The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

Mount Pulaski will, celebrate its fiftieth ami
versary on Sept TO-
Lexington is SO overrun with rats thatit is pro-
| posed to set day for public rat hunt
| j, w. Harrington, of Bloomfield, recently a
| grocer in that place, has disappeared, after
borrowing fully $4,000. He is supposed to be in
Canada
Thomas Mcbride, ST., an old settler of Kane
county, and quite wealthy, was married on
| Tuesday to his housekeeper, Mrs l.. w. Nun
| son. He is eighty one years old and she fifty
| five.
| On Tuesday tho two-year- old daughter of
| James DIAL of Dodds township, Jefferson county
was found in small goose pond, dead. A COR
| oper's jury returned q verdict of accidental
| drowning
The Country Week. an association of St
Louis for taking of poor children, sent
thirteen boys and fifteen girls to Centrala on
Tuesday to get the benefit of Illinois fresh air.
The children were distributed around among
Christian families and will make sojourn there
OF two weeks
Aaron Karr, member of the Bloomin gton
bar, was adjudged insane on Tuesday, and was
taken to the asylum at Jacksonville yesterday.
His insanity is the result OF overwork Mr.
Karr was one of the professors of the Blooming
ton Law School. and, as an attorney, his reputa-
ton extends beyond the limits of the State.
Wenona Index While work. men were engaged
In digging a well for E. L. Gould, at Spring
Nalloy last week. Ln6y IounO some almost pure
copper ore about thirteen feet from the surface.
From indications there seemed to be a vein of
it, but account Of the water coming into
the we'll very fast no extended investigation was
made.
Rev T. c. Clendening of the Central Illinois
Conference, in charge of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church at Kankakee, has accepted a call to
one of the leading M. E. churches of Omaha,
and will unite with the North Nebraska Confer
ence soon as he closes his pastoral relations
l1of Al ry1of 0lar h1A nn%
Through information from the conductor of the
east-bound Indianapolis and st. Lonis accommo-
dation train on Tuesday night, two young men
giving their names as William Taylor and Cal
Collocan were arrested in box car at Pana
having in their possession over 100 counterfeit
coins of the issue of 1884 They were taken to
Springfield by the United States marshal.
Fire at Chensa late on Tuesday night, de-
stroyel the stores of VIM. Gayman, dry goods
and groceries; John E. Wightman, hardware,
crockery and glassware; the building occupied by
Brumm d Ballenger, agricultural implements;
Snyder's block, occupied by j. S. Kelly g. Co.;
the Farmers bank, the Masons and j. E. Oshl's
drug store. Total loss, $75. 900; insurance, $11,
700.
The infant child of Mrs. James Cahill was
burned to death at Danville, on Tuesday The
mother working in field some distance
from the house, when she heard her two boys,
aged five and three years, calling her, and look
ing up. saw the house on fire. She ran with all
possible speed and made a dash for the room in
which she had left her child, but could not find
it account of the dense smoke and flames.
While in the room her clothing and hair caught
fire and was almost burned off her body before
help arrived. She severely burned about the
face neck and arms, and will probably not re-
cover. The child was only three months old.