The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-24
Brief Mention.

Thursday, was struck on the head by piece Of
timber. and nearly killed
Eulberg q Sons brewery and adjoining
dwelling burned. on Thursday, at Galena. Loss,
So, 600; insurance, $500
George Hoefiin. aged fifteen, SON of Rev. Mr..
Hoefflin, was accidentally drowned in the river
near Kankakee on Thursday.
Near Elpaso, on Thursday, George Murphy
accidentally shot the right eye ont of his little
eightyear old boy and filed his face full of shot
On Wednesday night Harrison, the boy
Preacher. delivered the first of series OF re-
vival sermons in Clinton to q very large audi
ence.
On Wednesday night the Baptist Church of
Taylorville extended a unanimous call to hev
A. j. Young, of Westyille Ind, to become their
pastor.
John Schuster, ST., a prominent citizen and
well-known politician of Clinton county, died at
his residence in Trenton, Thursday, of
apoplexy
G. Newton Melvin. of Bushnell, charged with
counterfeting, was held by the United States
commissioner at Springfield on Thursday under
81, 900 bond.
In quarrel at Springfield, on Thursday, be-
tween William P Thomas lcolored) and George
Madison, Thomas stabbed Madison in the abdo-
men, infiicting dangerous wound.
Entries for the summer meeting of the LaSalle
Driving Park Association. commencing Tues
the list The purses aggregate S., 8OO
Lizzie Bohlander, sixteen years of age, teacher
of kindergarten school at Pekin. mas mys-
teriously disappeared. She left home on Tues
day morning and has not been seen since.
On Thursday evening at Centralia. a lodge of
Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen was organ
lied, with E. S. Meyers as past master; w. G..
Hart, MASTER and F. NJ Wiley, secretary.
At Robinson Creek Mrs Henry Bozart was
U a hnr lad a
bank, but, singular to relate. no bones were
broken, and the bruises she received are not Sc
rious.
Joseph w. Knowles. an old resident of Wheat
on, died at the residence of his son, Fred +.
Knowles, on Thursday. aged seventy-one years.
He was one of the earliest settlers Of DuPage
county.
A large grain elevator at East Dubuque.
owned by the Illinois Central and used by the
Diamond 10 Steamboat line, was destroyed by
fire on Thursday evening. The loss is about
$45, 600
J. c. Knecht's hardware store at Shelbyville,
was broken into on Wednesday night and robbed
Of sixteen, was arrested for the offense at East
ST. Louis.
John Kahl, of Cincinnati, jumped off an l., B.
d w. passenger train while it was running at
considerable speed. at Danville Junction on
Thursday, and fell under the wheels. Both of
his legs were crushed
The will of the late Hon. Washington Cookie
was admitted to probate at Peoria on Thursday.
His widow, Mrs. Cookie, is appointed sole exec
utrix without bonds. and all the property is left
to her by the will, which was made in 1875.
A number of horse thieves from Wyoming
reached the Joliet prison on Thursday. Among
them was Bad Belly Crow Indian chief
whose squaw offered the Wyoming sheriff eighty
head of ponies as bride to permit him to escape.
On Thursday. Winnie. the twelve-year old
daughter of D. Ell. Sanford of Hazel DELL Cum
berland county. was shot by her fve-year old
brother. who was playing with gun. The ball
passed through the abdomen, inficting a fatal
wound.
The miners In the employ of the Citizens
Coal Company, at Lincoln, are on a strike
against reduction of II cents. The miners
have been receiving GIL cents and when the
company cut the wages to go cents the men went
out. Eighty miners are now idle
Mrs. John Andrews, of Browning, aged seven
ty-nne years. was caught on bridge by freight
train. on Thursday morning, and instantly
killed. The old lady was walking across the
bridge to save the price of her fare to Astoria,
fifteen cents, when she lost her life.
A Sunday-school institute, under the direction
of the Sunday school Association, of the Second
district of the Bloomington Presbytery will be
held in the Presbyterian Church at Urbana. be-
ginning on next Wednesday evening num-
Der of eminent divines will take part in the ex-
ercises.
Charles Kinney. aged forty-ive years, en-
ployed in Ulrick's elevator at Bates, Sangamon
county, had his clothing caught by shaft max
ing speed of 400 revolutions per minute. He
was carried around it and wedged in between the
shaft and the ceiling, and when the machinery
was stopped it was found that his left arm was
torn off at the elbow and two fingers torn off his
right hand. He was otherwise injured, and will
probably die.
Thomas Golden, for many years an Illinois
Central hagman at one of the crossings in Ga
lena, has robin which he caught several
months ago. and which he has taught a number
of tricks. Among other things, he has taught it
to hold up diminutive flag at the crossing when
trains are approaching. The robin walks out
of the ffag-h house with martial step, and as the
train nears the crossing it waves its little flag in
exact imitation of Mr.. Golden The bird makes
no attempt to leave its owner at any time, but
follows him around when he is at work.
William Smith. c. d. Waller and William
Medley. of Pana, men of families and old citi-
zens, started together in a one-horse spring
wagon early on Thursday morning to spend the
day in the woods backberrying. Before they
had gone a mile the horse, frightened by the
rattle of the empty tin buckets, dashed madly to
the side Of the road, between tree and the
fence. throwing the three men violently TO the
earth inssasible Walters collar bone is
broken with otn;>r injuries; Neeley was badly
hurt and Smith lies az home in critical condi-
ton, with internal and persaps fatal injuries.