The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-03
Minor Notes.

Mr. John Wildermuth of Pulaski county, had
nine acre field of small clover that yielded him
sixty-one and a-half bushels of seed.
On account of the prevalence of dphtheria the
public schools of Logansport will not open for
several weeks after the date originally settled
upon.
John Dopfer, a merchant tailor, of Columbus,
has made an assignment to G.. j. Kollmeyer for
benefit of creditors. Liabilities, So, 600; assets
81, 600.
The school teachers of Rush county have set
on foot among themselves a movement to place
monument over the grave of the late Mrs. r.
A. Mofft.
The Delphi Journal has passed into the hands
of Mr. Samuel Young, Mr.. j. B. Scott retiring
after having successfully conducted the paper for
nearly thirty-six years.
The Grant county fair, which is in progress
this week at Marion, is pronounced success
The exhibit is large aud of good quality. The
crowd yesterday was one of the largest ever IN
attendance at Grant county fair. 1t will close
to-day
Horace Markham, a farmer, residing eight
miles from Goshen, committed suicide by hang
ing He was man of good habits, living happily
with his family, SO far as known. He leaves a
wife and four children, the eldest being ten
years of age.
At Hammond on Wednesday evening Jacob
Culp was instantly killed by the accidental dis
charge of a revolver which Culp and Michael
Lucy were examining. Lucy was placed in Jail
by City Marshal Walker to await developments
at the coroner's inquest
The Terre Haute Gazette reports that the son
OF a Methodist minister in Riley township, Vigo
county, was found without Bible in his house,
the other day by the colporteur of the American
Bible Society, who is just now canvassing the
county. He wouldn't either buy accept one
as gift and when 1t was proposed to leave one
became highly indignant. and fired" the col
pOrteur
The two dynamite bombs found in the rolling
mill of the Central Iron and Steel Company, at
Brazil, and whose discovery created eonsi iera-
BILE excitement have been traced to Chicago,
where they were shipped TO Brazil in a car of
scrap-iron. The proprietors and employees of
the mill are on the best of terms, and there has
never been a suspicion that the men had hand
In placing the bombs there since they would
have suffered, especially by explosion
Hog cholera in Adams county has now ex-
tended over the entire county. One farmer
lost eiehty-six head-all he had. Druggists
are selling large amounts of alleged spe-
clfics, but with little effect toward stopping
the disease. Unless the cholera abates in the
left In the county to supply home consumption.
1t is estimated that 100000 worth of hogs have
died in the last two weeks in that county.
Miss Estella Hurlbut, of SouthsBend, put on
pair OF kid gloves, reaching to the elbows, and
cleaned them with gasoline. rubbing them to-
finish drying them by holding them over the
stove The gasoline gnited Instantly and her
arms to the elbows were all abaze She rolled
the gloves down from the elbows and pulled
them off, meantime throwing her hands up to
her face. The flesh was so badly burned On the
arms and hands that it came Off Her eveashes
and eyebrows were all burned away and her
front hair singed.
On Wednesday morning Chesley Pest. a
wealthy farmer, residing near Holman, went
into q meadow where Jersey bull was feeding.
The bull, seeing the old gentleman crossing the
field, at once started for him, and before the old
man could get to the fence the bull caught him
on his horns and tossed him several feet away.
The old man raised to get up, when the bull re-
newed the attack. The horns entered the thigh,
manglng the flesh and tearing in two the
femoralsartery He again started for the fence.
Reaching it, he erasped the ton rail ard stood
there until he bled to death. He was alone at
the time, and assistance did not reach him until
he died