The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-02
Indiana Notes.

Collections in the Seventh internal rev.
enue district for March, as reported at
Terre Haute, were about $1,400.OO.
The business of the Richmond postofice
for the fiscal year ended March 81 amount.d
to $43.650.S5. This keeps the standing in the
FIRST class.
The Rev. C. Fl. Brown, pastor or Trinity
Methodist Church of Elkhart. has resigned,
to take effect with the closing or the con-
ference year.
The Merchants Hotel of Portland was
closed yesterday, II. O. Weldon, who has
managed it for seventeen years, retiring
from business.
Emil Kleinknecht, forty-three years old.
jumped from a fast-moving car in Muncie
last night. and died as the result of the
shock. He was a butcher.
John p. Hewitt, the murderer of William
Anderson. of South Bend, was turned over
TO South Bend officials by the authorities
of Galveston, Tex, yesterday.
Scarlet fever is epidemic in Washington
township. Wayne county. one chllf mas
died AID ctl;ers are very sick. There Is
considerable alarm in that vicinity
Mrs. Nation visited Greenfield yesterday
and talked in several of the saloons. In
one she requested a saloon keeper TO
down a picture in the nude. There was no
excitement.
ed Gardner. a farmer living near Green
castle. is in Jail at that point, charged with
an alleged attempt to kill David Hamrick.
a neighbor. The men had been on bad
terms for years.
A library association has been organized
and Incorporated at Plainfield. Andrew
Carnegie will be asked to give $1,000 for a
building, and the levy of a township tax
will be urged for its support.
Willard Grove, thirty-ive years old and
terday as the result of injuries suffered
by being stuck by a Pennsylvania train
east of the city on Sunday.
Greenfield postoffice receipts for the year
A - ---.A NTA 0-A in
crease over the preceding year -Four
rural mail carriers have been added to
the force within the last few months.
y natural gas explosion at Pennville Sun
l.. G.. Walling's storeroom, occupied by
Miss Ogden's millinery establishment, caus-
ing a loss of $1,000, with $500 insurance.
DIR. S. S. Boots has sold his last quarter
interest in the Greenfield Tribune and Her
aid 10 the company headed by Dr. ftoDln-
son. which acquired the controlling inter-
est about a year ago, and has retired
from the business.
Benjamin G. Hudunt. of Terre Haute.
has asked the Knox County Commissioners
for a franchise for the construction of sew
enty-ive miles of electric railroad in the
county. He proposes 20 connect all the
county towns with Vincennes.
Wabash grocers have given up their plan
of taking out the Bell telephones, in order
to compel the Bell company to go out of
business at that point. Some of the menu
berS weakened, and this deflectlon caused
a REIMBURSEMENT of the plan.
The molders of the Peru steel-casting
plant are on a strike in opposition TO a
system Of registration in going in and
coming out of the mill, and for other
things. The trouble has been referred to
the international union officers.
w. b. Atkin. formerly editor OF the Sui
Ivan Times. and j. b. Haviland, travelling
representative of the c. p. Lesh Paper
Company of Indianapolis. have purchased
the Daily and Weekly Democrat Of Brazil
from Louis Hoffman. The new firm will
take charge at once.
The Knox County Council has appropri-
ated $35. 600 for the purpose of building a
new Jail. The old Jail is in such q state
of dilapidation hat the State Board of
Charities and Correction condemned II
and asked the authorities to take some
action toward building a new one.
The officers and employees OF the Plain
field Reform School met in the parlors of
the administrator building Sunday night
superintendent and matron, Mr.. and Mrs.
p. ]. Charlton. w. Z. Ball, of Terre Haute,
presented TO them, on behalf OF the en-
ployes and officers, a beautiful upholstered
chair, which they accepted with fitting and
feeling remarks. Everyone present made a
few remarks of farewell and good will. Mr..
and Mrs. Charlton left yesterday after
noon for their new home in Jefferson coun-
~, after twenty-one years of arduous work
for the children of the State.