The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-11
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April l3
A lodge of the Knights of Labor was formed
st Charlottesville on Tuesday night
The wife of Rev. James M. Read, of Chaun-
cey, died on Tuesday after lingering illness.1
.Will John B. Mitchell be confirmed as post
master9" is the momentous question at New
Albany.
Henry Erdman, well-known German resi-
dent of New Albany, died on Tuesday, aged
sixty years.
Frank Wyatt, of Shelbyville, young man
who stole 500 from his father, Samuel Wyatt,
came into court yesterday morning, and en- a
plea of guilty was given three years in the peni-
tertiary
Over three hundred accessons have been
made in the different churches of Upton county
this winter, and reyivals are still in progress.
frances are common, and four persons have be-
come insane over religion.
Lucket Ramsay, clerk in Gleason's grocery,
at Upton, loaded revolver and placed it in
show case. Afterward. forgetting that heshad
loaded it. he took the pretty plavthing out, and,
while f1ourshing it about, sent a bullet through
his wrist
A social and musical entertainment was held
by the Peru G. A. r. in their hall on Tuesday
night Preliminary steps were also taken for
the organization of a ladies' relief corps. In two
weeks the ladies hope to be organized and in
running order.
O. HI. Bales. superintendent of Whites Insti-
tute, Wabash, has just returned from the West
with fourteen Indian children On the 10Th
inst twenty seven children will graduate at the
institute, and twenty eight more will be received
from the Far West
On Wednesday morning man was arrested at
Charlottesville for robbing Ben Gray, at Wayne
town. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for FIVE years and disfranchised
for ten years. He gave his name as George W.
70 ard, of Albany, N. Y.
Hoc
ural Society furnishes the following as the pres
ent condition of grain and fruit: Wheat, So per
cent; rye. 80; clover, &c. apples 100 peaches,
none; plums, 100; cherries IS: black raspberries,
go; red raspberres, loo Strawberries, 80.
The government on Tuesday. through United
States District Attorney John E. Lamb, paid for
the ground purchased in New Albany for the
site of the government building to be erected,
and the deeds were passed and the purchase com
pleted. Work upon the building will be COM
menced about May L.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Joanna Thomas, aged
seventy eight years, who lived at WhitIock ten
miles northwest of Charlottesville, was found
dead in bed She lived alone and once in
while a little niece would stay all night with
her, as she did on Tuesday night, and upon
awakening found her aunt dead.
The cover-seed thieves lately in the Mont
gomery county Jail have been taken to the pen-
tertiary. Charles Baxter was sent for five years,
disfranchised for five years. and fined $25
James Tomason went for two years, dis
franckised for five years. and fined 81. The case
against Calvin Balls was dismissed
1t is stated that the Central Union Telephone
Company, by filing notice of their withdrawal
from business before the Lafayette Common
Council have impaired their right to maintain
their poles in the streets of that city even tenn
porarily, and that the Council, at it's next meet
ing, will take aggressive action against them.
Mrs. John Bateman died. on Tuesday night
of howl nr in Atn f0vf
Her maiden name was Marquis, and she was
born and reared in Marion county, this State.
She died from the effects of an internal cancer
Her funeral will be conducted, thursday, at 10
o'clock A. NJ, by Rev. E. l.. Frazier, of the
Christian Church Interment in Crown Point
Cemetery, Kokomo.
The St Pauls Catholic Church at Greencastle
has purchased the ground and buildings owned
and occupied by Renick s. Curtis's carriage fac
tory. 1t is the purpose of the church to tear
away the old buildings and erect a fine school
house of large dimensions. Renick g. Curtis
have occupied the site for over a quarter of a
century. and have not yet determined where
they will rebuild their works.
The Michigan City Common CoIfS;lEAhas-
granted franchise to a company to build
street railway in that city. The ordinance stp-
ulates that the company complete and run cars
at least one mile of track within year. The
company is composed of jeremiah Knight and
John Lyons, of South Bend. the last named
AoTmclly VI 1uuidHdpolS, WuO are HOW operating
a line between South Bend and Mishawaka.
The libel suit brought against the Kokomo
Dispatch some ten days ago for SIS, 900, by Rev.
e. W. Osburn. of Noblesville, was yesterday
satisfactorily compromised by all the parties
coming together with proposition to make
wrong right Rev. Osburn asked for and oh
tanned retraction of the whole matter as utter
lv false. The Hendersons are to pay all ex-
penses of filing the suit and attorneys fees.
Mrs Sim, of Fort Wayne, who has husband
living from whom she has never been divorced,
caused to be arrested young man whom she
charged with the paternity of two of her chill
dren born within the past four years, since
Sims departure. With the connvance of
justice of the peace, De Turk, the young man
and Mrs. Sim compromised the case by mar
riage, and the county prosecutor will have Mrs.
Sim arrested for bgamy.
ILLINOIS.