The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-13
Indiana Items.

Indiana Items.
jackson county nutmeg melons will be in the
market IN ten or twelve days.
The prisoners who escaped from the Williams
port Jail have been recaptured.
A great tape-wo controversy is raging
among the doctors of Terre Haute.
A Kokomo baby, one month old and in good
health, weighs but one and a-half pounds
John w. Coffey, the Montgomery county MUIR
derer, was twenty-four years old last Thursday.
David Stevens a Lafayette saloon-loafer is in
Jail, charged with attempting to outrage an
eleven year old girl.
Prof J. W. D. Butcher, of Metropolis, Ill, has
been elected principal of the West Spring street
school, at New Albany.
THE Latest News is the name of the new
Democratic paper at Seymour, started on July 4.
Rittig and Chambers the owners.
Will II. Thompson, of Charlottesville, won
the medal, last week, at Eaton, o. as champion
IN the long range archery tournament.
The Christian Church denomination will hold
basket meeting on July 10, at Center Church,
Coal Creek township Montgomery county.
S. Il. jackson has retired from the editorship
of the Winamac Republican after sixteen months
service. W. Is. Jenkins will carry on the work.
Complaint has been made to Mcpherson
Post. at Charlottesville, that there are
wearing the G. A. r. badge who are imposters.
Calvin F. Moore, prominent business man of
Sardinia, Decatur county, was kicked by horse,
In the groin, and mi ured so that fatal results
feared
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Gilmore, wife
of Dr. VIM Gilmore, near New Albany took
place yesterday. A husband and six sons sur
vive her
reunion and military encampment will be
held at FIT Wayne, beginning on August 10, and
ending with August "a under the auspices of the
Veterans Association of Northern Indiana
Beauregard Switzer. accused of shooting Mrs
e. Gerbrick, at Michigan City with intent to
Kill, was bound over to the Circuit Court in the
sum OF 5000, in default of which he went TO jail.
The night operator at Anoka, Cass county,
Sam Helvie, has been doing telegraphic service
there for sixteen years, and during that time has
only lost five nights work account of sick
ness.
A new cave is reported to have been discovered
at De Paw, twenty-seven miles from New
Albany. which has been explored three miles,
and is said to rival any of the departments in
the famous Wyandotte cave
James Wilson the '1ead mine man." so called
from carrying ten bullets in his body one of the
most noted characters in southeastern Indiana
died at his home on Lauchery creek, near Law
renceburg of blood poisoning
At the recent examination for teachers
license at Charlottesville, out of eighty appli-
cants, ten received license for twenty-four
months, sixteen for twelve months. ten for six
months, and the remainder failed.
Anderson Temple, No 8, Patriarchal Circle
Capt. I'll. f. Jones, commanding, won the first
prize In the drill contest at Lake Minnetonka
Mimi, over Rochester and Milwaukee temples
and the people of Anderson are jubilant
News has been received at Muucie that AID
Givens, of that place, more recently of Texas
has not been hanged by mob at his latter place
of abode, as previously reported. He is in ial
on a charge of stealing tools from a mill where
he was at work
Every morning near Clermont, on the T.. B. &
W., damsel waits at the roadside for the In
danapolis journal, which is thrown to her as
the train whizZes by. She rides a spirited steed
and her fine craftsmanship makes her an object
of much admiration.
Valparaiso Vdette For about six months the
new fixtures for the postoffice, costing about
s., 600, have been here and the department have
not yet expressed their readiness to have it placed
in position. Now the owners of the building
will give notification that unless something is
done they will not renew the lease.
The other day woman and four children
passed through Charlottesville in a one-horse
wagon in which they had journeyed from Flor
ida. They left that State the 1st Of last Feb
ruary, and were on their way to Michigan, where
her family lived She stated that they had gone
to Florida in hone of making fortune, and her
husband died with malarial fever.
At Corydon John Bcgs. blind pensioner
who receives $72 a month from the government.
has brought suit against his wife Arta, charging
that she frequently beat him with a club and
that being blind he was unable to avoid the
blows Besides this, she has eloped with John
f. Money, justice of the peace, who leaves be-
hind wife and several children.
An individual who signed his name as G. W,
photograph on Terre Haute hotel register is in
Jail in that city. He gave out that he was a cat
tie king, and wanted to employ a number of men
to go West as cowboys. He required FIVE dollars
from each one he employed as a guarantee of
good faith, Offering fabulous wages when they
arrived upon the field of their labors He ac-
knowledged that he contemplated swindle
The Democratic State Editorial Convention
at Maxinkuckee. passed resolutions declaring
the belief That radical reform in government af-
fairs is only possible through the appointment
to civil positions of persons in full sympathy
with the Democratic party represented by its
statesmen and leaders resolution was also
adopted deprecating the presumption that cause
should be shown for the removal of Republicans
from Office.
There were seven plans submitted for the new
high-school at Terre Haute, the following archi-
tects competing: Vrydagh, Mclean and FLOYD
of that city; r. p. Daggett e. Co.. Stem and
Wallingford, of Indianapolis, and Eppinghousen,
of Stinesville The plan submitted by Mr. Vry-
dagh was accepted. 1t involves an expenditure
of $50, 900. The accepted plan provides for a
two-story building, with nine session rooms.
eight recitation rooms and an assembly room
The architecture is of the style of the seven
teenth century.
Four years ago. John Sullivan, II well-known
painter of Lafayette, was adiudged insane and
sent to the State hospital. A year ago he es-
capped from that institution and was not heard of
until Saturday when he suddenly appeared at
his home. where he gave his name as II. II.
Day, and recognized neither his wife nor his
children. He has wandered all over the United