The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-08

ley, Cambridge City; John Hartley. Hagerstown;
Lon Marshall, Economy; G. r. Unthank, Web
ster; NJ. NJ. Lacy, Fountain City; Isaac Vannuys,
Bethel; j. j. Finney, Richmond.
John Griffin, of Indianapolis, brakeman on
the l., B. 81 W., was struck IL the forehead by a
coupling pin, while in the act of making a
coupling. aN Crawfordsvlle yesterday, and Sc
verely injured. 1t is thought that his skull is
fractured.
Black diphtheria is very prevalent at Logans
port. and the Journal of that city, asks the
health board to resign because they allow public
funerals of the victims and otherwise neglect
sanitary measures Ten new cases were report
ed on Monday
A barn, together with 500 bushels of wheat
and all the farming implements on the farm of
Frank Grimwood, in Scott township, Wander
berg county, were destroyed by fire on Sunday
night Loss, g. 900; no insurance. The barn
was set on fire by tramps.
Professor Everman, of the State University
at Bloomington, has been elected to fill the va
cancy at the Terre Haute Normal College, caused
by the resignation of Professor Jenkins. Pro-
lessor Everman will have charge of all the
classes in natural science.
The name of Boston Station, on the Airline,
in Crawford county, has been changed to Eek
erty MIR. Eckerty is the founder of the town,
and the change was made because there are a
dozen other places in that part of the State with
a Boston attachment to their names.
1t is now believed that Charles Anderson, who
recently disappeared from near New Providence,
was murdered. Joe Quassa and his family, who
were suspected, have suddenly left the place. A
posse of men searching the neighborhood found
a grave, which, however, had recently been
robbed of its inmate.
The surviving members Of the Twelfth Indi-
ana Regiment. of which Gen. Reub Williams was
commander, will hold reunion at Warsaw, on
Nov: 20. that date being the anniversary of the
battle of Missionary Ridge. and one of the twen-
ty-two regular engagements in which this regi-
ment took an honorable part
Henry c. Boyer of Jackson county, from
twelve acres of land this year raised and sold $50
barrels of nutmeg melons, which brought the
handsome sum OF more than So. 100. His net
profits on the ground over and above every ex-
pense was more than 800 per acre, or more than
twice what the land is worth.
A suit was FLED in the Circuit Court at Rich
mond, yesterday morning. by Thomas Williams
against Aaron Morris. president of the Dorsey
Reaper Company, of Milton, for $500 damages.
The complainant alleges false and fraudulent
representations in trade of real estate worth
$4,000 in Washington township, Rush
county, for 146 shares of stock in the reaper
works
Frank Hennon, the young married man who
so mysterlously disappeared from home at
Evansville, on Sunday a week ago, arrested
at Independence at 2 o'clock yesterday morning
he remembered nothing until two days after
leaving home, when he found himself lying near
the Louisville & Nashville railroad track, a short
distance from st. Louis
The sixteenth annual fair of the Randolph
County Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechan-
ical Association will be held at Winchester, be-
ginning Sept IA and continuing four days. The
managers are exerting themselves to have every
tNng in first-class order, and confidently EXPECT
this to be one of the best fairs ever held in the
county. They offering liberal premiums,
and their list is very complete.
Dr. H. r. Hutchinson, who was arrested by an
alleged Chicago detective. while an Airline
train, on a charge of passing counterfeit money,
was taken before the United States Commission
er, at Evansville, and released by that official.
rest of Hutchinson and there was 20 evidence
against the Doctor. A warrant has been issued
for the arrest of the detective on charge of
false Imprisonment, and also for kidnapping