The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-25

city last summer will be dedicated on Sum-
day. June 5. The Rev. Edwin Holt Hughes,
of Greercastle, will deliver the dedicatory
sermon.
UNCONDITIONAL NJ. Hadley, ex-may-
er of bloomington. county attorney and
one of the most prominent Republicans OF
Bloomington, is dangerously sick Conges-
man of ,he Republican city committee and
overtaxei his sertngth in the campaign that
has ust;closed.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gathers, aged nine
teen was fatally shot on Sunday with re-
volver a. the home of James WeatheFman.
where he was calling on his sweetheart The
ball took effect in his stomach. He said he
was footing with the weapon when IL was
accidentally discharged. He was alive Tues
day morning. with no hopes of recovery.
BLOONIINGDALE.-A survey will be
made Though here for the proposed electric
line from Veedersburg to Rockville. w. n.
Cox. John +. Woodward. Jacob Gillian and
W. b. Shannon, representatives from the
business Mems Association of this place.
net at Kingman delegates from Rockville
and Veedersburg recently to further the
interests of the new road.
NEwPORT.-Telegrams have been
ceived here stating that II. c. Burson, or
Newport, Ind, was found drowned at
Grand Junction, Col. No other particulars
were received. He left here on May for
California to look after an estate In which
his wife was interested. He promised 10
write to his wife arrival. but no word
was received by her from him.
MARION.-John l.. Grifiiths, OF Indiana
apolis, will be the principal speaker at
the memorial services 10 be held IN TINS
city on Decoration day. May 30 Twenty
one lodges of the city have joined with
the Grand Army Of the Republic In ar
ranging for the memorial services. The
exercises will be on a mueh larger sSaie
than in past years, and II Is believed that
there will be fully $50 persons In the
march 10 the cemetery.
ANDERSON-The directors and heavy
stockholders OF the Indiana Union Trac-
ton Company were in Anderson Tuesday IN
consultat ton with President McCuloch and
General Manager a. l.. Drum In the party
were Randall Morgan. I. II. Kingston, j.
III. Harris, J. Levering Jones and b. y.
Newbold all of Philadelphia. The party.
with President McCulloch. left i'm the pri-
vate car Martha for trip over the entire
properties of the company
NEW ALBANY.-Enoch Edgerton. of
this CITY. wanted in Jacksonville for
forgery tlnd in Louisville, Ky. for house,
breakin| has confessed that ne deserted
from the battleshio Maine at Pensacola.
several weeks ago, and Will be taken To
the navy yards at Norfolk. Va Edgerton
inquired In number of thefts in this city
and 10 escape prosecution. enlisted in the
navy two years ago. After his arrest for
burglary in Louisville, he confessed that
he was a deserter.
JASPER.-Three weeks ago an infant
eighteen months old of Henry s. Mehrin-
ger. rural mail carrier. swallowed a grain
of corn. Ii lodged In the trachea. On Mon
day the child died. the corn having begun
TO swell and grow. So dissatisfied
are the people of Dubois county over the
light punishment given Howard Tate for
killing Brakeman Hughes at Huntingburg
| that a petition TO the Board of Pardons Is
| being circulated 20 keep Tate In prison the
| full limit of the law-twenty- years. So
:! far 400 names have been secured to the pe-
! ution.