The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-08
Indiana Notes.

Prof. Robert Noble. formerly Of Indian
apolis, and son OF William Noble, OF Rich
mond, has been made assistant professor
in chemistry at the Armour Institute. Chi
cago.
During a runaway at Portland yesterday
Presley Collett, a lumberman. was thrown
from his buggy and suffered injuries about
the head from the effects of which il is be-
lieved he will die.
Assets in the Hodupp failure. at Portland.
have been scheduled at about $500. The
liabilities exceed $4,000. Some ugly stories
are afioat concerning the management OF
the firms business.
Judge Cox, of the Circuit Court at Peru.
has received a letter from Mrs. Friend, or
Silver Lake. addressed "To the jug of the
CorC,' in which she wants TO know II her
husband got a divorce from her.
Walter Eggemeyer. of Richmond. presi-
dent OF the State High School Oratorical
Association, has called a meeting for Nun
Gle on Saturday TO complete the details Tor
the contest at Indianapolis on April -.
The Western House, Cor over fifty years
the only hotel at Lagro, Wabash county,
has been closed. 1t was built when the
Wabash & Erie canal was opened, and
for many years was a famous hosiery.
Milton Shirk. the Peru banker and mil
~lionaire, does not confirm the report that a
new bank is to be started in Indianapolis,
but admits that the project is under discus
sion among the men whose names were an
nounced in Thursdays Journal.
The Jeffersonville police have come to the
conclusion that Robert Shrader. the young
man who disappeared on Monday night
with S.500 in his pockets, simply played 4:
trick on his friends and was not murdered,
as he would have them believe.
w. z. Mowbray, one OF the attorneys who
defended Roy Jones, the abductor OF Nellie
Berger. is suing the County Commissioners
in the Circuit Court at Peru for $3.50. which
he claims as fees for the work he did The
commissioners wanted TO allow him $40.
The Terre Haute Commercial Club, which
during the past year has secured the in
v~eStnaent Of 100000 in new enterprises la
that city, with weekly pay rolls aggregat-
ing $4,000, will celebrate the years sue
cesses on Monday night with a banquet.
Lou Cole, mentioned in Thursdays dis
patches as being in trouble at Ashland,
KY, over having cut the chief of police in
the cheek, is a son of j. q. Cole, the Peru
brewer. and lives with his wife and son at
Fairview, a beautiful country place. four
miles from Peru.
The team stolen from Ellison Williams,
near Knightstown, on Tuesday night. was
recovered near Greencastle yesterday, and
with the. horses Charles Kinnester, alias
Ferguson, was gathered i'm as the alleged
thief. He was taken TO knightstown and
sent to jail in default of bond.
George f. Mullen, an old soldier and
well-known resident of New Castle. hanged
himself in his barn some time Wednesday
night or yesterday morning. His wife was
away from home and the victim had been
dead some time when his body was found.
Mullen was seventy years old.
The Penn American Plate Glass Com
pany has acquired a right of way for pipe
line purposes at Alexandria and is laying
eight-inch mains along the Big -Four
tracks for both gas and oil. At Summit
vile the town authorities have refused To
allow the company to pass through the
place with it's lines.
Samuel r. Hutchinson, formerly of
Frankfort, was arrested in T1ppecanoe
county Wednesday night at the instigation
of officers of Reno county, Kansas, on a
charge of bigamy. 1t is alleged that he has
three wiveS-one in Oklahoma. one in Kan
sas, and one whom he married in Frank
fcrt a year ago. Hutchinson is sixty-five
| Years old.