The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-14
Minor Notes.

Mrs. Sally Moody, of Pierson township, Vigo
county, is dead, at the age Of ninety nine years
and six raonths.
Fred D. Huestis, of Charlottesville, contractor
on the Chicago & Indiana coal railway, has 200
teams and 400 men at work on said road.
Lightning, on Thursday, destroyed a we'll
stocked barn of Hiram Fssee. living near
Friendship. Ripley county. Loss, 81, 500; not in
sured.
new lodge of Knights of Pythias was insti-
tuted at North Manchester, on Thursday night
by the Wabash lodge. 1t starts out with twenty
five charter members.
Rev. A. NJ Works has been released from the
pastoral care of the Presbyterian Church at
Rochester, and transferred to Central Presby-
terry, of Dakota, at his own request.
The second annual fair of the Farmers and
Stock Growers Association, of Rush and Shelby
counties. will be held Aug. 10 and 90 near the
Friends Church, north of Manila.
The residence of Jack Raper about five miles
from Anderson, was burned on Wednesday
night The family were absent at the time and
nothing was saved. Loss about 81 ,000
Mrs Belle Eggleston, formerly resident of
Walnut Hills. Cincinnati. and a lady of national
reputation, died at Delaware, Ripley county,
yesterday morning, of hemorrhage of the lungs.
The barn of Ransom Aikens near Columbus,
was struck by lightning on Thursday, and
burned together with 500 bushels of wheat, 700
$1,80o
A disease known as pink-eye has broken out
in an aggravated form among horses in Kokomo
and vicinity. Twenty head are afflicted with
this malady in the livery and feed stables of
Sipe Bros.
The tile factory of Robert Burket, situated in
Deercreek township, Cass county, burned. ON
Wednesday night The engine, tile machines,
pumps, connections, etc, were all destroyed.
Loss So, 600.
The body of negro boy, about fourteen years
of age, was found in the river about three miles
below Mount Vernon. There was nothing on his
clothing to identify him, but he is supposed to
belong to Evansville.
On Thursday, Arthur Cox, of Princeton, while
on excursion train, swung himself out from
the steps to look forward and back as the train
rushed along, and was struck by cattle guard,
knockedoff and killed.
Harry Coaley, aged about twenty -two years,
was struck by lightning and instantly killed on
Thursday morning. He was returning to Brook
Vile from the town Of Whitcomb, in his wagon,
and was within mile of his fathers home when
the fatal bolt struck him.
Tom Foster of Madison and elsewhere, a
noted horse-thief has skipped the country, leav-
ing his fatherin-law and o. A. Cravens, one of
his lawyers and bondsmen in the lurch. Before
leaving he gave friend bill of sale of his
stock and stable at Columbus.
Work on the new water works at Wabash will
commence next week. The supply of water, in
stead of being secured from the Wabash river.
as originally intended, will be obtained from
springs one mile south, where an impoverishing
reservoir of 100000 gallons capacity will be
built.
The bondsmen on the 500. 900 bond of Gen. M.
d. Manson, internal revenue collector for the
Terre Haute district, are A. +. Ramsey, John L.
Davis Silas Peterson, Samuel Gllliland and
Michael Zellers, all of Montgomery county. The
combined assets of these bondsmen will reach
1920, 900.
young man by the name of Jesse Ellis, of
Jacksen's station, Upton Ecounty while drunk,
fell from Michigan City excursion train, on
Thursday night at Plymouth, while on his way
home, and was instantly killed. His body was
mangled in a horrible manner, and left in the
custody of the coroner at Plymouth.
At Rising Sun, on Thursday, lightning did
considerable damage to the Main.street Presby-
terrain Church by running down the tower, tear
ing off the plastering in the gallery, splintering
the casing and one door, and damaging the in
terror of the building About the same time a
large hole in the roof, but injuriug no one.
A sensational breach of promise suit has been
filed in the Whitley Circuit Court by Mrs. Iizzie
Clarke, young grass widow of South Whitley
She claims that Ford Grimes, a wealthy gentle
man of Collamer, was extremely devoted in his
attentions to her in the spring and summer of
1885, and that he asked her hand In marriage,
which she accepted, but when the date for the
wedding arrived, Grimes had changed his mind
about the matter and given his heart aud afecr