The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-13
INDIANA NOTES.

CoNNERsvILLE.-The Republican pri-
mary elections were held Thursday. The
following is the ticket selected: Congress,
James Z, Watson; joint senator Z. +.
Moore; joint representative. r. n. Elliott;
sheriff. Cyrus Jeffrey; coroner, DR.. +. z.
Hamilton; commissioner First district Hor-
ace l.. Hurst: Second district w ID
Thomas; Third district, ]. Nj. White; sur
veyor, Karl Hanson. The race for the NOM
inaton for commissioner by Hurst and
Fiapt, was close and exciting.
HARTFORD CITY.-Dr. ]. C. Brown. of
Chicago. has contracted with Wesner Broth
ers, OF this city, to drtli q test well for oil
or gas near Hammond, Ind, which will be
the first test well ever drilled i'm that vicin-
ity. He holds leases more than $500
acres of land near Hammond. Should oil
be struck or even gas Ii would open up
vast scope of new territory, and gas belt
operators will await the outcome with con-
siderable interest.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Feb. 12-Mrs Lovina
Larson, widow of Christopher Larson,
veteran of the civil war, died al the Sol
dters Home this morning of pneumonia
She had been sick ten days. Mrs. Larson
was born in Pennsylvania in 1926 and had
been member of the home since Nov. g.
1900. She was admitted from Elkhart coun-
ty and the body was taken to Elkhart this
afternoon for burial.
PETERSBURG.-A lynx has been killed
by farmers in the Patoka bottoms, in Glib
son county. near the Pike county line The
country here is low and very thckly covered
with underbrush and trees. The high wa
ter or the BatOkd river drove the lynx from
its lair out into the open. Several sheep
and one dog were killed by it before the
farmers ran it down. 1t was full-grown
and very savage.
GREENsBURG, Ind, Feb 12-Thomas
kitchin, aged eighty-five, died at his home
on North Broadway this afternoon. He was
one OF Decatur county'S wealthieSt citi-
zens. He left two sons, Joseph and Frank
Kitchin, and one daughter. Mrs. G. l.
Answorth. Jonathan Powers aged
eighty, died at his home on Sheridan
street. this afternoon of heart failure
FORT WAYNE.-The Rev. Frederick
Cohn, rabbi of the local Jewish church.
announced to his congregation Friday night
that he had been invited to become a rabbi
of the temple Israel at Omaha, Neb., and
that he had accepted. He therefore rendered
orator and has taken a large part in the
work Of literary clubs of this city.
LAWRENCEBURG.-H c. Swange
a farmer of this county has filed suit in
the Dearborn Circuit Court, in behalf of
his minor son Arthur, TO recover $4,000
damages from the Cincinnati Post Com
pany for alleged hbelous reports which
that paper published concerning the in
dictment of Arthur Swango for disturbing
religious worship
PORTLAND.-The body held at the
morgue of Griesmer Brothers. in Hamilton,
is now believed here to be the body of
young man named Schultz, a son of the
Rev Jacob Schultz, who was pastor of
the Presbyterian Church in this city fifteen
TO eighteen years ago.
WINAMAC.-A branch of the American
Society of Equity, an organization of farm
ers, one of whose chief aims is said TO be
a movement to maintain the price of wheat
at a dollar bnshel, has been organized at
Medaryville by fourteen well-known farm
erS.
GREENWOOD.-The Rev Headon. pas
tor of the Nj. r. Church, has Just closed a
thirty-eight days revival meeting over
one hundred conversions are reported and OF
this number about sixty were Young men.