The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-10
Minor Notes.

| Ira GAM. living In Kosciusko county. has lost
both hands and will probably lose both his feet
with the govt.
The first convention of the Miami County
| Sunday school Union will be held at Denver
! July 20 and 30.
| The County Commissioners of Fountain
county will build bridge across the Wa
bash at Attica.
| On Thursday night burglars entered the store
of S. Kettering, at Syracuse and got away with
500 worth of goods
The preliminary trial of the Hat field Hulsinger
bastardy suit, at Dublin, terminated in the re-
lease of the defendant.
VIM. Creighton has resigned his position as
president of the Ohio Fallscar works and Joseph
Sprague has been elected to succeed him.
The Franklin Enterprise, independent
weekly owned and edited by Calvin Goss, has
suspended publication for want of support
Jacob Lionberger, wealthy citizen of Knox
county, was feeced out of $500 by confidence
men. supposed to be connected with the Wal
lace circus.
The post-mortem in the of Alice Mitchell,
who was murdered at Thorntown last week, de-
veloped the fact that double murder had been
committed.
Thomas Useiman, one of Parke county's pio-
neers, died very suddenly few days ago. He
was born in 1911, and had been resident of the
county fifty lone years.
The telephone war at Evansville is virtually
over. The directors of the telephone company
on Thursday ordered all instruments to be taken
out and shipped to Boston.
At meeting of the Brazil BAR held on Thurs
day, resolutions eulegistic of the late Isaac M.
Compton adopted, and Hon. George A.
Knight delivered an address.
At Anderson on Thursday, George Zion, in a
dispute about wheat crop, slashed his brothers
inlaw, Barney and Dode Wood, with q razor in
a frightful and perhaps fatal manner
Ellis Thornton was drowned in the NIisss-
sinewa river, three miles from Jonesboro while
bathing. His companions thought him testing,
and discovered their mistake too late. He was
fourteen years old
The Northwest Indiana Conference will be
held at Frankfort, beginning Sept. g with Bishop
Merrill presiding. The conference was to have
been held at Charlottesville, hut for local rea-
sons it has been decided to hold it at Frankfort
A twelve or fifteen -year-old lad, son of George
Moore, of Richmond, had foot cut eff by the
cars on Thursday afternoon. He, in company
with some other boys attempted to board a
moving freight train. but missed his hold, with
| the above result
Rev. John Poucher, of New Albany will ac-
cept the prOfeSSorship In DePauw College at
Greencastle TO which he was elected recently.
Mr.. Poucher has been for several years pastor of
| Centenary Church, and is very much beloved by
| his congregation.
The twelve-year-ol old son of Simpson Chambers,
residing in the southern part of Monroe county.
WAS drowned Yesterday. He had gone TO a pond
near the house to 60 bathing. and while in the
water it is supposed was seized with fit, as he
was subject to them.
Mrs. Catharine Thomson. one of the pioneers
of Decatur county died yesterday morning, at
the age of eighty-three wears. She the
mother of John n. Gillespie. now of Minneapo-
| lis, Mimi, and Jesse NJ. Thompson of the firm
CT Thompson & Trusler.
At Lafayette. Thursday. Thomas A. Wig
gins sued James III. Henderson for $40, 900 in a
Islander suit for calling the plaintiff thief, etc.
| Both are farmers and wealthy woman is said
| to be at the bottom of the racket and it seems
| the female devil has broken loose.
At meeting of Lafayette Post G. A. r., n
| committee consisting of Col. Henry Leaning,
| w. w. McBeth and J. w. Newton were APP
| pointed TO take charge of the entertainment of
| old soldiers on the day July 29) set apart for
| them during the coming encampment.
Robert Mckee, we'll known farmer of West
| Lafayette, dropped dead while at work a field
| yesterday morning. The cause of death was
| either heart disease overhead. He WAS sixty
years of age, and leaves widow and one grown
son, the latter residing at Olathe Kan
J. a. Morrison living near Chalmers, had
child bitten by rattlesnake early this week.
The little one. not yet two years of age, was
| playing near the house when his cries bro light
| the mother to his rescue. The reptile had but
one rattle. 1t is thought the child will recover.
Jeremiah F. Mickey, a business man of Mum
| cie died at his home on Wednesday night, after
several weeks illness. For many years he has
been engaged in the drug business in the city,
and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all.
At his death he possessed quite large fortune.
| At a meeting of the Fort Wayne S9nSerbund.
recently committee was appointed to organize
l grand fest to be held at Fort Wayne in Sep
| tember, and invitations will be sent to singing
| societies in indianapolis, Terre Hauts Evans
vile, Lafayette, Richmond, Toledo and other
cities.
! Mr. John D. Dougan, of the Second National
Bank, Richmond, owned a rat-terrier about a
year ago, named Topsy. He gave her to a livery
/ man in indianapolis, who has had it in his pos
| session until very recently The other morning
| the dog made its appearance at the bank. unac-
| companied, having travelled the whole distance
/ between the two places.
| Talma Jones, charged with the larceny of a
/ satchel from q freight conductor on the Logans-
| port division of the Vandalia was brought be-
i fore Judge Mack, of Terre Haute on Thursday
i morning. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to the penitent!ary for three years. Talma has
been way ward young man. He was arrested
| and tried in 1875 for the murder of Eva Peters.
The wife of DIR. r. 7. Miller, of Sonth Bend,
4 met with an accident, Thursday, which may
prove fatal. Some children set fire to straw
stack near the house, and while trying to put it
out Mrs Miller's clothes caught fire and were
nearly all burned off before they could be ex-
4 tinguished burning her body and limbs in a
/ frightful manner.
A series of meetings of special interest to
farmers will be conducted at Island Park AS
| sembly during its coming session. The series
! will open on Tuesday morning, Aug. 3, and con-
tinue through tbs forenoons of the days succeed
4 ing. until the close of the assembly. j. W. Me
| Gregor, of Oxford, o.. leading member of the
famous Oxford Farmers Club, will conduct the
| institute.
1 At Oswego, Kosciusko county. the eght-year-
L rlA 6usfn hfap IF T1kx -.
swinging, when her comrades wound up the