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Marion County, Indiana
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| Indiana Journal (Indianapolis, IN) Wednesday, December 29,
1830 - Submitted by Candi A Sale Of the personal estate of Bartis Boots, sen., deceased, will take place at his late residence, one mile south of Miller's Mill, on Wed. Jan. 5, 1831, at 10 o'clock A.M. consisting of Two Horses, one Milk Cow, six head of cattle, twenty Hogs and a quantity of Farming and Household Utensils. Nine months credit allowed on good security on all sums over three dollars, all under that amount cash in hand. Jesse Johnson, adm'r with the will annexed. Notice--- I have this day taken out letters, as above, on the said estate from the Clerk's office of the Probate Court of Marion County and believe the said estate to be solvent. Jesse Johnson, adm'r with the will annexed. Dec. 11, 1830 Indiana Journal (Indianapolis, IN) Wednesday, December 29, 1830 - Submitted by Candi Administrator's Sale A sale of Ezekiel Hanna's personal estate will take place at his late residence, at 10 o'clock A.M., on Saturday the 8th day of Jan. next, consisting of a few articles of husbandry, some corn, and household utensils. Terms: above three dollars, six months credit; under that sum cash in hand. William M'Caw, Admr. Dec. 16, 1830 Notice is hereby given, that I have taken out letters of administration, from the Marion County Probate Court and I declare the said estate insolvent, and will claim the settlement thereof as such, of which all claimants will take notice and present their accounts in due time. William M'Caw, Admr. Dec. 16, 1830 The Indiana State Journal (Indianapolis, IN) Wed., Feb. 1, 1899 - Submitted by Candi Misc. News INDIANAPOLIS -Smallpox has appeared in the city, but it has been taken In season, so that there is no cause to apprehend its spread. -There is no longer hope that the party of which the daughter of Mayor Taggart was one are alive. The mayor has returned. -The County Commissioners have given on electric railway company a fifty years' franchise to control a line along the National road from Irvington to Greenfield. - The Department of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic, closed its meeting at Terre Haute Friday night and fixed the date for holding the stale encampment. It will take place at Terre Haute on May 23, 24 and 25. No other business was transacted. - Strict orders have been issued to admit no one to the House except the person applying holds a pass. The smallpox scare has had something to do with the issuing of the order, but the annoyance of the lobbyists has had more to do with it. The Indiana State Journal (Indianapolis, IN) Wednesday, April 1, 1896, pg. 5 - Submitted by Candi Indiana Notes -The First Baptist Church, of Valparaiso, has extended a call to Rev. William K. Randall, of Boone, Ia. - Muncie officers have discovered two-dollar bills which have been passing as ten-dollar bills. The bills have been altered with pen and ink. - The Paoll Mineral Springs Hotel yesterday opened Its doors. The hotel building is a four-story, eighty-room structure, with tile floor, electric lights, steam heat, hot and cold water, elevator, every kind of hath, etc. Colonel Amos Stout is the manager. - McQuiddy Lodge. No. 355, Daughters of Rebekah, of Shelbyville, to-night will give a minstrel show at the opera house. Every seat is sold. The programme[sic] will consist of the regular minstrel first part, with black face end[sic] women. Some of the best society women of the city will take part in the olio. - A long petition from Anderson was sent to Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, to-day, praying for executive clemency in behalf of Robert Rich, who was recaptured here some weeks ago and returned to prison in that State. Judge Alfred Ellison, Mayor Dunlap, Sheriff Storr and hundreds of well-known citizens of Anderson signed the petition. The Indiana State Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wed., Feb. 1, 1899 - Submitted by Candi Judge McMasler Saturday entered an order directing James F. Failey, receiver of the Order of the Iron Hall, to pay over to the claimants of the Cuyahoga, branch $25, 000 in satisfaction of their claims. The court had held formerly that these claims should be disallowed, but this the Supreme Court overruled, and the order yesterday was in conformity with the ruling of the Supreme Court, various other intervening petitions were disallowed. Something like $25, 0000 or $30,000 remains in the hands of the receiver subject to furl her orders of the court