The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26
Minor Notes.

New Albany will shortly form bicycle club
Sam Small will deliver an address at the an
nual temperance rally at Fairfield. Aug. z.
Richmond has a lodge of colored Masons and
is now organizing lodge Of colored Oddfellows.
W. NJ Woods, an Evansville negro, was ar
rested on Saturday, charged with an unnatural
crime.
A boy named Agay had his leg cut off by an
r. & |. railroad train, south of Terre Haute, on
Saturday.
Caleb Johnson colore6, six years of age, fell
into the river at Evansville. on Saturday, and
was drowned
Uriah JONES' a well-known farmer residing
near South Bend, died suddenly of heart disease.
He was sixty eight years of age
Peter O. Brown, one of the oldest settlers Of
Tippeoanoe county, is dead. He came there in
1880. and was seventy weight years old.
saloon owned by Philip E. zenor. at Motifs
Station was burglarized of a small sum of
money and of the entire stock of liquors. cigars,
etc.
The grain elevator at Frankton Madison
county, operated by Wilmington & McCandlas,
burned on Friday evening. Loss, So, 900, with
$500 insurance.
The old settlers meeting at Charlestown, tie
Howard convention at Scottsburg and the
Stockslager convention at New Albany are all to
be held on Aug. 5.
Terre Haute will hold great bicycle tour
nament in September. Two hundred wheel
men are expected to be present from various
parts of the country
George r. Bennett of ST. Joseph, Mich,
writes that his daughter, Eunice Adelia, aged
seven years. was kidnapped and is supposed to be
secreted in Valparaiso.
James Anderson, prominent farmer living
few miles north of Knightstown, was cEoked
to death. on Saturday, while suffering with
phthsis before help could reach him.
The Clark county institute will be held at JEFF
fersonville, beginning Aug. and lasting for
three days Among the instructors will be Pro-
fesssors Tompkins, Broone and Woods.
The Eighty fourth Indiana and the Fortieth
Ohio will have reunion at Union City Sept. 49,
The two regiments were in the same brigade and
fought in the same battles during the war;
Alvah Taylor, Wabash county farmer, re-
ports that of twelve hogs on his Indian-land
farm, eight have died of cholera recently and
that the disease is raging all through that vicn-
ity.
VIM. Young, of NewtoyVn, Dearborn county,
died on Saturday from the effects of a weed
poultice that he had applied to his face to cure
boil. The weed poisoned his face and killed
him.
Alonzo Cotton, prominent farmer and stock
raiser, living near ORktown, Knox county, has
made an assignment to Horace Polk. His liza
bilities are about S., 1000; assets ST. 900. Cause,
bad debts.
A fatal disease, known as catarrhal fever, has
broken out among Terre Haute horses, and is
spreading rapidly. 1t is similar in several re-
spects to the disease whick broke out in 1872
with such fatality.
Following are the revenue assignments for the
Shelby dstllery, Shelbyville, for August Store
keepers, Sanford Grayson. r. d. Brown, E. N
Wines. Maxwell Baker; CANCERS. j. Il. Billings
and Aaron Keller.
The ladies of Kniehtstown have made propo-
stion to the trustees of the Soldiers Orphans
Home to devote one day, and go to the home
with their dinners and sewing machines and