The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-15
Minor Notes.

Large tobacco crops are being projected in
southern Indiana.
The New Albany Gas Company has declared a
semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent.
Colonel Snodgrass. of Watson. while making
some purchases in JefTersonvilie, lost a wallet
containing $3.50.
AT Jeffersonville, to-day, General Saxton will
award the contract for making LOO army wagons
to the highest bidder.
Henry Schmutte, who came to Evansville in
1882. died in that city on Wednesday. He leaves
a widow and six grown children.
DIR. W. Falsetter, of Evansville, has been APP
pointed consulting veterinary surgeon of the
Illinois State Board of Agriculture.
Charles Rauth. of Jeffersonville. while fooling
with a toy pistol, was badly burned about the leg
by the accidental explosion Of the weapon.
Michael Mclaughlin has been arrested at
Union City. with a large amount of pocket cut
lery and a number of razors IN his possession,
supposed to be stolen.
Reed s. Magrew. of Terre Haute, is charged
with having accused Joseph RupD of stealing
So 70, and Rupp has brought suit for SANDER,
laying his damages at s., 1000.
A little daughter of F. Andrus, of Terre Haute,
was accidentally shot with a Flobert gun in the
hands of a boy named Frank Smock. The in
jury is painful. but not dangerous.
Eureka Council. K. and L. of H.. of Jefferson
vile. have paid $4,000 to W. A. jackson, guard
ian of the children of Mrs. Fanny Fitzpatrick.
of that city, that amount being due at the death
of Mrs. Fitzpatrick.
The indictment against John Cash. the street
car driver of Evansville. for mauslaughter, in
causing the death of Ed Gordon, has been
quashed. Ee will only have to answer for carry
ing concealed weapons.
Lewis Hutt. of Chicago, recently had a 500
horse stolen from him, and on Wednesday night
Marshal MIddledorf, of LaPorte, captured the
thief, John Berry, and horse at New Carlisle.
They were returned to Chicago.
William A. Stinchcomb, a reporter on the
Louisville Commercial, and Miss Julia M. E.
Baumberger, daughter of the Swiss consul at
Louisville. were married on Wednesday by
Squire Huckeby, at New Albany.
Thomas Payne. of Salem. armed with two re-
volvers, terroriZed a number of the citizens of
that place for two days, and shot James Hamil-
ton, county recorder, in the breast, making a
slight flesh wound. He is insane, and has been
taken to the Hospital for the Insane.
A Terre Haute girl eleven years old was taken
to the home of one of her schoolmates. the other
day. Soon after she went away a gold watch
and chain, q pair Of gold bracelets. a gold pin,
two silver thimbles and several other articles
were missing. The little girl was arrested, and
after much lying, told where the articles were
hidden-most of them at home, between two
mattresses.
The following is the record of the first bicycle
owned in Indiana. The bicycle is a Columbia,
and was first owned by G. w. Edgerton, of Fort
Wayne. 1t has been sold ten times, and over
twenty-five men learned to ride on it. The fol-
lowing prices have been paid for it: $92. so, $50,
$50, $50. $50. $40. $50. $25. $15. $50; total, 1882. so.
One man has owned it and sold it three times.
1t is now o wreck.
The case of the State against James M. Ken
nedy, for assault and battery with intent to
rape, has been on trial in the Sullivan Circuit
Court since Monday, and ended Yesterday by
the jury returning a verdict of guilty of assault
and battery. and fixing the punishment at a fine
of 500 and four months imprisonment in the
county Jail. Great interest was manifested in
the case. almost the entire northeast part of the
county being in attendance.