The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-16

be Hon. Will Cnraback, of Greensburg Rev.
Mathew Sedgwick of Shelby county Gen. Fred
VanDuveer and Hon. FL. L. Morey, of Hamil-
ton, O.
The burglar shot and killed at Spencerville
while trying to enter store last Thursday
night. has been identified as Robert Dunn,
well crook of Fort Wayne.
The Wabash Plandealer says that procuress
was in that city last week, endeavoring to entice
young girls into a life of shame, but was COM
PEELED to leave before the indignant citizens could
pay her her just deserts
An enormous sized Southern crane, which
measured seven feet from tip to tip of wings,
and five feet eight inches from the point of tae
beak to the point of the toes, with beak eight
inches long, was killed near Williamsport.
The c. St. l.. & P. r r. will sell excursion
tickets, two cents per mile each way, to the "Old
Settlers Picnic" at Centerviile, Wayne county,
on next Saturday, Aug. Il. 1t will be one of
the largest gatherings of old settlers in the
State.
Ray Cullom, wealthy young farmer was
drowned In Clear lake. near Angola in fifty feet
of water. His body has not been recovered and
his sweetheart haunts the banks of the lake
weeping though her heart would break for her
dead lover.
The elders of the different congregations OF
the Christian Church in Greene county will
meet at Bloomfield, Thursday Sept % to 70.
The object of the meeting is to devise plan to
furnish preaching to the rural districts and des-
titute places of the county.
A furious storm, accompanied by heavy rain
fall, visited Peru on Friday night. Several per-
sons were shocked by lightning. the of Mrs
Samuel Spencer being regarded as serious
After the storm hundreds of sparrows were
found dead on the ground
Prof. w. j. Martin, late of the Adamsville,
Tenn, Academy, has been elected professor of
mathematics and modern language in the Vim
cennes University, to succeed Prof. CHARLES Har-
ris, vino has resigned to accept a position in the
State Normal School at Carbondale. ILL.,
James Fl. Cox's barn was struck by lightning
on Saturday and burned. All his farm imple-
ments and 700 bushels of wheat. 100 of oats and
about twenty tons of hay were destroyed. The
contents were insured in the Hendricks county
company for $500; no insurance on building.
At Liberty, on Friday, Hon. J. P. Kennedy.
editor OF the News, publicly cowhi1ed in
front of the postoffce by Scott Stivers associate
editor of the Herald The assault grew out of
newspaper article, and is creating considerable
excitement
A large fishing bird of strange species was
killed near Vincennes the other day 1t meas
ured sixty-two inches from tip to tip of wings,
and fifty-two inches from toes to point of bill.
Its head was ornamented with fine plumage
of varieeated colors, green predominating, and
its body white.
A brass band tournament will be held at Aurora
OH Thursday. Bands from the following places
will participate: Pana. ILL.,, Princeton, Moores
Hill. Montgomery, Lexington, Lebanon, Liberty,
Milan, Madison, Washington, Hanover New
Haven. Cloves, O., and Aurora.
Wyatt Maxwell and Isaac Eldredge, living
near the line of Jefferson and Scott counties
quarrelled, when the latter pulled his revolver.
Squire James Wasson attempted to separate
them, and received the contents of the weapon
in the left thigh. He is an old man, and the
wound may prove fatal
The Indiana Normal College has been located
at Covngton This institution will contain the
following schools: College, Normal School, Com
mercial School, School of Music, Elocution and
Oratory. Ten excellent teachers have been en-
gagged. with J. v. Coombs as president The
town is also erecting magnificent public school
building.
A South Bend excursionist to Michigan City,
last week, came near drowning because he for
got to take out his false teeth before diving into
the lake. While under the water the teeth be-
came loose, causing the man to open his mouth
and nearly strangle. His teeth will probably
turn up some day encysted in the stomach of a
monster fish.
While the members of Happy Zion Baptist
Church, of Palmyra township, Knox county,
were enjoying themselves at lawn festival
last week, storm came up and blew down a
large tree The tree fell with great force
squarely between pair of horses hitched to
wagon. The horses escaped unscratched, but the
wagon was knocked into splinters.
Inc expenses OF 1Slanu Tark Assembly CnlS
summer foot up Sd 900. The largest items are
for lectures and music. as follows: Rev Sam
Jones' 5000; Major-general Howard u s. A.
$40; Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage $3.50; Chaplain
q. C. McCabe, $3.50; Prof. G. C. Case, musical
director, $500; Rev. A. A. Willets, D. D.. 800;
Rev. P S. Henson, D. D.. 800; Dean A. A.
Wright, teacher, 5000; Professor Rogers brass
band, 5000; Rev. N. B. c. Love, teacher, $112;
Wallace Bruce, $780, Rev. John Dewitt Miller,
500; Rev. Charles F. Deems, d. D., $780, Rev.
Washington GLADDEN., d. D., 500; Peter M Won
Finklestein 800; Leon H. Vincent, $780, Miss
Princess Clark, soprano soloist $50 Mrs. Kittie
L. Houghton, soprano soloist, $50; Mrs Nichols,
president W. G. Z. u, $50.
An Amusing incident occurred at Wabash last
week. In which the Democratic postmaster was
the central figure. On Friday he discovered
package of papers, which he supposed had been
mailed from the Plaindealer Office that bore no
directions except the word 'Ind, and thinking
that he now had a grand opportunity to rebuke
q Republican parer for its carelessness tucked
ir under his arm and strobe proudly across the
street to the p D. Office, where he threw it down
and sternly said: "Pm Democrats Demo
cratic postmaster-but amt no mind reader
Look at that ere package and tell me where you
want it SENT The Plaindeaer man meekly re-
piled that the directions were not very clear
whereupon the postmaster proceeded to deliver
a lecture upon the trials and tribulations of his
Office and of being censured by the Republican
papers for errors they made themselves. MAY
be-" he said eff some of you Republicans would
attend little more strictly to your own bust
ness, you would have less time NEEDLE with
mine" By this time the package was broken
open. and when the postmaster glanced at its
contents his color quickly changed from an old
Bourbon purple to an ashy white. The package
contained copies of the Wabash Times the
Democratic organ. and not Plandealers. He
departed slowly and sadly.