The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-07
Minor Notes.

John Armbruster, of New Albany, has been
declared insane.
Eiwood Pleas has retired from the New Castle
Mercury, which is now published by the AIer-
curry Company.
= Fhe school board of Shelbyville has unanimous
y reelected Prof w. H. Fertich superintendent
of the public schools for the ensuing year.
1t is thought that the site for the new govern
ment building at New Albany will be on Spring
street, between East Fourth and East Ninth
streets.
Tho birthday of Mr.. Wilstacll. of Lafayette,
March I, was celebrated at that city on the oc-
casion of the lady's eighty sixth anniversary.
Ske remembers twenty six inauguration days
Louis Kuhn, 81 notorious desperate, who, three
years ago, broke Jail at Anderson where he was
Incarcarated for attempted murder. and reward
of 800 has been standing for his arrest, has been
arrested 1t Richmond.
There was no oratorical contest at DePauw
University on Wednesday, the contestants
had failed to agree upon the judges. The prob
ability now is that DePauw University will have
no representative at the State contest
Republican presidential ticket dated 1924.
headed with the names of Andrew Jackson and
f0hn C. Calhoun, supposed to be the Oldest
cket existing in Indiana. is in the possession Of
,.aTnuel Gardiner, of Ossian, Wells county, Ind.
samuel II. Mccoy. sixty-fve years old, q we'll
nown resident Of Batesyille, was found in his
4 not known whether it was case Of suicide or
murder. and the neighborhood is suspicious and
excited.
At the funeral of Miss Annie Rocker, eighteen
years old, at Vincennes, the pail bearers were
six Young ladies, dressed in white, with long
white wells and black shawls. The funeral
services we're celebrated at st. Johns German
Catholic Church.
At Columbus Misses Ida Shields and Matte
Lewis each fell and broke an arm at the skating
rink. Miss Hattie Watson who fell and dislo-
Gated her hip three weeks ago at the same rink,
has not been out of her bed since, and her
physicians have almost despaired of ever gettin g
her up.
A few years ago young man named William
White residing in jefferson county, was bitten
by mad dog He was taken to Kentucky,
where maidstone was applied to the wound
with satisfactory results. 1t is reported that
he has gone mad, and is now roaming aimlessly
through the woods in Lancaster township
Last fall a man named Dick Wheaton abdnct-
ed Rosa Wright, thirteen years old, from her
home near Williamsburg, johnson county. where
her father is a well-to-do farmer. The girl has
Icy county, where, with Wheaton, she was wan
dering as "a beggar Wheaton has been ar
rested.
Gus Gordon. the young man who while en-
ployed as clerk of the LutZ Hotel, in Wabash,
one year ago last September, skipped out with
an overcoat, revolver and 500 in money, and
was overhauled at Lancaster, Penn, last month,
has been sentenced to one year in tho peniten-
tiary. This sentence was for the larceny of the
money, and he will be tried on the other two
charges Immediately.
Jacob Phillips, eighteen years old, is On trial
At Boonville for the murder of John W. Garri-
son, aged twenty years, on the night of the 2lst
of September last, when party of young men
were returning from political meeting at He'll.
man. de stouty protests his innocence and
declares that he knows nothing of the shooting
lying in drunken stupor in the body OF the
wagon at the time of the killing.