The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-08
Minor Notes.

Minor Notes.
The Ohio Falls iron works and rail-mil of
New Albany, has resumed operations.
Mrs. Ann Black died at her home in Westville
at the extreme age of eighty two years
A Jennings county pioneer, Robert Tweedy,
died last week, at the advanced age of eighty
John Wesley Adamson, of the pioneers of
Clay county, is dead, at the age of seyenty-two
years.
of the new Catholic church at HuntiEgburg next
Sunday.
Sarah Walden, the child murderess. of Terre
Haute, is willing to plead guilty if granted life
sentence.
Adney Broadway. aged seventy-two, ard Susan
Masters, ninety three years cid, both of Rich
mond, are dead.
Mrs Stephen Norris, sixty years of age, died
at the residence of her son. near Volga, Jeffer-
son county on Tuesday.
The old settlers of Southern Indiana will hold
q grand reunion at Paris Crossing, Jennings
county, on the 18th inst
The Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company
has been granted the privilege of erecting poles
in the streets of Terre Haute.
John Powers resident of Lafayette since
1887, and one of its prominent business men,
died on Tuesday, aged sixty five years.
The wife of ex-County Commissioner Edward
home, near Vernon, on Tuesday evening.
John Jester. forty years old, harness maker,
fell dead at Marion, on Tuesday evening, of
heart disease, III front OF his boarding house.
At Goshen, about o'clock Tuesday morning,
Charles Pratt broke jail by filing bar off and
escaping by a rope-ladder made of his bed
clothes.
Two pigeons, belonging to the East-end HON
ing Club, of New Albany. flew from Indianapo-
lis to that city on Monday in one hour and ten
minutes.
B. F. Goddard aud Miss E. A. Lacy, runa-
way couple from Fort Wayne were married on
Tuesday, by Magistrate John Mccain, of Louis
vile, Ky.
The boarding house of Mr.. Schamel, at South
Bend was damaged by fire to the extent of
$1,000 Insured for So. l50 in the Hanover and
Rochester German.
The report that Mr.. William Stricken the
wealthiest man in Clark county, had died at his
home in Owen township is untrue. He is still
alive, and enjoying good health.
Capt. NJ. NJ Hurley, of New Albany, has been
appointed aidede-camp to General Bennett.
grand commander of the department of Indiana
G. A. r., with the rank of major.
A fye-year- old son of N. B. Jewell, of Vim
cennes, was seriously burned one side, from
head to foot, by setting his clothes on fire with
matches His condition is dangerous.
The Flatrock Pioneer Association. of the coun-
ties or Snel6y ana bartholomew, VIII hold their
first annual meeting in John Nading's grove at
Flatrock. on the first Saturday of August.
Eleazor D. Carter, one of Terre Haute's Oldest
and most respected citizens, died of consump-
tion on Tuesday. He was born in Knox county
in 1924, and had resided in Terre Haute since
1888
Daniel Rankin, of Chicago, attended picnic
at Cedar Lake, on Sunday, and while there fell
IN with two confidence men, who robbed him.
In attempting to recover bis money, he was
fatally shot. and died on Tuesday.
The gas we'll which is being bored at Licking
ton has reached depth of 400 feet. and the flow
of gas is very heavy. The company has leased
all the adjacent lands, in order to prevent other
wells being sunk in the same vein.
The saloon of William Whitneek. at Somer-
set Wabash county, was totally destroyed by
fire. on Tuesday night. The town is without
fire protection, and the loss ($l,OOO) is total
The fire was the work of incendiaries
David Fisher, of Xenia, ten miles west of Ma
rion met with peculiar death on Tuesday
While mauling rails the maui slipped from the
handle and descended on his skull, infcting in
juries which resulted in death few hours later.
David Haley, sixty-eight years old, and for
fifty years thief, was arrested on Tuesday at
Louisville, KY. on a charge of counterfeiting.
Haley formerly lived in Jeffersonville where he
served eighteen years in the penitentiary for
counterfeiting
Alexander Dodge, a former citizen of Mad
ison died in Washington, D. c., on Sunday
morning He was appointed to position in
Washington nearly forty years ago. through the
influence of the late Jesse d. Bright, and has
remained there ever since.
The oldest son of j. B. Anderson living two
miles west of Westfeld, was overcome by the
heat on Tuesday afternoon, while working on
barn, and he fell to the ground distance of
some feet A large piece of scantlng fell with
him, and, striking his head crushed his skull.
The Lair House at Lafayette had narrow
escape from being burned on Monday night A
travelling man attempted to light the gas in
of the rooms when the fixtures gave way, filling
the room with gas. He rang the bell for a boy,
who lit match in the hall and caused the flow