The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-12
INDIANA NOTES.

TRANSATLANTIC annual Farmers In
stitute of Johnson county began a two days
session here on Monday, with an attendance
The instructors .. A Sommers, of Ko-
komo; j. w. Gwaltney, of Poseyville, and
Mrs. ]. w. Bates, Of Broad Ripple. A lead
ing feature of the institute is the county
corn contest. About $500 in prizes, provided
by local business men, will be given, and
the prize corn will go TO the exposition as
Johnson county exhibit.
SOUTH BEND.-Charles Bauer formerly
manager of the Oliver Hotel of South Bend
and the Terre Haute House, Terre Haute, is
insane at the Lakeside Sanitarium, Lake
Geneva, Wisconsin. The first report to the
effect that the former hotel man was a men,
tai wreck reached the city last Wednesday
and was confirmed on Thursday. When at
tackled with insanity Bauer was in Chicago
Observation-Disclosures the most hotly con-
tested election OF the kind ever held in
Rush county, the proposition to build a
graveled public highway diagonally across
Orange township, from the northeast to the
southwest corner of the township, was
voted down by the close margin of nineteen
votes. The road would have cost $4,000 and
would have been of great benefit.
SHELBYVILLE-Th preliminary hear
ing of Charles Bell, the colored man who is
in Jail on the charge of stealing several
dozens of eggs from the firm of McLane
& Co, poultry dealers. was held Monday
before Squire Pryor and the prisoner was
bound over to the grand jury. Bell has
served in the States Prison once or twice
before
NEW ALBANY-Miss Pearl Stepp, de-
spondent over a love affair, swallowed laud-
anum with suicidal intent Sunday evening.
She had fallen on the floor in deep stupor
when her condition was discovered by her
brother, Fred Stepp, and physicians We're
called. They worked over her all night and
she was pronounced out of danger on Mon
day.
LAPORTE-A long legal contest is prom
Used in the suit to break the will of the late
| Mrs. Rhoda Bepan, which was begun Mon
| day in the Laporte Circuit Court before
Judge Richter and jury. The testator left
| $4,000, but the Will was not satisfactory to
seine of the relatives and an endeavor to
have 1t set aside resulted.
JEFFERSONVILLE. Deputy Coroner
Coots has rendered a verdict in the case of
| the murder of Cyrus Berry a convict in the
| Reformatory by Hammond Gehrs, fellow
| prisoner. The finding was in accord with
| the facts as published in the Journal sew
| eral days ago. Mr.. Coots says Gehrs is an
idiot.
| HAGERSTOWN.-The Hagerstown Natur-
al Gas Company is drilling a well two miles
| tons of oil developed after the drill entered
trenton rock. Four years ago a gas well in
| this field flowed several barrels of oil, but
| the flow stopped when the well was shot.
| COLUMBUS.-The Bartholomew County
Farmers Institute is in session at Jones'
| vile and an excellent attendance is reported.
| Good roads is q subject that has caused
much discussion among the farmers, and
sions of the institute.
| GREENCASTLE.-Th county is envel-
| oped in a CLASSY covering of ice and pedes-
| TRANS keep off the streets whenever posi-
| BILE. One of the victims of falls is City
Marshall William +. Starr, who broke a
wrist bone, disabling him for his duties.
| AURORA.-A Republican Club has been
| organized here for the coming campaign.
| The following officers were elected: Presi-
| dent. Henry c. Williams; vice presidents.
| William Fl. Kyle and John Huff; secretary,
| T. r. Hubbartt; treasurer, L. w. Hill.
| PORTLAND, Ind, Jan. u.-Peter Schi-
| rack aged seventy-eight is dead at his
| home at st. Henry. He was for forty
| one years a resident of Jay county and
was very prominent in the Catholic
| Church, in which three sons priests.
| ELKHART.-The Elkhart branch of the
| Lakeside Knitting Company, of Michigan
| City, closed on Monday for lack of orders.
| 1t employed eighty machine girls and as
| many more women worked at home.
| CRAWFORDSVILLE.- icy weather
| has caused many falls here and several per-
| sons were injured. Dr. Etler and T. j.
| Houlehan fell and each broke a wrist.