The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-17
GENERAL INDIANA NEWS.
BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
ALL OVER HoosIERDoM.
Arrests for Burning Gas F1nmbeaus-
EIwood's New Art Hall-Petftfon
for q Forest Reserve.

ELwOOD.-The annual union Sunday
school excursion, conducted by the sunday
schools of the city, was run TO Winoha
lake on Thursday, over 500 tickets DelnS
sold The new art hall at the FL
wood fair grounds will be completed within
two weeks according TO the statement OF
Contractor Weaver, and viii be modei
building 1t is circular in shape, seventy
feet in diameter and two stories high
Abundant light is furnished through forty
eight windows.
NEW CASTLE-The Hoosier Manufac-
turing Company has closed for two days for
the annual invoice. Business Is so heavy
that the customary two weeks cannot De
taken The engine of Big Four fast
ca hound train No. Ie was wrecked on
one side at Carlisle east of here. Wednes-
day night as the result of a broken driver.
Engineer A. S. Hampton was KNOCKED over
and narrowly escaped death.
PAOLI-.A large percentage of the wheat
crop of this vicinity has been threshed and
the yield is below the average, as well as
much below expectations. some farmers
report as high as fifteen bushels an acre,
but this is of poor quality. There are
thousands of acres in the county to which
the farmers will not put a machine, as the
yield is not worth harvesting.
HARTFORD CITY.-John Blake has lost
his seat in the city legislature by removing
from the First ward from which he was
elected to the Second. Blake says he is glad
If Won don't" and he would have moved long
ago if he had thought of it, Blake is
Democrat and SO far there is no aspirant
for his place.
wINCHESTER.-Joseph and Samuel lay,
wealthy manufacturers of Ridgeville, own
ers of sos acres of land near that town. all
in one tract, have made application to have
sixty-four acres of the tract now in native
forest set apart as a permanent forest re-
serve under the forestry laws of the State.
PORTLAND.-Willie Hommell. against
whom charges of obtaining goods under
false pretense rests at Anderson, was re-
turned here Thursday afternoon and is in
the county Jail. The evidence in his pre-
liminary hearing indicated that he was
insane, and an inquest will be held here.
ANDERSON.-Dr. Daniel Cotterell,
well-known physician in Muncie, who lay in
Jail here for several months on the charge
of having performed a criminal operation
on Bertha McGriff, of Chesterfield, is at
liberty, the charge having been dismissed
SPICELAND.-Frank Modin and Her
man Sherman were caught in cave-in in
a gravel pit on Wednesday. Both were
severely, but not dangerously injured. They
were rescued with difficulty.
RICHMOND.-Prof. w. A. Fiske. who
returned on Thursday from the meeting of
the National Educational Association at
Boston, was made president of the depart
ment of science instruction.
CARTHAGE.-Two new rural mail de-
Carthage postoffice on Wednesday. They
aggregate forty-six miles in length and the
population served Is us.
MUNCIE.-Deputy Gas Inspector Albert
Stevens, of this city, is after the fiambeau
gas burners. On "Wednesday he had four
men arrested for burning flambeaus In the
oil field near Selma.