The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-11
Minor Notes.

George n. Jones, aged seventyfour, city mar
ket master Ct New Albany, died on Monday.
A Jacksonville woman gave birth to a child
weighing seventeen pounds on Sunday night.
James Kennedy who keeps a peanut stand in
Terre Haute. is in Jail, charged with bebauching
little girls.
Mrs. Annie johnson. one of the Oldest resi-
dents of Jeffersonville, died a few days ago,
aged eighty three years
Fire at South Bend, on Monday, partially de-
stroyed the door and blind factory Of A. Wells
& Son. Loss, $500; insurance, 5000.
The Jefferson county grand jury, on Monday.
found an Indictment against Charles j. Rogers
charging him with murder in the first degree.
The election to obtain the feelings of the peo-
pie regarding the removal of the county seat of
Crawford county from Leavenworth to English
will be held Aug. IL.
The annual reunion of the old brigade COM
posed of the Eighth, Eighteenth and Twenty
second Indiana Infantry and First Battery will
be held at Wabash, Oct 19.
The encampment cost the cityaef Lafayette
5000 in cash. follows: For sprinkling the two
streets leading to the fair grounds, $780, for spe
cial police. $400; for decorating city Offices, 500
The residence of President Tyler, of the Vim
cennes National Bank, and President Rabb. of
the First National Bank, were broken into by
burglars Sunday morning, who secured few val
uables for their trouble.
The New Albany Ledger denies the story of
the recent lynching in Dubois county, and says
that after the killing of Foultz and Waller,
Thomas Hobbs and his son, the murderers, fed
to Kentucky, and since then have not been heard
from.
Joseph Slower, wel-to-do farmer living near
Corydon, has been arrested on the charge of at
tempted wife murder. This is the second time
he has been charged with the same offense. His
first wife secured divorce from him two years
ago because he tried to kill her..
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of Columbus, was on Monday evening attacked
by bull and gored in eight different places, the
animal tossing him it's horns and tearing
away strips of flesh six inches long
Isaac Bryant, colored, returned to Jefferson
Vile from the State Insane Asylum as incurable.
He thinks he is 900 years of age and of the
chosen people His mother, he claims, was the
mother of over five hundred children.
A burglar entered the house of Charles Carter
at New Palestine, and attempted to carry off
small trunk which contained two gold watches
and some silverware and jewelry. Mrs. Carter
was alone in the house, but Selling corn-knife
she drove the burglar out and saved her valu-
ables.
Ham Hanger, the man whose reported opening
of a saloon in Charleston created so much excite
ment states that he cares nothing for the threats
of a vigilance committee, but will open the pro-
posed business Immediately, unless the citizens
of Charleston pay him bonus of 5000 for his
lease and other expenses.
Forty members Of Indianapolis division No.
2 and Many divsiongNo 20, K. of p. Of Indian
apolis, headed by General Carnahan and Capt.
Rider, helped to organize a division of the
Uniform Rank at Franklin, last night The
new divisions consists of about thirty young
men. who intend to compete for the prizes at
the Kokomo drill
Miss Flora Joseph, the leading miliner of
Shelbyville. was privately married at late hour
on Monday night to Wilew W. Davis, hotel
clerk at Mattoon Ills. Miss Joseph is Jewess
and the bridegroom q gentle. The latter re-
turned to his home an hour after the ceremony
last night, and every effort has been made to
keep the matter quiet
Samues Shields, the Oldest son of Harrison
Shields prominent citizen residing in Ashland
township Morgan county, committed suicide, on
Monday morning, by shooting himself twice
through the breast. He was thirty three years
of age, and unmarried. He left note pinned
to his coat, saying he had suffered much, was
tired of life, and asked all his relatives to meet
him in heaven.
The telegraph switch recently invented by
said by telegraphic experts to be one Of the
greatest electrical inventions of the day, on
account of it's economy. 1t has already been
adopted by the Vandalia railroad and is likely
to come into general use. Waters is student
st Rose Polytechnic Institute. and Sweeny is a
telegraph repairer employed by the Vandalia
Three valuable horses were stolen on Monday
night from the pasture of Frank Deckert, resid-
ing fifteen miles west of Columbus. Three
strange men were seen hiding in corn-feld
near by during the afternoon and from the de-
scription given by persons who saw them, and
by Mr. Deckert, they are almost positively
known 20 be DeBro, Bruno and Hatfield, three
of the notorious crooks who broke jail at Column
bus recently.