The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-04
Minor Notes.

x A large white swan was shot near Columbus
On Wednesday.
The co!ored people of Wayne county will cole
Drate the abolition of slavery, at Glen Miller,
on Sept %.
Thieves entered the residence of James l.
Roberts Versailles, and stole wearing apparel
and other articles to the value of 800.
E. ". Hibbs, tenant on the Van Cartnell
farm, in Diamond Island bend, aboutthirty miles
below Evansville, committed suicide by shooting
himself.
Adam Moneysmith, of Marshall county. claims
to have grown 478 bushels of oats on five acres
of ground or ninety-fve and three-ffths bushels
an acre.
Mrs. Ellen Fisher. Of Indianapolis, has
brought suit against Mrs Ellen Ward of Bar
tholomew county, for alleged SANDER, and wants
$1,000 damages.
The Lawrence Fair Association will hold it's
sixth annual fair Sept. IA to IL. This fair prom
ises to keep up its reputation as a popular and
successful exhibition
Daniel Nolan, twenty five years old. employed
st Ahlering's saw-mill, Evansville, while hoist
ing lumber with derrick was struck by a
board which swung loose, fracturing his skull
and inflicting fatal injuries
Nelson Sourwine, a druggist of Brazil took
dose of fluid extract of belladona, yesterday.
through mistake for buchu. Prompt and skillful
medical attention succeeded in overcoming the
effects of the poison, and he will recover
Marcus R. Richardson, an old blind soldier of
Jefferson county, has received news that his pen
sion claim has been allowed at the rate of $72
per month He will receive. to start with ST.
764 He has been prosecuting this case ever
since 1869.
A barn belonging to John Gubbins, one mile
east of New Castle, was burned yesterday morn
ing, together with contents, including one horse.
Loss about 81, 200, with an insurance OF $500 on
the building. Cause of FIRE unknown, but sup
posed to have been ircendiary.
The funeral of Hon. J. B. Reeves, former
member Of the Legislature from Bartholomew
county, took place yesterday afternoon, at Co.
Iumbus, and was largely attended. He was
young man of fine promise, and unusually es-
teemed, as the honors paid to his memory fully
attest.
Burglars gained entrance into Theo Booths
large grocery store at Milton, on Thursday night
and after drilling to the chilled steel lining coat
of the safe, the drill broke and they were fright
ened of. In their haste they left an entire kit
of burglars tools. They also tried to get into
Charles Miller's clothing store, but we're again
frightened away.
Judge Putnams photographic stone from his
quarry near Fayetteville. Lawrence county has
been tested by photographers at Chicago. and is
pronounced as good as the German stone. They
offer to pay for all this stone shipped to Chicago
the same price they now pay for the stone i'm
ported from Germany. This is the only stone
thus far found in the United States as good as
the German stone.
AS Petersburg, on. Thursday night, Calvin
Howard and Willis Brown had been drinking
and lettering about town together Finally they
reached the hotel door and began chatting each
other when Howard playfully, it is said tapped
Brown on the cheek This aroused the utmost
wrath in Brown, who came back at Howard
with terrible blow, which knocked him down
the several steps which led to the street, where
he fell up the pavement with frightful facture
of the sknll. Medical assistance was at once ex-
tended; bat physicians say he cannot live
Brown was arrested.