The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-18

Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.

Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.
1t is reported that the diggers at the new shaft
at Fairbury have struck coal at depth of a lit
| tie over 100 feet
| Four hundred dollars spent for the
| stained glass windows in the Methodist Episco-
| pal Church at Pontiac
| John NJ. Campbell, a veteran of the war of
| 1872, and of the Black Hawk war, is living at
| Clinton, aged ninety-three years.
| The hospital for the insane at Kankakee. with
l.400 patients is the next to the largest in the
United States. That at Utica, N. Y, ranks
| first.
| Near Knmundy Mrs. Mary E. Fox, the young
widow of DR.. Thomas Fox, married to Mr.
r. F. Mcbride, a merchant of Kinnundy. The
bride is the niece of Charles West the million
aire, of Cincinnati.
For prosecuting young woman by means of
obscene letters, Mrs. Mary Williams, aged sixty,
and Mrs. Mary Cooper, aged twenty, were on
Wednesday fined 800 each in the United States
Court at Springfield. Ill.
At Galesburg, another claim of $1,000 has
been confessed by M. c. Willard, the Dry goods
merchant recently closed. This makes the total
of judgment notes alone $4,000 The outside
| Indebtedness is estimated at ST. OO0 The stock
is estimated at $50, 600, and is being nvoiced
Nash Creasey a colored miner, was instantly
killed by a falling rock, estimated at two tons
weight. The victims brother narrowly escaped
| a like fate. The brothers had been there but
three weeks, and were working to get funds with
| which to take their aged uncle back to old Vir-
ginia.
The new city water-works at Mattoon have
| been tested and found to work satisfactorily
| meeting the requirements of the contract by
| throwing six streams of water Broadway to
the height of seventy five feet. The works have
been built and owned by the Pittsburg
| Water and Gas-works Construction Company,
the city paying S., 900 year for water for the
| fire department.
Recently, at Salem. deed conveying 800 acres
of land in Meacham township from G. II. Jor-
dan to John T. Ellsworth, was recorded, as was
also mortgage of the property by the latter to
Conrad Buckhold, of St Louis The county
clerk received dispatch, signed George w.
Newcomb," from Chicago, Wednesday, stating
the deed was forgery and requesting that Off
that swindle was intended
At Centralia, recently, Mrs. Proudfoot. a
widow was induced to marry prof1igate named
Press Davis. After they were married he per-
suaded the woman to trade her house for a team
| of horses and wagon This she did, when one
| morning Davis drove off with the rig, leaving
her behind since when the scamp has not been
| seen. The kept herself by taking in
washing and has paid all she owed on the house,
which she so rashly parted with.
| At Murphysboro. while standing in front of
| the court house, Col. Ben l.. Wiley was seized
| with paralysis and rendered speeches. He
| cannot use his fingers to write but his mind is
clear and cheerful. Colonel Wiley has held
| most of the offices in the county with great
honor and credit. He at one time came within
| twenty votes of being elected to Congress-
| and served one term in the Illinois Legislature
| He foreman of the grand jury when par
alyzed