The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-02
Minor Notes.

New Albany furnished twenty-five coroners
inquests for 1885.
Nineteen persons have been sent to the Hos
pital for the Insane from Floyd county during
the past year.
A telegram from Sioux City. Ia.. says that
Amos Wallace Of North Manchester, is at that
place violently insane.
Wm Tisdale, living near Winslow, cut his
throat with a pocket-knife, and will probably
die. He is of unsound mind.
The Hendricks County Gazette has put at the
head of its editorial column the name of Hon.
d. w. Voorhees,, of Indiana, for President in
1888.
Mrs Chris Grantmann, of Richmond, was
found dead in bed yesterday morning, her death
resulting from cerebral apoplexy. She was sixty
seven years of age
Perry Wilson. nephew of Hon. III. d. Wilson,
of Goshen, acciden tally shot himself in the neck
with a revolver, the wound proving fatal He
was twenty -one years of age.
Mrs. Catherine Kreimeier, of Richmond, has
become deranged.. She refuses to eat, her hal
lucination being that she is angel, has been
to heaven, and does not need material food
Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus Hirsch, we'll known La
fayette people, have been divorced. Mrs Hirsch
gets 5000 alimony. Mrs Hirschs father is
Isaac Lauferty, a prominent Banker at Fort
Wayne.
The Fowler monument at Lafayette has been
seriously udiHdpeu Dv unprlHclpled boys Throw
ing a bundle of car waste, saturated with oil,
against it. The stone weighs $4,000 pounds,
and fears are entertained that the grease spots
cannot be removed.
The following are the new officers of Stead
man Post, G. A. r.. No. 245, at Whitlock, Mont
gomery county: P. c., S. L. Hxon; S. V. c.. T.
M Smith; j. v c., W. Ell. Miller: O. D. J. c.
Freeman; surgeon, DR.. e. A. Tremble; o. g..
Samuel Sayers: quartermaster. Q. D. Mcclure.
Ezra Alspaugh, of Rochester, and Miss Sadie
Lowe, daughter of Mrs. Margaret Lowe, were
married at the home of the brides mother, in
that place. on Thursday evening. A large num-
Der of friends witnessed the ceremony, and the
couple were the recipients of many valuable and
useful presents.
The Seventh Indiana Battery reunion, cole
brating the twenty third anniversary of the bat
tie Of Stone River, was held at Terre Haute on
Wednesday and Thursday. The following Off
GERS We're elected: President. George w. Swal-
Masterson, of Salem. Ind; secretary and treas
urer, Edgar Murphy, of Bedford, Ind.
Mr.. Talbot editor of the Porter County vi
dette, who was seventy years old on Christmas
perpetrates this upon himself: Behold the man
three-score and ten about his daily work. to
serve his race with truth and grace, with no de-
sire to shrk. Blest man, he deems himself, and
seems. to ills of life resigned. but for the dead
his fears have fled and left him peace of mind. u
On Wednesday, at Lafayette, the children of
Jay Adams, attorney We're playing with their
fathers hunting dog, which was chained to a
kennel. when it began to froth at the mouth and
fell down in TT The children ran into the
house and shut the door They were not a
moment too soon The dog broke the chain, and,
frothing at the mouth, and swapping viciously to
right and left, followed close on their heels The
now thoroughly vicious animal made innumer-
able attempts to getat them by jumping through
the windows The animal, pronounced to be suf-
fering from undoubted hydrophobia was killed
by the chief of police.