The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
Minor Notes.

1t is announced that F. E. D. Mckinley, uI
Lafayette, has taken an editorial position on the
Sunday Times of that city.
Vincennes has had many fires Of late, and her
City Council is looking about preparatory to in
veSting in a water-workss system.
Harry Whiteside, short-stop of the jefferson
vile base ball club, was struck in the abdomen
with a ball while playing in Louisville and severe.
ly injured.
A badly disfgured frog is on exhibition at
South Bend, as having been until a day or two
ago a happy dweller in the stomach of Miss Liz
ze Pyke, of that city.
Charles A. Moore, of Brownstown, has been
appointed to a guardship at the State Prison
South. Mr.. Moore was for a long time a Justice
of the peace in Brownstown.
Hon. Emory A. Storrs addressed the students
of Notre Dame University, on Friday night, on
the subject of Patriotism Hon. Andrew An
derson. of South Bend, also spoke.
j. A. Coffey, postmaster of Spencer, was taken
with hemorrhage Of the bowels, on Wednesday
of last week, had another attack on Sunday, and
is to-day consideredsin a dangerous condition.
Mr.. John S. Davis, a prominent and wealthy
citizen Of Knightstown, fell dead yesterday af.
ternoon, from paralysis Of the heart. Mr.. Davis
was a member of the NJ E. Church. He leaves
a widow and three grown children.
Rev. c. III. Mcdowell, of Shelbyville, and un-
til recently pastor of the Baptist Church there,
has received a unanimous call to the pastorate of
the South-street Baptist Church, in Indianapo-
lis. He has the cali under consideration.
The wife of r. W.. S. Vandament died very
suddenly, of congestion of the lungs, on Sunday
night, while sitting in her chair, at her home in
Spencer. aged ffty-three years. She was the
mother of Rev. David L.. Vandament, Of Balm
bridge, Ind.
The residence of Commissioner-elect W. S.
Cosby, at Kent, burned yesterday. The building
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GLIDING eighty dollars in money. The loss is es-
timated at from $500 to $500, partially covered
by insurance.
The Madison school trustees have reelected
Prof. J. H. Martin superintendent, j. A. Car
nagey principal Of the high-school, c. C.
Hubbard principal of the lower seminary. Mary
T. Thompson principal of the central seminary,
S. E. Taylor principal of the upper seminary.
During a heavy wind-storm in Evansville. YES
terday, a two.story house being constructed in
the lower part of the city was demolished, being
lifted from it's foundation and carried nearly
thirty feet. The loss will reach S $1,000. The
storm also did minor damage in other parts of
the city.
The Journals Vincennes correspondent was
misinformed by Officer Mechling in regard to the
identity of the man engaged in the murderous af-
fair in which John Stewart was fatally injured.
Joseph Sinclair threw the brick at Stewart and
has escaped. No one by the name of Westfall
had anything to do with the fracas.
The report that Geo w. Lynch was the new
postmaster at Darlington, is premature. S. NJ.
Campbell is still postmaster, and there is some
dissatisfaction among the Democrats that Lynch
should try to get the office under the circum-
stances. Campbell has filed the position accept
ably to everybody except the place-seekers.
The three year-old son of Prof. Frank Ben
net, of Shelbyville, while playing about the
house got hold of a bottle in which was some
carbolic acid and swallowed a quantity of the
poison. AS soon as the parents found out what
the child had done, DR.. S. A. Kennedy was
called and gave the necessary antidotes. The
life of the little fellow is in great danger.
DR.. G. S. Fahnestock, while out shooting, was
quite severely injured. He was in the act OF
inserting a she'll into the breech Of his gun, when
it became lodged half way in. La some manner
the hammer was sprung and the she'll exploded,
bursting the gun, the pieces flying in all direc,
tons, and the powder into his face, burning it in
such a manner that his eyes are entirely closed.
1t is feared he may lose the sight of one of his
ayeS.