, 1874-09-05

News Items TelcgrnpfAcd to The
Chicago Tribune

lAL1HUlAs
Thu Town of Dwight .ycatorda! prosecuted
saloon-keopor III. Kern, for violation Of the
liquor ordinanco which forbids the sale OF intox-
icating liquors. Tho caso has CAUSED great iu-
forest IN tho community, Us It Is tlo first which
Doard. 11aj. MUM, Of joliet Judge t. i:
PayBon, Of Pontiac; and i. g. Doarre defended
the caao Joseph I. Dunlap, OF Dwight, and tho
Hon. @. G. straun, Of Pout{ac, wero retained BY
tho town. The caso was decided against tho
town.
"A muaioal convention, undor tho manage
mont OF Prof Davis, ot Talula, Is being held
Mt areenyiow, at which there is q largo attonl-
aaco. Petersburg, Mason City. and noighboring
towns, aro we'll represented.
. "A brokon rail on tue Chicago d Alton Rail
road, 1nilea north Of Groonview Station. throw
seven caIs s, Of stock Of tho truck on Wednesday
quite number. brakeman on the train Ind
passed oyer tho cars but few minutes boforo
they were thrown from tho truck. The engino
and several cars passed safely oror the broEon
rail. No ono was injured. Ihe truck " cloar,
Tho Northwostern College. At Napervilio.
opened Last Wednesday. rho attendance is
quite large for this term, about $50 being al-
Ieady in.
-1iouas Blocker's brick block Mt Naporvillo
il recoivng the roof, aud will DO roady to bo o.
cupicd in about two monthe.
INDIANA.
Tho steam 6aW-ultl and pump factory near
5000.
Frank Dempsey, gard omploye at Rich
te meona IL compiling cars yestoraay, wan caught by
tic bumpers and seriously crushed.
a shower paseod over Goshen last night.
Tho eorn crop is ruined 10 many aections BY lie
lonE-continuod drought.
,-,Edwaya Ly!t'c was dangerously. II not fatal-
the premature explosion Of cannon, while p.ao-
slclng iof tho soldiers reunion.
..-Alayor Colyin, Col. j. g. 1tnnkin, and Gen
e;os Me;hsthS: .. Chicago nrriVoa at doahon Al 10
Ton Thousand people gathered At tho sol-
aiezs reunion nj Frankfort, Ind, Yesterday,
speeches s wero made by tlo Hon. Henry s. Love
freight train gotnE, north Thursday morning
Oh tho burlington, Cedar l,apids l. minnesota
Railroad, dltclsod the ougino, tondor, aud oight
cara ut Linton Station, 0niles south Of Wapei!o,
BY misplaced switch.
On the Esd Of August n1r. Maaon. farmer
living 2 miles north Of hlarongo, hnl valuable
mare atoon. Search was instituted, and 1t waa
10 miles cast OF this, about tho samo time. Both
hoFses wore taken 10 Benton County, where tho
former ono waH sold for 97b, aud tho romaiuing
one Was exchanged for another liorso, md tho
ono exchanged for takpn to stable in Bcllo
Plain. Tho porson who lad taken these animals
proved to DO yonnE man named Harrington,
who has been arrested, and now lloa in iaii
awaiting tho action OF tho Grand Jury.
MICHIGAN.
J. Il. Noble, a wol-known tumbor-inspeotor Of
East 6nginaw, waH found doal in his bed yostor-
day morning. Tho circumstance created soma
oxoitomeut ind rlInorB were atloat tlat Ao did
not como to hia tloath from natural cauacs. Hia
domestic re1ationH Woro not tho p1oasanteBt, aud
ho had been drinking Aarl for some time past
lie went to bed about O'Clock last oYoning, oc-
cnpylng the samc room, but not the same bod,
with bis wifo and two children. Early this
morning, and without any promonitions, Ills wfo
discovered that lie "aa doad. Tho yordlot Of tho
Jury was death from natural nauaaa. Io was
about 81 yoarH Of ago and had an insurance OF
$4,000 on his Ito IN favor OF his wife.
Two mon namod Johu Qopstell and George
y MMashington the latter colorod, both residents Of
sagsaaT Clsy. loft otaego Lake, near tho end ot
iooate lands. their stock Of proyisons coauiatinR
q m fonr pounds Of crackers. They rot lost il
LILO xoods. wandered about aIx daye. and fInalIy