The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-04

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Southern Indiana is q great fruit center.
the output so far this season being the
heaviest ever known.
J. +. Self has been reelected superin-
tendent of the Decatur county poor farm
by the commissioners.
Ann Dillow, aged forty -one. wife of Jo-
seph Dillow, of Cayuga. died on Saturday
and was inferred in the Thomas Cemetery
on Sunday afternoon.
regular Kansas grasshopper was found
at Charlottesville. yesterday. 1t Is three
inches long, and is probably the advance
guard of an army of invaders.
Mrs. Luters. wife of Henry Luters. a
prominent citizen residing east of Martins
vile. died on Sunday of stomach trouble.
She was about sixty years of age.
A young man nanod Clark. living In
Huntington. in getting off moving Monon
freight train at Ladoga. Saturday evening.
had his right hand cut off by the cars.
CraZy-patch socials have become alarm
ingly popular in Jacksonville. No one can
say exactly what the new fad is, but every
body admits having, "Oh, the loveliest
timer
Burglars forced open q shutter at Harme-
ling & Maetschke's New Albany clothing
store and ransacked the place. Five hun
dred dollars in jewelry and clothes were
stolen.
Lee SCOTS residence, at Shideler, north
of Muucle, burned Sunday night. No in
surance. Two stacks of wheat belonging
to George Copper. east OF Muncie, burned
yesterday.
A seven-year-old son of Alonzo HARRISON,
of New Albany, was severely bitten by
q rabid dog. The brute was killed, but not
before it had bitten several other dogs of
that vicinity.
Wilson. tho well-known musician and
band-master of New Castle, died at the
family residence Sunday night at mid
night, after long and very painful illness.
Solomon Sharp. who lived at Thorntown,
Ind. went to Greensbnrg several weeks
typhoid fever and lay for long time at
theresidence Of his son n-law. r. I: Wright.
and died on Sunday night. The body was
taken to Thorntown for burial
Charles Gay. wife and daughter. of New
Albany. were arrested and locked in Jail on
Saturday night. The father was charged
with assaulting and the wife and daughter
with being drunk. They are notorious
family. The girl recently had her eye
almost cut ont during a fight with another
girlnamed loops.
Company /, Forty-third Indiana volun-
teers, held a reunion in the courthouse
yard In Newport on Saturday. There were
fifteen of Company present. and number
of other soldiers and citizens. There was
no entertainment of any kind. The next
IcuuiOu VI tulS COEipdny regiment VIII
be held at Newport on the first Saturday in
August. 1892.
Burglars are infesting Waynetown. Last
Saturday night the drug store of Mr.. Hays
was entered and some of the goods taken,
and while burglar was attempting to en-
ter the house of David Short the latter shot
HIM. The man fell but jumped up and ran
towards the woods. The house of the
editor of the Hornet was also disturbed
but nothing was missing.
Flux is raging in Cayuga and Eugene,
seven miles north of Newport. Maud, the
sixteen-year-Old daughter of Jerome b.
Thomas. died on Saturday and was
inferred Sunday afternoon. just be-
before the funeral left the house for the
cemetery the six-year- old daughter died
There are not less than fifty cases in Eu.
gene, and every household between there
and Perryeville has one or more.
A fine maple tree, through which passes
the power-wire used for conducting the
current that operates the Highland rail-
way. at New Albany, has become thor
oughly charged with electricity. on ac-
count of defective insulation, and has be-
come fairly powerful battery. capable of
giving q plainly perceptib BILE shock. The
current has been sufficiently strong TO kill
the tree. which is about thirty-fve feet high
and ten inches in diameter.