The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-01
Minor Notes.

Terre Haute mills make an average of nearly
5000 barrels of flour week.
A large amount of counterfeit metal currency
is afioat in Ripley county, near Milan.
At Kokomo, Mr. Standiford, seventy years
old, fell dead on the street from apoplexy.
The Southern Indiana Teachers Institute
meeting will be held at Vincennes on March "a,
% and &c.
John Eigman, for thirty years an inmate of
the Clark county poorhouse, is dead, aged
seventy eight years
John Mouney, of Bridgeport Floyd county,
burst blood vessel, while lifting heavy timber,
and is in critical condition.
Charles Roberts, the Parke county desperate,
has been brought to Terre Haute on change of
venue to be tried for burglary.
Henry Hay, who was assaulted by George
Diekerson at Cementville, will lose the sight of
his eye. His assailant is still in jail
James D. Smith, on his farm near Danville,
has well the water of which has chaly beate and
purgative properties of considerable value
Work on 5000 army blouses will begin at
Jeffersenville this week, which will give employ
ment to 500 sewing women for a short time.
Elsie Block, of Rushville. has been discharged
from the southern prison by expiration of sen
tence. His father still has fifteen months to
serve.
VIM. Smelly, at Zipp's postofice. Vanderburg
county. accidentally split his knee with broad
ak. He nearly bled to death before assistance
was rendered
James Slaughter. of Jacksonville has been
arrested for burglarizing the residence of Mrs.
r. L. Peters, of Louisville, of a large amount of
valuable jewelry and two watches.
At Jeffersonville the wife of colored man
named Henry Evans knocked him down and
beat him because he spent his money for whisky,
and did not provide for her and the children.
Charles Ward, a charcoal merchant, of Pierce
vile, wanted a check cashed, and an obliging
gentleman paid him off in bright silver dollars
of 1881 and 1883, which proved to be counterfeit.
At Terre Haute, three children, aged ten,
eight and four, were taken from their mother,
Mrs. Ellen O'Brien, who is common drunkard,
and placed in the care of the Society OF Organ
lied Charity.
Mrs Mary Rauschenberger aged eighty-seven
years, fell through an open cellar at the resi-
dence of her son, at Jacksonville, and sustained
a compound fracture of the left leg 1t will
probably, by reason, Of her extreme age, prove
fatal
Jacob Schneider, Madison grocer and pork
packer, was assisting his workmen in scalding
some hogs, when his feet slipped on the wet floor,
throwing him into the trough of boiling water
severely scalding his right arm and shoulders.
Although resting easy, he is not yet out of
danger.
A bloody fight occurred at the school-house
near Birdseye between John Smith and John
Miller, OF Rlcevile, during which Smith drew
his knife and cut Miller across the throat three
times, inficting wounds that, it is thought. will
prove fatal Smith was not arrested though he
said he desired to be and stand trial, as he had
acted only in self-defense
The will of the late Silas G. Day. of New AL
bany, has been probated in the Floyd Circuit
Court 1t appoints his sons James III. Day and
William II. Day, executors of his estate, and if
either of them declines to qualify, names James
b. Rieley, son-in-law Of the deceased, to serve
IL the place of the one declining The estimated
value Of the estate is $500. 600, and large por-
ton of it is in available stocks and bonds, now
worth considerably over their par value Most
of the real estate is valuable and productive.
Judge Snyder, of the Montgomery County
Court ia not to be trified with A subGpna
was served on Dr. Steele. Ike Daley and Henry
Newland. all of Waveland. to appear as wit
nesses against John Marshall. charged Of having
assisted Daisy Woolsey to sell whisky. The
parsons did not appear, and q bench warrant