concerning the trust. The Indiana State Journal (Indianapolis, IN) Wed., Feb. 1, 1899 - Submitted by Candi On Sunday night Rodney King, colored, stabbed Abraham Turpie, a colored cook, in the back at the Normandie Cafe, because the latter had assisted in removing him from the room. He was drunk. Turpie may die. The Indiana State Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wed., Feb. 1, 1899 - Submitted by Candi Deaths Miss Mary Ann McLean, a woman who has been identified with higher education in this city, died on Wednesday, aged seventy-nine years. The Indiana State Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wed., Feb. 1, 1899 - Submitted by Candi Harry Mueller, a saloon keeper at the corner of Fort Wayne avenue and Pennsylvania street, died at Dr. Pantzer's sanatorium Saturday while undergoing an operation. The coroner in his investigation determined that heart failure had caused death, great weakness of the heart being found to have existed. The operation in itself was not one thought to be attended by particular danger. It was found after anesthetics had been administered that the patient's pulse was growing dangerously feeble, and the use of the unsubtle was stopped and the patient resuscitated. He appeared to be strong enough when brought back to consciousness to admit of the completion of the operation which had been commenced, but it was reared that further use of the anesthetic would be dangerous. A few minutes after work had been resumed Mueller's heart stopped beating. He was unmarried, was twenty-eight years old, and lived with his mother on Fort Wayne avenue. The Indiana State Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wed., Feb. 1, 1899 - Submitted by Candi Deaths/Murders A young man named Hicks, boarding with Mrs. Josephine Romhilt, shot her on Wednesday evening and she has since died. Causeless Jealousy was at the bottom of the crime. The Indiana State Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wednesday, April 1, 1896; pg. 5 -Submitted by Candi An Indianapolis. Variety Actress Shoots Her Husband in Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO, March 30. - As John Martin, driver of a patrol wagon, was sitting in his wagon in front of police head-quarters at the City Hall, at noon to-day, his wife came up behind him and shot him three times with a pistol. One bullet passed through Martin's body, and he will probably die. Mrs. Martin gave as a reason for the shooting that Martin had not been home for several nights, and last night was drinking hard. She added she was tired of his neglect and determined to punish him. She shows no regret for the shooting. The Mrs. Martin referred to in the above dispatch was formerly Miss Susan Virgil, of Indianapolis. She was one of three sisters, all well known here a number of years ago, who took to the stage. Her stage name was Susie Wilde, and she often appeared at the old "Zoo" in its palmy days, as a variety performer. She left here six or eight years ago and was then the widow of Marsh Adams, the original "Old Black Joe" man of minstrel fame. A private dispatch states that Martin was fatally wounded. The Indiana State Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wed., Feb. 1, 1899 - Submitted by Candi Divorces were granted in the county courts Saturday as follows: Laura Kregel from W. C. Kregel; John W. Stewart from Fannie M. Stewart Laura C. Kaylor from Albert J. Kaylor Laura D. Seitman from Charles C. Seitman Caroline Anderson from Edwin Anderson Mao Wadley from Percy Wadley Harry Vanderwood from Maud Vanderwood Laura Gibson from Thomas Gibson. The Indiana State Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wednesday, April 1, 1896; pg. 5 The divorce suit of Michael Hession against Margaret Hession was decided in favor of the defendant to-day, and she was given $1,000 alimony. The Indiana State Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wed., Feb. 1, 1899 - Submitted by Candi MARION, Ind., Jan. 27. -Early in October George Eltzroth purchased a farm in Pleasant township, and a few days before election time sent a part of his household goods to his new home, intending to- wait until after election before he moved. He was living on the farm of a Republican, who happened to be the Republican challenger at the polls on election day. Eltzroth was a Democrat, but the fact that the Republican permitted him to go by without challenging him aroused the suspicions of David Mills, the Democratic challenger, and he stopped his vote until Eltzroth made an affidavit. Mills then swore out an affidavit charging him with illegal voting, and