The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-03
Minor Notes.

several hours. and his recovery is doubtful.
Minor Notes.
Angola is negotiating for an electric-light
plant.
Mrs. Eunice Brewster, q ninety-year-old
resident of Frankfort, died yesterday morn
ing at 8 o'clock.
Keller q Norman, dry goods merchants
at Logansport, have assigned. Liabilities,
$4,000; assets, $4,000.
Hon. B. w. Hanna and wife, of Craw-
fordsville, are at West Baden Springs,
where they will remain three weeks.
Edward Graves was killed, near Boswell,
by the accidental discharge of his gun
while returning in a cart from a hunting
expedition.
Clinton Riddinger. son of DR.. Biddinger.
committed suicide at his home near Column
bus. by shooting himself through the heart
with a rifle.
Warner Pearson, the colored man who
killed his step-father, near Jeffersonville.
has been bound over to the Circuit Court In
the sum of $1,000.
The SANDER suit of Llvona Snider VS..
Harrison Snider, her former husband, was
dismissed at Greensburg, yesterday, the
defendant having signed a retractiOn.
John Mcclellan, of J~effersonville, is dan
gerOuSly i'll from what was supposed to be
a mosquito bite on his right hand. A spider
is probably responsible for the trouble.
Shellbark, the five-year-old that trotted
in the 2:35 class at the Cleveland races, re-
Gently worked out a mile on the Angola
race track in 2:2Ss4- He is owned by Charles
Bachelor.
The saw-mill of George Rhodes, at Cow
ington, was destroyed by fire late on Satur,
day night, together with a p~laning-mill
that was attached. Loss about $1,000, with
no insurance.
The ghost of Tim Sullivan, who hanged
himself a few years ago in a cell at the
Jacksonville jail, is alleged to appear each
| night and terrOriZe the unfortunate Occu-
pants of Timothy's old quarters.
at McCullOch's Crossing, Clark county,
Sunday. A heavy bowlder crashed through
the cab, and struck engineer John Moon,
MASKING his ham and breaking two of his
ribs.
John Grayson was released from Jefferson
vile yesterday, and Immediately purchased
a sufficient Quantity of morphine to kill
himself. He swallowed the dose, but q
stomach pump saved his life, much against
his will.
Laborers in Carroll county unearthed a
box in a gravel Pit CONTAINING the skeleton
ten years. In the box was a tin box, said
to have contained money, which the finders
carried of.
The Living Issue is the name of a new
paper just started at Angola by. w. w.
WyIlCA. q tuiIu-pdEty IdulCdl. lilo paper
is very %diminutlve in size, but the editor
announces his intention at making 1T hot
for the Republicans.
James j. Bridges, a prominent citizen of
johnson county, died at Hopewel yester-
DAY morning; His disease was cancer OF
tendent of the Orphans Home OF johnson
county during the past five years.
There are 276 persons in Montgomery
county who have q license to teach school.
This is So more than is required to fill the
positions. Of the former number, "a nave
licenses for three years. SO for two years,
LOG for one year, and 81 for six months.
At a meeting of the board of elders of the
Frankli Christian Church held on Sunday
they made a unanimous request that Elder
H.. H. Nesslage, the pastor, withdraw his
resignation, which he rendered some time
ago. Mr.. Nesslage did so and will remain.
James Wright has been. appointed re.
ceiver of the Charlottesville Natural-gas
Company. The sum of $50 is owed to j.
Il. Mackleveine 81 Co., of indianapolis, and
about $500 to Lyle & Smith, of Crawfords-
vile. The assets of the company are only q
hole in the ground.
Fire broke out at Rising Sun yesterday
morning, burning the residence of Enos
Gary and the dwelling of widow Hicks.
For a time it threatened to consume the
With an ' Insurance s1 Of SOC 500 in n the aoo Royal ain In,
surance Company.
The twenty-second annual exhibition of
the Madison county fair was begun yester-
day. In the department of live stock the
entries are unusually large. At noon over
$50 entries of horses had been made, in al
classes. and of sheep and hogs the display
will be the greatest for many years.
The survivors of the Third Division
Twentieth Army Corps, President Harri.
sons old command. held their first reunion
during the G.. A. K. e~ncampment at Mil
waukee. Gen. John Coburn, of Indianapo
lis, acted as chairman. The next reunion
will be held at Boston, during encampmen1
week. Three Indiana regiments belonged
to this division-the Thirty third, Seven
tieth and Eighty-fifth.
Squire Huckeby, the noted justice, whc
has been the best friend of Kentucky elop
ing couples to be found in New Albany, ha,
three distinct rituals he uses in marriages
When he has an intuition that he is to re
ceive but 81 fee the ceremony is the very
essence of brevity. A 81 fee is slightly NOR
ornate. while S. brings ont the 'Sauire'
powers to that degree that the newly mar
ried pair leave with the feeling that they
are high up in the social scale.