The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-10
Brief Mention.

The State temperance camp meeting com
mences at Eureka, to-day.
Pennington has sixty-three widows, and there
is not grass widow among them.
Two more victims of the Couterville picnic
poisoning are dead and four others beyond
recovery
A mad dog was killed on Main street, Peoria
on Thursday, but not before it had bitten three
young men.
The Paris district of the Y. NJ G. A. will hold
their annual conference at Grandview on Satur-
day and Sunday
At Greenville, on Thursday, Miss Ada North
colt, of Clarksburg, WA, visiting her brother,
Attorney Northcott, died suddenly.
Newton Misenhimer, for many years agent of
the Illinois Central Railroad at Anna died on
Thursday at Makanda, after lingering illness.
The Forest City Band, of Rockford, was mus
tered into the service of the National Guard of
Illinois, Thursday and will go to the Springfield
camp with the Third Regiment.
Bryan Kelly, a miner in the coal shaft at Litch-
field, was crushed by the fall of fifty-pound
rock. His recovery is doubtful. He is aged
thirty five years and a man Of family.
The Lestourgeon brothers, dairymen of Cen
tralia, have been arrested for brutal and cruel
treatment of an orphan boy In their service who
was placed with them by New York associa-
ton.
The belfry of church in Paxton has been in
habited by vast number of bees for three sea-
sons 1t is now full of honey. Six large swarms
of bees left the belfry IN single day during the
present week.
An old man in Danville applied for marriage
license for his daughter. He did not know how
old she was, but the record in the family Bible
showed that she was only thirteen years of age
The license was not granted.
By the explosion of boiler at the Streator
tile works, Thursday morning, Henry Bruner
was instantly killed and Jabez and Robert Nor
rison were injured. The failure of the pump to
work left the boiler without water.
A camp meeting will be held ut Clinton be-
ginning July % and ending August 2, upder the
auspices of the NJ. E. Church, and in charge Of
the evangelist, Rev. Thomas Harrison. Minis
tiers from all parts of the State will be present.
On the Eagle bottom of the Vermont river
about four miles from Danville, is mound,
probably one hundred feet high. On the sum-
nit three persons buried--a man, woman
and child. They were buried there in 1886,
fifty years ago.
An employe of VIM Hoyle, professional hay
maker, set fire to nest OF humble bees in the
| field near Pana on Thursday, and exterminated
the bees, together with the hay-rick stacker and
part of the meadow. The fire was extinguished
with great difficulty.
| At the meeting Of the Commissioners of the
| Southern Illinois Penitentlary at Chester yes
| terday the Rev. Thomas NJ Griffith, a BAPTIST
minister of Efingham, was appointed chaplain TO
fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
| the Rev. I. T. Houts. This change from
! Metnodism.
| BLOOMINGTON Leader: Judge and Mrs Benja-
min are at Valatia, N. Y, where they have been
| for several days When they arrived there for
hurried visit. incidental to their Eastern tour,
| the Judge found his brother-in-law at the point
of death. His symptoms are growing more ia
vorable and they will probably be able to pro-
coed on their journey.
| Farmer Jones, living near Macomb, says that
he and several other men cut down coon tree
| and found seven coons in it. One of the coons
| gave battle to dog which was in the party. II
succeeded in getting the dog into creek near
| by and would have drowned il if the men had
| not come TO the dogs rescue.
The English sparrows and pigeons have be-
] come SO numerous at the Salem courthouse
that the authorities have declared them nui-