The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-11

The social event of the season at Greenshurg
| was the marriage, on Thursday. of Samuel L..
Jackson and Miss Mary Hamilton.
On Thursday evening Samuel L. Jackson,
manager of the Greensoure Lecture Course
| was married to Miss Mary Hamilton.
| Miss Florence Trucks was given judgement on
Thursday at Decatur. for 81. 400, against Nathan
| Mccoy. wealthy farmer, for seduction.
white pelican four feet seven inches high,
and five feet four inches from tip tin of wings,
| was killed near Corydon by John E. Fetzer.
| Mrs. Henry Rieman was found dead on the
floor of her home at Connersville, on Thursday.
| Cause supposed to be paralysis of the heart.
| Frank Lonsley, of Laurel, was lodged in the
| Brookvile Jail on Thursday charged with q
| criminal assault on the ten-year-ol6 daughter Of
| Lewis Case.
The apple crop is so large in the nei9hbor-
| hood OF New Albany that the best command but
| 10 cents per barrel, while common stock sells at
| 40 ard 80 cents.
| The Cass county fair will open at Logansport
next Tuesday. The fair is under a man
| ageuent and promises to be the most successful
one given in the county.
Mrs. Jane Hannah. aged twenty-five, wife of
| Franklin Hannah, farmer near Odon, Da-
viess county. has become violently insane on &C.
| count of religious excitement.
| S. A. Kean 81 Co. of Chicago want So, 900
| from the Delaware County Commissioners for al
/ legged loss in failing to receive the courthouse
bonds after their bid had been accepted.
special dispatch from Richmond says that a
| violent type of fux has existed at Berea and vi
cinity for the past sixty days. More than fifty
| children have died, the greater part OF whom
were white.
At Milton, on Thursday John Hollingsworth,
| a carpenter badly hurt by falling shelving,
| which he was engaged in putting up. His back
was seriously injured, and he was at first re-
ported dead.
Knox county has o female assessor--Mrs.
| Dorcas Leech. of Palmyra township-and let it
| De said to her credit that her report the
neatest and most explicit of any flied by the
various assessors.
At Wabash. yesterday, Michael McCarty and
John King. two crooks. sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary for stealing trunk
| from a travelling man. George Lewark was also
| given one year for larceny.
The present season has been unusually prolific
| of that species of turtles known as 'logger-
| heads" and the markets along the Ohio river
| have been so plentfully supplied that they sell
| as low as cents per pound.
| Burglars are so bold in Columbus that they ply
their vocation under the very eyes of the police.
| On Thursday night saloon was entered and
| robbed of $50, and the previous night the City
| drug store suffered loss of $685.
| Francis Flaitz. Commissioner of Shelby conn
| tv from the central district and candidate for
| re election, died Yesterday morning, after an
| illness of two months He had been prominent
Clam bakes are the rage at Huntington just
| now. If the clans in the Tippecanoe any,
| thing like those found in White river. the people
in that section must have cast-iron stomachs to
be able to survive more than one bake
The Banks homicide case at Vincennes, was
continued yesterday. on the motion OF the pros
ecution, an important witness being absent 1t
is generally considered that this is the last of the
case. which has been tried three times.
Three prisoners escaped from the Loeansport
Jail on Thursday, but through the efforts of a
| reporter and the Mayor. two of them
captured. Frank Nice is the name of the one
who proved too fast for the reporters legs.
A freight and passenger rate war is imminent
on the Ohio river between Evansville and New
Albany. on account of the low stage of water
Many small craft taking advantage of this
| fact to compete with the regular packet lines.
William Guthrie. aged seventy-two years. and
of the earliest settlers of the vicinity of the
town of Adams, died at that place yesterday
He was noted for his sterling integrity and
manv worthy qualities, and leaves many friends
Two cases of arson have occurred in Adams
county in the past four days. The first was the
burning of the Kern dwelling, at Geneva, eight
cen miles south; the second on Monday night,
when the Luckey school house was burned; total
| loss S.. 500. No clew IN either case
On Thursday night the general store of Christ
| ian Miller. at Urbana, few miles north of Wa
| bash, was broken open and the money drawer,
| tents. The postofice. located in the same build
ing, was also robbed Of its supply Of stamps and
| other valuables
The County Commissioners of Grant county
yesterday granted liquor license to Ira B.
Smith, of Paramount, over the protest OF nine
tenths of the citizens. The place has never yet
had a saloon and the citizens say that if he per-
sists in opening up for business the town will
| be made too warm to hold him.
| Charles F. Hantche, old and respected citi
zen of Richmond, died on Thursday and will be
buried to-day. Mr. Hantche was man of rare
culture and musical attainment, being gradu-
ate of Heidelbere's famous university. He was.
Also brave soldier of two wars. having served
both in the Mexican and late civil war.
Last Wednesday Henry Brenton. farmer.
| living six miles north of Charlottesville.
| found dead in bed by nechbor boy. The fam
| lily were attending the fair. and did not know
| of the death Of Mr. Brenton until on their way
! home. He had taken dose of fluid extract of
| belladonna, which produced death in a short
time. The cause of the act was dependency.
Rev. Charles L. G. Runck Of Evansville pas
| tor of ST. Johns German Evangelical Church,
! and his wife celebrated their silver wedding
| Thursday night 1t was Mr. Runck's fiftieth
birthday, and. also, the twenty fifth anniversary
| Of his appoin tment pastor Of St. Johns
| Church. Eleven hundred people were present
| from various portions of the State and Cincin-
| natl.
About a month ago the fifteen .months-old son
of Frank Kaline. who resides near Jefferson
| vile. attacked with commissions. After the
| commissions subsidized the child remained in a
| comatose state for more than two weeks. The
| commissions produced cerebral hemorrhage OF
| the brain. and the little fellow became totally
bind. but is now gradually recovering his bodily
| health.
The Grant county grand jury has returned in
dictments as follows: George John and Richard
| Medium, assault and battery with intent to
| murder: Felix Dimmick burglary; CAL Middle
| ton, grand larceny; Joseph Grafton. grand lar
ceny; Elmer and Grant Hamilton, forgery:
| Adam Blinn, grand larceny. Yesterday, Calvin
| Middleton was sentenced to year in the peni-
tertiary on plea of guilty.
On Thursday night about twenty Wabash
| young men went to La Gro wirhthe intention of