Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The town hall and opera house ut Sib.
ley, belonging TO Sullivan township. were
burned. Loss $4,000. partial insurance.
While shrcdding corn on his farm near
Albion. David Grcathousc caught his arm
In the shrodding machine. and 1t was liter.
ely chopped OF.
Lloyd Thompson Of Henry was load.
Ing rifle while hunting, discharged the
gun, the bullet passing through his body
below the heart. His condition Is seri.
Gus.
Arthur Eiklcburgcr, IS years old. was
found with his skull crushed In by =
blow from crowbar In Bloomington. A
fellow workman, who is missing, IL sus.
pected.
Robert Jacobs. stage driver on the
Springfield. Bcardstown line In 1858. and
who had Abraham Lincoln for a passcn-
ger en- route to the famous Armstrong
murder trial at Hcardstown, has been ad-
judged insane and sent to the asylum.
Refusing to accept n reduction Of %
cents on the days wage, 100 quarry In.
borcrs struck In Joliet. The men have
been getting 81 for ten hours work, bus
on account OF q slack season the employ.
ers proposed a ninc-hour day at Si.75.
Deputy Sheriff NJ. +. Kiggin shot and
killed an unidentified man near llillsboro,
supposed to be n member of a gang Of
tramps and burglars that have been ter
rorizing the community. Nine Of tho
gang were captured and locked up In jail.
officials Of the company say that thcro
II no likelihood OF the Joliet plant Of tho
Illinois Steel Company closing because
OF the strike Of coal miners at Danvillc.
There Is n good supply Of coal on hand.
and there are other sources OF supply be-
sides Danvillc.
Guy Van Tasscll, a ringlcader In sew.
cral recent plots Of prisoners to break
out Of the Cook county jail made an.
other unsuccessful attempt to escape A
warning given jail guards by an attor-
ney had put them on the alert and tho
escape was frustrated.
z. II. Job died at his home IN Alton,
aged o. years. lie was born In Fairfax
county, Va, In 1915, and removed to
Madison county, H., In 1852 settling
where the town Of Alton now stands. lilo
represented Madison county tour terms
In the Legislature, and was a friend OF
Lincoln. Douglas. the elder Yates and
other men who made Illinois history. lie
left four children.
Gen. James s. Martin is lead at Sa-
lem. aged 81 years. lie was colonel OF
the One Hundred aud Eleventh Illinois
regiment In the Civil War. lie had been
president of the Salem National bank
ever since its organization, president OF
the Southern Illinois soldiers Reunion
Association, passion commissioner, COM
mander of the q. \. r., chairman OF the
State Republican committee.
Oscar Nelson, n wealthy Rockford
hardware merchant, committed suicide by
inhaling gas because OF continued worry
over the financial stringency. Nelson was
man OF considerable means. but tho
financial depression worried him greatly,
and for two weeks he had talked OF it
continually. Tho suicide of President
Barney OF the knckcrbocker Trust Com
pany OF New York depressed Mr. Nelson
and is believed to have prompted him to
end his life.
Ex-Congrcssman William Lathrop, an
associate Of the late William Mckinley
in Congress and one OF the original civii
service reformers, succumbcd 10 injuries
inflicted in Fair Grounds park Rockford,
when he was run down by a horse driven
by Mrs. Charles Kopclkc, Mr., Lathrop
was one of the leaders in the State, and
when at Washington attracted wide atten-
ton by his reform movements. lie was
the father of Miss Julia Lathrop of Hull
House, Chicago, who j. Il member of tho
State board Of charities.
After drinking half gallon of wits.
ky in an hour, Clyde Duilicld, farm
hand near Ivcsdalc, died, Duilcid wag.
cred money on his capacity, and coro.
ner's jury decided that the bet was lost.
County temperance workers iutcnd to usa
the death as local option argument in
the spring.
George II. Harrison, 10 years old, son
OF Joseph Harrison, a teaming contractor,
died in Chicago of injuries received Nov.
10 in a "scrub" game of football. Tho
boy was knocked down in a scrimmage
and received severe internal injuries. The
immediate cause Of death was an internal
hem0rrhago.