The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-12-18

Minor Notes.
The State Farmers Institute met at
LaPorte yesterday to hold q two days ses-
sion.
The Madison tobacco-works to-day make
a shipment of twenty-five carloads of to-
baccO to Detroit.
A large frame farm d~welling-house on the
farm of John X. Ford, near Lagrange
burned yesterday afternoon.
Josiah Durfee, a prominent contractor
of Noblesville, aged fifty-four years. died
Monday night OF lung fever.
Arthur Shull yesterday pleaded guilty. at
Portland, to forgery and was sentenced to
three years in the p~enitentiary.
Mrs. Susie Galloway. of Lagrange, at
tempted suicide Monday afternoon by TAX
ing She is yet alive.
Mike Slater. who hired George Ford to
assault grOceryman Sawyer of Hammond.
was arrested in LaPorte on Sunday.
A donation of S 5000 has been raised at
Portland for the Evans glass-works and
work will on the factory soon.
A Standard OIL warehouse at Valparaiso
was burned Monday night. The cause of
the fire is unknown. No insurance.; loss.
about $1,000.
Muncie is entertaining a party of twenty
five capitalists from Buffalo, N. Y. and
vicinity. who are prospecting for paying
investments.
IACu SOAlS Wa6 buIOWu lIOIu % tIdiu 70
tween Martinsville and Spencer while
stealing a ride. and his right leg was broken
III the knee joint.
Frank Pleanitz. of Logansport, was
thrown on to the railway track by a runa-
way horse, a few days ago, and his right
foot was crushed.
A farmers institute has been organized
at Goshen. the idea being to control local
markets and secure cooperation among the
members. IL. S. Bartholomew was elected
president.
Governor Fifer. of Illinois, has honored
the requisition of Governor HOvey for the
extradition of Frank p. Adams. wanted at
tody at Chicago.
Fire, yesterday morning. destroyed the
large frame barn of A. T. Reed. at Peru, to-
gether with a fine surrey. harness, hay and
one horse. Loss, about $500; insurance.
500. IN the heni of Hartford. The fire
was OF %iIcendiary origin.
Monday night the barn of Sam Brown, a
farmer living eight miles west of ROckpOrt,
burned to the ground. together with a large
+ amount of hay, corn, farming implements.
three horses and Que mule. 1t was insured
for very little. and the origin of the fire is
unknown
The first annual poultry show of the
Montgomery County Poultry Association
opened yesterday and will continue until
Saturday. The exhibition is held in the X.
of Z. armory at Charlottesville. and there
are $50 entries, and more to come. The
awarding OF premiums commenced last
evening.
Fire. of i%ncendiary origin, destroyed the
L~aFOuntain livery barn. at Fowler. last
night. There was 81 1900 insurance on the
building in the Phoenix of Hartford. The
stock and fixtures belonged to w. b.
Sheets. Fifteen tons Of hay, three fine
sIeighs and other property was burned.
lie carried no insurance.
Capt. HI. o. Halbert. late of the One-hun-
dred-and-fifteenth Indiana Volunteers, dIed
at his home in Spencer Monday night. aged
s SIX yo, yea rs :; he was well known in
be buried from the Christian Church. at 10
A. NJ. to-day, with the honors of war, by his
comrades of Gettysburg Post. No.. SO, g..
A.. r.
Mrs. Anna Ferry was arrested by the
sheriff of Floyd county on two indictments
larceny and obtaining goods by false pre-
lenses. The woman is alleged to have
swindled several firms out of a large
amount. The furniture firms of New Al
bany have lost not less than $500, and other
houses are out as much.
Ed Cory, of Charlottesville, who is to
fight Dick Heating, of Lafayette. on Mon
day, Dec. %, is being trained for the con-
test. He is in charge of Joe Allen, who
commenced the training last Thursday.
Nv AU WClkDCu ~
pounds, which has now been reduced to
1S3. 1t Is proposed to reduce this weight to
rs pounds by tine day of the fight.
Hon. 4. b. Reynolds. of Wayne county.
delivered two speeches on the temperance
question, at Lagrange, on Sunday and
Monday evenings. The address on Monday
evening was confined to the discussion of
prohibition as the ultimate object to be
reached. and local option as the best inter
mediate step to be taken; and it was such
as appealed to the Judgment of all present,
and made M excellent impression.
w. A. Garrison Post, G.. A. r., at LafOn-
tame. Wabash county, elected the following
vice. w. r.. Howard; junior vice. John
Chopper; officer of the day. j. b. Bruner;
officer Of the guard. Perry l.. Martin, ser,
geant, John P. Thompson: chaplain. Franz
Calfee; quartermaster. John w. Harper
delegate to State Encampment, J. b.
Bruner alternate. George Farris.