Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-09
Items from All Over the State Of
Matters Of Interest to Our
Readers.
Happenings Of the Week from Cairo to
Chicago Carefully Compiled for
Busy Men.
All Over the state,

| Nu'Slcr MILO OI NsfUnU view lrll wfliIe
skating and died from fractured skull.
The Illinois clayworkcrs closed their
meeting ut Champaign and elected as
president w. VI. Pratt of Earlvile.
Perry Duck died in the hospital in
Paris. This makes seventeen dead in the
big Four railroad wreck at SANFORD.
Ind.
The Sterling Gas and Electric Light
Company announced straight reduction
OF 20 per cent in the price of electricity
to commercial users.
John Cassidy, mail carrier. was
struck by train at Arlington. lie was
taken TO the hospital in Mendoza. but his
injuries proved fatal.
Prof. Wilbur =. Jackman. dean of the
school of education at the University of
Chicago. died. after an illness of less
than twenty-four hours.
Miss Jennie Dahlinc. aged 81. of Ke-
wanec. while passing from her bedroom ;
to sitting room to shake stove fell to
the floor dead. having been stricken with
heart disease.
| The annual report of the auditor of
public accounts made to Gov. Deneen ut
Springfield shows that the building and
loan associations of the State IRE in a
prosperous condition.
| William Jurgcnsmcycr. one Of the
wenlthicst farmers In Champaign county,
was struck by train on the Wabash
railroad II, Homer and died without re-
gaining consciousness
! DR. T. II. Spalding and John W. Her
man were arrested In Decatur on an in
dictment charging u criminal operation.
Tho latter also IL charged with criminal
assault. Ada johnson. aged III. a step
daughter of Herman. IL the complaining
witness.
-Four men are dead and seven Others
injured us result of II powder explosion
ih IN" west side mine of tho Johnston
city and big Muddy Coal Mining Com
pany.
Otis Eddy. agcd IO2 years. died nj his
nome In Rockford. lie was believed ,o
bc the Oldest Mason in this country In
years OF membership. lie was initiated
III 1876.
Two students of the West Aurora higl,
school tough, duel. with bare fists ne
the result of u quarrel. which started over
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the football team rs referee. they repair
ed TO n secluded spot. where u ring was
marked ont and for an hour they pun
mclcd each other. Finally the referee de-
clarcd the iisht draw. as both partici-
pants were too exhausted to continue.
Both were badly battered.
Speaker Cannon and every member Of
the Illinois congressional delegation re-
cciycd the other day u petition from the
Illinois Society of Engineers and Survey
ors recommending the authorization of u
ll.foot waterway to connect the great
lakes and the gulf of Mexico. The SO
cicty differs from the engineering board
as to the commercial utility of the pro-
jcct. asserting that II would be highly
beneficial not only to the State but TO the
nation.
Charles q. Evans. brother of Senator
Evans of Aurora. was found dead In his
bed at the IIcnion hotel In Springfield.
The c0roner's jury returned II verdict that
Mr.. Evans came to his death by being
accidentally asphyxiatcd by gas. Mr.. Ev-
ans came to Springfield from Aurora sew
clal years ago and has been employed ns
Waterman IN the State trcasurer's Of
flee. II h supposed that Evans, In turn
ing out the electric light, accidentally
turned on the gas. which was directly
above the electric bulb.
Konstant =. Sulecki aud his wife.
Josephine. both deaf and dumb. were
found dead in their bed in Chicago. In
the kitchen adjoining their bedroom gas
was found escaping IRON jets In u stove.
IL IL not believed that suicide was con
tcmplarcd. though Mrs. Sulccki had griev-
ed n great deal over the death of IN in
FAINT u weeks old which died Il short time
ago. Sulecki was II workman and II il
said was in good circumstances. The cor
Oner's inquest was unable To determine
whether the deaths were accidental o.
not.
The grand jury engaged in ferreting
out th" Irregularities IN the shcriif's Of
flee and that OF the board of supervisors
continued It's work in Peoria. Through
the careless expenditure of money by the
board OF supervisors aud the alleged falsi,
iicarion of the reports from the sheril's
office the county has been practically
bankruptcd. No money Is ut hand, and
the local banks are lisc0unting orders On
the county treasurer. Great anxiety eS,
lists among certain members oi the boaIyl
and among former attaches of the shcr-
ifl's office
because the parents OF the bride OH
iected to the bridrsroom's religious faith,
Miss Bertha Reed, II young society wo-
man OF Decatur, and Thomas Nolan. ~,
sistnnt ynrdmaster of the Wabash rail
road, eloped to Chicago, They were mar
rird in that city, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. Jeremiah Murphy,
rector of 81. James Catholic church Of
Decatur, who was attending n convention
of the Knights of Columbus in Chicago.
The parents of neither the bride nor the
groom knew OF the intentions of the
young people,
In collision between two freight
trains on the Chicago and Alton at Tai
lula II, +. l.owman. fireman of Pc
oria, was probably fatally crushed,
Iarkin &. Hart, well.known citizen
OF Litchlicld, became violently insane
from fright when burglars entered his
room, where he lay on his sick bed.
Willard u. Barr, an orchardist, hort-
cuturist and former newspaper writer of
Lawrencevlle, has mysteriousy disap-
peared. lie was last seen Jan. II in
Vincennes and his only brother, Or. o..
Walter Barr, a magazine and newspaper
writer of Keokuk, Iowa, Is using every