
The Friend, A Religious Literary and Literary Journal Vol. LXIII
/Seventh-Day, Fifth Month, 3, 1890 / No. 40 Pg. 320Married, First Month
24th, 1889, at Friends’ Meeting-house, Westfield, Hamilton
Co., Indiana, Galileo Peacock, son of Abram and Mary Jane Peacock, to
Elizabeth Macy, Daughter of Joel R. and Amy M. Macy.
[NOTE: I know this says they were married in Hamilton Co. The
Peacock's resided in Randolph Co.]
Contributed by Carried V. Tuck
Winchester, Ind., Sept 25,—Hon. W. L. Taylor, candidate for attorney
general, opened the Republican campaign here this evening. He was
escorted from the train by Judges Marsh and Monks and County Chairman
James P. Goodrich to Gordon's rink. where a large audience greeted him.
After music by the Gold Rug Glee Club and a demonstration by a juvenile
drum corps, Mr. Taylor was introduced by Hon. Union R. Hunt, of this
city, chairman of the meeting. Mr. Taylor delivered a telling speech,
full of pointers for the voter. He first riddled the 15-to-1 straw man
and then considered the difference between the Republican protection
and Democratic free trade. His tribute to the integrity and ability of
William McKinley was greeted with prolonged cheers. His final thought
was that the Republican party is pledged to the policy of expansion—not
a policy of conquest, but of retaining conquered territory, enlarging
our markets and Increasing our trade upon the seas.
Source: Indiana Journal Oct 5, 1898
Ridgeville, Ind. Sept. 27. Mrs. Ida Engle,
daughter of George Hollowell, and living apart from her husband at the
home of a friend on the Winchester and Durfield Pike, five miles
southeast of Ridgeville, was assaulted about 9 o'clock last night by
some person disguised as a woman, who struck her from behind, knocking
her down Mrs. Engle was found in the road Insensible by some persons
passing by but could give no account of the affair until this morning.
A White Cap notice had been served on the family with whom she was
stopping. While she is in a serious condition, she will probably
recover. Samuel Merchant, with whose family Mrs, Engle is living, heard
her screams and ran out as a buggy was rapidly driven away from the
scene. Mr., Engle's husband Is said to be living !n Muncie. She is not
yet sixteen years old. The cause of the murderous assault is not known.
Source: Indiana Journal Oct 5, 1898
Winchester, Ind., Aug. 22.—Beginning about 3 o'clock this morning
and continuing until nearly 8 o'clock, one of the heaviest rains of the
season fell here. For a time the electric display was brilliant and was
accompanied by incessant heavy
thunder. During the storm, the barn of Frank Dundy, two miles south,
was struck by lightning and destroyed, together with three horses,
three crops of wheat, over sixty tons of hay, besides farming
Implements and wagons and buggies. Loss
about $5,000 with no insurance. When the barn was struck Mr.
Bundy was in it milking a cow and was so stunned that he barely
escaped. This was one of the largest barns in the county, being 60X120
feet, with twenty-eight-foot-comer posts. It had just been reroofed,
80,000 shingles being required.
Indiana Journal June 26, 1896
Farmland, lnd, Aug. 22.—Three Japanese claiming to be members of the
royal family of Japan, have been making a complete circuit of the oil
fields north of here during the present week. They are also capitalists
and state that their purpose
Is to learn the art of drilling oil in our. American manner. They
stated that oil had been struck in Japan at the shallow depth of three
hundred feet, but more often they dug wells one thousand feet, pumping
air down to the workmen. They are from Toga. Japan, and Intend
purchasing an outfit of the most modern fashion and shipping it back to
Japan, taking experienced rig builders and skilled drillers from this
country, in order that they may conduct oil business In that country in
the most improved and modern manner. They also made an extended tour
through the oil fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio before coming to this
State.
Indiana Journal June 26, 1896
Fined for Furnishing "Booze."
WlNCHESTER, Ind., March. 3.—Taylor Button, of this city, was to-day
fined $50 in the Circuit Court and given thirty days in Jail for
carrying intoxicants to a man to whom all saloons and drug stores were
prohibited from selling. A vigorous fight is being made against, the
saloons of this county under, the Nicholson law.
The Indiana Journal March 11, 1896