The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
Minor Notes.

The new life-saving station at Michigan
City will be opened April 10.
DR.. Fl. S. Wolfe, of Jacksonville, has re-
signed as ply stefan at the Prison South.
The Baldwin prize exhibition of Wabash
College will be held next Tuesday evening
at Charlottesville.
Incendiaries burned the house of Mrs
Henry Kerns. four miles south of Seymour,
on Wednesday. Loss, 5000; no insurance.
The third annual State encampment of
the sons of Veterans will be held at LOgans-
port, beginning june II, and continuing
four days.
Camp Calkins, in honor of Mai. w. H.
CaIkins, Is the name of q new post of Sons
of Veterans at LaPorte. 1t starts with a
membership of thirty.
Grandma Trimble, one of Hopes bar
tholonlew county, Oldest residents, died on
Wednesday. She was eighty-four years of
age.
Mrs. Dora Hansing. aged seventy-five
county, died at her home in Harrison town.
ship. on Wednesday.
William Pike, an employee of the Win
chester saw and handle factory, had his
right hand crushed yesterday, while work.
ing at bolting-machine. Amputation was
necessary.
Oregon township, Clarke county, is charged
with severely abusing Miss Ada Bower q
pupil. She claims to have been kicked out
of the room. The girl is seriously Ill, and
may die.
The Baptist Chautauqua committee has
decided to erect magnificent auditorium
building at LaPorte. The structure is to
be 90 feet in diameter. The society will
also construct twO-story hotel, so by 90
feet. with wide verandas extending around
1T.
Last summer Prof. ]. M. Campbell. of
Charlottesville, and r. B. Snyder made an
agreement that If Harrison was elected
Mr.. Snyder should be royalty entertained
by Professor Campbell, and vice versa. On
Thursday Mr.. Snyder ate dinner with
Professor Campbell.
Charles Myers, sentenced to ten years
IN the penitentiary, from Martinsville,
eighteen months ago. on a plea of guilty
TO DEMONSTRATING, was brought back yester-
day for rehearing. The new trial cut his
sentence down to four years, besides the
time he HIS already served.
The board of commissioners of Harrison
county has made an order bonding the
Indebtedness of the county, amounting to
$4,000. The board also employed Daniel
+. Lennon to make an Investigation of
the accounts of ex-Sheriff s. j. Bence.
Rev. j. C. McKinsey, of Frankfort. the
missionary evangelist of the Christian
churches of the counties of Montgomery.
Boone and Clinton, in his report of his work
for the past three months. says that he has
church, travelled 1895 miles, received s1O4
IN collections, and organized church at
Kirklin.
While Prof. A. NJ. Huycke, principal of
the Wabash High-school, was making an
experiment in explosives before the MEM
bers of the Chautauqua Literary and Sci
entific Circle, number of glass balls were
shattered into thousands of pieces with
great force. A number of ladies were
struck by the fragments. while Professor
Huycke was badly cut about the hands and
wrists. His escape from instant death was
close one.
The district convention of the w. C. T.
". IN the counties of Parke, Putnam,
Fountain and Montgomery will he held at
Crawfordsville on Wednesday and Thurs
day, March 20 and 81. Mrs. J. r. Nichols,
state president, of Indianapolis, will be in
attendance, besides other prominent per-
sons. There viii be contest on Wednes-
Gay evening for what is known as the
Demorest Silver Medal" Contestants
must De between the ages of fifteen and
twenty-one years.