The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13
Brief Mention.

Bi1eI nenbiOAs
The pastors of the churches at Peoria have
held meeting to protest against Sunday base.
ball playing.
The Wabash road is talking about establishing
a hospital for sick and wounded employees, and
Decatur is trying to secure its location at that
point
st. Patricks Church. at Pana, costing $15, 900,
was dedicated on Sunday, by Bishop Joseph
Baltes, of Alton, who also confirmed ninety six
persons.
Steak Glouser and Barb Shearer two prisoners
escaped from the county jail at Mt Carmel
Saturday night by saving the bars with rough
edged case knives
Conductor l. M. Vincent fatally hurt in the
Wabash wreck at Decatur, died on Sunday at
Blue Mound The body has been taken to
Buchanan, Mich, for burial
w. A. Van Yorhis, school-teacher at Ffeeport
was fined $40 and costs, on Saturday, for making
an insulting proposal to the wife of a we'll
known business man, whom he met on the street
Adam Crawford, negro, who has just com
pleted a three years term in the Chester peniten-
tiary for rape, has been arrested at Mt Carmel
for stealing watch from the jewellery store Of
J. Wood.
Thomas Grove son of the Peoria dynamiter,
Patrick Grove, has been arrested in Chicago
and returned to Peoria, charged with burning
his fathers barn. worth 800, for an insurance
of $3.50, Feb II, 1882.
A public meeting was held at Woodstock, on
Friday, to take action to compel tine proprietor
of Algonquin Mills on Fox river to conform the
dam to the State law requiring fshway in the
dam. Fish are swarrning below the dam, yet,
owing to its construction, there is no increase of
young in the chain of lakes above McHenry.
Tho next annual meeting of the State assoc
alton of survivors of the Mexican will be
held at Vandalia, June IS and 10. General w.
I. Sherman and General Oglesby are expected
ty be present Arrangements have been made
to procure quantity of camp eqnipage from the
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go into camp
Davisey Wells in jail at Winchester for the
murder of V. NJ Coats, was holored with
guard of twenty men on Sunday night, while
two men with shotguns were placed at each
road leading into town to guard against a raid
the father of the prisoner having been overheard
giving information of a rescue to be undertaken
on Sunday night.
Sunday was quiet day at Quincy. The non
union moulders have been kept in their quarters
at the ST. James Hotel, closely guarded to pro
tect them from repetition of the assassination
attempted by the boycOtters Saturday.
Warrants have been issued against number of
the villains who known to have participated
in the shooting affair on Saturday.
On Sunday evening, at Metropolis a negro
roustabout on the steamer Hudson, discharged
from the steamboat complained that the clerk
had cheated him out of twenty-five cents.
Aiming himself with stick of stove-wood he re
fused to leave the boat when ordered by the
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upon the negro, beating him numerically. The
mate and clerk have been bound over in $500 for
the assault
Frank Ewing, superintendent of the Peoria
water-works, is in jail at that place charged
with embezzng city funds. He had charge of
the funds collected for water rents. and the
committee of the council who made the exam
nation of official books at the end of the year
found numerous instances where he had col
lected rents not accounted for in the books.
Nearly 800 had been discovered when his bonds
men caused his arrest.
William Ferris and Charles Piper Of Staunton,
and taken TO Mount Pulaski, for the triple muir
der which committed year ago last Au-
gust. of Mr.. Mcmahon and two farm hands that
were working for him at the time William
Ferris was arrested right after tho murder and
was held in the Lincoln Jail for about one month
and then released for want of evidence, but has
been Swallowed ever since. They are both re-
lated to Mc01ahon.
A bloody fight took place at Nation at 6
o'clock Sunday morning, between the police and
a body of tramps. The tramps had secured |
jug of whisky and were indllging in free fight |
when the police three in number attempted to |
arrest them The whole body of tramps. ten in |
number, turned on the police, and hard fight
ensued The officers fired among the tramps |
two of whom were badly injured. One named |
Charles Kelly, was shot through the neck. and |
another was shot in the stomach an d left for |
dead, while, at the muzzles of revolvers the |
party was marched to the city prison.