The Indianapolis journal., 1889-11-22

A. building on the site of Col. Robert g.
IngersOlPs former residence
The One-hundred-and-t Illi-
nOis Volunteer Infantry held a reunion at
Pontiac, on Wednesday. many veterans
participating in the interesting exercises.
THE Citizens Gas-light and Heating Com
pany OF Bloomington, yesterday awarded
S30, 900 contract to the Westinghouse Elec-
tric-light Company of Pittsburg, to put in
an electric plant
Thomas Knobeloch, one of the oldest and
wealthiest citizens of ST. Clair county.
was killed. He was seventy-three years old,
and was worth 100000.
A vein of galena. assaying S. per cent.
has been discovered south of MattOOn. 1t
is within one foot of the surface. and has
been traced several rods in length and one
rod wide. The vein is about eighteen inches
thick.
freight train collided with a construc-
tiOn train on the Cincinnati, st. Louis, In
dianapolis & Chicago railway, east of Dan
vile, Wednesday morning at IL o'clock.
Engineer RecO rd, of MattoOn, suffered a
broken leg.
Joseph Rettick. brakeman on the Rock
Island & Peoria railroad, was killed near
Keller Station. He was the front brake
man. and fell between the for ward car and
the tender. Seventeen cars passed over
him. He lived at Rock Island.
Father Daniel j. Ryan, pastor of st. Jo-
seph's Catholic Church. of Springfield. is
mysteriously missing. The last known of
him was when he boarded a Chicago 81 Al
ton train at sherman, a few miles from
there. The fear Is expressed that he has
become insane.
The Mount Pulaski dynamite sensation
turns out to have been q very stupid and
probably fatal practical joke. There was
10 explosion. and the supposed dynamite
MI du or hnf ha oiUi,f nf 4 fbo
chine and the belief that an attempt was
made to murder her husband Frustrated
Mrs. Renner. and it is believed she will die.
The camps of Modern Woodmen of Amer
lea, of Rock Island county. held a conven-
tion at Rock Island, on Wednesday, and
OppOinted a committee to formulate call,
to be addressed to the various camps of
the order in the county, for meeting of
the head camp at Peoria. Dec. IL, TO in
vestigate the finances of the order and the
alleged frauds in the head consuPs Office.
About fifty delegate farmers from the
twenty clubs in the northern part of Illi-
nOis met at Decatur in convention, Wednes-
day, and organized the Illinois Farmers
Alliance. A. +. Brunson. of LaSalle coun-
ty, was elected president; w. N. Bowers OF
Champaign, vice-president; s. A. Kirkpat-
rick, of Champaign, secretary, and John
The delegates to the national convention,
to be held at ST. LOuis. Dec g. are A. j.
Streeter, s. A. Kirkpatrick and w. n. Bow.
ers.
Cantons of Patriarchs Militant of the
Department of Illinois, /. o. o. F., from
Chicago. Danville. Litchield Fairfield
Monticello, Marshall, Champaign, Gales
burg and Peoria paraded at Springfield
Wednesday, and participated in q grand
prize-drill. Canton Excelsior, No. /, OF
Chicago. won the. first prize Of So in gold
in Class A, and Colonel c. c. Crabb, com
manding the winning canton, won q priz,
sword. Canton Decatur, No. 10, took the
first prize in Glass b, and Chevalier Archer
ID. Simpson, of Canton Occidental. Chi
cago, was the winner of the individual
drill.
One thousand grand representatives ani
past-grand representatives attended tht
opening session of the Odd-fell0ws' Crane
Lodge of Illinois, in Springfield. The fol
lowing officers were elected: Grand master
John l.. Barnum. of Chicago; deputy grant
master. r. ). w. Wheatley. of Duquoin
grand warden, NJ. w. Schafer. of Belleville
grand secretary, George Adams. of Bloom
ington: grand treasurer, Thomas B. Needles
of Nashville; grand representative, A. Oren
dorfi. of Springfield. An offer of forty acre
of land and the sum of 5000 in cash fo
the location of the proposed Odd-fellows
Orphan Home in Lincoln was received
from the lodges In that city. The Gran,
Lodge donated over $500 to the propose,
home.