The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-05
Minor Notes.

The property of the Ohio Falls Car Company
of Jeffersonvie, is listed at 1882. 700.
The wife of DR.. Handle, of Laconia, a we'll
known resident of Harrison county, is dead.
At South Bend, Maud Brick, five years old,
while at play. fell into a cistern and was
drowned.
Straud Miller two years old, was burned to
death at Central, Harrison county, his clothes
having caught on fire,
William Hixon, about sixty five years DID,
dropped dead at Spencer, while riding home in a
wagon. Heart disease.
John Carmichael a brakeman on the L., n. A.
& G. railway, while placing lamp in caboose,
in the yard at New Albany, fell and broke his
jaw bone
On the 22d inst, the Redemptorists, Fathers
Cook and Mclaughlin, will commence mission
at Holy Trinity Catholic Church. at New Albany.
The meetings will be held day and night.
On Tuesday night J. P. Guffins grocery store
at Rushville, entered, the safe blown open
and about seventy dollars and a small amount Of
goods taken This is the second Rushyille safe
blown open in the last two months.
Ed Phillips, an employee in the planning mill
of Henry Hunt & Company, at Kokomo, had his
right hand terribly larcerated yesterday by an
edging saw. The wound was promptly dressed,
and the first two fingers were ampuated.
The audience attending the lecture Of Hon.
Will Cumback, on Tuesday night, at Greensburg,
was the largest lecture audience ever assembled
in that place. Some prophets are without honor
in their own city, but certainly Mr.. Cumback is
not one Of them.
and shoe dealer at Wabash, while at work bak-
ing bread in her Kitchen yesterday afternoon,
suddenly fell dead with heart disease. The lady
has been subject to the disease for some time.
She was thirty eight years old and leaves large
family.
Tyup sofo oVraS IN fha l.
Southern prison engaged in a fight. and one of
them, picking up knife, stabbed the other in
the back of the head, infieting severe though
not dangerous wound Such occurrences are
frequent The convict who made the assault
will be placed in cell and fed on bread and
water as punishment.
Robert Gelespie who has probably become de-
ranged from an injury to his head. received
several years ago, caused by a falling limb, has
been missing from his home at North Manches-
ter since Oct. Is. Mr.. Gillespie is of medium
stature, about five feet seven ncnes tall; weighs
about 160 pounds; has black, slightly cnrly hair;
black, cropped beard; no mustache; hazel eyes,
full set of natural front teeth; rather high fore
head and slightly aquiline nose, and is thirty
eight years of age
Late on Tuesday night, Mrs. Mary Harsch, a
well-known and highly respected young lady of
Wabash attempted to commit suicide by taking
a very heavy dose of choral and several NOR
phine pills. The fact was discovered just in
time to save her life The young lady has been
sick with consumption for about two years. and
has been quite Respondent of late, So that her
mind has been affected. She had just read sew
eral works on sanctifcation, which also unsettled
her mind, she becoming convinced that she was
lost.
New Albany has had nineteen mayors since its
organization in 1889, as follows: P NJ. Dorsey
Shepard Whiteman. Silas Overturf, James Col
Inns, William Clark, VIM M. Weir, John r.
Franklin, A. S. Burnett, Joseph A Moffett j.
D. Keso, Franklin Warren. d. M Hooper, w
L. Sanderson, VIM. Hart, Thos. Kunkle, w. B.
Richardson. Solomon Malbon, Bella c. Kent and
John j. Richards. The only survivors Joseph
Moffett. W. B. Richardson, Solomon Malbon,
Bella c. Kent and John ]. Richards.