Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-16
ILLINOIS NEWS.

ILLINOIS NEWS.
THE free postal, delivery at Rockford
will go into effect Oct. !.
THE full strength of the Illinois Ma
tionai Guard is $500 men, Ea-sseE
The total assessed valuation of railway
property in Cook county is sc, 064, 1861.
w. L. Soorr, of Cairo, has been elect
ed Grand Master OF the Odd Fellows Of
Illinois.
MCLEAN county has seven moro than
her quota in tho Insane Asylum at
Jacksonville. u E,g&.. W n a. q
THE new electric light system will be
in operation in Rock Island about the
1st of October.
ROCKFORD has a saloon. keeper who
never tasted a. drop of Intoxicating
liquor in his life.
JOHN MCMAHON, the oldest conductor
on the Vandalia road, killed himself with
pistol in st. Louis.
TIE Jacksonyiiie Journal estimates
that 500 of the residents Of jacksonville
are absent at summer resorts. q -
WILLIAM F. GREENWOOD, Of Flora,
Clay county, was asphyxiated by coal
gas in his room at the Washington Hotel,
Chicago.
CONSIDERABLE building is going on in
different parts of tie city OF Quincy,
and the residences which are being
erected are all nice ones. -. tf4
THE sales OF stamp, at the Chicago
postoffice for the month OF July amount
ed to $140, 992. Over $525, 900 was paid
out in cashing money orders.A a b =.
The Illinois Asylum for Feeble
Minded Children, at Bloomington, has
done good work during the year, shell
teriug and treining 353 pnpils.
WILLIAM PARKS. residing at No. 100
Wright street, Chicago, dispersed gang
of roughs who surrounded his house by
putting bullet in the brain of Frank
TLornton. .4-
AN old citizen Of Seward, Winnebago
county, has at the present time sixty
two fall swarms Of bees, and five nuclei.
Some days the bees have made $25
worth of honey.
SEVERAL months ago triplets were
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Summer, Of
Springfield. One of the number died
soon afterward, ana now, the parents are
called upon TO mourn the death of the
other two. tiistiL A3A1 (. kE LBtf
PRoF. SELAH WAIT, deaf and dumb,
and for thirty three years connected with
the deaf and dumb institution at Jack
sonville, died recently, on the farm Of
his son, near Lincoln, Neb., where lie
was visiting.
A GOOD deal of uneasiness has been
occasiuned among the farmers near
Quincy. owing Ito the Development Of
what seems to be viruient and fatal dis
case among cattle. Twenty-four head
out of one herd died in twelve hours.
NELSON LOGAN, O wel'-known farmer
in the south part of Mclean county,
was terribly lacerated and had the scalp
torn from his head by O barb-wire fence.
His horses being on wild run he was
thrown ON Il o barb wire head foremost.
DAN DE CAMP, If Edinburg, Christian
county, lost a very valuable running
mare by death, the other day. She was
a registered thoroughbred, and q year
or two ago Mr.. De Camp was offered
$4,000 for her in Kentucky, which he
refused.
The advertised promise Of divorce
proceeding in the Scoville family has
been fulfilled by filing a bill in the Cir
cult Court of Chicago The suit is at
the instance of the wife, Frances NJ.
Scoville, nee Guiteau, and she charges
her husband with cruslty.
A CRANK called on Justice in East
st. Louis, claiming protection from inn.
aginary pursuers. He said they had
driven him from Atchison, Kansas City
and other places, and that everywhere
people jeered at him, some pointing him
out as the Yelled Prophet, others as
Arab Pasha, and 80 on. ~ I h ! ~ -
THE great growth of trees on the
streets and residence lots in various
parts of the city of Rockford has pro-
duced so much shade that lot owners
have found it necessary to remove q
great many to let in light and fresh air.
In numerous instances handsome maple
and elm trees four and five inches
through have been cut out.
DURING the eighteen months ending
with July there were about $500 cases
Of small pox in Chicago, of which I 1858
proved fatal. The disease has been al
most wholly stamped out, there being
but half dozen cases in the pest house
at the present time, Il has cost the city
about $3.50, 900 toexterminate the dread
cd pest, of which sum S66. $50 was ex-
pended for vaccine virus alone.
FLORENCE, an l1,year-oh daughter Of
George Beauchamp, and Florence, d 10.
year-old daughter of Exc Wilday, were
playing on the premises of Benjamin
Wilday, pear Meredosia, the first-pamed
little gih fell into avail abeut thirty
feet deep, the water twelve feet from the
surface. Without giving the alarm, lit
tie Florence Wilday quickly lowered the
well-bucket, and, with O careful jand
steady turn Of the windlass, rescued her
playmate.
The roads running east from Chicago
have resolved that after Sept. fthey will
levy an extra charge of 81 per Car
against all grain loaded at elevators OF
grain warehouses in Chicago for ship
nient eastward. They will also decline
10 furnish men for loading freight at th,
packing houses Of the Union Stock
Yards or Bridgeport, or at any private
sidings in and around. =, Chicago. Noi
will they bear the expense Of loading