The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

DIR. Timmons. of Otterbein, died. recently,
of heart disease, at the age of seventy.
Patrick Killion fell from a hand-car, near
Richland, recently, and when picked up
was found to be dying.
Leander JOhff was blown up by a thresh-
ing-machine explosion, a day or two since,
but escaped serious injury.
A colored camp-meeting will be held at
the Charlottesville fair grounds,
ing ON July %, and continuing two weeks.
Gerald Dunno, a book agent who recently
settled in Terre Haute and lived expensive
ly. has disappeared owing numerous cred
itOrs.
and shrubbery in the courthouse yard
there, which were planted by the ladies OF
that town.
The Vincennes military company organ
lied under Speaker Nlblacks captalncy
will be known as Company A, First Regl-
ment, Indiana Militia.
j. w. Killers horse and buggy, valued at
$500, was stolen in the neighborhoOd of the
courthouse, in Peru, yesterday afternoon.
There is no clew to the thief.
The City Council at Charlottesville
going to pass an ordinance that all wooden
buildings erected within the fire limits
shall be inclOsed In corrugated iron.
James lcCain, of Bengal, was danger
ousIy wouY He'd while scufhing with Matt
DdSSsd ploOO4 III II IL
ploding and shooting him in the groin.
Winchester has Just completed two more
good gas wells. The larger of the two is by
far the best well yet struck there, and has
an estimated capacity of four to six million
cubic feet per day.
The funeral of David s.. Hartshorn. at
Charlottesville, yesterday afternoon, Was
largely attended. He was buried with
Masonic honors, and the G.. A. X. post
turned out in a body.
A posse of citizens are hunting for John
Cochran, who is charged with committing
q criminal assault on the six-year-Old
daughter of John Triplett, at Cammack
Station, near Muncie. last Sunday even
ing.
The Windfal1 Natural-gas. Oil n Min
ing Company, day before yesterday, COM
pleted their second gas-well at a depth OF
963 feet, being twenty-six feet in the Tren.
ton rock. Good Judges pronounce it one OF
the strongest wells in the gas belt.
About midnight last night q mob of
| masked men stOrmed the house of Nance
Vincent. a notorious character of Montpe-
lier. They broke every window in the
house, and the doors, her .sewing-machine
and stove. and then gave her a coat OF tar.
During Yesterdays storm at the lakes
| Lewis, an old soldier, was seated under a
clothes line, with his granddaughter on his
knee, when he was struck by q bolt OF
lightning and killed. The child escaped
injury.
Two brothers-in-law living in the coun-
try near Elkhart, John Crater and Henry
Reid. got into a dispute yesterday after
noon over q threshing to be done by them,
and Crater finally struck Reid on the head
] with a heavy hammer, inficting an injury
| that it is feared will prove fatal.
A telegram from Hartford, Conn.,, an
nounces the death of William BOlles, for
many years q resident of Delphi, and a
man of immense wealth. He settled in
| Delphi in early canal days, and soon be-
| came one of the ~wealthiest men on the line
| of the Wabash q Erie canal. Several years
| ago he took up his residence in the East.
Randolph County Commissioners yester-
day let the contracts for the construction
| of three more gravel roads, to be known as
the Weimer, Hershey and Goodrich free
gravel roads. The total cost of construc.
| ton will be SO, 116.01, and the total length
| of the roads seven and One-half miles. This
makes a total of free gravel roads in Ran.
dOlph county of 1875 miles.
The Council of Delphi has purchased OF
the natural-gas company well Nc. 3, which
was sunk there several weeks ago. A
strong vein of water. im~pregnated with
valuable medicinal elements, flows con.
stantly, and it is the intention to pipe the
water to the courthouse square in the cen.
ter of the city, and erect a public fountain
One Thousand dollars will be expended in
sinking another well in the hope of finding
gas.