The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-20

lishment. Burg's harness shop. and a shooting
gallery. The loss quite heavy, with no in
surance on either sock or buildings. Coal oil
was the agency used in starting the fire.
The company formed at Lexington, Scott
county, for the purpose of boring for natural gas
after expanding about So, 500 and boring hole
1.500 feet in depth. have concluded to cease
work.
Mrs Lorinda Rawlins, of Shelbyvile. has fled
a suit for divorce from her husband. Rev. John
Rawlins, to whom she was married on Christmas
day. 1883, and whom she charges with abandon
ment.
Alleged partiality In the distribution of COM
plimentary tickets by the managers OF Doxeys
Music Hall, at Anderson. has caused boycott
of that place by the ''amusementgoers" and
press.
The Cumberland Telephone Company has
filed another suit against the Evansville City
Council. claiming damages in the sum OF 81, 800
for damages sustained in cutting the company
wires.
Mrs. o. c. Wooley, aged seventy-seven years
died on Saturday, OF old age at her home in JeT-
fersonvills She had been resident of that
place for forty-seven years, and was the wife OF
ex Mayor o. G. Wooley.
George Roseman, of Evansville, who has been
in the Sandwich Islands, in charge of sugar
plantation for the past seven years, died at
Ogden, u. IT.. on Saturday while en- route home
to pay his parents visit.
Mrs Martha McCarty. wife of John McCarty,
Methodist minister at Pendleton and member
of the North Indiana Conference died yester-
day. The funeral will take place from the NJ.
E. Church this afternoon at 2 o'clock
The collapsed Terre Haute Paper mill Com
pany has been revived under the name of the
Ellsworth Paper Company. and is now in the
hands of Messrs. G. Fairbanks. Henry Deming.
G. Deming, Josephus Coliett and j. K Kendall
A young man named Lee. whose mother keeps
hotel at Cambellsburg, jumped upon the rear
end of L., N. A & G. caboose, on Saturday,
and swinging around to the side of the car. his
head collided with cattle guard, killing him in
stantly.
A brother Of l. Nj. Potter, Of Wabash. has
turned mp after an absence of more than twenty
five years the Pacific slope. His estate was
long ago divided among the other brothers and
sisters, who believed him dead, and now he
threatens to bring suit for his mess of pottage.
The little six year-old son of Michael Eulss,
living north of Plainfeld, was in that town yes
terday. and attempted to cross the street in front
Of a moving buggy. when he was caught under
the horses feet and tramped upon. He received
several painful injuries, and is suffering from in
ternal hurts.
Ira Ritchey, the thirteen-year-old son of
James Ritchey. of Franklin, while playing with
a number of small boys in the Baptist Church
tnow building) fell about twenty five or thirty
feet and struck the joists below, breaking rib,
which penetrated the left lung He will proba-
bly, not recover On wager he climbed the
rope to the above-named height, when his
strength failed him and he fell.
Three young fellows of Centerville got drunk
last week and concluded to have q little fun with
Gus Kirk, one of their number. A mock trial
was held and Kirk was sentenced to be hanged,
which they proceeded to do by putting cord
around his neck. throwing one end over the
limb of tree and then swinging him off. The
cord was expected to break but didn't and as
his companions were too drunk to release him,
he came very near strangling to death before So
| Der assistance arrived and cut the string.
Owing to the lack of rain in the northern part
of the State, many of the marshes, heretofore
covered with one to four feet of water, have be.
| come dry, and have been taken possession of by
innumerable rattlesnakes, vipers and other poi
sonous reptiles. IN some sections they are so
plenty that hunters cannot reach their favorite
shooting grounds without incuRring great risk.
1t is also said that the snakes have eaten nearly
all the young waterfowl, as fast as hatched, and
that Of the native birds are left for the fall
sportsman.
Pulaski county claims to have the youngest
old man in the country. His name is Micager
Hancock. He was born in Sussex county, Ma
ryland, November. 1885, and will be ninety eight
| years old in November He is veteran of the
war of 1872 and helped thrash the British at
| "Lundy's Lane He rode twenty miles last
week. with his son, who is sixty eight years old.
to make application for pension. He is we'll
travel around better than one half the men at
forty His only Indication of old age is his hear
ing, which is failing little