The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
Indiana Notes.

LAFAYETTE.-Citizen of Cairo. a viii
lage four miles west of here. have formed
cooperative telephone system independent
of other lines in the farming community.
The following officers have been elected:
President, j. +. Kolb; vice president,
Archie Pearson: secretary w. X Pierce:
treasurer. r. NJ. Buskirk. The company
will string wire in the spring and tele-
phones will be installed in every home in
the vicinity.
MUNCIE, Ind. Dec. 2O.-Artemus c.
Rowley. aged sixty-four, a veteran OF the
civil war, died at his home in this city this
morning. He was a member of Company
A, Twentieth Ohio Volunteers. He served
a long time in Libby prison and after ex-
change was a member of the One-hundred-
and-forty-s Ohio Regiment. He left
a son and a daughter. The body will be
taken 10 Fredericktown, o., for interment
on Monday.
RUSHVILLE.-Charle S. Hernly of New
Castle. one of the movers in the industrial
advancement of that city, has volunteered
to come to Rushville and give the city fac
tory committee all the assistance that he
possibly can. Mr.. Hernly has written
that he can secure large factory for Rush
Vile under certain conditions, and he will
be asked TO come here and set the ma
chinery in motion TO that end.
LOGANSPORT.-John O'Donnell, who is
charged with having committed a murder
Gus assault on Bruce Scott in this city on
the night of Oct. II, was brought to Lo-
gansport Saturday afternoon from Ander-
son, where he was arrested Friday night
after successfully evading the police since
the night of the assault Scott has recov-
cred from his wounds.
MUNCIE.-J. II. Reed, member of the
Fourth United States Cavalry stationed at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan, walked into the
police station here Saturday night and gave
himself up. He deserted while attending a
reunion at Fort Riley last August and has
been a sailor on the lakes since. His home
is in Buffalo, n. Y.
NARROWING Union Traction Company
has been made defendant in a damage suit
i'm the Grant Circuit Court, brought by
the sum of 5000 are asked because of
the death of Mrs. Alfred Forst, who was
killed by being run down by one of the
companys cars.
Hagerstown fair board held Saturday
morning ii was decided to hold the far in
1903 on the last four days of July. This is
the first fair in the eastern Indiana circuit
and the date is the earliest i'm the history
of the local association. All of the old Off
GERS have been reelected
RICHMOND.-The old log schoolhouse
which stands on the Roberts estate in this
city, and which is the first school building
erected in this part of the county has been
given TO the city and will be placed in the
city park and preserved. The building is
more than eighty years old.
WINDFALL.-Silas n. Freeman, of this
place, fell from a roof on which he was
working ten miles west of Windfall, Friday
evening, twenty feet to the frozen ground,
and suffered injuries from which it is feared
he cannot recover.
WINAMAC.-Isaac L. Baker, of Star City,
is quarantined in his home with smallpox.
He is believed to have contracted it at
Chicago. There are several other cases in
Pulaski county, but this is the most severe.
SHELBYVILLE.-Clara NJ. Fox has
brought suit in the Shelby Circuit Court
against Otto Billman for 5000 damages for
alleged Islander. Those involved are we'll
known residents of Shelby county.