Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-13

II the city OF GaIena, Win pOpuIas
t,on of 5000. not death occurred during
June. This record never has been dupli.
Gated In the history Of the city.
The school census just completed at
Zion City shows a population Of ASH
In the city. OF these 1907 are over Il
years of age. and ISL are under U years.
While driving over the tracks in Bloom
ington. Ill.,. Thomas Farris was dccapi.
tated and his brother-in .law. Charles Tay-
Tor, fatally injured by a Big Four fast
passenger train. The accident occurred
at the most dangerous street crossing In
the city.
A hen at II. Ehnen's farm, near Tam.
pico. has adopted litter Of kittens, the
mother If which was killed on account OF
her Unsuitable appetite for young poultry.
An old hen that had been denied the
privilege Of setting decided to look after
the kittens.
Gov. Dcneen has appointed J. w. Din.
| neen Of Albany commissioner OF the I'LL.
noispenitentiary at Joliet to succeed Ben.
jamin Brown Of New Berlin. Mr.. Browns
term Of Office expired Jan. I. Mr.. Din
neen formerly was o member Of the I'LL.
nois Legislature.
Emil Drnecer. II years old. Of Chicago
died at the Post Graduate hospital Of In.
juries suffered when he was struck by Q
baseball. While playing at Thirty.third
street and Fifth avenue the boy was
struck In the left side near the heart by q
ball which had been batted by one Of his
companions.
Whether shoe Is a deadly weapon or
not must be determined by the Henry
county Circuit Court. In the case Of
Charles Dcpritte. who was indicted In
Kcwancc for assaulting Edward Decker
with that kind Of u weapon. Decker ties.
titles that Dcpritte kicked him severely,
inncting bad injuries.
Ossian Guthrie, 81 years old and four
times a widowcr. and Mrs. Elizabeth T..
Flower. n years old, were married at tho
brides residence In Chicago by Rev. J.
\. l,onithalcr. The bride was given away
by her son.in.law. Lawrence W. Ferguson,
and Frances Ferguson. her little grand.
daughter, was flower girl.
AS the result Of persistent demands on
the part Of the State. James Robert
Bruce Van Clcavc. former superintendent
of insurance. has returned 100000 to the
public treasury. The final payment Of
this sum. S3l.!Nio.1j. was made recently.
\ previous payment made on May % Of
last year amounted to S2S.O0O. Mr.. Van
Clcavc retired from Office six years ago.
Charles =. Miller. % years old. for
eighteen years judge at Ottawa. died
the other day at Wesley hospital Of can
Ger Of the mouth. Mr.. Miller came to
Chicago twenty.six years ago and prac-
ticed Inv In that city until few weeks
ago. maintaining an Office In the Schiller
building. lie had one son, Charles Mil
Ter. who died In California six years ago
soon after the death Of Mrs. Miller.
The verdict Of the Kcllcms Jury ut Al
bion was guilty. Life pcnitentinry terms
were given David and Albert Kellcms for
the murder Of Sheriff Alex. Compton
last December In Wabash county. The
prisoners heard their doom without ap-
parent emotion. Compton was shot dead
from ambush by Albert Kellcms. while
riding along a lonely road. The father
was convicted as an accessory before the
fact.
Jesse Barr. arrested on a burglary
charge In Paris, pushed Mrs. Vim. wife
of the sheriff. into his cell when she
brought him his supper and locked the
door. Starting for the street door, he
was caught by Miss McAdams, n men,
Der Of the sheriff's family. but throwing
her to one side, he escaped. lie had used
steel saws In cutting away two bars IT
his cell door, and having climbed through
the hole into the corridor. was waiting
there for Mrs. VIM when she should en-.
ter from the outer corridor door.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Angus.
tnna college In Moline $4,000 to apply
to its endowment fund, provided the col
lege raises $4,000 additional. Angus
,ana synod. In behalf of the college, IL
raising $25O,OOO for the endowment fund,
to be completed by the time of the semi.
centennial Of the college In 1910. The
college the other day received 10000
krOnen. S5,29l.Ol In United States money,
from Consul Oscar Ekman, Swedish phi
lanthropist, the gift having been ordered
on his deathbed.
At the age of years and 3 months,
Charles Ross Buchanan, son of a farmer
at st. Francisyille, reads books that the
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they are ten years older. lie has excited
the attention of educators. Asked what
kind OF reading he liked best he replied
II have just finished reading Shakspeare's
AS You Like It, but like Charles Dick
ems much BETTER" His mother, who was
a school teacher at Vncennes, Ind, says
Charles spends about four hours each day
in reading to her. lie has never been to
school, and seldom plays with other chill
dren.
Conrad Kuntkosky, aged %, of South
Chicago, was found dead In the woods
near Otis, Ind. lie had gone to visit his
sister There are no indications of foul
| play
Twenty-two-year-od Herbert Spring of
Rockford, who on June I, In drunken
frenzy, shot and killed Mrs. Edna Rum
melhagen on the street in Freeport, has
been sentenced to life imprisonment.
4 legal battle for the 100000 estate
of the late Cornelia 4. Miller was begun
in Joliet. Charles Fish, the favorits
nephew, is charged by his two brothers
with gaining the property by illegal
means.
"Fate couldn't conceal him nv nam.