Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-19
etate NcWs In Brief.

M BANKS. OF ShawncctOwn. was run
| over and killed on the racctrack at Col.
conda. The jockey was also seriously
hurt.
Walter j.. Price. secretary Of the Hi.
nos Fircmcn's Association. and chief Of
the Champaign fire department. was seri-
ously hurt by his automobile crashing into
an interurban car.
Charles Moore of Sadorus. charged will,
numbering his sisters sweetheart. Theo.
dore Allen. April I6 last. was acquitted.
the jury being out forty minutes. lie
pleaded self-dcfensc.
In Pana n young man named Matza
tried to shoot and kill Gertrude Krukcu
because she would not marry him. raul
F'ribe. who went to her rescue. WIS In
jurcd seriously. Matza Is under arrest.
CHASING a bucket shop as worse than
a three shell game. Judge Ewing Graves
charged the Whitcside county grand jury
to investigate the brokerage concerns Of
the county and see II there were any
among them to-day.
Fire destroyed the plant Of Collins Z
Bergie Company. makers Of stoves and
ranges. at Marcngo. The loss In 10000.
insurance S3i.WW The fire leaves the
town In darkness, rs the electric light
was furnished by the plant.
Two wcst.bound freight trains collidcd
on the long trcstlc on the Wabash rail-
road AT Darby. The new Mogul engine
on one of the trains was thrown into tho
river twenty feet below. Seven loaded
freight cars and one hundred feet Of
track were destroyed by fire. Traffic was
blocked for several days. The crews es-
capped injury by jumping.
The Rev. II. +. Given Of Chicago ere
atcd sensation nj the scmi.ccntcnniai
meeting of the United Presbyterian
church synod Of Illinois IN Eirkwool by
declaring that all schemes for raising
church funds nrc sinful. lie opposed tho
collection of n S2.WE'.OOO centennial fund.
The Rev. T.. u. Stewart Of Chicago is
moderator of the conference.
Mrs. Anna Davies. the aged and pcnni-
less daughter of Thomas Ford. Governor
OF Illinois from 1872 10 iS,i. who for
some weeks has been n patient Ia n hos
pltal IN Logan county. will he transfer
red shortly To the Soldiers Widows home
NJ Wilmington. being eligible. rs her faith
ar was n soldier in the Black Hawk war,
and her grandfather was killed In a battle
with Indians IN iSO2.
\ novel scheme has been adopted by
the Sterling Industrial Association to nd
rcr'i>c III" city. and II Is expected that IL
will bring good results. Large signs have
been placed ~ the railroad stations bear
Ing the following inscription: STERLING
In name, IN fact. Write our industrial
association" The association was organ
lied for the purpose OF doubling the pop
ulation of the city before the next cen
sus.
The State convention Of Daughters Of
the King, in session in Frccport. elected
the following officers: State secretary,
Mrs. Iocl \. Clark, FrccpOrt assistant
secretary. Mrs. u. VI. STRIKER. Galc,n (;
recording secretary. Mrs. q. NJ. Ditto.
Joliet: representative To central counrii-
Miss Clara Morehouse, Chicago. Miss
May Calkins of Chicago and Mrs. Sarah
+. Guglc of Toledo spoke and the three
days session closed with an address by
Miss Cora u. Mowbray of Chicago.
Judge Humphrey In the United States
Circuit Court In Springfield, on applica-
ton of the American Steel Foundries,
Company of Granite Chy, issued u tetli-
porary injunction restraining John Gilf.
one of the strikers at the plant. from
pickering the plant or In any other man
ner interfering with Its operation. The
order * ON u line with the restraining
order which was issued on Sept. : by
Judge Frank NJ. Wright Of Urbana In
the absence of Judge Humphrey In Eu-
rope.
The sugar beet harvest has commenced
IN central Illinois and the crop is the,
largest ever known. many becis weighing;
from six In seven pounds. The crop this
year will Yield frolh fifteen 10 twenty t,llsl
10 the acre. The sugar rciincrics pay So
per ron for the bects delivered ON bOarf
ears. The central Illinois growers will
average SO an acre for their crop. The
harvesting is performed by machine
known ~ n rooter. pulled by three horses,
This outfit loosens the bccts in the soil
and men walking behind throw the beets,
into wagon.
Frederick NJ, Fish, former broker. who
killed his wife, Mary, at their home in
Evanston, Sept. I, was adjudged insane in
County Judge SCOTS court and commit
ted to the Wentworth sanitarium. This
finding follows that Of the grand and
cOrOners jurics. Six weeks before the
murder Fish went to Colorado in seaY.Tt
OF health. with his wife aud their yoIue-
est daughter, Mary, 2 years old. Early
In September they returned to Evanston,
Fish's quest for health being unsuccess-
full Mrs. Fish was killed with a shotgun
shortly after she had arisen. After shoot
ing her Fish dubbed her with the weapon.
lie then entered another room, apparently
intent on killing the child, Mary. but,
instead, he went to another room and
tried to kill himself by cutting his throat.
Richard Smell has filed suit In Dewitt
county Circuit Court to set aside the will
of his father, the late Thomas Smell, an
eccentric millionaire, who tied up his es-
tate for 100 years. The complainant was.
cut OF with $50 year.
The temperance societies of Illinois are.
making war against the social clubs whcl.
maintain bars and dispense intOx eating
liquors without taking out city license.
and complying with the laws governing
saloons. In a number of cities they have.
been successful in inducing the city coun-
Gil to close the bars of the clubs. In
Rockford eight of these clubs were given
notice to this effect.