The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-18
cloud burst at 8 o'clock on Monday morning.
ALL the credit of the rain fall 10 being taken By

/ OF Uofnen.
At Culver's station-Herman Bath--smal
I boy-playing with neutrality-suspicious.
/ in knee-cap. Result, lockjaw
On Tuesday the first number Of the Goshen
| Daily Times was issued. 1t is Republican In
| politics, and edited by DIR. j. I'll. Beverle.
| Bates. who murdered his wife at Hagerstown,
| will be hanged at Richmond, one week from tor
| morrow, if the Governor does not interfere.
| w. F. Burks residence, near Morton. Putnam
county. was burned, together With all it's con-
| tents; insured for $4,000 in the Continental.
| Lightning is supposed to have been the cause
| The barn of Joe Wood, farmer residing at
Lexington, was struck by lightning during the
| thunder storm on Tuesday. The barn and con-
tents were destroyed. Loss, 1850; no INCUR
ance.
On Monday night John Redding's house, in
Washington township, Rush county, was con-
sumed by fire. Part Of the contents were saved.
Loss, 81. 500; insured in the Rush County Farm
ers' for $3.50.
During the storm at Lafayette on Tuesday
evening, John Frey, a leading grocer, was stand
ing in the doorway of his residence, when thun-
der bolt struck the screen door by his side.
tore it from the hinges, aud killed his dog at his
feet
On Monday night, about 9 o'clock, Abiiah,
son of II. M. Hollingsworth, shot himself on the
farm of Thomas Burnside, one mile south of
Liberty. The deceased attempted the same act
| last Sunday night, but was prevented by COM
ranion.
During the storm on Monday night, Joseph L.
Myers, residing at Marshall, was struck and in
stantly killed by lightning while attempting to
close the window of his bedroom. He leaves a
wife and four children. The rest Of the family
escaped injury.
The meeting Of the old settlers of Barthelo
NEW and Decatur counties at Waynesburg on
Wednesday and Thursday of next week will be
addressed by Mrs. Mary L. Moore, the noted
Sunday school worker of southern Indiana, g.
N. Cooper, of Columbus, and Hon. VIII Cum
back.
Great preparations being made at Fort
Wayne to entertain the Veterans Association of
Northern Indiana, which meets In that city to-
morrow. Forty three companies Of militia have
senifed their intention of being present and
take part in the exercises which will last one
week.
While their parents were at church, last Sun
day. two small children secured matches and set
fire to some oat stacks. near Decatur. The con-
gregation turned out and by hard work saved
the barn. valued at 5000. The cat stacks were
destroyed. Loss $500; covered by insurance in
the Continental.
The forty-seventh session of the Indiana An
nual Conference of the African M E. Church
will convene in Vincennes, Aug 26, and continue
one week The Indiana conference comprises
| the States of Indiana and Michigan. Mary of
the representative men of the colore& race OF
both States will be present.
NaCDan farranQ, aged nineteen, OF cleveland,
O., was arrested near Terre Haute, on Tuesday.
on charge Of horse stealing. mare and
buggy, hired from a livery stable keeper at
Springfield, o., were found with him, and he
deserted at Greencastle horse he hired at
livery stable in Indianapolis.
LaPorte county suffered greatly by the storm
of Tuesday. Fruit and shade trees were blown
down everywhere, and in Pleasant township
barn owned by John Page was struck by light
ming and burned to the ground. It was filled
with grain and hay. and the loss is 81 800; in
sured in the Ohio Farmers for $500.
While an employee of thesJeffersonville glass
works. named Tompkins, was enjoying himself
on an excursion steamer, on Saturday night, he
placed a bottle of pop into tub of broken ice,
when the bottle burst and small piece of glass
few into his open mouth and down his throat.
Since then he has had seven hemorrhages and is
in dangerous condition.
The Lafayette Courier says that it is so hot in
the county court house that even the floor thing
is trying to seek cooler quarters At the north
end of the lower corridor, for about thirty feet
square, the floor has bulged up in the center,
many tile have cracked, and they are all loosed
from the easement in which they were imb edded,
and that this is true tea less extent in other
portions of the building.
lightning struck large barn on the farm of
Isaac VanDeventer, two miles west of Upton, at
o'clock Monday morning, and within one min
ute it seemed TO be wholly covered with flames.
Loss 1000; no insurance Twenty seven tons of
| oats, new self binder, and other agricultural
| implements belonging to Peter Bills, the ten
ant, were among the property destroyed
The retreat of the Sisters of Providence closed
at st. Mary's of the Woods, near Terre Haute,
| on Sunday. class of twenty eight young ladies
| took the veil, Bishop Chatard performing the
ceremonies. Sister Euphrasia was elected mother
| superior. Among the sisters appointed for the
| schools at Terre Haute there has been no change
| except in the branch of music Sister Joseph
| Terese was reapponted sister superior. Sister
| Jane Maurice will have the high school depart
| ment, Sister Mary Irene the intermediate, and
| Sister Dephemia the Junior department. The
| department Of music was given to Sister st.
| Clemend.
| The Lafayette footpad has found his match in
| young woman of that place. The other night
as servant girl was walking on one of The side
| streets, big, burly man stopped her, grabbed
| her pocket book, and then started to run, but
! tripped and fell Quick as a fash the young
woman jumped upon the thief and began to kick
and stamp him. at the same time calling for help
| at the top of her voice She handled him so
| roughly that he let go of the pocket book and
| then sneaked away under cover of the darkness,
while the young lady rearranged her toilet and
| coolly proceeded down town to make her evening
| purchases
[ The house of John Zapp, six miles north of
| New Albany. was struck by lightning on Tues
day. Mr.. zapp was instantly killed and his wife
severely stunned. During the storm Zapp and
| his wife went to close the basement windows
and when the fatal bolt descended Zapp fell for
| ward outside the window, the skin being
stripped from his breast and limbs in large
| flakes. every stitch of clothing and the shoes
stripped from the body. The mother was
dragged out of the honse by her daughter and
brought to by the application Of water. The
| posts from two bedsteads in the house were
knocked into splinterS and the fruit Jars in the
pantry were bursted.
ILLINOIS.