The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-12

five wears. for murder. has been released on
parole from the State Prison South by the Gov
ernor.
Grant LafolletFe boasts the champion oats crop
OF Floyd county, grown on the farm of his
father, Judge d. w. Lafollette, on the Green
Valley road. The yield is sixty five bushels to
the acre.
The colored people will celebrate Emancipa-
ton Day at Greensburg Aug & Ex-senator
Bruce has assured John Sherman that he will
positively be present and address the people on
that occasion.
Sarah Walden, the colored murderess OF Terre
Haute, has been sentenced to twenty years in
the criminal department of the State Reforma-
tory she having pleaded guilty of numbering her
iilegitimate offspring.
The school board of Rushville has elected
Prot. Il. II. Butler, of Winchester, superintend
ent of the public schools in placeof Prof James
Baldwin. who resigned to accept similar posi-
ton II the Greencastle schools.
Evansville has forty churches. allotted as fol-
lows: Baptist, TO- Methodist, 81 Presbyterian. D;
Romsn Catholic, s. German Evangelical, 3; Luz
theran, 2 Jewish 2; Protestant Episcopal, 2;
Christian, l, and Unitarian, l.
Elmer S. Walker, West Lebanon, of y. s.
Grant Camp No. %, Sons of Veterans, has been
appointed commander of this division, which in
cludes the State of Indiana, to fill out the unex.
pired term of e. G.. Mcclure, resigned.
On Saturday resolutions eulogizing the late
W. F. Nisbet, of Evansville, were adopted by
the board of managers of the Evansville Or
phan Asylum, the Ministerial Relief Board, and
other societies of which he was member.
The Sunday-school convention OF the Elkhart
district of the English Evangelical Church will
be held at Grand View Church, near Rochester,
Fulton county beginning Wednesday. Sept. 10.
and continuing until Sunday evening, the 10Th
Indiana as follows: Warsaw. Aug Ii to To-;
Kendallvlle, Aug. II to ID Michigan City, Aug
is to IS; Fort Wayne, Aug 10 to %; Layfayette,
July 26 to Aug 2; Hartford City, Aug. IL to l3
Miss Eva Johnson's lifeless body was found
hanging from the limb of tree near her fathers
house. in Washington township, Clay county, In
an unfrequented patch of woods. No cause is
known for the rash act as her life was above
suspicion.
A ST. Joseph county rattlesnake, though cut
In two three times by a mower. had enough VI
tality left in its business end to bite Mrs Christ
The jaws OF the reptile had to be torn apart to
remove the fangs, and the woman had close
call for life.
The animal meeting of Bethany Park Assem-
bly,. which begins Aug. and continues to the
23d, promises to be unusually interesting this
year. The programme is very elaborate, ana the
meeting will have the assistance of Hon d. w.
Voorhees,, Gen. Lew Wallace, Hon. Sam Carey
and other distinguished speakers.
John Former, living two miles north of De-
catur. had ffty-four shocks of wheat destroyed
by fire on Saturday. A train on the Grand
Rapids & Indiana railroad stopped opposite his
field of wheat TO take water, and when starting
up threw sparks into the field, igntiug the stub
BILE and that communicated to the shocks
Erastus Peterson, sent to Joliet penitentary
from NATION, Ill.,. for larceny, and who will be
released to-day, is wanted at Terre Haute
ID - lannxx hry hn
Governor, and he will be brought to that place.
where he will be tried for horse-stealing and
grand larceny, which he was charged with be-
fore he committed the crime in Coles county,
Illinois.
At the Evansville City Hospital. on Saturday,
Mrs. Vance. coored woman who lives in Union
township, Vanderburg county, was operated on
by Dr. Purdue assisted by Drs. Linthicum.
Worsham Brooks. Kerth. McMahan, Hartloff
and McClurken, who removed very large
, ovarian tumor. The patient stood the operation
excellently, and the prospects for her recovery
are now very good. The tumor was an ex-
traordinarily large one, weighing over forty
pounds.
The Warren county normal will begin in
Williamsport on Monday, July 10, and will con.
tinue four weeks. A larger attendance is ex;
pecred than ever before 1t will be conducted
by County Superintendent G. P. Brown. He
will be assisted by Prof. j. Erase Richards Of
Logansport, and Prof A. L. Starr, of Cham
naign. III. Following the normal and begin.
ming Monday, Aug. 16 will be held two-weeks'
teachers institute during the last week of
which Prof Amz Atwater. of Bloomington,
Ind, will deliver lecture each evening.
Palestine Enterprise: Last Tuesday Plymell
and Charlie Mills found very odd looking ami
NAL, half fish and half frog. in Lamotte creek,
south of town. The head and body are those
Of frog, but the mouth resembles that of a
buffalo fish. the tail is that of catfish; on one
side of its body three perfect frog legs all in
one cluster, and on the other side of the body
there is but one leg. 1t is about three inches
long from head to tail, and is as we'll proper
toned as fish. When found it. was lying on a
log dead. We have this animal in our possession
in state of preservation.