The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-05
Minor Notes.

MINOR NOTES.
The store-room of Newton Clapp, at New
market burned. Loss, 49, 200.
Mr.. John Park, an old citizen of Hanover,
died a few days ago. of paralysis.
Center school house, at Volga, Jefferson coun-
ty, was destroyed by fire OH Wednesday.
Malcolm Mcbride, of New Albany, for many
years a we'll known grocer. died on Tuesday.
Seventy accessions to the M. e. Church at
Butlerville resulted from Rev. c.. w. Tinsley's
meetings.
The farm house of Mrs. G. Steele. near Darl-
ington, Montgomery county, was destroyed by
fire on Tuesday afternoon.
The trial of the Archer gang of murdsrers of
Orange, Martin and Dubois counties, will begin
at Shoals, on the 10th inst.
Peter Williams's dwelling, at Hartford City,
was damaged by fire to the amount of $500; in
sured in the Home of New York
Edward McCurdy. a farmer living near Hahn
town, while on his way home from Jacksonville,
lost a pocket-book containing 93 in gold.
George S.. Davis, of New Albany. son of the
late Judge John s.. Davis. died from abscess of
the jaw, produced by the extraction Of two teeth.
Sheriff William Middleton, of jefferson coun-
ty, has been quite i'll of acute rheumatism for
several weeks, and his condition does not i'm
prove.
The residence owned by Mrs. John Airhart,
near New Ross, and occupied by Bruce White
ley, was burned, last Saturday night. The house
was insured for $500.
Mrs. Robert Scott, widow of Lieutenant Scott,
deceased, of the Thirteenth Indiana. died at
Madison on Wednesday, as did also Mrs. Harvey
Smith, widow of an old Mexican soldier.
M. A. Weir, Of New Albany, has donated a
handsome residence property at Salem to the
Methodist Episcopal Church of that place, for
the purpose OF a parsonage. The property is
valued at So, 600.
To-day will be the ninety third birthday ami.
versarv of Mr.. John McCune, of Charlestown.
is still healthy and vigorous, and all his faculties
are unimpaired.
The revival meeting begun at Spencer at the
N. E. Church, E. r.. Vest, pastor, showed, up to
the close of the meeting last night. 103 CONVEX
sions and eighty-four additions to the member.
ship. with the interest undated.
Isaac n. Phares, of Fowler, delivered a lect-
ure in the NJ. e. Church. Goodland, Wednesday
evening, upon the subject of .'Quacks.D The
lecture was the first of a series to be given under
the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society.
The case to en1oin the Commissioners of Foun.
tain county from purchasing two toll bridges
over the Wabash river was heard before Judge
Il. G. Snyder, OF Montgomery county, at Coving-
ton, this week. He granted'a perpetual injunc-
ton.
On Tuesday night Carr's elevator. at Lochiel,
on the Chicago Great Southern road, was
burned, with 800 bushels of oats and several
hundred bushels of corn. Partially insured. 1t
was the work Of an Incendiary, and the officers
have already obtained a clew to the perpetrators.
g. Nasbitt, of Cincinnati, who represents the
Pittsburg Gas Company, has leased most of the
farms Tor rather the right to bore on them) that
lie along the bed of the Whitewater river, near
Brookville. with the intention of boring for nat
ural gas, which he claims can be found without
doubt.