The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
Minor Notes.

Goshen is shipping mud turtles to East
ern markets..
At Balbec, in Jay county. q 5000, 900 gas
well was struck yesterday.
Logansport's street-car company has been
sold to a New York syndicate.
Steube county propose a soldiers mon
ument for the public square at Albion.
Grant Beck, last April, has begun at Peters
burg.
Jeffersonville colored people will have a
big celebration of Emancipation day on the
Sd prox.
DR.. A. d. Coe, a well-known physician of
Mexico. Miami county, died yesterday from
paralysis.
Conductor John Weir, of the j.. NJ. g. 1.
railroad, is lying very low at New Albany
with paralysis.
Most of the cases brought by Mrs. Leeds
against Michigan City saloon-keepers were
Quashed by the Mayor.
James Riley, of the Anderson rod and
wire-mill, had the fingers torn from his
righthand yesterday by machinery.
Benjamin Junkins, husband of Elizabeth
Junkins, the Quaker evangelist, died at
Wabash yesterday, at the age OF seventy
five.
Work has been commenced on the Bimel
wheel and bending works at Balbec. The
buildings are of brick. The works will en-
ploy 100 men.
Absalom Wilson, a pioneer, and one of
Miami cOunty's most prominent farmers,
died Yesterday evening, after a long illness,
aged seventy-two.'
Billy Doyle, a young man eighteen years
old, while stripping timber in the handle
factory at Montpelier, yesterday, had all of
the fingers on his left ham cut of.
Some persons at Charlottesville put let
tiers in the maii-boxes, and also money for
the purchase of stamps to go on the letters.
The mall-carriers then have to stamp the
letters.
Dora Christman, of Peru, has instituted
breach-Of-prOmise proceedings against
Peter Grebner, a prominent business man.
Fifteen thousand dollars if the sum asked
for by the complainant.
John Hunter was thrown from his car
rage and seriously, and probably fatally,
injured while out riding with his family a
few miles west of Peru last night. The
others escaped with lesser injuries.
William j. Cunningham. about fifty years
of age. hung himself at his home, between
Let's Corner and Westport. last evening.
was s~uperinduced by his poor health.
Six aged men of New Albany, none less
than seventy-five years of age, will attend
the old settlers meeting at Charlestown on
the LIST prox. The pioneers will go in great
style. in a handsome six-seated carriage.
Joe Jones, colOreu, atCempteu 10 cut the
throat OF l.. X. Monroe. a cOlOred reporter
of the Charlottesville Daily Journal,
Wednesday morning. Monroe retreated
and secured q rock, with which ne knocked
Jones down.
Burglars entered the residence of w. ].
Elvin; at Peru, yesterday morning. They
were discovered n dropped part of their
plumber in getting away. Other portions
of the city were visited by the thieves, but
without success.
Homer b. Dobell, of Remington, q law
student at LOganspOrt. and q recent gradu-
this year of the $3.50 prize offered by the
American Protective Tariff League for the
best essay on free raw materials.
Wheat harvesting in Miami county is al
most finished and the yield is a most excel
lent one. Corn is doing splendidly, the re-
Fruits of all description are far above the
average and the yield will be large.
Deputy Sheriff Mike Sweeney recently
arrested George summers in Gibson coun-
ty, with the assistance of two cOnstables,
after a desperate struggle Summers is
lock, near Duff, Dubois county, abont a
year and a half Ago..
Night before last the barn of Anderson
HOgstOn. at Marion, was fired by lncendi-
aries and totally destroyed, involving a loss
of s., 600; partially, covered by insurance of
5000. Hogston and two of his hired hands
were sleeping in the barn, and narrowly es-
capped with their lives.
Marat Strain, q well-to-do farmer, living
near ThorntOwn, disappeared some days
since, and Mrs. Ii. l.. Shultz, the W life of
one of Strains employees, disappeared about
the same time. Mrs. Strain is arranging to
take possession of the property left by her
husband.
Grant Willis and Addison Horn. who
were jailed last week on q charge of grand
larceny, were given a preliminary examin-
alton at Clay City yesterday. They took a
change of venue TO Saline, where the case
| will be heard on the 18th inst. The father