The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-01
Minor Notes,
BENJAMIN B. Roberts, grocer, at Lafayett,
has failed.

BENJAMIN B. Roberts, grocer, at Lafayette,
has failed.
Terre Haute has succeeded in getting
enough gas to supply one dwelling house.
A street railway to connect West Eden
and French Lick Springs is being talked of.
Paramount is to have a glass-works for
the manufacture of fruit-jars and hollow
ware.
Miss Matte Lawrence. of Danville. car
ried off the hOnOrs at the district Oratorical
contest.
Mrs. Samuel l.. Clark, a prominent wom-
an of Seymour died at the age of seventy
one years.
Mrs. Emma Franklin and two children
jumped from the second story of a burning
house, at Vincennes, and escaped without
serious injury.
chant, dropped dead from heart disease
Tuesday night.
At South Bend. Mrs Frank Meixsell used
carbolic acid for sore throat, and was saved
with great difficulty.
Capt. Alexander Darling, of Evansville
was seriously injured by being thrown from
buggy IN runaway.
Albert Weidner, of Jacksonville. was
thrown from wagon by q runaway team,
at Sellersburg. and badly hurt
W. w. Williamson and l.. H. Price, of
South Whitley, have purchased the ROch-
ester Tribune of w. j. Howard, taking
possession this week.
There are seventy-two distilleries in the
internal revenue district composed of Har-
rlsOn, Perry, Crawford, Floyd, Clark and
Washington counties.
Bryan Doran, a young brakeman on the
q. " NJ. road, was knocked from the car at
the entrance of the long tunnel near Fort
Ritner and instantly killed.
A bad freight wreck occurred on the J. &
st. l.. road north of Brazil. Tuesday, and
trains were run around over the Vandalia
from Greencastle to Terre Haute.
Joseph Ault a farmer near Columbus,
was pelted terribly by heavy hailstones in
the storm near Columbus. Monday night,
and now lies In critical condition.
The barn of William Claycamp, near
Garland, was burned to the ground entail
| ing loss of =, 900. The blaze was started
| by spark from Mr.. Claycamp's pipe
A Jersey cow belonging to Henry Eaton
| farmer, near Brownsburg, became rabid
| from the bite of q dog, and was killed. The
| family had been using the milk. and much
alarm is felt as to its possible effects.
The Charlottesville Business Mems As.
! ISOLATION met last evening and perfected
| arrangements for the horse fair to be held
there on Saturday. Aug. 10. A large list Of
miscellaneous premiums will be offered
Harrison Benjamin, one of the three fam
| Gus triplets recently born to Mr.. and Mrs
John Harper, at LafOntaine, Wabash coun
| ty, died Tuesday night, after short illness
| The Others, Morton Levi and Howard, are
doing well.
Tuesday night Mrs J. H. Hartman, aged
| fifty-five. went to sleep on the Lake Shor,
| ~ Michigan Southern track, near Millers
| burg, and was struck by train and in
stantly killed. She had been insane sine,
the death of her husband, two years ago.
Frederick Beckenholdt. a prosperous ani
well-todO farmer living few miles north
| west of Aurora. committed suicide Tuesday
| night by hanging himself. He had beef
drinking heavily, it is said, and wa
thought to have committed tine act Will,
intoxicated.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar denies that he
audience at Delphi was diminished by rea
son of speech delivered at the same tim,
by Hon. w. ID. Owen. She says that at til,
beginning of her speech her hearers mum
bered about 1000, and this number suffere,
no diminutiOn.
John Spencer, living short distance
from Rochester, found a six-months'-
girl baby at his gate Wednesday morning
1t is supposed to have been abandoned b,
a man and woman who were seen walking
along the railroad, between Rochester an,
Argos Tuesday.
Mrs. Mary Doran, who murdered her hus
band Ill Columbus about a year ago, an,
was acquitted on the ground of insanity
and driven from the city by Marshal Hae
erty, returned to that city Tuesday, whe
she was again ordered to leave the city, an
did so by the first train.