Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-30
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.
State News in Brief.


died at his home in Flora.
Mrs. George vinson was fatally burned
while attempting to extingush flames
threatening her home ut Sterling.
A smallpox epidemic is threatened
among the pupils of the East Aurora
high school Several are now sick.
Clarence Carpenter and Mary Ferrelt
of Joliet. the latter aged IL. ran away
from home and went to Kankakee to get
married. but were taken In charge by the
polio on information from Joliet
The United States gunboat Wasp. that
has been anchored in Cairo harbor for
week on recruiting tour and has been
visited by thousands of spectators. has
departed on the return trip to the gulf.
james Bryant. city marshal of Grid.
ley. il thought TO have committed suicide
by drowning in the Chicago river. De.
spondcncy over the shooting of a citizen
who tried to take a prisoner away from
him may have been the cause.
Young Kid Farmer. the Peoria pugilist,
has been released from Jail In Davenport.
Iowa, a Peorinn furnishing his bail Of
$500. james Graham of Davenport,
whom he is charged with stabbing. IL still
in a serious condition at the hospital
there.
Artic Clinton. lawyer. and Alvan T.
Long. justice of the peace, have been ar.
rested In Paris on an Indictment for con.
spiracy to dcfraud in trying to collect
$1,000 worth of notes signed with the
name of 4. VI. Cough. which signature
William Taylor had pleaded guilty to
forging.
Following arguments consuming most
of the day Judge &. -. Myers of Bloom
ing,on denied the motion that change
of venue be allowed Thomas Baldwin. who
murdered four people near Arrowsmith
month ago because they were instigators
of an indictment against him ON charge
of criminal assault.
| e. l.. Paisley of Mount Vernon has filed
suit for 5000 damages against John
| l.. Cleveland for personal injuries. Sew
eral months ago. while Cleveland was be-.
| ing initiated in the Modern Woodmen
lodge. he fired a revolver loaded with u
blank cartridge. the wad of soap striking
Paisley in the eye and destroying tho
sight.
Dr. Robert Emery. for many years q
prncticing physician In Peoria. Is In tho
Peoria county jail being held without
bail ns the result of the death OF Miss
Pauline Schneider ut 1t. Francis hos.
pital The young woman In dying
statement given to States Attorney
Scholcs charges DR.. Emery with criminal
malpractice.
After having lived dcvoicdly togethcn
ifty.scvcn years, Mr.. and Mrs. o. q
Gibbs OF Evanston have been joined Ia
DEATH Mrs. Gibbs died Tuesday after
an Illness Of only week. Mr.. Gibbs
followed her the next dny-died WIN ~
broken heart. their children say. They
had double funeral NJ the old home
stead. where they lived over forty years.
They were buried In the same grave at
Roschill.
At 10 40 o'clock the other night Louis
McGuirc. n Chicago, burlington and
Quincy mahcinist and son of Barney Me
CURE. one of the oldest engineers on the
road. was shot dead near the center of tho
business section of Gnlesburg. The shot
IL supposed to have been fired by one OF
n party Of young men with whom Nc
CURE had been spending the evening. IL
Is the theory Of the police that there was
a quarrel.
Joe Haas. Go years old. n farm hand.
who was released recently from the work
house In Belleville. after serving six
months on n charge Of vagnncy. went
to the jail and informed Jailer Sheers
that he wanted to he put back on the rock
pile again. lie stated that he cannot find
work on the farm ut this time of the year.
and being pennilcss, is unable to pur-
chase meals and n place to lodge. Jailer
Sheers tried to get Haas TO leave, but
he refused, stating that he was determin-
ed to remain even II he had to commit
some ofense to do so. Complaint was
finally made against him and he was sent
to the workhouse for forty-ivc days on
yagrancy charge. Haas took the mitli-
mus issued by Justice Wangeln, walked
To the Jail unaccompanied aud presented
ii to Jnilcr Sheer. lie was given the
customary bath aud is now contentedly
occupying cell.
Two thousand acres of the most val
: liable undcvelopcd coal lands near lIcrrin
! have just changed hands and will be de-
ycOpcd by big corporations this spring.
The Robert Dick Coal Company pur-
chased 600 acres lying three miles north
of llerrin along the line of the llerrin-
Centrnlia extension of the burlington for
STJ,OOO. \ little more than eight years
; ago the land was covered with timber
valued at more than $1,000, which price
It then sold for. \ shaft will be put
down on the holding. \ l,l0O-aorc tract,
four miles north of lIerrin, in William
, son and Franklin counties, between tho
. Burlington and Illinois Central. was pur-
, chased by Paul Ilerrin for the Freeman
} and Big Muddy Coal companies, which
will put down at once two more shafts
: and begin to develop the lands, These
holdings are the last large options of cos!
! lands in that district to be taken by CO,
porations.
Twenty-siS indictments were returned
at East st. Louis against several persons
for operating gambling devices. One WON.
an was indicted.
The fifth annual convention of the In
,, ternatonal Union of Flour and Cereal
Mill Employees closed Il three days SEES
sion Mt Belleville,
II. II. Wilson of Frankfort, Ind, was
selected as superintendent of schools in
, Decatur to succeed Enoch A. eastman,
who retires next September after forty
five years of continuous service as super.
, intendent. 1t is believed that no other
, school superintendent In the United States
hos hold the office In ono nlaca So long