The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-24
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.

Mr. and Mrs. Il. Fl. Eldridge are at Gratiot
Beach.
Mrs. John R. Cravens, Of Madison, visited the
city yesterday.
Mr. q. W. McKenna is in the city, stopping at
the Denison House.
Mr. J. r. Duncan and Miss Ida Duncan, OF
Terre Haute, were in the city yesterday.
Mrs. John l.. Mcfarland has returned from
the West, whore she has been visiting friends.
w. B. Hord, the Deputy Attorney general, has
returned from vacation spent at Lake George
S. w. Putnam, OF the Putnam Machine Com
pany, of Fitchburg. Mass, is in the city on q
business trip.
Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks. Mrs. T. P. Wig
gins and several friends are stopping at the Hy-
geia Hotel, Old Point Comfort. Va
A lawn social will be given this evening by the
young people of Memorial Presbyterian Church.
at the corner Of Bellefontaine and Eighth streets
Sergeant Fredericks, of this city, one of the
survivors of the Greeley relief expedition, has
been given exclusive control of the sale of Lieu
tenant Greely's book in Indiana and Ohio
Mr. Robt Kershner. of the Otto Steehhan
Furniture Company, is visiting Cameron Springs
and is sketching the romantic places in that
country. Mr.. Kershner will probably remain
two weeks longer.
Capt. Jas. B. Curtis. Of the Light Artillery. is
in tho Adirondacks, in search of rest and pleas
ure. and the published rumor that he will bring
home bride. his friends say, is without any
foundation whatever
AT the Qninquennial Worlds Homeopathic
Congress held recently at Basic, Switzerland,
Dr.. O. S. Runnels, of this city, was elected an
honorary vice president. He is now in that
country and is expected to return homo in about
six weeks.
w. T. Noble, of Richmond, candidate for the
Republican nomination for Clerk of the Supreme
Court and John w. Lovett, of Anderson, seek
ing the nomination for Attorney general. were in
the city yesterday, calling on delegates to the
State convention.
The Hotel Brotherhood last evening. headed
by the Big Six band, marched 30 the residence
of Rev. Anderson, pastor of the Blackford-str
M. e. Church colored. whore reception and
social was given to the pastor the United Sisters
or Mysterious Ten assisting. Mr.. Anderson
leaves Co attend conference and will probably be
stationed elsewhere in his next passionate.
Mr.. Aaron Shideler, the venerable father of
Hon. D. B. and j. w. Shideler, of this city, died
on Saturday last, at his home in Jonesborough,
Grant county, at the ripe old age of eightyfour.
His wife died at the same place Ave weeks ago.
This venerable couple were among the early
settlers Of Grant county, and were honored and
respected by all who knew them for their sterling
integrity and Christian virtues.
Mr. O. r. Johnson. Of the Evening News. ar
rived home yesterday, after months absence
on a trip to San Francisco where he was OBJ
ject of much attention and admiration. On his
return he stopped three or four days in Mime
apolis; and during his presence there dozen or
more interviews with him appeared in the papers
of that city, in which his views on the crops of
Indiana were given much prominence.
Mr.. Ernest Morris, while coming from Chicago
Sunday night, was, without provocation, assault
ed on the train by man who was evidently not
responsible for his conduct. The fellow
tried to push him off the car platform, while the
train was running forty miles an hour, and aft
erWards violently threw him against a seat. bad
ly bruising him. The stranger claimed to be
Pinkerton detective, and insisted that he knew
Mr.. Morris to be confidence man.
Hon. James T. Johnston, Congressman from
the Eighth district, who has been nominated by
the Republicans for reelection, was in the city
yesterday Mr.. Johnston thinks that, notwith-
standing the large increase of the Democratic
vote by tho addition of Sullivan county to the
Eighth district. the prospects for his election
are very favorable, one of the encouraging
features of the campaign being the strong oppo-
sition to candidate Lamb by members of his
own party