The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-14

| he was a0Out seventy years ol0 Aho O0uy "os
brought TO Greensburg for burial.
Jerry McCarty. employed at the Cincinnati
Washington a. Michigan railroad shops at wa
bash while mixing alkalies was. badly injured
about the face by the explosion OF the com
pound.
VIM Stucke one Of the wealthiest men OF
Clark county, died in Owen township, Sunday
morning aged seventy eight years. He leaves q
widow and six children. His funeral took place
on Monday
William E. Rousseau, of Warsaw while cur
i rying bind horse, received a kick on the head,
from which he died almost instantly. He was
buried yesterday by Kosciusko Post, No. ia, It.
A. R., of which he was member.
Henry Sheiuman. of Liberty township, St
Joseph county. has struck three artesian wells
on his farm at the depths of fftysix. sixty eight
and seventy-s feet. The deepest well throws
water seven feet above the ground.
Richard B. McEwen, the oldest and one of the
| most respected citizens of Parke county fell
from his chair. yesterday morning, and died in
stantly, as is supposed from apoplexy. The de-
ceased was in his ninety fourth year.
Dr. Noyes. of the University of Knoxville,
Tenn. has been elected professor of chemistry
Of Rose Polytechnic Institute, of Terre Haute.
| Professor Moves has national reputation as an
analytical chemist, and also as a teacher
The Brown Telephone Company has petitoned
| Evansville for the right of way In that city, to
take place of the expelled Cumberland company
The District Telegraph Company has been
| granted the privilege Of putting telephones IN
! the city departments for experimental purposes
Clara Sims, the young daughter of Zack Sims.
of Raglesyille. while handling a revolver, acct
| dentally shot her mother. The ball entered mid
way between the ear and the eye, on the left side
of the wemans face, passing through the cheek
bone, and lodging, it Is supposed, at the side of
! the nose.
/ Mrs. Kate Headngton Muncie milliner, has
| made an assignment for the benefit of her
| creditors. The assignee is G.. K. Wright. Her
| liabilities So, 600; assets, about 81 800 The
| principal creditor is Mr.. Wright of Union City,
| whose claim of 81, 400 is secured by mortgage on
| the stock.
Jesse Jones and Victor Rice, colored, became
involved in a quarrel at Evansville. on Monday
| night, over the payment of small debt. and at
| ter some angry words and blows Rice grabbed a
| shotgun and emptied it's contents, consisting of
bird-shot, into Joness thigh. He has some
| hopes of recovery.
| Robert McKim, of Madison, has placed in the
| hands of President Atkinson, of Moores Hill
College, fine telescope for use in the college the
coming year. 1t has fine, rich object glass, five
| lever and endless screw, enabling the observer
| to keep the object constantly in the field. The
outlook for the college is very encouraging
| Rt Reverend Bishop Chatard, of the diocese
/ of Vincennes has announced the following
| changes and appointments to take effect next
| late assistant at ST. Johns Vncennes; ST. Vim
| cents, Shelby county, and ST. Paul's, Decatur
| county, Few. c. j. Conrad, late of st. Johns,
Warrick county; New Alsace, Dearborn county,
| Rev. Frailcis Torbeck, late of St Joseph and St
Vincents, Shelby county
The Huntington Herald tells the following,
which is pertinentto the craze for oil and gas
| wells throughout the State: "a few DAYS ago
some wood-choppers engaged in telling large
white oak tree, in Rockcreek township this
Aoiln hon ho CIV II
/ the cavity whistling sound was heard and i'm
! mediately followed flow of pure coal oil. Two
barrels were filed and the hole plugged up until
more vessels can be procured"
The Republican convention to nominate can
diiate for joint Representative for the district
composed of Benton and Warren counties met
| at Pine Village yesterday. George Il. Nolin, or
| Benton county, was nominated on the seven
| tenth ballot The contest was spirited. but
goodnatured, and the result gives universal
| satisfaction. Mr.. Nolin is young man of fine
address and superior talent He will receive
| every Republican vote in the district and be
elected by 1000 majority
/ queer freak of lightning is reported from
| Tppecanoe county During one of the recent
storms large oak tree was struck and torn
into splinters. Each years layer of the growth
of the trunk of the tree seemed to have been sep
| arated from the other and split up into strips
! half or quarter OF an inch wide. From the tree
| the lightning jumped to wire fence near by.
-
| it encountered large gate post and disappeared
| in the ground. The wire in this fence was melt
ed and each post torn out of the ground, several
of them being shivered to pieces.
New Albany has been kept in hot water lately
over the action of the L., N. A. & G. railroad in
using the streets of the city without consent of
the Council An order was issued on Saturday
to tear up the tracks, but on Monday Col. G. w.
| Friedley, of Bedford, and Hcu G. l.. Jewett. at
torneys for the L. N A. & c. filed a complaint
| mir "a clerk euionirp the MaVOr and
| the members of the City Council together with
| the city marshal. from tearing up or in any way
injuring the track of the company on Vincennes
street south Of Main. The restraining order was
issued by the judge and executed by the sheriff
yesterdays
Cora Doolittle, a fourteen-year- old girl, living
near Middletown, Henry county, was on Mon
day sentenced to the Female Reformatory for
stealing $40 and maciously destroying about a
| hundred dollars'worth of property belonging to
her guardian, Leonard Powell. This is the girl
who was abducted by gypses several years ago,
and who was recently recued from their hands
by Mr.. Powell Her guardian attributes her de-
sire for wrong doing to the teachings Of the gyp-
sizes, who were very brutal iE their treatment
| While with them her toes were chopped off to
| prevent running away and she was, also. dis
figured about the face and body by being slashed
| with q knife
Logansport has wife beaten in the person Of
William Gibson, streetcar driver, who seems
to be gifted with more than his share of fiend-
shness A few nights ago. when he returned
home very late, his wife asked where he had
been He answered her with kicks and cuffs to
such an extent that she will probably be con-
fined to her bed for several weeks. Her face.
neck and chest we're almost pounded into jelly,
| and Notwithstanding her injuries he refused to
allow doctor to see her, threatening to kill her
if she told anyone the story of his brutality.
He has been married to his present wife for only
eleven months, and an investigation has devel-
oped the fact that he had whipped her like dog
/ ever since he married her.
/ ILLINOIS.
Three Tramps Seriously Injured, Two OF