The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-01

recent decision Of Judge Blodgett in favor
of the Bell company, which restrained the
Cushman company from operating at the
points named.
gomery county last Sunday, in preaching
about the race of Elijah before the chariot,
said that 1T was regular. Jay.i-See race
and Maud s. was nowhere" This caused
giggle all over the congregation.
Mrs Iddings, who. with her four children,
left her home in Floyd township, Putnam
county, two weeks ago during her husbands
absence at lodge, has turned up at Frank
fort, where her friends reside. She desires
to be set right with the public, and says the
cause of her mysterious disappearance was
domestic infelicity and extreme cruelty.
The work of draining the big swamp
along the line of the Wabash railway, be-
tween Fort Wayne and Huntington. is
nearly completed. A channel twenty feet
wide, ten feet deep, and eleven miles long
has been cut through the marsh. 1t has
been an expensive job but it is expected TO
reclaim many thousand acres of land.
While driving from Jacksonville to visit
the Odd-fellOws lodge at Prather, a number
OF persons were precipitated over steep
embankmen8 Peter Leclare and George
Nixon sustained fractured ribs; eX-Mayor
PREFER was badly cut about the face; Capt.
w. HI. Northcutt received internal injuries,
and Fred Bamber was badly hurt about the
head.
Lon Nolp. q Peru business man, is In
Brooklyn, N. T., where he Will meet ms
prospective bride. He has never seen her
before, his mother having arranged all the
preliminaries. The young lady is recently
from Germany. and Mrs. Nolp knowing her
son desired wife, informed him that she
had found suitable one. Ii the young peO-
pie take the same view of the case they Will
be married in a few weeks.
Marcellus Boyd, of Bunker, fell In love
with the daughter of Levi IL. Sny-
der, q farmer living near that place,
but that gentleman didn't take kindly
to the young mans attentions, and
ordered him away from the premises Boyd
returned next day with a revolver and
stick of dynamite, and informed the farmer
that he intended to blow him into the next
out he was disarmed by a farm hand and
turned over to the police authorities at
Peru.
Albert Pence, a farmer living near Xenia,
recently gave the Standard Oil Company
agents gas and oil lease on his land. The
other day the farmer notified the agents
that he wished to change the old lease or
replace it with another, but when 1T was
brought to the house Mrs. Pence seized the
document and threw it into the fire, at the
same time telling. the agents to- clear out
The lease was said to be membranes on
the property and prevented it from either
being sold or mOrtgaged.
On Saturday Sherman Nausier. employed
by j. II. Hancock, of Pekin, Washington
county, left that place with $50 which had
been given him TO pay some of Mr.. Han
cocks hands. A fifteen-year-old girl, the
daughter of a neighboring farmer, accom-
panied him. The absconder is a brother of
John. Nausier, who, at Midtown. some
months ago, drove off a gang of white
Caps" that had come to his house at mid
night. Sherman, the hero of this last esca-
pade, was with his brother at the time of
the attack, and was shot twice by the regu-
latOrs, and was so grievOusly wounded that
for some months he was not expected to re-
cover.
The Matinee Musicale, of Martinsville,
had an enjoyable concert last Friday even
ing. Prof. James f: Howe, dean of the
music school at DePauw University; Miss
Flora Z. Van Dyke, of Illinois. and Miss
Mamie Hutchinson, of indianapolis, par
| ticipated in the entertainment. The inStru-
mental music, by Professor Howe, was
especially fine. A violin solo, by Mr.. Bert
Graves, of Martinsville. was encOred q
second time. His selection was Fifth Air
Varie," by DeBeriOt. This musical society
has met with great encouragement, and
now numbers nearly one hundred members.
Alexander Matterson, residing near JEFF
fersOnville, has become violently insane.
He labors under the hallunciation that
Congress has decided to turn night into
day by erecting electric lights all over the
country, the object of which is to prevent
crime. He is fearful that the plan cannot
be carried out, owing to the immense
amount of money required to
put up, the poles. He also be-
sses tt that fbe large Prize has bsep
some mode to string the wires without sup
port, except from towers built ''at each of
the four extreme points of the compass .
This is the problem which has unbalanced
ing to make long wire hang in the air on
its own accord.