The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29


Richard johnson. was married yesterday, at
| Madison, to Miss Ida M. dreiner, daughter OF
| Mat Greiner, deceased
| The hominy mill of Stopp 8 Bro, at Corydon,
| took fire on Tuesday night, but was discovered
| in time to save the building from destruction.
| Loss about S400; no insurance.
| The Commissioners of Vigo county, on Tues
day opened the bids for finishing the new court
house. and will probably let the contracts to-day.
The lowest bids aggregate $lO9.O9 OS.
Brown 6 Winters. fruit and vegetable dealers.
of Muncie. have failed. The assets are said to
be 5000. and the liabilities between $400 and
| $500, due mostly to Indianapolis jobbers
Mr.. D. Holloman, of Center township, Boone
county, reports yield of two hundred and fifty
two bushels of wheat machine measure) from
five acres. equal to fifty five bushels per acre. by
weight.
e. B. Reynolds will speak on submission and
local option. from the non partisan view, at
Economy, Wayne county, on Tuesday, Aug. 3,
and at West Grove, on Thursday, Aug 8, in the
evening.
Harrison PoIlom, while at work at the top of
the new coal shaft at Center Point, on Tuesday,
fell to the bottom, distance of thirty feet he
was picked up much bruised and broken, and I'M
conscious.
Lebanon will make contract with Cincin-
natl firm for the establishment OF gas-works in
that city, and will agree to fifty street lights
for period Of ten years, at cost Of Sl9 each
per annum:
Another destructive hail-storm visited the
western portion of Fulton county on Monday
evening, corn in the fields being stripped Of the
blades, and young chickens and turkeys killed by
the hundreds
Hunneweil Haskell, an aged man. committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head with
shotgun, on board q family boat, twelve miles
above Madison. Two of his divorced wives live
somewhere in Indiana.
Beginning on Aug through mail service will
be put on the E. q l. road between Terre Haute
and Evansville. At present the mail leaving
Terre Haute is only run to Worthington, and
to Washington from Evansville.
The man found dead at Williamsport, last
Sunday morning, was recognized as James W.
Hill. He lived one mile south of Danvile ILL.,.
and belonged to the @. A. r. Post of that place.
he leaves a widow and seven children.
The wife of John Coyle, wholesale liquor
dealer of Peru, and her four children, were dan
gerously poisoned by eating potatoes over which
Rough on Rats" had been accidentally spilled
by child. They are in q fair way to recover.
The county commissioners of Jay county sold
$l5, 900 of her county bonds. bearing 6 per cent.
interest, at a premium of 1856. The bonds
were made payable in one, two three, four and
five years, and were of the denomination of $500
each.
Bruce Moore and Miles Carver, sons of farm
ers of Fulton county, were arrested on Tuesday
charged with rape. Eta White, the girl who
preferred the charge, says they induced her to
drink whisky until intoxicated and then assault
ed her
Grandma Hix relict of William Xix, one of
the pioneers of Parke county, was found dead in
her bed on Sunday morning at her home in Wa
bash township. She was eighty years of age
and is supposed to have died from diseases Incl
dent to old age.
Mrs. Patsy Nicely Ralston, relct of Andrew
Ralston, who died over half century ago, died
on Tuesday at the residence of her daughter,
Nancy Holcomb, at Fort Branch, Vanderburgh
county, aged nearly ninety four years. She was
the oldest person in Gibson county.
Fort Wayne has secured a memb ership in the
Middle States fair circuit, and will hold an in
terstate fair from Sept. ID to II The Central
Fall Trotting circuit, of which Fort Wayne is
also member, has changed its dates so that it
will meet in that place during fair week.
An unoccupied house belonging to Ira B.
Thompson, near Columbus, burned on Tuesday,
with lot of implements and large amount of
hay and grain Fifteen haystacks outside were
also burned. Loss, ST., 100; insurance. The
house was an old landmark, having been built in
1926.
Miss Maud Jutton, aged seventeen years. died,
on Tuesday, at Evansville, of hydrophoba, after
suffering tho most horrible spasms ever wit
messed in that city frothing at the mouth, bark
ing and biting like kog. She was bitten by a
dog nine days previous to her death The fam
lily recently removed there from New Albany
A barn belonging to r. H. Cochran, a farmer
of Centervile, Vigo county, burned on Saturday
evening, with all its contents. consisting of farm
implements, 20 tons of hay. 600 bushels of corn,
all his buggies and wagons and 300 bushels of
wheat. The cause of the fire is unknown The
loss will aggregate over $40, 900 all told. 1t is
partially covered by insurance.
W. H. Wicknam, the brakeman who left the
switch open that caused the accident by which
the Pittsburg engineer, Mart Burke, was killed
at Valparaiso, is reported to have gone crazy.
His sister has also lost her reason, and ever
since the accident has roamed about the streets
and fields moaning and crying that they are
going to kill her brother or lynch him for murder.
James " Simpson, the man whose mysterious
disappearance from Wabash, with large sum
of money, occurred two weeks ago, and created
so much excitement, has returned homo, having
made tour TO the Southern States. Simpson
explains his sudden and unannounced depart
ure by saying that alleged illegitmate pa
ternity was about to be thrust upon him. as he
believed. though he was innocent of the charge.
The Terre Haute board of health has made
report showing that out of a total of 1888 deaths
in that city in 1882 SO were from tuberculosis;
in 1883 the number of deaths were 442. of which
69 were from the same cause; Ia 1884, 452 deaths,
with 70 were from tuberculosis; in 1885, 800
deaths, with n from tuberculosis, and in the first
three months of 1885, total of 1913 deaths, 81 Tor
% per cent of which were from the same disease.
One out of every four deaths is very large ratio
for consumption, and makes it almost equal to
an epidemic in Terre Haute
Samuel r. Bullock g Co.. of New York. were
awarded the contract, on Tuesday, for the con-
struction of the Wabash water works, at an an
nual rental of 81. 500. Four bids were submitted.
The specifications were for ten miles of MAINS
100 hydran.s engines with capacity of 3 900, 900
gallons per day, and stand pipe 100 feet high and
twenty five feet in diameter. Turner, Dellawav
& Rawson, of Boston, bid 81 $780, Shirk & Dukes
of Peru, 81, 800; E. B. Martindale, of Indianapo-
lis, S. 900; Bullock & Co., 81 800. Work will be-
gin in thirty days. and the system will be COM
| pleted Jan. l. The works will costs 100000
| Mrs. Maggie May Hodges, one of the so-called
| perfectionists, of Eaton, o., visited Richmond
| recently, and when she returned home said TO
| reporter that she had met the devil there: that
he was fne-looking man and had plenty of
money. and that he wanted to marry her. and
| she believed she would do SO, as she could ride
around in his fine carriage, and would have
/ plenty of money to spend, but that when she