Eltzroth was placed under arrest and retained as a prisoner until the following day. The prosecuting attorney went to Upland with the intention of prosecuting the case, but as soon as he understood the facts dismissed it. Eltzroth has now sued the Democratic challenger and the constable, Amos Schwennessen, asking 31,000 as damages for malicious prosecution. Warren Republican Feb. 21 1895 Winnie Smith of Indianapolis, convicted of manslaughter in the killing of W. B. Thomas of Anderson, has been denied a new trial and has been sentenced to 18 years in the prison north and disfranchised for a like period. He will be taken to Michigan City in a day or two. Warren Republican Feb. 21 1895 George W. Stout, the Indianapolis whole-sale grocer who was burned out last week, proposes to retire from business if the other wholesalers will engage his salesmen and other employees. Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) Wednesday, January 9, 1823 Page 4 Longevity The Indianapolis Gazette says , -There is now living at the Bluffs of White River, a Mr. Summers, aged 110 years - his eldest child is 93 years old, and his youngest 14. Mr. Summers enjoys good health, for a man of his age, and can read the smallest print without the aid of glasses. The West Side Messenger, Indianapolis Indiana Saturday
September 7 1939 SPENDS WEEKEND IN MICHIGAN RETURNS HOME VISITS IN ILLINOIS VISITS IN CHICAGO HAPPY 8 BIRTHDAY CLUB VISITS BROTHER AFTER NINETEEN YEARS ROOM FOR MORE CHILDREN IN THE HAWTHORNE KINDERGARTEN MOTORS TO LOOKOUT MTS ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED �DUTCH� EAGLIN ILL IN MICHIGAN HOSPITAL VISITED AT LAPEL SMITHSON AND NORRIS BUY BEN DAVIS CAFE UNDERWENT OPERATION VACATIONING IN FLORIDA ENTERS PURDUE UNIVERSITY IMPROVING AFTER OPERATION RETURNS HOME RETURNS FROM VACATION ST. CHRISTOPHER'S YOUTH SOCIETY SPONSORS DANCE MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER MILLER MADDREY 4 WINS FAIR R1BBON MIKE McKEON IS INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT ATTENDS BRAY. URBANCIC WEDDING. HAVE BABY DAUGHTER SPEEDWAY TOWN TO HOLD ELECTION RETURN FROM FREEMAN LAKE RETURNS HOME VISITED IN MILWAUKEE HERE FROM ILLINOIS IN WISCONSIN SURPRISED ON BIRTHDAY LYNHURST 0. E. S WILL MEET TUESDAY VISITS PARENTS RETURN FROM SOUTHERN TRIP MOVES TO NORTH INDIANAPOLIS NEWSPAPER TID BITS ETC. OCT. 04,1899 INDIANAPOLIS General Vaughn, once a major general in the Confederate Army, died in this city Sunday evening. The municipal campaign in this city has reached the stage of activity. The Republicans are very hopeful that they will defeat may Taggart. Joseph Selig, charged with grand larceny, was fined $5 and costs and sentenced to 180 days in the workhouse Saturday. Frank Bailey and George Patterson, who are under arrest and are supposed to belong to a gang of thieves, will be tried Oct., 3. It is believed that Bailey is a fugitive. The Consumer Gas Trust Company and the Indianapolis Gas Company have served notice that from Oct. 1, they will furnish no fuel to factories, large blocks or flats. It is hoped by this plan of economizing on gas to furnish residences with enough fuel to make them comfortably warm this Winter. Those interested in the movement to locate a Young men's home, or clubhouse, on Virginia Avenue, at Cedar Street, have elected the following officers. J.D. Worman, President; George Hiltz, vice president; O.W. McGaughey, Secretary; The plan is to provide a institution like the Y.M.C.A for the South Side. The Christian Church of the United States will celebrate the jubilee of organized missions, in Cincinnati, Oct. 12 to 20, 1899. It is expected that 10,000 delegates will attend the convention. A notable feature of the concention will be on Sunday, in Music hall, when communion service will be celebrated. Rev. Allan B. Philputt, of this city, is chairman of the committee on Indiana delegation. Divorces were granted in the county courts Saturday as follows:, Margaret K. Bennett from William Bennett, Colornet Kemp from Maribella Kemp; Elizabeth Vanada from William Vanada, Lillie Fatout from Warren Fatout, Belle Richards from Frank Richards, Lida Vaught from James B. Vaught, Anna Bradshaw from Oran Bradshaw, Joseph Lindsley from Maggie Lindsley. A cracks man has robbed the city of $35 in cash, and it is up to J. Clyde Power the superintendent of parks, to make good on the loss. Mr. Power accepts the inevitable philosophically, and though he has a slight hope that the thief may be caught and the money recovered, he is ready to go into his pocket for the amount. The police are investigating the case and