The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-27
Minor Notes.

assisted oy Professors Williams, DAWSON ana
Wilson.
Misior Notes.
Ten bands will take part in the tournament
at Terre Haute, having in all 2O6 musicians.
Mrs. Jane Smith, of Shelby county, wife of
Tlnsley Smith, died yesterday at the age of
sixty-four.
behind his mother, was knocked off into De Witt
creek, near Bedford, and drowned.
Mart Davis and John Vanhorn, negroes and
brothers in-law, had a fight on a farm east of
Connersville, during which Davis bit Vanhorn's
ear entirely off.
Two boys of Farmer Love, in Harrison county.
were bit by a mad dog, A horse bitten by the
same dog died of hydrophobia, and it IS feared
that will be the fate of the boys.
Miss Mollie Routh. daughter of well-to-do
people of Economy, tried to commit suicide by
taking a spoonful of paris green. A love affair
IS thought to be the cause of the act.
Young Feagans, shot by Walter Meredith, at
Washington, is out of danger. Frank Coleman
arrested and placed in Jail as an accessory to the
shooting, has been released On bond of $500.
The Grant county fair has double the entries
of any former season, and the attendance each
day is unusually large. Nellie Burk's Roman
racing combination is one of the attractions.
One hundred and fifty members of the Ninth
Indiana Infantry attended the second annual
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day. The exercises continue through to-day.
Charles Bizzy ran a knife two inches into the
head of Charles Gebhart at a picnic in Harrison
county. The blade broke and was left buried in
Gebharts head. They quarreled over a game of
chance.
Farmers from Benton county report the broad
pralrles as teemlng with the growing crop, and
estimate the yield at 1900, 900 bushels, while
TippecaEoe will produce not less than half of
that amount
Burglars are robbing extensively the country
stores in Bartholomew county. j. A. Newton's
store and the postotfice at st. Louis Crossing
we're entered, among others, and goods and
money to a large amount were taken.
Rev. Father Peythien, of st. Francis Xavier
Cathedral at Vincennes, startled his congrega-
ton by preaching against night promenading of
women on the streets. Shopping expeditions:
he thought, should be made in the daytime.
Virgil Newman, a stranger, was employed by
Benjamin K. Castle, a farmer near Boonville.
1t is charged that he followed the seven-year-old
daughter of his employer to a secluded place and
attempted a criminal assault upon her. Newman
Is In Jail.
Lon Nefford. of Clinton county, Ind. was ar
rested at Shelbyville Yesterday on a charge of
robbing the money drawer of Andrew Raymond,
a fruit dealer, of a considerable amount of money,
while the back OF the clerk was turned. He was
bound over.
James Van Glider, a former attorney of Ply
mouth, sentenced to three years in prison last
March for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses, and VINO fed while on bail pending a new
trial, has returned and surrendered to the
authorities.
The citizens of Battle Ground and one John
Mum. who wants to start a saloon there, are
having a vigorous fight over his purposes. The
people have effectually stopped other expert
ments of the kind, and propose to serve NUNS
the same way.
An amateur theatrical company of thirteen
members, stranded at Morrisrown, could com
mand only enough money to buy nine tickets
home. The conductor declined to accept nine
fares for thirteen people, and put four of the
people off the train at Fountaintown.
While a storm was at its height, at Liberty,
the large drill works of Rude Brothers was struck
by lightning, the current following a line of
shafting to the inside. where the betting was
ripped and other damage done. Several Of the
employees were severely shocked, one being rem
dered unconscious.
William Riley (colored) has been arrested at
Columbia City. charged with breaking into tie
house of Isaac Kopp at Warsaw, and assaulting his
seventeen-year-old daughter. Riley. it is said,
saw Kopp leave town on an early morning train,
and went directly to his house, pried open a
window. and threatened the girl with death.
Prof. P. w. Kennedy. of the business college
at Lafayette, has periodical sprees. during which,
it is charged, he becomes dangerous. During
one of these Sprees. day before yesterday. he
purchased a quantity of ice and proposed to
freeze the typhoid fever out of his daughter, who
wss lying at the point of death. His wife had
him arrested, and afterwards filed a complaint
for divorce.
Mrs. Alkaline Smith, living near Houston,
Jackson county, was struck by lightning while
in her residence. and instantly killed. as was also
a dog that was in the room. AT the time. Mrs.
Smith was sitting in a chair rocking her baby to
sleep. Her husband was in the act of stepping
into the door. and was stricken down by the
shock, but not injured. The child was lying
upon a feather bed, and escaped injury.
Newt Ashby, a wellto-do farmer living near
Winslow. Pike county, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head with a rifle. In
sanity is supposed to have been the cause. Sew
eral years ago a brother committed suicide in a
similar manner, and only a short time since a
young lady cousin destroyed herself by jumping
into a cistern. jeff Bilderbock, a Farmland of
the same neichborhood, aged about thirty years,
killed himself by on overdose of morphine. He
was found dead in bed.
William Wilson, living in the southern part of
Shelby county, told his wife that as soon as he
got some money for a job of work, he proposed
to get drunk, shoot the whole family and flee the
country. He came home afterwards drunk, and
commenced to abuse his wife, who fed for the
house of a neighbor, Albert Wright. Wilson
following in close pursuit, armed with a shotgun.
Just as she got into Mr.. Wrights house he fired
at her, the load of shot lodging in the door and
on each side, but she escaped injury.