The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-13
Indiana Notes.

William Horne, a Knox county farmer,
was killed by a falling tree while cutting
timber near Wheatland Tuesday.
Oficial announcement has been made at
Lebanon that T.. G.. Darrell will be recon-
mended to succeed himself as postmaster.
The house and furnishings belonging to
NJ. +. Sutton, a farmer living near Monon,
were burned yesterday morning. Loss $1,000,
insurance $500.
Charles Carr, the son of a farmer living
near Greensburg, accidentally shot himself
while hunting. yesterday, and it is believed
the wound will prove fatal.
The Indianapolis & Crawfordsville Elec-
trio Railroad has petitioned, at Lebanon,
for a ffty-year franchise through the
southern part of Boone county.
The Earlham College football team has
elected Guy Little. of the class of 1903, cap
tain of the team for next year. He played
right guard in the team this season.
Jacksonville and Madison teams played
football at Jeffersonville yesterday, the
visitors winning 5 to 0. Last night a dance
was given in honor of the visiting team.
The johnson County Horticultural So
ciety. i'm session at Franklin. yesterday,
elected III. NJ. Stout president, T.. A. Robin
son vice president, and w. s. Young secre-
tary.
Clara c.. Frohnapfel. of Richmond. has
sued the Grand Rapids & Indiana Rail-
road for $4,000 damages for injuries re-
ceived in a wreck which occurred the past
summer.
Knox county farmers. almost without ex-
ception. have joined in perfecting an or
ganiZation to curb the predatory Inroads OF
hunters and to otherwise protect gam and
other birds.
M. S. Plummer. a blacksmith of Somer-
set, Wabash county. in drilling for water.
struck a strong flow of gas at sixty feet.
1t shows q pressure of ~sixty-five pounds
and the flow is steady.
A passenger engira on the Big Four,
waiting to take out a train Tuesday night,
was started in some unexplained manner
and backed into the turntable pit, suffer-
ing considerable damage.
Grant county farmers are holding their
annuai. institute at Marion, with an at
enhance of about 400. Calvin Husselman,
o. Auburn, Ind. and Miss Mary l.. Clark,
OF Wisconsin, are the lecturers.
Miss Myrtle ackbu has sued the Chi
cago & Erie Railroad Company, at Wa
bash, for $4,000, for injuries suffered by
being struck by a fast train as she was
crossing the track, one day last summer,
near Roam.
Owing to the inability to secure sugar
beets in sufficient quantity in its territory,
the Wolverine Sugar Company, of Benton
Harbor, is offering fancy prices for the
tubers in Wabash county, s. a ton being
rendered for the lowest grade.
Harry Stewart, brother of Ace Stewart,
formerly second baseman of the Indian
apolis Baseball Club, has become violently
insane at Terre Haute and will be sent to
the hospital for the insane He, too, vas a
baseball player and some time age was
struck on the head with a baseball bat.
George Miller Post, G. a. r., of Upton,
has elected the following officers: Com
mander, William Cox; senior vice, j. c.
Bass; junior vice, Nathan Baitey. The
staff is: Quartermaster, Drury b. Vice:
chaplain, the Rev. Jacob Barrow; officer of
the day, w. O. Dean; representative, Ma
than Baitey; alternate. G.. w. Passwater.