The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-24
Indiana Notes.

Knox county farmers are sorely distressed
over the ravages of cut worms. Whole fields
of growing wheat have been devastated
during the past few days.
Postmaster Small. of Anderson, has been
notified that rural mail delivery, will be
tried in Madison county. Linwood will be
the center of distribution.
The first consignment of cars has arrived
at Franklin for the electric lire between
greenwood and Indianapolis. Track laying
is finished through Franklin.
Silas, the six-year-old son of Jacob Fitch
ison, O. Madison county farmer, was drown
ed late Saturday night. He was playing on
a bridge and fell into the river.
Mrs. George Ballenger. of Richmond, has
been elected president of the Young Peo-
pies Christian Union of tie United Pres
byterian Church, Ohio Presbytery.
A barn belonging to W. H.. Brevoort, a
Knox county farmer, was destroyed by fire
Sunday night. A large quantity of hay and
grain and four mules were burned.
The Paris Qll) police raided a number of
gambling houses Sunday night and gathered
in twenty men. who were fined s27 each
Monday morning. Most of them paid up.
Mrs. Carrie Shea, who has been operat-
ing a five-and-ten-cent store at Knights
her creditors. Assets and liabilities are
about 500 each.
Rev. w. R. Covert. anti-Spiritualist, of
Anderson, and the head of the National
Church of God, has resigned his Anderson
pastorate and will go to Colorado to look
after his mining interests.
burglars made their third raid Sunday
night on the residence of A. G. Lupton,
OF Hartford City, cashier of the Blackford
County Bank. Silverware and jewelry to
the value of $50 were AIKEN.
Lafayette Marion, a laborer of Terre
Haute, was killed by the cars on the Chi
cago q Eastern Illinois track Monday morn
ing. He had been out Of work for some
time and his family is left destitute.
Attorneys have been retained at Jefferson.
vile for the purpose to bring suit TO test
the validity OF the new Grand Lodge law.
Knights and Ladies of Honor, providing for
a higher rate of insurance assessment.
William Spieth, twenty-five years old, of
Jeffersonville: was drowned at Mobile, Ala.
from the deck of the Mary, a Jeffersonville
steamer under charter on Alabama rivers.
The body will be brought to Indiana for
burial.
Jacksonville preachers, aroused by the
encroachments of Mormon missionaries and
enraged because the Mormons stigmatize
them, the ministers, as "hirelings,' are
organizing a crusade against the Saints
in Clark county.
Friends of Mrs. Rebecca Rosenbarger,
who was sent from Princeton to prison last
son, are circulating a petition for her par
don. They assert her innocence and say she
is a victim of circumstantial evidence.
Five expert b~lasters.. employed by the
government on the fails at Jacksonville,
struck Monday because an inexperienced
man was put on with them. thereby endan-
gering their lives. they say. The entire
channel work is stopped pending a settle
ment.
The trial of Rev. Clement Myers, SUPER
tntendent of the Jay county infirmary, be-
gan at Portland yesterday. Myers is ac-
cused of cruelty to the poor in his charge.
The Indictment followed a report by the
grand jury regarding the condition of the
institution. Myers pleaded not guilty.
One of three men. hunting for a gas leak
in the cellar of the Mayer block, at Mont
pelier. struck, a match, after they had made
up their minds the leak could not be found.
An explosion followed, and Samuel Kirk
wood and William Jamison were painfully
ing.
The suit brought by Attorney L. B, Me-
Ilheny, of Richmond, in the Preble coun-
ty, Ohio, courts for damages on account of
an alleged overcharge of 4 cents by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company between
Eaton, o., and Richmond, has been ruled
out of court on the ground that he had no
cause for action. .