The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-07

j. G.. Robbins & Son, of Horace, bought
E. K. Thomas's heifer, Mary of Glenwood,
at the Kansas City shorthorn sale, yester-
day, for $500.
Brazil Presbyterian Church, has accepted
the call recently extended by the First
Presbyterian Church of Elkhart.
Promoters of an electric line from Day.
Wayne County Commissioners for a fran
chise. Action was deferred until Saturday.
Reports received at Washington are to
the effect that the wheat crop OF Davies
county has been annihilated by the open
winter. The acreage sown was larger than
usual.
Two fine draft mares. valued at over $500,
were stolen from the barn of Ellison Will
liams, near knightstown, after Tuesday
midnight. All efforts to trace them have
failed.
Temperance people of Sugar Ridge town.
ship of Clay county ave filed a remon-
STRANGE against the granting of a license
to Mack Clark, who wishes to open a sa-
loon at Ashboro.
John Fitz Maurice, of Winchester, has
secured the contract for a new heating
plant in the county Jail at that point. Fail
ure Of the natural gas supply has made the
change in systems necessary.
Viola Allen, a negress, was seriously in
jured at Alexandria yesterday by a steel
hat used as a sign by an Alexandria mer-
chant; 1t fell on her just as a band went
Eyes"
There is no epidemic of measles at
Knightstown, as reported In an ~Indianapo-
lis evening paper. TIL report may nave
applied to New Castle, where the disease
was prevalent. but where it has since
abated.
w. A. Christy, vice president of the G. X.
& NJ, has asked the business men Of Wa
bash for a subsidy for his road TO aid in
its construction through Wabash county.
Considerable sentiment in favor of the plan
has been developed.
The Union Traction Company directors,
at a meeting in Marion, held on Tuesday.
decided TO build a line from Marion
through Sweetser to Converse, a distance
of twelve miles, in the spring. Later IL will
be extended to Peru.
Howard White. a Howard county young
man of good family, has been arrested on
the charge of stealing a horse from J. b.
Oyer. A similar charge against him several
months ago was not prosecuted on account
Of his family connections.
The friends of A. T. Hert. superintendent
of the Indiana Reformatory, held a jolli-
fcation in New Albany last night TO cele-
brate his generation by the Legislature
of the charges preferred against hin
Many good speeches. were made.
Record low temperature for this winter
was made at Madison yesterday. the mer-
| curry standing at 8 degrees above zero at
| daybreak. Reports from the country indi-
cate that the peach buds are not appre-
4 GloOlI LA14A%4
The Rev. T.. ]. Clark. pastof OF the Kirk
| yood-avenue Christian Church OF Bloom
| ington, has received a letter from Andrew
| Carnegie. in which the steel king an
| ~nounces his intention TO give a $500 pipe
organ 10 the church. 1t will be set up with
In a year.
The son and daughter of Mrs. Perry
| Peele, a widow OF Matthews, Grant county.
burned TO death yesterday morning. While
the mother was at a neighbours the little
boy, aged three years, pulled Goals from
a stove, setting fire 10 himself and his in
FAINT sister.
The Scott County Commissioner have
offered q reward Of $500 for the arrest and
conviction OF Jacob Degarn. under indict-
ment for the murder OF w T. Richey. on
the night before election. so 10 be paid
tor his arrest and the remaining $50 on
his conviction.
The case of Edmond Palmer. president OF
the defunct bank at Ashley, H.. was con-
tinued from yesterday until Saturday in
the court at Nashville, Ill. Palmer will
waive examination. and will give bond I'm
the sum OF $4,000 for his appearance al
the April term.
Mai. NJ. III. Kidd. a veteran attorney OF
Wabash, seventy-one years old. was
stricken with paralysis on Tuesday night
and is i'm a serious condition. He was the
Democratic nominee for Congress I'm the
Wabash district I'm 1884 and was beaten by
but fifty votes.
Yesterday at Seymour the contract 70,
the erection OF the Masonic Temple wa.
awarded TO the Travis-Carter Company, OF
' Seymour, on Its tender OF SlS,i5 4. w. q