The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-07
Indiana Notes.

RICHMOND-The Marion Golf Club will
come TO Richmond next Thursday TO play
the first game Of the series with the Rich
mOnd golf tournament. . . DIR. Adolph
Gerber. professor of French and German
at Earlham College, has returned from
spending the summer in Germany. . .
The newly appointed board of the Mar
garet Smith Home has organized by elect
Ing Benjamin Starr president, w. H. Brad
bury vice president and NJ. G. Price treas
urer.
LAFAYETTE.-The Tippecanoe County
Teachers Institute has closed after a most
successful session of four days. DR.. +. w.
Dennis, of Earlham, and Prof. Stephenson,
of De Paw, were the instructors. The
institute was divided into two sections-a
high school and Il common school section.
The sessions We're held In the new Wash
Blanche Miller. of this city, has been ap-
pointed assistant librarian at Purdue.
MONTICELLO. - The White County
Council finished its work Friday morning.
The county tax levy was reduced from
40 cents 10 % cents per 800. Several radical
cuts were made In the county officers sal
aries. Among the appropriations was one
OF 5000 for installing a hot water heating
system In the courthouse. which il is esti-
mated will effect a saving of 800 per
year in fuel.
WINCHESTER.-John w. Browne. VIII
bur Pease and w. w. Moorhouse. of Day
ton, o., and Jesse Drew, of Richmond, with
John Cronenwethl of this city, passed
nTOuSn mere at . o CLOCK FRIDAY evening
EN- route 10 Portland. making the pre-
liminary survey for the interuTban rail-
way between and Portland. They
expect to complete this survey by Monday
evening.
TERRE HAUTE.-A. F. Bridges. whose
residence is unknown, was killed by a
Chicago & Eastern Illinois train at a cross
ing near Cayuga Thursday night. Evil
IDENTIFY he was asleep In his two-horse
wagon. The horses were not injured. 1t
is thought he is a follower of county fairs.
A letter in his pocket indicated that he
has a divorced wife in Rockville.
LIBERTY.-Two Mormon elders are in
this place preaching their peculiar doc
trines on the streets. Thus far the only
attempt to interfere with their services has
come from those who have been regarded
as the better class OF citizens, while the
so-called lawless element has been in
slstent that the elders be accorded the
privileges Of free speech.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Welsey and
Jesse ftnke, cousins. were out hunting in
this vicinity. on Thursday, the gun carried
by the latter was accidentally discharged
and wesley Tfnke received the full charge
or No. shot in the head, the brain be-
ing penetrated. At latest report he was in
a comatose condition. He cannot recover.
BRAZILr-Considerable excitement was
caused on Friday afternoon by the dis
coVery OF the skeleton of a man who evil
IDENTIFY had been murdered. at a depth of
several feet In a vacated alley in the heart
or the city. There was a great hole in the
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Dinkel, a local florist.
ELkHART.-The body of Amos Pegg, Of
Millersburg, a pensioner, aged eighty-three.
was found on the Lake Shore track Friday
morning. He had been struck by a train
while walking from Goshen TO Millersburg.
He started on foot after missing the only
passenger train that stopped at Millersburg
in the evening.
THORNTOWN.-The Beck family re-
union was held at Leander Beck's grove.
near here, on Friday, and was very sue
-cessful from every point of view. over a
thousand persons. fully four hundred OF
whom were Of the direct Beck descent.
participated in the festivities.
VALPARAISO.-The sixteenth annual re-
union of the S~eventy-third Indiana Regf-
mental Association Will be held at Ches-
terton on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept.
IS and 10. Col. /. y. Walker, former COM
mander-in-chisf OF the @. A. r., is the regi-
ments only surviving colonel.
JEFFERSONVILLE-3rank Hedge. who
was night engineer at the car works. was
Knocked from a Height car and received
injuries that may prove fatal. Besides a
conclusion OF the brain he Is internally in
jured. and his physicians consider his case
very serious.
ELWOoD.-The epidemic OF diphtheria.
which has ragged southwest OF the city no
the neighbOrhood or New Lancaster for
the past several weeks. is gradually coming