The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-17

Emancipation Day on the 22d inst
Rattlesnake and Wildcat are the names of two
lively rival towns in Carroll county.
The City Council of Fort Wayne has pur-
| chased ground for q new park at cost of
81, 500.
Princeton has bought two bIoodhounds, to be
used in hunting criminals. They were secured
| at Mobile, Ala, and cost $780,
Hon. p 8. Kennedy of Charlottesville. has
| an apple tree in his door yard that has just
bloomed for the second time this year
Fair Play Fire Company, No. L, of Madison,
was awarded first prize, 800, in the fremen's
tournament. at Cincinnati, yesterday.
| Yesterday morning near Faulkner p o. JEFF
ferson county, Jesse JineS accidentally shot him
| self, tearing off the front part of his head.
Mack McClelland of Jackson township, Clay
county, is in Jail at Brazil, charged with Grim
inaliy assaulting Miss CULVER, of Harmony.
At Fort Wayne, on Wednesday Helen SPELL
ner, a small child, while playing around a tub
| of boiling water, fell in, and was instantly
scalded to death
In a trial of speed on a bicycle at Crawfords-
| ville on Wednesday evening S. G. Crawford of
| Chicago, made ten miles in 1924 The record is
| SO minutes for ten miles.
I The total gate receipts of the Shelbyville fair
amounted to SO, 6O3 so, and the amphitheater to
1897. 90 In 1885 the gate receipts were 81, 00440
and the amphitheater $278.05.
| Rev. W. p. BarnhilI, of Campbelsburg.
| Washington county, has been elected chaplain
| of the Southern prison, to I'll the vacancy
caused by the resignation of the Rev. L. F..
| Cain.
| William Craig and Jack Bottles of Scott
| township, Harrison county, became involved In
| q difficulty, and Bottles stabbed Craig several
| times, INJECTING dangerous and probably fatal
wounds
| Some time ago Frederick Yeager, living near
| Corydon, missed So, Goa which he had hid away
| L 49, r.
caused the arrest of his son James for the theft
| of the same.
| On Wednesday morning, six miles west of
| Fort Wayne. tho barn of j. B. Schoen burned
with it's entire contents, including Jersey bull.
agricultural implements and grain. Total loss,
| "a, 900: insured.
| James Howard, a noted burglar who has
served two terms in the illinois pententiary,
| was arrested at Vincennes and taken to Van
| dalia. Ill., where he is wanted for burglarizing
hardware store.
/ Rev. A. Hummer, a Methodist minister at
Charlottesville, has been rendered the position
| of president OF the preparatory department of
| DePauw University. at Greencastle After due
| consideration. Mr.. Hummer declined the offer.
| The Presbytery of Vincennes, which embraces
all the ministers and churches in south western
| Indiana will meet in Brazil next Tuesday.
The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary
Society will also meet at the same time and
| place.
The Presbyterian Church of Franklin by a
unanimous vote, has extended call to Rev. E.
w. Mcmillan, of Lebanon, KY. at a salary of
ST. Mr.. Mcmillan is talented young man,
Is quite an orator. and is the of anillustrious
preacher of his denomination.
Michael Bordy aged seventy five years, a.
prosperous farmer, living near Milford, koscius-
ko county, committed suicide on Wednesday, by
hanging himself to a rafter of his barn. His
friendsscannot account for his act, he having nj
VUav iVaR witt iG IV and YQiO
| bors.
| Mr.. Freeman, Rush county farmer, says that
| If hogs are allowed to run in fields whore the
| iimson weed grows abundantly they will never
| have the cholera. He backs his statement by
| saying that ne has followed this plan and never
| lost hog by the disease, while his neighbors
have lost hundreds.
| William Carmichael, charged with firing his
| brothers dwelling in Stony creek township
| Madison county, was captured under five
| pointed revolvers and brought to Anderson on
| Wednesday. He had his preliminary hearing
| and was bound over to court in the sum of
$1,000 Failing to give bond, he was remanded
| to Jail
| VIM. H. Brown, of Allen county, is the ban
ner convict in the northern prison. He has just
been returned to that institution for the seventh
| time, after a vacation OF six months and is said
| to be one of the most incorrgibe criminals in
| the State. He rarely stays out of prison longer
| than the interim between the sessions of court,
and always commits offense emitting him to
sentence of from one to three years.
| Purdue University opened last week. under
! the most favorable auspices. The students re-
turned more promptly and in larger numbers
| than ever before. The freshmen class numbers
| ninety. President Smart thinks that the enroll
| ment in the college proper will reach 225 and in
| the preparatory department $50, thus making a
| total enrolment Of 375 for the year This in
crease is considerably larger than was anticipat-
ed. and affords great satisfaction to the friends Of
| Purdue
| The relatives and friends of Mrs Addie Frady,
| of Franklin. who unceremoniously left the
bed and board of her husband. Lutte Frady, on
Saturday last, have found no clew to her where
abouts. Her husband and her mother Mrs. A.
| N Carmine, have constantly been seeking for
| her, but with no success. She left note to her
| husband saying that she would never again re-
turn alive. She had been suffering. from great
| mental depression since the sudden death of her
| only child, last spring.
John Robbins, an indianapolis barber, who
went to Lafayette six months ago, dropped into a
| saloon during the recent encampment, where he
| found the bartenders asleep. Thinking that
somebody somebody might rob rob the place. ne
| drawer and deliver it to the proprietor
| himself, and the same time play a capital
| joke on the liquid dispensers. Unfortunately
| for him the bartenders awoke just he was
leaving the door, and spoiled his fun by having
| him arrested, and now jury, with seEse of
| humor, has given him year in the penitentary
At the Lahr House, Lafayette, on Wednesday
| night Miss Carrie Rose, a beautiful young He
brew lady, daughter of NJ. Rose the principal
| cigar manufacturer of that city, married by
Rev. E. W. Henschen. of the German Reformed
Church, to Frederick Smith, Protestant Chris
tan business man Of Port Huron, Mich. The
parties are all very wealthy, and the wedding
has made sensation in Hebrew circles, as the
| girls father was known TO have done everything
| to prevent it. and was not aware of the intended
| ceremony the lady having quietly slipped away
from her nome to the hotel where she met her
fancee.
The fifty second annual opening of Franklin
College occurred yesterday under suspicious cir
cumstances. The members of the faculty have
| all returned from their summer recreations in
splendid health and vigor of mind. The num-
Der of students present was larger than that OF
any previous opening, and every department