The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-07
Minor Notes.

The Madison Baptist Association will meet
Wednesday at New Marion.
7frs Belle Engelhardt, daughter of Robert
McKim, of Madison, died on Sunday night.
Josephus Wheeler, one of the pioneers of
Howard county, is dead. He was seventy eight
years old.
Erve Transue had all the fingers on his left
hand cut off yesterday morning at the Craw-
louisville coffin factory.
Hog cholerahas made its appearance in Miami
county and hundreds of dollars in stock has been
lost. The disease is spreading.
Marcus Richardson. blind soldier, of Jeffer
son county, has just been allowed pension Of
SIP per month and $ll 900 back pension.
Harrison Zeigler an Elkhart county farmer,
has an apple tree loaded down with ripe fruit
andscovered with blossoms for another crop.
The eleventh annual reunion of the Eighth
and Eighteenth Indiana regiments and First In
diana Battery will be held in Wabash, on Oct. 10.
Henry r. Thomas, an influential and highly
respected citizen of Goshen. died on Saturday
morning from the effects of fall received last
Monday.
Hugh Smiley was placed in the Charlottesville
jail last Saturday. having been arrested under
the charge of stealing horse from VIM. McIver,
of near Ladoga, last week.
A suit was fled yesterday in the Wabash Cir
cult Court by Allen Sweet against the city of
Wabash, asking SIS, 900 damages for injuries re-
ceived by him in falling into sewer last March.
Doc Stillwel and Anthony Riley, two young
men. became involved in quarrel, late on Sat
urday night, in Shelbyvlle saloon, and Riley
was dangerously stabbed in the side by Still
well.
Jacob Tice, an old and universally respected
citizen Of Covington, died at his residence on
Sunday. He was born in Middlesex county,
New Jersey, of Revolutionary parents in May,
1893.
The fourth annual reunion of the society COM
posed of the Seventy fifth and One hundred and
first regiments Indiana volunteers, will be held
at Anderson on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct.
5 and 6.
The Lafayette Journal says that one of the
female members of the Salvation Army now in
vading that place has invented what she terms a
salvation kiss and that it is expected the
wicked young men of Lafayette will now seek
salvation in this new form.
On Saturday afternoon Linley Suits, aged six
teen years, who resides eight miles southwest of
Kokomo, while cleaning revolver accidentally
shot himself through the bowels, infictlng a
terrible wound, which yesterday proved fatal.
The youth died in great agony at mis- home.
Wl ILL.,. kelly, ciork IN the county record
er's Office at Chicago twenty.-fiv years of age
and unmarried, was instantly killed at Val
paraiso, on Sunday eVtaaing, while attempting to
drive across the railroad in front o. al - So
preaching express train The horse escaped in
jury but the buggy was wrecked.
Rev. w. A. Patton, of indianapolis. was in
Brown county on Sunday, where he assisted Mr.
John Il. Tercy, a candidate for the ministry and
who has charge OF the PRESBYTERIAN churches at
Georgetown and Nashville, in receiving twenty
persons into the church at the latter place
Fourteen adults and children we're baptized.
A prize-fght between two colored bruisers
named "Cycloue Billn and "Attica Jackn fur
ished the sporting element of Lafayette little
diversion on Sunday. Twenty-one rounds of
three minutes each were fought, when it was
declared draw. both men being a mass of
bruises and covered with blood. Some So, 900 is
said to have been at stake.
The Music Hall Association at Charlottesville
has expended $4,000 this season in making i'm
provements, and now have one of the best thea.
ter halls in the State The opening for the sea-
son occurred last night, the 1.-TWO Orphans" be-
ing presented by the Bayse-Davis Standard ORA
matte Company. The management have placed
Mr. Leslie Davis. of Danville Ill, in. charge of
the hall.
Hogs are so plenty in New Albany that they
sometimes impede locomotion. On Sunday q
young girl arrayed in white was going into the
front gate of neighbours house, when a veneer
able porker that had invaded the place ran out
OF the gateway going between the pedal ex-
tremeties of the girl, making a wreck of her
dress and knocking her down. She was not
severely injured, Eutwas scared almost to death.
Yesterday was the opening day of the seventh
annual fair of the Montgomery County Agri-
cultural Association, and the indications are
very favorable for large and successful exhibi-
ton in every particular. The entries are very
full IN every department A large number Of
race horses are quartered upon the grounds
The bicycle races and the balloon ascensions
will be the new features Of the fair With ia.
vorable weather, this exhibition will far exceed
all previous ones.
The synodical meeting of the Woman's Home
and Foreign Missionary societies Of the Presby-
terrain church will be held In Fort Wayne, Oct
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