The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-03
Brief Mention.

George Dugan. an old Indian trader, and res
ident of Kankakee since 1887, died on Saturday.
| The Menard Coal Company, last Saturday.
/ struck a six-foot vein of coal at depth Of l02
| feet
| The Second Brigade of Illinois militia went
into camp at Springfield yesterday Among the
| troops is the Chicago Light Infantry, coored.
| On Sunday evening John Hoffman, Quincy
nickelplater. swallowed two ounces of carbolic
acid, with suicidal intent, and died in an hour
| and half.
suit for S., 600 for alleged defamation of
character has been brought against DR.. Rauch,
secretary of the State Board of Health, by DR..
G. G. Gum, of Rockford
| Conrad Wessner, alias Wisemau, who was in
| Jail at Galena, charged with killing his child,
was found dead in his cell on Saturday He had
refused to partake of any food and starved to
death.
The total internal revenue collections in the
Fifth collection district for the month of July
were 81, 102. 564. Ninety thousand nine hundred
and sixty-eight gallons were shipped. The col
lections $4,000 greater than for the CORE
spending month last year.
At Urbaua on Sunday, Isaac Roe left his team
for moment with his fve-year-old in the
wagon. when it ran away, and, dashing against
post threw the little fellow long distance. in
iicting injuries from which he will probably die.
One of the horses was killed
While Mrs John e. Allan and her son, of
| Springfield were out driving, on Sunday after
| noon, the horse took fright and ran away, over
| turning the buggy and throwing the occupants
| to the ground with great force. The boy was
comparatively uuinjured, but Mrs. Allen received
| fatal injuries.
Tramps should be chary about sleeping in cars
| loaded with lumber. On Saturday, Bohemian,
named Joseph Suburban, crawled into ore
| standing on a sldetrack, near Chatham, and
went to sleep A few hours later switchengIne
| bumped another car against it with such force
as to scatter the boards over the sleeping tramp
and as a consequence he had both legs crushed
| Charles Durham, ST.. died at Geneseo, on Sun
/ day, aged ninety years. He was formerly o
member of the Massachusetts Legislature, but
| had resided in Illinois since 1853, and was the
/ father of Hon. Charles Durham, former mem
| Der of the State Legislature and for several
years the Illinois member of the Democratic
| national committee, and Joseph L. Durham, the
present postmaster at Geneseo
/ Efingham ladies have organized an Audubon
| Society. which has for its object the cultivation
| of public sentiment that will protect the wild
| native birds from indiscriminate destruction.
The most stringent regulation of the society is a
| rule that forbids any member wearing bird orna-
ments as trimming for hats. The line Is drawn
at feathers. All the leading ladies of the city
have joined the society and public sentiment is
! awakened.
Samuel Powers, an infantile Jesse James, was
| arrested at Bridgeport, on Saturday night. with
came West last spring, with lot of boys, from
the New York city Juvenile asylum, and has
| since been living with Joseph Ford, near Flat
| Rock, from whom he stole the horses and wagon
When asked what he intended to do with them
he said that he going to drive to New York
| and start in business for himself.
The strike in the coal mines at Grape Creek
has cost the strikers 800 900, and has ruined the
| business of the village. Most of the single men
among the strikers have gone away, and only
200 married ones and their families remain
These may hold out till cold weather. The com
| pany will not re-employ them, and claims te
have 100 men in the mines. From FIVE to fifteen
negroes arrive every other day. and several go
away, but there is satisfactory gain. The
strikers made from $l2 to $50 per week at &c
cents a ton, and the imported negroes work by
the day at from ST. % to So %. Only one mine
had been running up to Saturday, when another
one started up.
The little village of Lawrenceville, Lawrence
county, is without government, and it came
| about In this way. The village trustees met, q
| short time ago, and, after allowing all claims
passed motion giving the people inside the cor
porate limits the privilege of voting the prop
| osition to whether saloons should be licensed
| or not, the board standing four against saloons
/ to two for them. The matter had previously
been agitated by some of the business men, who
claimed that under the present state of affairs
no revenue Was obtained; but, when the action
of the board became known it raised such q
| storm of indignation that another meeting OF
the board was called q few days later, DIT which
the proposition was rescinded, and FIVE of the
/ six trustees rendered their designations to take
effect immediately, leaving only the village clerk
| and one trustee to run the affairs OF state No
tees have been posted for an election to fill the
| vacancies on Thursday. and the prospect is thai
| the anti-license faction will carry the day.
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