The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-03-31
ILLINOIS.

TO the grand jury at Alton for beating
her hotel bill at the Hotel Madison in
that place.
Emil Smith was so grieved at his dis
charge as engineer of the Peoria house
ut Peoria that he committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head.
George Hill and Edward Reed evil
IDENTIFY were on the warpath, for when
the Peoria police searched them they
were found to have about twenty-five
knives and three razors, all of'which
| were stolen.
Coroner Hoefer of Peoria has been
SO busy the last few days that several
Justices of the peace have had to assist
him in his work.
| George Heilman, the school treasurer
of Carroll township near Indianola,
has left his home with $1,000 of the
school funds
Charles Eisenbcrg, n saloonkeeper
who lives "a mile east of Upper Alton,
awoke at midnight and found two
burglars in his room. When he tried
to enter into conversation with his
guests they shot him under the eye
and departed.
At a meeting of the directors the
Springfield Gaslight company offered
to reduce the price of gas from 81. 80 to
81 a thousand. The Springfield coun-
Gil was entertaining plan to build a
municipal electric light plant, and
this inundated the gas people, whose
eyes suffer under electric light
No halfway work can be used to
kill John Sullivan, n tramp who was
nearly bisected by buzz saw near
Quincy. One of his lungs was
badly cut several ribs sawed in two
and his brain lacerated. u slit being
cut in the skull, but nevertheless the
undertaken failed to get job. john
Sullivan has recovered.
Suit has been commenced to break
the will of Herman Moeckler, late of
Quincy. He disinherited all of his
children, leaving his estate to his wife,
the stepmother of the children.
Burglars are doing" Alton. At
Middleton, near Alton, dogs have been
poisoned by the wholesale, ostensibly
to make burglary easier.
George Colburn, an engineer in the
yards of the Rock Island road at Rock
Island, has n bad adopted son. He
gave the boy check for $74 to have
cashed for him. The boy did what his
father told him, and in addition ran
away with the money. He was ar
rested at Peoria and taken home.
Officer Damn of Peoria, who shot
and killed Jack Whitaker while re-
sisting arrest, was acquitted by the
jury in the case.
Two men tried to rob the bank and
general store of Reynolds Brothers at
Smithfield, near Peoria, but were dis
covered and escaped.
Gerd Gerdis, aged 7s years, of Jack
sonville cut his throat with n penknife
and thus ended his life.
Mat Martins Uranium was tested
with rock by man named Sparrow.
Serious injury resulted to Mr.. Martins
head. 1t has now developed that
there is II whole nest of such birds as
Sparrow, who assemble in Rockford
shanty. calling themselves the Colim-
bian club, their object being kept a
secret.
Trouble is likely to arise at Belvi-
dere. j. A. Windsor of the National
Sewing Machine company is canvass
ing Rockford for the purpose of get
ting men to take the place of striking
mechanics in the sewing machine fac
tory.
During the past year the Springfield
police have made over 4, 900 arrests.
Uncoolted summer sausage is play
ing havoc with the family of Herman
Thurow, living five miles southwest of
Plano. Six persons are dying from the
effects of eating the meat
Isaac Martins baby boy drank con,
centrated I've at Shelbyville and died
in great agony.
Sterling has passed an ordinance for
bidding BARRIERS to open their shops on
Sunday.
In a gasoline explosion at the resi-
dence of Jay Westfall at Belvidere
Mrs. Westfall was fatally burned and
Mrs. b. Manly, Miss Grace Barber,
Mrs. j. w. Lightner and 6-months-
old child of Mrs. Westfall were seri-
ously injured. ~
Members of the Rockford Garrison
of the knights of the Globe are OBJ
jecting to the action of minority
who held meeting and decided that
the local order should secede from the
Supreme Council of the lodge.
Damages have been awarded Mrs. M.
Beasley and William Mcguire in their
suit against Champaign for offensive
sewage.
Camp 81 ut Rockford won the 500
prize offered by the Order of Modern
Woodmen of America to the lodge TAX
ing in the largest number of members
during November, December and Janu-
airy. One hundred and thirty-eight
members were enrolled.
In Peoria shooting ARRAY Tom
Sloan was seriously wounded by mau
named Butler. His condition is con.
sidered critical
Owners of nickel-in-t he-slot ma
chimes in Belvidere, scared by the re-
cent Freeport police raid, have slowed
them away out of sight.
John Coburn, Springfield man, adj
judged insane short time ago,
thought he had mission to kill off
the human race, and tried to begin
with his father-in-law, but failed.
Frederick Anderson, employed in the
Rock Island Plow works, coughed him
self to death one day last week.
Unpaid death losses of the defunct
Nation Benevolent association foot
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