The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-03
ILLINOIS.


Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.
An organization has been formed to erect a
monument to Governor Yates, near Jacksonville.
A Geneseo farmer has been prosecuted by the
State Humane Society for saving off the horns
of his cattle.
VIM. Savers, forty years old and suffering from
i'll health, blew his brains out with shotgu at
Farmingdae.
Miss De Beebe, twenty-one years old, daughter
of Captain Beebe, dropped dead at Murphysbcro
of heart disease.
James Arid. sixty years DID, in driving across
q railroad track at Sandoval, was struck by a
train and killed He left considerable property.
James Elzaa, of Vera indicted for passing a
counterfeit $50 United States compound note at
Macon, was tried and acquitted In the United
States District Court.
Many farmers in Vermillion county have been
using their unstable corn for fuel, finding it not
only cheap and handy, but equal to coal or wood
in its heat-giviug properties.
An insane woman undergoing treatment at ST.
Mary's hospital, in Quincy, recently jumped to
the ground from window in the third story Of
the building, but WAS picked up uninjured.
Joseph Conroy, a miner working at Gartside's
mines. Murphysboro, was seriously and prob
ably fatally injured by the falling on him of
about three tons of coal and slate while drawing
pillar.
While plugging leak in the boiler of his loco
motive near Durand, escaping steam burned the
arm of Charles Stetson, an engineer on the St.
Paul road, so that the flesh was literally boiled
portion of it falling from the bone.
Decatur will soon be lighted by the JENNIE
Electriclght Company, of Fort Wayne, Ind
The plan adopted is to have both towers and
hanging lights The towers will be 125 feet high
The work will be completed by March l.
New veins of natural gas have been discovered
nd or IN MnT.o tn
The flow is said to be abundant, the pressure
reaching twenty pounds to the square inch,
and efforts are making to utilize it for fuel
The Iron molders' Union of Springfield has ex-
PEELED George T. Brown, ex memb Der Of the State
Board of Labor Statistics, for appropriating to
his own use the funds of the union, to the
amount of $l46 Browns Whereabouts are un-
known.
A meeting of the Illinois Association of Engi-
neers and Surveyors will be held at the Univer-
sity at Champaign on Feb. TO- A large attend
ance is expected from Illinois, and delegates from
the Indiana, Michigan and Ohio associations will
be present
A large aud powerful bald eagle. which has
been devastating the pig-pens and poultry yards
near Mount Vernon. was recently shot by a
farmer The bird measured more than seven
feet from tip to tip and, when killed, had a
young pig in its taons.
An old and well TODD resident Of Woodford
county has been placed in custody at Metanora
because of violent insanity, induced by religious
excitement. He recently sacrificed his property
to join band of holiness disciples. and the strain
upon his mind soon became so great as to un-
balance it.
An old soldier living at Lincoln Is suffering
keeply from the erratic movements of piece of
she'll which lodged in his breast during one of
the early engagements of the Rebellion. and which
has hitherto given him no Inconvenience In this
connection it may be said that a Mattoon man
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stuck in his shoulder more than twenty -two
wears ago.