The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-18
ILLINOIS.
Ceilings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.

Ceilings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.
Mrs Adam Bremen of Rockford, dropped
dead in the street on Friday night
Joseph Thompson's two-year-old child was run
over and beheaded by Wabash passenger train,
near Jacksonville, on Friday The child's head
has not yet been found.
peared yesterday. 1t is q Prohibition sheet with
Democratic leanngs. and will figure as such dur
ing the campaign E. H Elliff is editor.
Andrew Brown and Samuel P. Wheeler had a
quarrel at Philhpstown, on Saturday, They ex-
changed shots and the former received a wound
which, it is thought will prove fatal There
was woman in the case.
Hugh Boggs. living near Walnut Hill lost his
barn, on Saturday, by fire a 5000 horse per-
ished in the flames. The total loss is about
81, 500. The fire is supposed to have been caused
by the owners boy playing with matches in the
building.
Iichty & Steiner, private bankers and extern
sive dealers in lumber and grain at Sandoval,
closed their doors on Friday. and made an as
signmenB to Mr.. Fred Rheinhart. former
clerk Liabilities and assets have not been
made known
Oryilie c. Lathrop, city attorney of Freeport
and distinguished lawyer and Republican, died
at his home in that city on Friday. His
death resulted from severe cold contracted
some days ago, and is a matter of great surprise
and general regret
Philip Heeg Of Louisville, while on a train
en- route to Greenyille where he is now visiting,
laid down on a seat and went to sleep. When
he awoke he was surprised to find that some
light fingered thief had relieved him of gold
watch and $40 in cash.
In a dispute over board-bill at LOTIONS sa-
loon at Litch6ed Saturday night Robert
Chism attacked James Butts with a pocket
knife, stabbing him repeatedly in the neck and
side. Though terribly cut and hacked Butts
will probably recover. Chism is in custody.
On Friday, Thomas Coats, Vim. Wade, Henry
Hankey and Ed Woods, of Jerseyville, went to
the mouth of Otter creek on the Illinois river
fishing. On Saturday Coats and Wade returned
with the report that Hankey and Woods were
both drowned in an attempt to swim across the
river
On Saturday morning twelve-year- old son Of
Daniel Schaeffer, of Lexington, started out hunt
ing, and in the afternoon. about l O'Clock, he
was found in field, dead, from the effects of a
gunshot supposed to be the result of an acct.
dent. The body was discovered in pasture,
about mile from the village
On Friday, near Sharbona. Nicholas Kittle as
saulted Douglass Hinkston stabbing him in the
RICH forearm, severing artery, and also in the
right abdominal region. Hnkston worked Kit
ties farm, and the fight originated about the
rent Hinkston is in a precarious condition
Kittle was arrested as he was trying to leave
town.
Major Ernst f. Hoffman, Of the United States
Engineer Corps, died at Rock Island on Friday
night aged ffty-eight years The deceased
served prominently in the Prussian army as an
officer during the war in Italy. During the war
of the rebellion he was member of SchuIzs
stat. Since the war he has been engaged on the
Mississippi river Improvement
A fatal hunting accident occurred near Pax
ton, on Saturday morning. While Oscar Wei
burg and a companion Of Chicago were hunting
prairie chickens on the farm of Gust Friedrich
son, accompanied by Andrew Bremen, an old
friend with whom they were stopping, Breners
gun was accidentally discharged, blowing the
right side of Weiburgs head away and causing
instant death. An inquest was held and the
verdict was in accordance with the above facts
Bremen is nearly insane over the affair.