The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26
Indiana Deaths.

WORTHINGTON, Ind, March 25.-Miss
Dora Barton, whose sudden death from lung
fever cast a gloom over the entire COM
munity, was buried last Saturday. The de-
ceased was the daughter of Aaron Barton
and one OF the most popular schoolteachers
in the county. The teachers of Jefferson
township attended the funeral and acted
as pallbearers.
RICHMOND, Ind, March 25.-The follow
day: Mrs. H. H. Kohling, aged forty-seven;
Mrs. Catherine Braley, aged eighty-three,
'ap Mrs Mrs Ma Wesley ks s sRsfd. a d|ed fl Tsyierasv =
her home in Hagerstown, aged seventy-five.
She was one of the Oldest citizens of that
place.
MUNCIE. Ind. March 25.-Hattie 1. Seitz,
aged twenty-five, wife of James w. Seitz,
died yesterday OF grip. She was the daugh-
but four months. She had been sick but a
few hours and the death was a great sur
prise.
MARTINSvILLE, Ind, March 25.AWil-
liam Singleton, aged ninety-seven years,
died this morning of old age. He has been
a aea resla and leaves o. Mo ; gwife Comfy ana sey Ior many ah9i.
dren. He was a native of ireland.
ANDERSON, Ind, March 2.-Henry s.
Goe. one of Anderson's grocers, died this
morning from a severe attack of grip. Mr..
Goe enlisted in the Fifth Indiana Cavalry
in this county when but seventeen years
old and served through the war.
Indiana Notes.
Barns Of August Case and BENJAMIN
h1nG, north OF ICTu, were destroyed yes
terday, will loss of 1000.
Thomas Corners, a Muncie saloon keeper,
was thrown from his buggy, last night, in
a runaway, and is believed to be fatally in
jured.
DR.. Charles Marvel, a young physician of
Richmond, will build a private hospital for
women. Associated with DIR. Marvel will
be DIR. Harry Weist.
Simon II. Cohn, aged seventy-eight, one
of Delaware county's pioneers, fell nearly
ten feet from the top of a wagon load of
logs. Saturday, and is believed to be fatally
injured. as
A company of Indianapolis capitalists
will incorporate the Franklin. foundry and
machine works. Work 70 on the building
about one hundred men.
John Wake. a self-confessed forger, was
taken before Judge Comstock at Richmond,
yesterday, and pleaded guilty. He was sem
fenced to two years and three months in the
penitentiary and fined $40.
Richmond will make an effort to secure
Methodist Episcopal Conference. which
meets this year at Logansport. Her only
competitor is Fort Wayne.
Jacob Fike, a resident of Chill. Miami
county, was found in a dying condition at
the bottom of a ravine spanned by the
Wabash railway bridge. 1t is supposed he
was crossing the bridge and fell through.
Saturday night John Calvert and Thomas
Llewellen engaged in a street fight at Bra
zil, and Llewellen struck Calvert a terrific
blow on the head with a brick, .fracturing
his skull and probably making a fatal
wound.
Mrs. Mary Starkey. of Elwood. has filed
suit in the Circuit Court to have the will
of the late w. c. Starkey set aside and a
Redistribution of his property made, alleg-
ing that when the will was made he was of
|4unsound mind.
For last two weeks not a pupil at
tended Miss Cora Walters's school in Clin-
ton township, Cass county. She opened the
school building daily just the same and
drew her salary. The scholars struck on
account of a disagreement With the trustee.
A warehouse connected with L. T.. Mi
chaeTs tanning mill factory, at LaPorte,
was destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, ST.
600, partly insured. Later the hardware
store of E. Wunsch and three barns in close
proximity, caught fire, entailing a loss Of 3d.
OO9; all partially insured.
Yesterday, at Greenfield, Charles Bosser-
man, conductor of local freight No. Is,
west bound, was severely crushed about the
chest. He was making a coupling, and, the
two cars not being the same style, the
bumpers slipped past each other, and he
was caught between the sills of the cars.