the robbery has been kept quiet, so quiet that Mr. Power was greatly surprised Thursday when he was asked about the circumstances. Oct.4,1899, INDIANPOLIS The Indiana State Baptist Convention will hold its annual meeting Oct.10-15. with the First Baptist Church of this city. It is expected that 600 delegates from the different churches of the State will attend the meeting. The programne (sic) included addresses from a number of the prominent Baptists of this and other States. One of the features of the convention will be the music, which will be conducted by Rev. J.C. Carman during the day and by Prof. Arthur P. Preston during the evening sessions. The Indianapolis and Fort Wayne Railroad Company was Thursday incorporated, with a capital stock of $100,000. The company is incorporated under the steam-railroad act, and the articles state that the road is to run from Indianapolis, through Marion County, Hamilton, Madison, Grant, Huntington, and Allen, to Fort Wayne, a distance of 120 miles The directors are Crawford Fairbanks, of Terre Haute, and Henry L. Smith, Alexander Taggart, S.E. Rauh, and James E. Roberts of this city. Other stockholders are B.E. Parrott, D.P. Erwin, A.S. Benson, Henry Rauh, Raphael Kirsnbaum, E.P. Claypool, George A. Dickson, Charles E. Test and A.E. Kalter, of this city; Demas Deming of Terre Haute and Fletcher A. Hines of Malott Park. Rev. G.A. Carstensen, for seven years the rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, has tendered his resignation, to take effect by the first of the new year. The resignation was presented to the vestry last Monday and was accepted by the members with regret. Dr. Carstensen urged the acceptance, declaring that he felt that a change would be beneficial to both the church and himself. The relations were the most amicable, he said. His actions came as a surprise to the members of his church. When it was decided to accept the rector's resignation a letter expressing regret was sent to the vestry to Dr. Carstensen, in which it was finally urged that he reconsider the situation and withdraw his resignation. Dr. Carstensen, however, remained firm and declared his belief that the change would have a benefit to both parties concerned. Attorney Genearal William L. Taylor left Wednesday for Washington, where he will file a brief in the United States Supreme Court in the case of the state against the Indiana Manufacturing Company. The suit involves the right of the State to tax patents issued by the federal government. The defendant company owns threshing machine patents, and until now has resisted the assessment fixed by the Marion Co. board of Review and the State Board of Tax Commissioners, both of which were enjoined by the Federal Court from collecting taxes. The attorney general's contention will be that if patents can escape taxation corporations would sell stock in patents alone, and thereby evade paying their share of the cost of government. While in Washington, Mr. Taylor will argue the case in the Federal Court to determine whether the State can enjoin oil companies from wasting natural gas in oil wells. INDIANA NOTE: 12-14-1898 The police of Marion are searching for Myrtle Thornburg, 18 yrs old. Her home is in Anderson, and it is said she had some trouble with her parents and ran off, going to Marion. IN. 4-28-1920 FIRST ELECTROCUTION FOR INDIANA SLATED Indianapolis, IN. Apr. 27,1920. William Ray, negro, age 19 yrs., was sentenced to be electrocuted August 5th, at the Indiana State prison, by Judge James A. Collins of criminal court here tonight, when a jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Ray is said to have stabbed to death 14 yrs old Martha huff, a white girl, on Apr. 19. The Indiana law provides that the death penalty shall not be executed until at least 100 days have elapsed after conviction. Ray will be the first person to die in the electric chair in this state. 7-04-1921 ACCIDENT CLAIMS SIX VICTIMS IN INDIANA (by the United Press) Indianapolis, IN. July 4,1921. Four were drowned and 2 killed in auto accidents in various parts of Indiana yesterday, according to reports reached here today. Four other persons were seriously injured in other accidents. The dead are: Urban J. Theis, 80, of Layette, drowned. Will O. Day. 18, of Eldorado, Drowned at Richmond, IN. William Douglas, Cameron Junction, MO. drowned at LaPorte, IN. Virgil Wallace 14, Princeton, drowned. John Rebholtz, LaPorte, killed in auto accident at Burnham, IN. Police officials of LaPorte were asked to investigate the death of Rebholtz. Members of his family believe that he met with foul