The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-13
Mr. Snavely's health had been poor for several
wears, and he had passed most Of his time in

wears, and ne had passed most OF his time In
Florida.
Zachary Bell, of Sullivan who has wife and
four children. has eloped with his wife's sister,
Miss Click, twenty years old.
Elizabeth Terrell, seventy years cid and in
sane, living near Edwardsville, committed sui
eide by taking Rough-on-rats.
Early cherries are ripening Aaron Baker,
fifteen years old, fell out of Terre Haute
cherry tree and broke his arm.
Mrs Jane Munson, nearly eightv.six years
old, died on Thursday at the residence of James
Smith, on the Columbus pike. near Shelbyville.
Newton Jackson, of South Bend, lumber
dealer, had foot SO badly mangled. in jumping
from a freight train, that it will have to be
amputated
John Jones, working in store at st. Paul,
strained himself while lifting on Thursday, and
died the evening Of the same day. He was
twenty years DID,
AT Bowers Station, in Montgomery county,
James Parkey is circulating a petition to be ap-
pointed postmaster, and Geo. Lynch is doing the
same at Darlington.
Daniel Holland business man of South Bend
for the asttwentg years. dropped dead yesterday
morn ne, aged sixty years His death re-
suited tom apoplexy.
Doctors Dunning and Retiring, Republicans,
have been removed from the South Bend board
of pension examiners, and Drs. Dougherty and
Montgomery appointed In their places.
q Andrew Blair, a boy eighteen years old, en-
ployed on the Broker farm, below New Albany,
was kicked by horse in the jaw and mouth.
His jaw was broken and he lost four teeth.
The town of Rensselaer,, Jasper county, was
named by James c. Van Rensselaer,. who laid it
out in 1889. He was a merchant and came to
Indiana from Utica, N. ", and died i'll 1847.
David MikeIs, an eccentric citizen of Union
township, Jasper county, created considerable
excitement by showing specimens of gold found
NC F1nx nx-a6@ - he &c
Mrs. Susan J. Lewis, of PutnamyIle cee-
brated her eighty fourth birthday by a horseback
ride across as rough country as there is in Put
nam county, crossing a difficult and dangerous
ford on the way.
The busy piek-pockets who are attending the
races at South Bend robbed ticketseller Solomon
Lewis of $109 and relieved d. w. Beyers of his
watch, chain and money, besides committing sew
eral petty thefts.
Dennis Mcmahon of Salem, died at his home
in that place, aged sixty-three, after long ill
ness of paralysis. Deceased was one of the
most prominent and influential citizens Of
Washington county.
F. FL. Sweeney, of Jeffersonville, and Moses
Lewman, of Greencastle, have secured the con-
tract to build the new insane asylum at Marion,
Smith County, Va. The cost of the structure
will be about 500, 600.
saw-mill belonging to Jones & Co., of Tun-
Melton, located near Lancaster, burned, involving
loss Of $1,000 The mill was built TO saw the
timber on q 500-acre tract recently purchased by
j. Murray of New Albany, for $4,000.
Two of the thieves who are supposed to have
robbed c. III. Berry's store at Valparaiso, on
Tuesday night vera captured near Hobart, and
part of the goods recovered. They were lodged
in the county Jail Apparently they were tramps
The board of Rose Polytechnic School, Terre
Haute, will meet this Saturday evening to
take action regarding a successor for the late
President Thompson. There are a number of
applicants but no one is mentioned prominently
for the position.
Rev. D. r. Love, of Greenfield, hearing that
growing fax would keep potato bugs away, tried
the experiment of sowing a little tiaxseed in
every hill of one row. While the other rows of
hills have been covered with bugs the hills in
which the flax is growing have not been touched.
Several houses have been entered at Wabash
by burglars during the past week, and small
sums of money and stray valuableS taken. Some
time ago one of Pnkerton's detectives passed
several weeks in Wabash, for the purpose of
breaking up similar gang existing there, but he
was unsuccessful.
A Putnam county coroner has returned the
| following remarkable verdict: II find that de-
ceased came to his death by the proper admin
| stration of chloroform by Dr. j. +. Morrison,
and that by reason of those unfertx ste causes
which no human foresight could have been able
to have fOreseen"
Mrs. Casper RAM of Fort Wayne, was seized
with vertigo while looking into her cistern, and
tunbled in The son Charles fortunately heard
the splash and fshed her out with garden rake.
AS her shoes were found inside the clStern, the
idea of attempted suicide was suggested Her
husband is a well known and well-to-do grocer.
| Two young men named Holowell. in Lafayette
| township, Floyd county while digging, unearthed
a leather box about seven by ten inches in size.
| This was opened and found to contain smaller
| box. On the inside of the latter was found a
| parchment, on which was written some hero
| glyphics which have not as yet been deciphered.
| Lafayette Journal: Faro banks are closed, but
poker still tfrives in Lafayette. It's effect is de-
| bilitatIng in the extreme In Fact, four of the
| most eminent professional gentlemen of the city
are at present suffering from severe nervous
| prostration caused by sudden exposure to three
aces near the corner of Ferry aud Fourth streets
| County Recorder Barney Worand to-daygre-
| ceived telegram from his sister, Mrs. George
| Short, in Shelby county, Illinois, conveying the
| startling intelligence that two of her children,
| girl and boy, aged six and nine years, were in
| stantly killed by stroke of lightning in a
| storm. Last night the mother of Mr. Worland
| was taken violently ILL.,
An old man named Bowson has died at Lake
| Cicott under suspicious circumstances He had
| separated from his wife last April, left that
| place. and had not been seen since until Tues
| day, when he came back and asked the where
abouts of his wife, He was told she lived with
| family named Hawkes. He went there to see
| her. stad all night, ate breakfast, and returned
to his step-daughter's and, finding no person at
home, lay down on a bed. Two farmers passing
by, attacted by means and cries of agony, went
in He said he thought he had been poisoned at
breakfast. He was asked whom he suspected, but
died in great pain before he could answer His
wife claims that he did not call to see her, but
neighbors say they saw him go in the house.
ILLINOIS.