Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-11
State News In Brief.

shannon. III Murryviile. was acquitted
at Edwardsvilc.
Harry Coleman was sentenced TO TWEEN.
tyiivc years in the pcnitentiary In the
Marion county Circuit Court for rob-
bling the bank at Odin.
\ man claiming to he DIR. Alexander
Dowic II. was arrested In Sterling. lie
Is believed TO he religious fanatic. lie
is said to be from Dubuque. Iowa.
Mrs. Ellie Martin of Sterling went to
Racine. Wis.,. where she kidnapped her
Sycar.old child from her divorced hus-
band. She seeks the other one by court.
James McCool of jacksonville, while
preparing to dynamite fish In Sandy
Creek was fearfully manslcd by the ex.
plosion of q stick of dynamite in his
hand.
After being elected from n passenger
train because he had no money to pay
fare. Claude jenkins. n Danvillc boy who
had been attending school In blooming
ton. sought to board fast moving freight
train at Leroy and was killed.
In Pana II. NJ. White filed deeds d.
viding lands valued at S1?o.OOO equally
among his eight children. few years
ngo Mr.. White gave his children So.VW
each. lie still has large holdings. which
will go to his children ut his death.
Because he kissed his wife In court,
after she had obtained his arrest on
Charge of disordcrly conduct. Squire Me-
Gurk dismissed the case against the nus
band. a coal miner of bloomington. The
husband wished to demonstrate that he
bore his spouse no III will. and the exhi.
blion 80 impressed the justice that he
RENTED the fine and costs.
Guy Huston. n Kcokuk medical stu.
dent. who held up II druggist ut Keokuk
NJ the point of II revolver ana demanded
prnss,c acid for suicide purposes. was ar
| rested at tho Dunlap hotel In Jackson
vile. lie had registered and was going
about the hotel unconccrncd when arrest.
cd lie had revolver and n bottle OF
whisky In his pockets when taken.
Telegraph wires on the Chicago and
| Northwestern railway have been cut near
F'rc.port several times during the last
week. The wires along the Illinois Cen
trail have also been cut. Al the railways
have men watching the wires. The mis-.
chief Is believed To have been done by
an escaped lunn,ic who has been arrested
several times for q similar oifcnsc In
Iowa and Illinois.
Following u notice that the election Of
Samuel Bradbury rs Mayor of kewance
| by ~ majority on the citizens ticket
would be- contested by the citizens labor
party came the announcement that
Charles T.. Mulligan. III" citizens party
candidate. would contest the election Of
Oscar u. Paterson rs city clerk ON the
citizens labor ticket. The returns gave
Paterson ~ majority.
The other night Dr. Lewis J. Schiller
stein. aged - years. and u practitioner
In Eflinghnm for twenty-five years, died
at his residence. \ few hours before Dr.
John y. Groves. aged M. expired at his
residence. The coincidence Of the death
of these two physicians II that u quarter
Of century ago partnership OF the
two men was formed In their professional
duties. and both men died almost at the
same time.
In fulfllment of his pledge made before
election to turn into the State treasury
all money received from the banks as In
terest on State funds deposited State
Treasurer Smulski turned into the treas
ury Sl33li.422. interest from Jan. I'd.
the day he took possession of the treas
urer's Office, TO April I. At this rate
the amount of interest which the State
will receive In year will aggregate
nearly $SO.OOO.
4 recount Of the votes cast ut the
recent city election In Galrsburg gives
J. ID. Welsh. peoples party candidate for
Mayor. n majority of seven votes over
his opponent, George Subway of the
liberal party. Shumway was indicted
into office before the regular rime for
the inauguration by a partisan council
and had majority of six votes on the
face of the returns. His principal ap-
pOntmcnts have been made and the APP
pointees have qualified.
Fred Weilhnber, tcamster. Madison,
was fearfully burned about the face,
hands aud arms by the breaking of
glass carboy of muriatic acid which he
was loading into his wagon from a car
on the team track Of the Terminal Asso-
citation. The carboy slipped from his
grasp and broke open. sending shower
Of the fiery acid directly into Weilhaber's
face. One eye was burned completely
out and the other SO badly injured that
total blindness may ensuc,
Eddie" Tate. the gentleman burglar"
il not To go back TO Peoria to be tried
for the blowing of the safe containing
discriminating evidence against Newton &.
Doughcrty, superintendent of Peoria pub
lie schools. and others. Chief of Police
Wilson of PEORIA went to Chicago. and
after consultation with Captain O'5rien
of detective headquarters expressed the
belief that Tate could make good his
assertion that he was in New York City
on the day of the safe blowing. Captain
0'Brien then said that Chicago would see
what could be done with the gentleman
burglar
The Illinois State bar Association will
meet at Galesburg July and =. Edward
Morse Shepherd of New York will deliver
the annual address. Judge Harry Olson
of Chicago and Pure Food Commissioners
A. Handy Jones are also on the list of
speakers.
Gov. Dencen has par,oned James Con-
don, mechanic, who was given a six
months sentence In the county Jail at
bloomington, for theft of tools. Because
his previous record was good and his
family was in need the Governor acted.
1t is said to be the first case in Illinois
! where Governor pardoned prisoner in