The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-27
Minor Notes.

new German Evangelical Church was ap-
propriately dedicated at Lafayette yesterday.
A poultry show on an extensive scale will he
held at Shelbyville the second week in Novem-
Der.
Mrs Emily Monroe. an aged widow of Austin.
has been adjudged insane and sent to tle State
Asylum
St. Louis CAPITALISTS contemplate tha erection
of large wooden mill at JeffePsonville to en-
ploy 1900 men.
The clerk of Vigo county has issued 372 mar
riaee licenses far this year. against 3l2 for
the same time last year.
Mrs Susan Knoblock, resident of LAFAYETTE
for over fifty years. died there on last Friday.
aged lightweight years
Marengo is having an epidemic of disease re-
semblng dysentary or fiux. A large number of
deaths have occurred there recently.
James Hunter an ex-sodier and member of
Company H. FIfty-third Indiana Res aSkent, died
last week at his home near kokomo.
John Lewis Gentry has received a life sentence
in prison for killing DIR. G. j. Agee during po-
litlcal quarrel at Boonville last june
Sixteen sheep on the farm of w. B. McKibben,
near LaGrange, were killed by a single bolt of
lightning, during the storm of last Thursday.
Mrs. George Nebeker, wife of a prominent
business man of Covington, died suddenly on
Saturday while visiting her sister, Mrs. r. H.
McElsresh. at Terre Haute.
William Jones, residing near Brownstown,
committed suicide on Saturday night by means
of shotgun. The deed was caused by despond-
ency from dissipation and domestic infelicity.
second attempt is to be made to break the
will Of the late William j. Wise. of Vincennes
suit was filed on Saturday, the plaintiffs being
j. A. Shugart Mary Shugart. j. B. Wise. L. A.
Wise ct al. against f. j. Mckinney, admins
traitor of the estate.
On Friday a monster antler was found by per-
sons who are engaged in cleaning ont Yellow
creek. Decatur The antler is five feet
long and has six prongs. each measuring sixteen
inches. The antler is we'll preserved, yet has
doubtless been there for ages.
At Richmond, on Saturday, the jury in the
case of j. w. Ranck, indicted for arson, the
burning of the homestead house and barn, to
defeat his co-heirs, returned a verdict Of not
guilty in one hour. The verdict was expected,
but more litigation is promised.
j., M. g. I. freight train jumped the track
in the streets of Jeffersonville last Friday, and
tore up square Of pavement AMI crossings, and
broke down all the shade trees, telephone poles
and gas posts for like distance. The poles and
gas posts were snapped in two like matches. and
the telephone wires tangled in every direction.
Jeffersonville, not content with being the
Gretna Green of the State, is now trying to
work up reputation gamblers paradise.
A local item states that fully 1000 keno players
from Louisville and New Albany We're in the
city on Saturday night. and that no attempt was
made to conceal the various games. all the
houses running wide open.
A new G. A. r. post was instituted at Chaun-
cey. Tippecanoe county, last Friday evening.
The officers installed were: P. c., w. A Cad
dis, Fourth Indiana Cavalry: S. V. c., s. NJ
Aiken, Tenth Indiana Infantry; j. V. c., Zach
ariah Upo, Thirty-if Indiana Infantry; sur
geon, j. D. Wright, Seventy-second Indiana In
fantry; chaplain, B. T. Magee, Seventy second
Indiana Infantry
On Tuesday of last week three men, bearing
the corpse of an old lady said to have died from
the effects of tumor, at Greenfield Hancock
county appeared in the neighborhood of the
Nicholson cemetery, near the boundary line of
Madison county, and sought aid in the matter of
burial Their stories as TO the death and former
residence of the deceased were not corroborative,
and the matter is being Investigated.
Two Elkhart sportsmen went to Hudson lake,
last week, to hunt ducks. They failed to find
any until the day of the big hail storm. when
they saw flock of fifteen take refuge in a pond
near by. After the storm had passed away,
they picked up nine of the fifteen dueks-all
killed by the large hail These they took home
with them, intending TO pass them off as trophies
OF their skill. bu: post-mortem examination by
skeptical friends revealed no shot marks, and
the hunters were compelled to explain matters
as above.
Blue Lick society is excited over the sudden
and mysterious disappearance of Mrs Hulda
Townsend. wife OF George H. Townsend. a
wealthy farmer. The couple were married sixty
years ago. and have always lived happily to-
gether. On Friday Hulda packed her vaIse
and deserted her home. leaving note inform
ing her husband that she would never return,
and it was useless for him to grieve over her.
and If any of the neighbors asked why she had
left him. to tell them 'it was none of their
business
John Bockner has filed suit in the Knox coun-
ty Circuit Court against w. B. Fletcher claim
ing $40, 900 damages for alternating the affections
of his wife. Fletcher Is wealthy farmer living
In the suburbs of Vineennes. The plaintiff
states that he married to his wife in 1862
and that they lived happily together man and
wife more than twenty years, but in 1881 Fetch