The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-15
Brief Mention.


John Waugh was fatally sunstruck, at PeSin
on Tuesday.
telephone company on the co operative plan
has been formed at Pekin. The capital stock is
0,000.
In a fit of jealousy at Charleston, Tuesday
night, George Beasy cut his wife's throat from
ear to ear, and escaped
Harry Miller shot and killed his father in law,
John w. Corgan, near PiuckneyvilIe in quar-
rel over the division of crop of oats.
number of farmers in Marion county pro-
pose moving to Oregon. The failure of the
wheat and other crops prompts this step.
John Richey was adjudged insane on Tuesday
at Decatur, having lost his reason through con-
slant reading of the Bible
Charles A. McGovern, lawyer and real estate
agent at Orion, Henry county has disappeared,
embarrassed it s alleged. to the extent of $50, :
00O
The Wing.mill, at Litchfield, was sold on Tues
day, under decree of the Circuit Court. for $15T,
600, James B. NJ. Keller, of ST Louis, being the
purchaser.
At Pekin, George Weaver aged eighteen, son
Of John Weaver, was crushed to death while
helping to move a house in the eastern part of
the county late Tuesday evening
At Cory. Pa, on Tuesday, the dwelling of
WIN. s. Pearsun was struck by lightning and
Mrs Pearsun was killed instantly. The dwell
ing took fire and was totally consumed.
Capt. John r. Thomas, present congressional
Representative, was set aside at the county con-
venton of Randolph county, on Tuesday for
George W. Smith, of Murphysboro, to the sur.
prise of many Republicans.
At Mount Pulaski, Logan county Tuesday
night, burglars blew open the safe in the elevator
of John Lincoln, but finding money, left the
contents untouched His books were badly
scorched. The burglars also broke into the Of
fee of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville railway.
with similar success.
The remains of nearly twenty soldiers who
were killed in the Blackhawk Indian war lie
buried in unmarked graves near Lena, Stephen
son county On Tuesday the board of supervis-
ors appropriated $500 for a monument to be
erected in the new cemetery, to which they will
be transferred on the battlefield on which they
fell
Daniel w. Hill. a farmer. living three miles
west of Watseka, was gored to death on Tuesday
morning by an lnfnriated bull. Mr. Hill went
out in his pasture to milk fresh cow, and not
returning to the house when expected, the fam
lily started in search, when they found his man
ged form lying in gully He was still alive
and able to say the bull did it.
The July returns to the State Department of
Agriculture give assurances of an average Weld
per acre of winter wheat in the northern and
central divisions Of the State and over three.
fourths of an average yield per acre in the south
ern counties. About l0 per cent of the crop is
usually produced in the northern division, 40 per
cent. in the central, and so per cent in the
southern division.
Henry Wildman. of Piatt county, who muir
derei his wife on the Sd inst and then attempted
to take his own life by cutting his throat, is now
able to talk and is fast recovering. The talk of
lynchiug him has about died out and the pros
poets are that he will live to cost the county a
few thousand dollars in the way of trials. and he
is then more than likely to escape the gallows
on the emotional-insanitY dodge.
Hon o. P. Cooley, of the town of Ontario.
Knox county, the present supervisor of that
town and Representative from that county in
the Legislature, held the Office of town clerk of
his town sixteen years in succession. his last
term expiring April last. Mr.. B. s. West, the
present assessor of the town aforesaid has held
that Office in that town for twenty-five years ].
G.. Burt, highway commissioner of the same
town, has been in Office about twenty years