The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-14
Indiana NOtes,

Capt. d. F. Allen enlisted fifty men in
Frankfort for one of the new regiments In
one day.
N. H. Motsinger. of Shoals, has put the
Populist paper the Referendum, away to
rest and has gone into trade in Pendleton.
Capt. Orlando A. Somers, of Kokomo.
member of the last House, has been APP
pointed superintendent of the census in the
Eleventh district.
The third annual soldiers reunion will
take place at Brownstown to-day and FRI
day. 1t promises to excel all other reunions
here. Able speakers are on the programme.
David Van Matre was appointed janitor
OF the Delaware counts courthouse yes
terday. One of the applicants was John
w. Mckinley, an old soldier and cousin OF
the President.
Mrs. Ann Boppart, aged sixty-eight, wife
OF DR.. A. Boppart, of Richmond, died yes
terday morning. She had been an invalid
daughters survive.
The Winchester Water and Light Com
pany has just completed ne-hundred-and-
ninety-two-foot water well, with capacity
to put in its water plant
The interest Of P. McEneny in the Sulli-
van monumental works was sold yesterday
firm is now w Bailey & Hawkins. Mr.. Nc
Enemy has been in business there for forty
years.
Clyde Grace, Madison cigar maker, and
Miss Georgia Martin daughter of Manager
Luther Martin, of the Western Union at
Madison, were married while visiting in
Vevay Sept. and kept the secret until yes
terday.
O. N EiIer. the Portland electrician. mar
rowly escaped death while working with an
arc lamp last night. He received what is
known as brushing contact from five
thousand volts. He was shocked and burned
on the hand.
The Howard County Commissioners have
sold $4,000 Jackson township gravel road
bonds for twenty miles of gravel roads in
AZ per cents, and brought $3.50 premium.
Duke Brothers, of Kokomo. were the pur-
chasers
The Standard Oil Company has purchased
Big Four crossing. for a distributing station
for the gas belt section. 1t will at once
begin the erection of tank houses, In antici-
patton of the oil development in that part
of the gas belt.
The Winchester Bell Telephone Company,
which has been laying its plans to make a
fight on the local and independent compa-
MES there, was given setback by the City
Council passing an ordinance requiring all
foreign companies to file bond with resident
sureties and cash deposits Of $500.
The Republic steel trust announced at An
steel rail mill to its plants in that city,
but will erect that plant at Youngstown,
o. 1t will use. the land set aside for that
purpose I'm charging the sheet bar, pud-
ding and twelve-inch mills which will al
most double the capacity and operating
force OF the ANDERSON WOrkS.
The finance committee of the Kokomo
Council will purchase 500. 900 in government
bonds this sum being an accumulation in
the fund set aside two years ago for the
purchase of a water works plant at the ex.
piration of the franchise of the present
Kokomo company. The franchise expires in
two years, when the city will have $4,000 to
$4,000 to invest in its own system.
The Shadeland Gas Company, at Ander-
son. opened another gusher north of that
city yesterday. This following the great well
brought in by the Victor Glass Company,
which almost defied being capped, is reviv-
ing faith in the gas belt greatly. A num-
Der of good wells are being brought In this
fall, and IT is said to be not necessary to
shoot over per cent. to get a good flow.
The showing is better than last year.
Henry Murden, the Greeneown man who
was twice shot in the head ten days age
by his son-n-law. James Ball. who then
killed himself, is still alive. His case is re-
markable. One bullet entered the center OF
the forehead and lodged in the back part
of the head The doctors now think Murder
will recover. The theory is that the bullet
followed the tissues separating the lobes OF
the brain and did not penetrate any of the
brain cells.