The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-19

calves. by poisoning resulting from corn
smut. The Kawazekee Club will
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members, and these, with twelve guests.
will meet at the banquet table. . .
James Hutchinson. who fell through a hole
in the floor of E. H. Johnson's store in
Colfax about a year ago. sued Johnson for
$1,000 for injuries suffered. A jury has just
returned a verdict in Johnson's favor.
ELKHART.-Ora strine, the wife muir
derer, was taken into the City Court
Wednesday morning for a~rraignment, but
his counsel waived arraignment and the
prisoner was taken to the county jail in
officially this morning that his wife was
dead and that the coroner had charged him
with premeditated murder. He gave no
sign of emotion, and sullenly refused TO
talk, saying he wanted to rest and the
present was not the time to talk.
PORTLAND.-The Jay County Fair AS
ISOLATION has elected the following direc-
Enoch Ware, George ". Bergman, Rodney
D.. Hutchens. w. A. Norman, c. 0. Hardy,
James F. Graves, w Gilpin, l.; L. Gil
pin. William Green, John Schmuck, L. T.
Raw. ]. p. Nixon. E. Lyons and w. NJ.
Haynes. At a meeting in February the
directors will elect officers and put plans on
foot for next years fair.
PERU.-Clarence Hall. a painter out of
work. took a glass of whisky in a saloon
in which he had emptied four grains of
strychnine. Physicians were called In time
to save him. . John Rowe, the mail
transfer man, and George Miller, who lives
in Troy, n. Y, narrowly escaped instant
death at a Lake Erie crossing; me morse
was killed. the wagon demollsned ana the
men were thrown some distance, with
slight injuries.
ROCHESTER-On petition of the volun-
teer fire department, which declares the
bell used as an alarm is TOO smau 10 De
heard, the town trustees have ordered a
steam siren placed on the water works
plant as an additional fire alarm. A petit
ton was presented asking for a moonlight
schedule of street lighting, instead of the
present midnight arrangement.
SULLIVAN-Harrison Burton. a farmer,
living six miles west of this city, was at
tackled on Tuesday by a SOW and was hor'
ing. and while he lay disabled on the
ground he secured his shotgun and shot
the enraged animal. Mr.. Burton's wounds
are of a serious nature.
TERRE HAUTE.-David Black, the coal
miner who fell 15 feet in a shaft a few
days ago. has been discharged from the
hospital because the doctors could not find
any injuries and no internal ones devel-
oped. Ii is said his escape Is the most
miraculous on record i'm coal mines.
COLUMBIA CITY.-John Shuler, a farm
er. driving two horses. attempted 10 cross
the railroad at South Whitley I'm front Of
the Wabash fast mail. known as No. s.
Shuler was instantly killed. as was one
OF his horses. Mr.. Shuler was a well-to-do
farmer and left a family.
BRAZIL.-The seven-year-old son of Will
liam Pruitt. an undertaken at J~asonville,
burned TO death on Wednesday morning.
He was playing in front OF a crate and
his clothing caught fire, death resulting
from his burns In half an hour.
SULLIVAN-The Sullivan County Farm
ers' Institute is meeting here in a two
days session. j. b. Burns, or ClOverdale,
is the principal lecturer.