August 1886 - May 1891 - Mining More in Moweaqua

mourn his loss. His son is a cadet at West Point, the daughter is the wife of Paymaster Tucker inthe US Anny.Marriage announced of Miss Lillie Miller to Mr Lon Milligan are out. Marriage will take placeat the bride's parents home, Mr and Mrs Ezra M Miller in Assumption. She is the niece of W CMiller of this city. Marriage: Married Thursday evening last (6 Jan 1887 has write up). He isthe son of J R Milligan. The couple will reside in the Rowly property, east side.Daughter born on Christmas Day to C W TaUman and wife.W B Scarlette of Clinton, a brakeman for the Central and wife had a new little son born to themlast Thursday. 'Barney' as he is known, stop in and see the Muweacpia Call when you comedown.John T Johnston of Lenora, Kansas, is visiting friends and family, as is E E Potter from Kinvin,Kansas; Jos Duncan from Akron, Colorado; and Miss Hannah Edwards of Wichita, Kansas, whoformerly made her home with the J G Stewart's family.Joseph Hackenburg died at his home near Assumption last Friday. Funeral services were heldSunday with interment in Taylorville. He was an old settler of this area.Levi Casey has removed his family to Assumption where he will make his home.Infant child of Mr and Mrs Wm Gensler died Thursday night and was buried on Friday.On Christmas morning, Charles Harrah, a hard case, and Will Allison came to Macon onhorseback. As they rode into town, Lon and 0th Hill, brothers, hallooed to them. The twohorsemen replied, one word brought on another and a general fight ensured. Harrah drew aknife and began cutting right and left with Lon Hill being fiighthlly slashed, and it is thought hiswound will prove fatal. 0th Hill was also severely cut and otherwise injured. Harrah was alsoroughly handled and badly beaten, his face bearing evidence of a severe chastisement at the handsof the Hills. He is a bad egg, and if reports be true, he is an excellent subject for admission intothe Joliet institution. Sometime ago he raised a disturbance in Decatur. His arrest was attemptedby Policeman Wilkinson, whom he stabbed twice, inflicting a wound just above and below theheart, which would have resulted in murder had it not been for the thick clothing the officer wore.Harrah was liberated upon giving bond in the sum of $1,000 to await the action of a grand jury.Jas Johnson is a horse buyer for Ross Ward of Shelbyville. Last Friday, Ward gave Johnson$520 and started him to Ramsey to buy some horses. At Pana he got to drinking and was inducedto engage in a game of poker in a gambling den over Pat Coudy's saloon. He was drugged androbbed of the amount of money above named. Mr Ward was notified by wire of Johnson's fateand at once went to Pana where he found Johnson in an unconscious condition. Johnson wasremoved to Shelbyville and up to Tuesday night he had not regained his reason. The doseadministered by the gamblers proved almost fatal. The men who committed the crime arethoroughly convinced that Ward can't be bull-dozed. We could more minutely detail the affairbut have sworn secrecy.Prof (?) J L Boyles, the blind lecturer and temperance agitator, who was here last week provedto be a dead beat and thief He did this institution up for $9.50. He jumped his board bill andcarried off a lot of goods he had secured from J A Hilsabeck and for which he was to pay as hesold them. He is accompanied in his peregrinations by a kid and a dandy dude named 'Dodgers'.They are a trio of thieves.