The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-07
Brief Mention.

Brief Mention.
| Mrs. T. H. Hartman. of Champaign fractured
RIB during violent fit Of coughing.
| Henry Smith, a young man of Pleasant Plains
| Sangamon county, committed suicide at Ash
land. on Thursday night, by taking dose of
| poison.
| Rev. Miner T. Chew, pioneer preacher, died
| st Decatur, on Thursday, aged sixty-seven
years. He had built up and organized many
| new churches in the State.
Miss Emma Hesh, of Scotland township. Me-
| Donough county, stacked her fathers wheat
and oats this year Her work in that line is
said to be far superior to that of any man in the
| township.
A girl at DanvilIe. while crossing railway
bridge at Stony creek, saw train approaching
She jumped from the bridge 10 the ground q
distance of twenty five feet, and escaped with
sprained ankle.
A party of young men tried to get free ride
in q Quincy street car. They were put Of
whereupon they began to throw stones at the
car. The male passengers got out and gave the
roughs thrashing.
FAINT, died. on Thursday, while on her way from
Green Bay, Wis, to her home at Decatur.
Surprising her alive, the husband went up the
road to meet her, only to find her dead in the
car.
The dwelling of VIM. Sugg, three miles from
about II o'clock The FIRE originated from bad
lue. None of the household goods were saved.
Loss ST, 900; insured in the Rockford Insurance
Company for 500.
Miss Bertha Albright, talented and popular
young lady and teacher residing near Sadorus,
Champaign county, recently became violently
insane from overstudy. She was adjuGged to be
insane by the County Court, and was sent to the
| asylum at Kankakee.
On Thursday afternoon near Litch6eld. the
west-bound passenger train on the Illinois q st.
Louis road colded with a wagon and team
driven by Hardin Weatherford, who was hurled
| from the wagon, and very badly bruised. The
| wagon was demolished, but the horses escaped
injury.
The people about West Union, in Clarke coun-
ty, are greatly excited over the seduction OF a
young girl, the chief dependence for support of
an aged father and three crippled brothers and
sisters. The seducer Whose name is Robert
Pugh) has fled to escape the vengeance of his vic
| TINS neighbors.
Macomb family has a dog and baby. The
mother of the baby. Vaefle working in the yard
recently, heard her CHI crying in the house.
She did not go to it. and presently the dog came
trotting out to her with the baby In its mouth.
The dog always appears distressed when the
child is crying
The storm at Decatur, on Thursday evening,
damaged many buildings and stripped trees of
their fruit, while large trees and fields
were laid fat in many places One building was
partly wrecked, and the west wall of the new
English Lutheran Church blown in. One of the
electric light towers was bent partly over
Thomas Blaine. an employee of the Chicago,
Burlington g. Quincy Railroad Company, was
run over by the cars at Mendoza, on Thursday
night and injured so severely that he died sew
eral hours afterward. Blaine is the seventh or
eighth man who has been killed by the old
switch engine that the company has in the rail-
road yard at that place.
The Mason and Tazewell county drainage dis
trlct canal is now completed. 1t is seventeen
miles In length. from thirty 90 sixty feet wide.
and ten feet deep 1t has taken little over
three years TO complete this important work. and
about sixty thousand acres of land that was snb-
merged by water most of the year, and was
worthless, will now be productive. Twelve
thousand acres of this land have already been
broken, and will be sown in wheat this fall.
The cost of this great work was $500, 00O.
The Grand Lodge of Colored Odd fellows
closed three days annual session at Peoria
with a banquet on Thursday night The officers
elected for the year are Thomas Belt, of Chi
cago, grand master; Jacob Alnas, of Cairo,
deputy grand MASTER j. G. Buckner, of Chicago,
grand secretary; j. E. Hutchinson, of East St.
Louis, grand treasurer: e. w. Trice, OF Mound
City, grand director The order numbers two
thousand members and is hourishing The
Grand Lodge will meet Eext year at Evanston.
which there has been so mich trouble. has at
last broken into the courtsw An injunction has
been issued restraining the board of supervisors
from drawing orders on the treasury of the coun-
ty for the of $50. 900. any part of the
sum, payable in the future and with interest,
with which to pay for raise money to pay for
the new building. They are also restrained from
appropriating any money now in the treasury,
or anticipating the tax levy for 1886, for the
same purpose.