The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19


yesterday afternoon, and was fatally
scalded.
Mrs Emma Barkman fell from a wagon
near Seymour yesterday, and was seriously,
If not fatally, hurt.
Mrs. George Brown and Jacob Pancera,
of Lafayette, both sustained fractured
limbs by falls recently.
A little daughter of Elisha Miller, at
Charlestown, had her foot cut OFT by now
ing machine yesterday.
The town board of Corydon has passed an
ordinance forbidding hogs, cattle or horses
to run at large under penalty OF $40 for each
Offense.
storm yesterday, which flooded that neigh
borhOOd and did considerable damage to
the crops.
Frank Merriweather. of Fort Wayne,
while out fishing. recently, was assaulted
by stranger, and sustained fracture OF
the skull.
Farmers living along creeks in Mont
gomery county have posted up notices that
no fishing will be allowed by persons who
stand upon their lands.
Joseph Shaffer and Charles Robertson, of
Kokono, are building fiat-bottomed boat
In which they propose to take their families
on pleasure trip South.
Clinton county is to have an Indian we'd
ding next Saturday, the parties to be first
married with the Christian rites, and then
with the Indian ceremony.
Arrangements are being made for
brigade encampment of the Uniform Rank
knights of Pythlas at warsaw, beginning
on the 5th prOx., and lasting a week.
In shooting-match. last Wednesday, be-
| tween Ed VOris, of Crawfordsville and
Captain Bogardus, of the Wild West show,
the score stood % out of % English sparrows
killed by each, resulting in tie.
At Liberty Center, yesterday morning,
~ fu sDbf
train backed over a horse, and the caboOse
and severed freight cars were derailed,
causing a blockade of several hours.
Rev. G. S. Sargent. of North Winsted, o.,
has accepted call to st. James Episcopal
Church at Washington, and Rev. DR.. Chat
fee, of the First Baptist Church, of La
Porte, has resigned on account of i'll health.
| A gospel camp-meeting under the auspices
| of the A. NJ. E. Church of Franklin begins
| there on the Sd prox., and will continue
| nine days. Talented ministers and lectur-
| ers have been engaged and special railroad
| rates secured.
James McClary, aged eighty-fve, died at
his home near cambridge, Putnam county,
| day before yesterday. He came to Putnam
county in 1927, and was the last of the early
pioneers who continued to live on the land
which they entered.
Recent deaths include Absalom Wilson.
| of Miami county, aged seventy-two; John
| Ingemar, of Fayette county, aged seventy
| tive;, Mrs. Sophia COquillard, of South
| Bend, aged eighty-three, and Mrs. w. +.
Petit, of Shawnee Mound.
| Property stolen at Flora, Ill. was found
on house-boat. mOored opposite Vim
cennes, and the Council of the latter city
| passed an ordinance compelling all house
boats mOOred on the Indiana side of the
| river at that point to leave.
| At Lebanon, last Wednesday, John Glenn,
| twelve-year-Old boy. playfully pointed
| shotgun at Lewis Smith, single man aged
twenty-five, thinking it was not loaded.
The gun exploded. and load of buckshot
entered Smiths abdomen, fatally injuring
him.
| Joe Stultz, who is confined in the jail at
New Albany, in default of bail, for his APP
pearance to answer to the charge of sub
OrnatlOn of perjury ut the next term of the
Circuit Court, was serenaded last Tuesday
night by q crowd of musicians from Louis
| vile.
two horses and buggy valued at 1000,
| belonging to Ira Brown and Al Cochran,
were destroyed by an incendiary fire at
Peru last night. A later fire, by lightning.
destroyed the residence of William Cook.
| Loss, $500; insurance, 5000.
| Last Wednesday night ''White Caps"
composed of both women and men, called at
the house of Mrs William Piatt, at Roches-
| ter. took her out and gave her severe
| whipping. Others have been threatened.
| The threatened persons are residents of
| Iceberg a suburb of Rochester, where the
| rOugher element lives.
The butchers of Miami county have as
| sOciated together and will fight the new
State law requiring cattle to be inspected
on the hOOf at their expense. The newly
| appointed inspectors are in q dilemma,
pay being refused by butchers and the in
| spectOr being obliged, officially. to inspect.
The case is attracting much attention.
A roseate spoon-bill was recently shot
| near Richmond. and is being prepared for
| exhibition by Sam Reynolds, of Williams
burg. 1t is thirty-two inches high, thirty
inches from tip to tip. has a bill six inches
its plumage is of a beautiful rosy pink
color. 1t is probably the only one of it's
kind ever found so far north.