The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-01

brAet AientiOns
Jacksonville is now Illuminated by the electric
light
The feundrymen at Quincy seem as firm as
ever, and the strikers are correspondingly dis
eouraged.
Three houses at Shelbyville were entered by
burglars on Monday night and considerable
booty carried off.
Reed. the would murderer of George Boyd,
of Rock Island. has been captured at Geneseo.
He has been lodged in Jail
Silas Olmsted, for fifty years a resident of
6ialesburg and vicinity, died at his home on
Tuesday morning, aged 70 years.
The body of Nancy Mutt who was drowned
while boat riding with colored man three weeks
ago, near Peoria, was found on Monday after
noon.
The officers of the Casey Mining Company, at
Casey have filed certificate of an increase of
| the capital stock of the company from 100000
to $500, 900. T.
Miss Clarnda Peoples, living with her grand
mother, Mrs. Handley southwest of Paris, has
committed suicide by hanging herself from a
rafter of the barn.
Gator and minister of the Presbyterian
Church in Illinois, died at his home at Alton, in
the seventy sixth year of his age, on Tuesday.
Charles Stoltzenberg, miner, recently
killed. at Kewanee, by a fall of rocks in the
Lathrop Company's mines VIM. Grotha was
several children.
VIM Fiscus, ell-known citizen of Freeport
was instantly killed at Rockton on Tuesday. He
was a fireman of Chicago Milwaukee & ST.
Paul locomotive and was walking on a car when
bridge struck him in the back of the head
William Nathan and John Kilgore, Henry
Lewis and Henry Jennings whose depredations
as burglars and larcenistS have extended over
western Indiana and eastern Illinois. have been
committed to Jail at Danvile in default of bail.
The officers of the National Guard of Illinois
will meet at Springfield May 8 and for the pur-
pose OF organizing State association Of officers
1t Is expected that there will be a large attend
ance of officers interested in perfecting the State
service.
The coal miners who went ont on a strike
from the Wenona Companys works have come
back and resumed work on the company's terms
which were the same as those offered when the
strike began. The men have lost months
wages by the strike.
A citizen of Litchfield has discovered process
of distillation whereby the natural lubricating
oil which abounds in that vicinity can be con-
verified into high grade of illuminating fluid,
equal to the best headlight oil The discovery
reveals new possibilities of value for this
product
The Supreme Court of the State has granted
the injunction asked by the Ohio e. Mississippi
railway against Pana township, denying its
right to levy taxes on the property of the com
pany- The amount involved is about $4,000.
The company has been paying its taxes at Pana
for several years until now, without complaint.
Guy Stapp is announced, from Washington,
| as the receiver of the First National Bank, at
Monmouth vice r.. nj. Stevenson, resigned. Mr.
Stapp has filled the position of auditor of the
illinois division of the Central Iowa railway for
| the past three years, and his appointment gives
universal satisfaction. 1t is expected that depos-
itors will be paid in full
Rev. W. B. Gilmore, of Havana, suffered for
several years with some affection of the stomach
He died April "A, but of what no one could tell.
A postmortem examination was held ON Monday
| last, showing the stomach contracted and hard
ened, with the whole inner surface covered with
a cancerous formation and the duct to the bowels
closed. The case is rare one and given in the
| interest of science.
M. H. Presley, real estate and insurance agent
at Flora, was stabbed, on Tuesday, while sitting
at his desk in his office. His injuries may prove
| fatal His would be murderer is John Hungate,
sixty. seven years of age, and at time one of
| the wealthiest farmers in the county Some
years ago he became involved, and mortgaged
his land to an insurance company for which
Presley was agent. He has brooded over his
losses until his mind has become impaired, and
| led him to believe Presley was responsible for
| his misfortunes. Hungate has son, a prosper
| GUS farmer, near Flora, and another banker in
Missouri