The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07
Minor Notes.

A large new Presbyterian Church will be
dedicated at kOkomo next Sunday.
Another monster gas we'll was opened.
Thursday, on the Wildman farm, near Ko-
kOmo.
BY a tie vote the Brazil Council has
tabled q proposition to raise the liquor
license from 500 TO S125.
Ten business blocks and over $50 resi-
dences are contracted for in Kokomo, all to
be built In the early spring.
Miss Rose Altman of Huntington died of
la grippe yesterday. There are 500 cases
there, but this is the first death.
Clarkson Haworth, an old pioneer resi-
dent of Howard county. died. Thursday, of
pneumonia, superinduced by la grippe.
Two dwelling-houses belonging to Mrs.
William Haley, of KnightsvIlle, were de-
stroyed by fire at 2 O'clock yesterday morn
ing. Loss, $500; fully insured.
Ezra Gard, q deaf life convict at the
Prison south, died yesterday. He killed his
wife and tried to cut his own throat, at
Lawrenceburg, IN October. 1873.
Henry Patty accidentally filled his body
with bird-shOt, while out hunting. near
Geetingsville. Clinton county. He walked
home. but died shortly afterward.
The Brookside canning factory at Koko-
mo Is being enlarged, and will give en-
ployment to seven hundred hands during
the packing season commencing June ID.
Mrs. Nora Alberdan. wife of a prosperous
farmer near Brownsville. Upton county,
of the district school, who boarded in the
house.
George N. Winchell. one of the leading
business men of Marion. die yesterday
morning of pneumonia, brought on by la
grippe. His age was fifty-nine. He leaves
an estate valued at $4,000
Miss Laura Carroll, of Lebanon, who has
bnAyx ~ ~ &c.,. e. --.-- A. L. 49,
offered a handsome salary by the Princess
of the Samoan islands to 60 there and as
sist in establishing the public school sys-
TEN.
Apollos Woodward. of Richmond. for
whom Woodward Lodge of Odd-fellows
was named, thirty years ago, died at an
early hour yesterday morning, and his
funeral will occur at 2 o'clock this after
noon.
Representatives of the new Peru Binder
Irvine and COrdage Company are now East
procuring necessary machinery, etc, to
properly equip the plant, which will short
ly be In active operation, employing about
$50 men.
Traces of arsenical poison were found in
the remains of Jacob Eberle.. of Peru, who
died some two years ago, and which were
analysed under direction of the county
coroner. The grand jury will investigate
the case.
c. w. Billmyer. formerly of Shepards-
town, w. Va, recently started a novelty
store at Muncie, buying most of his stock
on credit from a Cincinnati concern. He
Quilted the stock and fed. leaving numer-
Gus creditors.
j.. w. Drake, an old resident of Wabash,
died there yesterday from sOftening of the
brain. brought about by falling from a
fence eighteen months ago. Deceased was
seyenty-seven years old, and had resided
there forty years.
The Hon. Willis Barnes, of Charlestown,
has invented o little machine which, foI
mechanical con%trivance, is quite a curiosi-
ty. The little machine is operated by clock
work. and marks, automatically, on glass
$4,000 lines on a space of an inch.
Thomas Shelly. of KokomO, who has dis
appeared, Ia wanted or several charges, his
latest exploit being the breaking up of a
lyceum by appearing on the scene with a
revolver and firing several shots in the
crowd He ~forfeits n bond of $500 for steal.
ing turkeys some weeks ago.
Kokomo has granted a franchise for d
street-railway system. The company has
filed bond to have three miles of track in
operation by Oct. l, of the present year
Horsepower is to be used until the city at.
tains a population of twenty Thousand,
when electricity will he substituted.
Frank Seal was put in Jail at Nashville
Wednesday, charged with forgery. He pre-
scented several checks at the various banks
of that city signed by various prominent
citizens of the place, payable to JOIN
Smith. OF bearer. He has been i'm the peni
Tertiary once before, for the crime of lar
ceny.
In the Wabash Circuit Court, yesterday
George Cones and Henry Williams, the TIVE
Cincinnati criminals, arrested there fol
stealing from several Wabash stores. wer,
found guilty and sentenced to the peniten
tiary, Cones receiving three years ant
| Wllliams enc. Cones mleadad guiltv
Thomas Sheen, the wheat thief, was sen
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