin
tendent j. III. Bobbitt, was issued at Green's
burg this week. It is neat little sheet, devoted
| to the interests Of the common schools
Thomson & Trusler dealers in agricultural
implements and hardware. at Greensburg, have
failed and assigned to John G. Guthrie. The
nominal assets are $15. 900, much of which is in
notes and accounts; Indebtedness, 81, 900.
Thaddeus Terrell, farmer living near Scots
burg. celebrated his seventy sixth birthday on
Saturday. His children, grandchildren and
great grandchildren to the number of sixty-two
were present. and took dinner with their veneer
able ancestor.
Benz. Davis, ST., one of the oldest and wealth.
est citizens of Parke county, went on a visit to
relatives In Eastern Kentucky, some few weeks
ago. and died there on Tuesday, in his eighty
fifth year His remains will be brought to
Montezuma for interment
John N. Gillespie. grocer, considered one of
the stanch business men of Greensburg has as
signed to Frank K. Gavin. He owns real estate
valued at so, 900, mortgaged for $780, His
grocery stock is worth about 81, 900. His in
debtedness is from $40, 600 to $25, 900.
Coroner Ehrhardt. after examining large
number of witnesses relative to the shooting of
Barney Conner by Marshal Clemons at Greens
burg, on last Monday, has returned finding
generating the officer from all blame. as Con-
nor was regarded desperado and was in the
act of shooting when Clemens fred the fatal
shot
While Freeman Bodgett was lighting the
gasoline stove in the tailoring establishment of
w. K. Drews at Lagrange, explosion oc-
Cured, blowing out ono of the large window
panes In the 'front.' springing the wall about one
half inch, destroying clothing and blackenng
the walls badly. Damage, $780, Insured but
had no gasoline permit.
A general reunion of Indiana soldiers of the
war for the Union, especially of the fifteenth
Indiana will be held at Princeton on the 18TH
14th and 18th of October. The railroads are
granting excursion rates for the occasion. The
commissary and sntler departments will be under
control of the local G. A. r. post, and no specu-
lation in supplies VIII be permitted.
The sheriff at Huntington has arrested man
who resembles very closely Shamus O'Brien,
wanted there for killing his pal. shooting Police
man Baumgartner, and committing robbery
last February. The man under arrest is held
for drunkenness, and cannot or win not give any
account of himself, except that he claims to
come from kosciusko county, and that his name
is KunZe.
The entire loss by the burning of the Touring
| mill of Montgomery & Elder at Greensburg, is
now placed at 500 600. with $8 600 insurance dis
tributed as follows: Phoenix of Brooklyn, So 600;
Western of Toronto, 1.610 Phoenix Of Hartford
and Germania of New York, ST.. 500 EACH Frank
| lin of Indianapolis, and the Lancashire, of Man
chester, England, ST., 900 each The carpenter
Link, occupied by L. Spitzmesser, were damaged
about $500, with no insurance