The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-27
Rriaf MentiM.

| Highland is to have condensed milk factory.
Mormon elders have been preaching at Weldon
and Argenta, and there is much excitment in
consequences
John c. Milton, of Mount Vernon, has been
found guilty of asking and receiving Illegal fees
In pension case.
The Peoria lawyers are trying to have the
newspapers prevented from publishing new suits
filed with the Circuit. Court.
George Washington, an old colored preacher,
fell off box-ear at Mt Carmel, broke his back.
and died from his injuries.
At Lacon the jury in the caseof Kulp, charged
with poisoning his wife, at Henry, in March last,
disagreed, and were discharged
| John Hunt, a. prominent business man of Mat
toorl, died, yesterday, of consumption He was
forty seven years old, and leaves wife and
three children.
At Meline a notorious rough, named Jack
| WEIGH, while drunk, knocked his wife down with
a Ratchet and stabbed her with knife. She
will probably die.
| On Saturday the depot at New Boston burned,
with all the books. tickets and papers ia the of
| fee, and a considerable amount of freight The
| loss is about 81, 600.
| Robert Sedelsteck aged twenty three years, a
| freight conductor the l., B. & W., who lives
at Havana. fell from the top OF a car near
Bloomington and was killed.
Joliet recently attempted to levy license on
her skating Kinks. They closed their doors tenn
| porarily, and are now all running as skating
schools, which are exempt from license.
| Coal has been found at a depth of sixty feet a
mile and half east of Galesburg. It is free
from sulphur and is what is known as No. of
the Illinois series. fine bed of fre-clay is to
| be mined with it.
| William Larson and Gideon Cooper charged
| with the murder of Tax-colector Pritchard and
they were released. The story of Banta, the
convict, was not considered sufficient.
A. d. Bond, the father of the unfortunate
Emma Bond, says that his daughter has been
| stricken down with paralysis. She is deprived
| of the use of her right side and has lost her
| hearing. She is now lying in precarious con-
/ dition.
A fire at Galena, on Saturday night, destroyed
| three frame structures, old landmarks One was
| occupied by A. West dealer in agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS; another by Schultz Brothers, BARRIERS,
and the third by J. Bertsch, custom tailors. The
loss is about ST, 000
| The recount of the ballots in the case of
| North Harpster, contestants for the Office of
| circuit clerk of Dewitt county, gave Harpster a
| majority of fifteen, gain of fourteen over the
original footing, and for the first time in TWEEN
| ty-five years elects Democrat to thatoffice
| Timothy Halpine, living few miles west of
| Ottowa met with a horrible death while on his
| way home from that place. While driving up a
| hill his wagon was overturned. and the man,
being thrown forward and underneath a load of
coal, was held and trampled to death by his
| horses
| AT the Kewanee House. Kewanee, w A.
johnson, atinner quarreled with the night por-
ter and shot at him. inficting slight flesh
wound. He was then shot at by j. A. Coe,
night clerk, who missed johnson then shot
Coe in the rightside. Coe pursued short dis
lance and fell. He will die. Three hours later
| johnson was found with his hands and feet
| frozen Johnson, who is temperance man,
| claims to have been out of his mind, and has no
recollection of the affair.
Dora Effernan, a'sixteen -year-old daughter of
| William Effernan, residing at Palestine, has been
arrested at Hanover for setting fire to the house
| of Henry Wahl for whom she worked. CA-
| year ago Wallis barn and twenty-one head of
stock were burned by an incendiary; an attempt
| to burn the new barn which replaced the burned
| building was made about week ago. and last
| Thursday night the house was set on fire. The
girl was accused, and pleaded guilty to all three
| charges She is not very bright.