The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
ILLINOIS.
Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.

Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.
Two yearling colts at Mclean weigh j, 1l5
pounds and l,070 pounds respectively.
| Silas Ray. who killed John Webb near Iuka.
| In April, and escaped, has been recaptured.
| The. citizens of Mount Vernon have raised
ST. GOO to continue the work of boring for coal at
that place.
Andrew Jackson, a farmer, of Padua, has in
herted fortune of $50, 900 left him by an uncle
in Missouri.
Rev o. NJ Todd. the pastor of the Presbyte-
rian Church at Tuscola, WHO was recently bitten
by rattlesnake, now lies in dangerous condl-
ton.
The streets of Litchfieh will be lighted with
electricity. the City Council having made con-
tract to that effect. The plant will cost about
$12, 900.
| James Mahan. aged seventy years. old and
respected citizen of Kinmundy, committed sui
eide, on Wednesday, by taking dose OF tincture
of aconite.
| g. p. Waldo, general merchant at Phio, was
closed on Wednesday upon Judgment for
| $1,000 Waldo's liabilities are 81, 900 or so, 00O;
assets half as much.
A seven-year-old son of J. d. Chambers. of
! Oconee, seriously and perhaps fatally
wounded, on Wednesday afternoon, by being &C
cidentally shot by another boy.
The twenty-first annual reunion of the surviv-
I ing members of the One hundred and twelfth
| Regiment Illinois Volunteers will be held at
Wyoming, Stark county, Aug 24
| Peter Graft a merchant of Metropolis, who
| talked indiscreety about young lady employed
| as a telegraph operator at that place, was Sc
verely cowhided by her Wednesday. She
was assisted by friend, who was arrested and
| fined $40.
| An ex-slave reunion will be held under the
auspices of the A. NJ Z. Church of Joliet, at the
| fairgrounds, on Wednesday, Aug A. The fol
ill - lsrhA
| Turner, of Atlanta Ca: Bishop j. M. Brown, of
| Washington d. c.. Rev. T. N. Henderson. of
| Chicago, Ill.,, and Hon. A. Clark of Chicago, Ill.
On Wednesday the executive committee of the
10 Daviess County. Soldiers and Sailors Associa-
| ton changed the dates of their next annual re-
union in this city to Thursday and Friday, Sept.
| and g. About $50 veterans of the old Ninety
sixth Illinois will be there accompanied by Gov
ernor Oglesby Senator Cullom and Lieutenant
| Governor j. c. Smith Generals Sherman and
Logan are expected to come
memorial service in honor of David Davis
will be held in the First Presbyterian Church of
Bloomington on Sunday Judge Davis attended
the church for nearly fifty years. the time of his
| residence there, and the church and pastor wish
| to pay fitting tribute to his memory. The
| family and many of the public men have been
| consulted, in order that material might be OBJ
| tanned suitable to the occasion.
| Miss Amelia Brown, of Pinckneyville, was
rendered farewell reception at that place
| Wednesday previous TO ner departure TOT IOr-
| eign lands as a missionary She graduated at
| the Southern Illinois University last winter and
has consecrated her life to the missionary cause.
| She will leave the last of the present month for
| New York, and from their sail for Egypt to re-
main for ten years before again visiting this
| country
| An attempt was made on Wednesday to burn
| a long treste on the Airline railroad between
| Wayne City and Sims. A large quantity of old
slaves, brush, logs and shavings had beer piled
against the treste, and was burning fiercely just
| as passenger train approached, but active work
on the part of the train men and passengers soon
extingushed the flames. The road has incurred
| the hostility Of many farmers in that section by
the Wholesale slaughter of stock, payment for
which has long been delayed.
| At the annual session of the Grand Lodge of
| Improved Order of Red Men, held at Rockford,
| on Wednesday, the following officers
| elected: Great sachem, David Turkenkopf, of
Rockford; great senior sycamore, l.. Quick, of
| Marshall; great junior sycamore /. Lederer, of
| Bloomington great chief OF records, l. A. Helm
man, of Bloomington; great keeper OF the wam-
pum F. nj. Taylor, of Kansas; great prophet. j.
| G. La Franz, OF Rock Island The newly
elected sachem filled the appointive Offices as
follows Great sanap. A. H.. Bsaddish, of Chi
cago great mishinewa, s. L. Condo. of Rock
| ford: great guard of the wigwam, John Harden,
| of Charleston; great guard of the forest, Eli
/ Oettenger, OF Freeport