play. 3-29-1913 DEATH LIST IN INDIANA IS CUT DOWN AS LOW AS 100 Indianapolis, IN. March 23, (smeared) 1912 Mud was Indiana's greatest problem today. The thousand of homeless and thirst; they adapted themselves to overcrowding, they faced death and saw death take its toll around them, a hundred lives in the state, but they could not adapt themselves to mud. Comparatively few houses, only flimsiest kind were entirely wiped out by the flood waters, but the residences and buildings left standing will not be fit for habitation until inches of sediment and ooze in every crevice are made to disappear Railroad traffic is slowly being resumed. Regular schedules have mostly been shot to pieces. In washed out bridges and track, in submerged and wrecked passenger and freight cars, the loss to the steam and interurban railroads in Indiana is conservatively estimated at $10,000,000. Cities and counties have lost an equal amount by destroyed bridges and obliterated roads Mercantile concerns, factories and home owners with the others, combine to make the property loss to the state easily over $50,000,000. In addition to the known dead in Indiana, scores of persons are missing. The unaccounted for probably will turn up when an official and complete count is compiled. NEWS ITEMS FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, March-April 1875 TWENTY-FIVE of Kingan's workmen will sail for Belfast, Ireland, in a few days. Some of them will remain in the land of their nativity. 4 March 1875, p. 8, col. 1. Obediah Harris has reached his seventy-eighth year, and thinks he has earned the right to be slightly bent in form. 31 March 1875, p. 8, col. 2 HENRY COLEMAN retired from the public service at the close of Mrs. Oen's term of office yesterday. He has been in the employ of the State for fourteen years, the last two as janitor of the State-house. I April 1875, p. 3, col. 4. JOHN DENTON wants a divorce from Lucctta, his wife. He says she slapped him. She says she just put her hand over his mouth to keep him from saying that though he bought hair oil she would not use it, but put butter on her hair. Next term of Superior Court. 1 April 1875, p. 3, col. 2. Rev. Thomas Harrison and wife celebrated their silver wedding at their home in Shelbyville, Ind., March 27th. The presents consisted of a beautiful tea-set, from the children, a water -set from a number of friends in Shelbyville, and a good variety of ornamental and table-ware, valued, in all, at about two hundred and fifty dollars. 10 April 1875, p. 11, col. 3. A party of sixty or seventy ladies and gentlemen invaded the residence of Mr. G.C. Webster, No. 446 North East street, last night, on the occasion of his sixty-first birthday. The surprise was complete, but Mr. Webster soon recovered his presence of mind, and the evening was spent pleasantly by the host and his host of admiring friends. 13 April 1875, p. 8, col. 2. MR. THOMAS PATTERSON, who resides on the corner of Pennsylvania and Seventh streets, yesterday reached the thirty-sixth year of his earthly pilgrimage, and seventy or more of his friends dropped in on him in the evening and made matters merry until the wee small hours. Notwithstanding the surprise, the hostess prepared an elegant and palatable repast before the unexpected visitors left. 14 April 1875, p. 10, col. 2. From Marion Herald - Marion County, AL - Oct. 17, 1889 Indianapolis, Oct. 8 – The secret service officers raided a gang of counterfeiters south of this city yesterday morning and captured ISAAC REYNOLDS, JOHN LUCAS, and J. M. MCBRIDE. The latter is an old offender. After being captured, LUCAS’S house was searched and $140 in spurious coin and moulds were found. The bank had been making $10 gold coins and a number of them have been put in circulation in this city and Johnson County. McBride made full confession saying that he had been engaged in the business for several months and had got rid of a large amount of the stuff in this state, Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois. Several members of the gage are known and officers are after them. Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney A MURDERER FOILED. Indianapolis. Sept 21.— Isaac W. Campbell, a deputy recently discharged by Sheriff W. P. Shiefer, of Fort Wayne, last night placed a revolver at the sheriffs breast and fired, with the intention of killing him. The gunsmith was suspicious of Campbell when he sold him the weapon, and took pains to load it wrongly, thereby saving that officer's life. Wisconsin State Journal September 25, 1883 |
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