Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-05

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begun at Clinton.
Miss Helen Bradbury. daughter Of
Samuel bradbury. Mayor of kcwancc,
was married the other day to Harry &.
Kellogg of that city.
While sitting at his desk at school in
Kewauce Howard Powers. IL. fell into a
deep sleep. from which no one has been
able TO arouse him. His parents are
greatly alarmed.
Gasoline motor cars are in use on thu
interurban line of the Aurora. DcIialh
and Rockford. They are four.whcelei
cars. rs feet long over the vcstbulcs and
seating thirty.two persons.
The 1Ienncpn canal. which has been
In process of construction fifteen years,
will be completed the last week in OctO-
Der. A monster celebration will be held
In Sterling and thousands Of visitors are
expected from ncighboring cities.
The body of William TifTin. 80 years
old, a resident Of Lyons for more than
thirty years and veteran English sol
dicr. was found floating in the Desplaines
river near the Joliet road bridge. Tifiin
Is believed to have fallen into the river.
| After brooding over the trial Of Harry
X. Thaw for several months and having
become possessed Of the hallucination that
she was Evelyn Ncsbit Thaw. Miss Mary
Myers Of Amboy became violently insane
and was taken to the Waterford santa
rum.
| His mind unbalanced over grief for
his wife. who died fcw months ago.
William Dcphinmcir. a wcll.to.do farmer
living near Carmi. ended his life by
| jumping into q we'll. lie left a letter H.
his children. telling where his body would
| be found.
Dcspondcnt for fear his sweetheart In
Sweden would not marry him when she
learned he had lost part Of his hand IN
a planning machine. John Sagcrlind COM
mittcd suicide in Rockford by hanging
himself to knob of u door, using his
suspcndcrs for rope.
Five ten-gallon cans of minnows from
the government fisheries have been de.
livercd TO the Stephenson County Game
| and Fish Association for stocking the
PccatOnica river. The consignment was
of many thousand black bass. wall.cycd
pike aud perch. all standard game fish.
At the closing session OF the Southern
Illinois Methodist Episcopal conference,
presiding elders were named for the VA
rious districts as follows: Mount Car
mel. the Rev. J. =. Cummins: Mount
Vernon. the Rev. J. ". Mcneil; vnnds-
LA, the Rev. &. \. Beckett; Lebanon, tho
Rev. Lawrence Smith.
i. 4. Winkclman of Chicago was
chosen president of the Illinois Universal.
list State Association ut the SEVENTEEN
annual convention of the organization In
Elgin. Other officers elected follow: Vice
president, Rev. +. u. Bishop. Blue Isl
and secretary, Mrs. T.. l.. Conklin. El-
GIN treasurer. T.. \. Dlckor. Chicago.
The next meeting will BE- held in Joliet.
Night Captain stephen Byrd of the
Joliet pcnitcntiary guard has been Ill,
charged By Warden Murphy as n rcsu,
OF the escape Of Eddie Quinn and Harr
Harmon on the night of Aug. ~. II |,
alleged that Byrd was playing n game Of
solitaire instead Of patrollng the grounds
when the two convcts sawed through the
iron bars Of the hospital aud scaled tho
prison walls.
Charles Swick, marshal Of Rose Hin,
was shot and instantly killed by DIR. J.
W. Hutton. n physician of that village.
An automatic revolver was used. and nino
bullets took effect, two of them piercing
the victims heart, Al the cOroncr's in
quest Hutton was cyoncratcd. the homi-
eide being declared justfablc. There
were no witnesses to the shooting. Swick
leaves a wife and children, while Hutton
has been divorced.
Almost distracted because of the fatal
shooting of her younger son, aged !, by
his brother, aged %, Mrs. Charles Walsh
Of Kewanec seems to have lost all aifec-
ion for the surviving child and ncighbors
'car she may kill him. thus fulfilling
hrcats she has made. She seized q brick
% hurl at the boy, but was prevented
rom throwing II by relatives. She had
ordered the boy not to play with the shot
gun, but he dsobcycd.
Chicago policemen are invest eating the
death of John Falvey, ~ years old whose
body was found in the North branch OF
the Chicago river, near Kinzc street.
Falvey disappeared from his home aud
the police had been asked TO search for
him, Members of his family said that
he had been subject to heart disease and
the police believe that he fell into the
river while walking along the bank. There
were no marks Of violence on the body.
4 peculiar accident happened to thu
4-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. X. q.
Turk of Galesburg. lie was playing
around the washtub where the family
washing was being done, when in some
unaccOuntable fashion the chill's cheek
became caught In the clothes wringer. IL
was necessary for the mother TO reverse
the action of the machine before the in
jured member could be Withdrawn. Aside
from the skin being slightly broken tho
young man suffered no injury from which
he did not recover Immediately.
Jacob Orr, % years old, ex-Superysor
of Roscmond township and wealthy farm
er, fell under his wagon loaded with grain
and was instantly killed. His neck was
crushed by one of the wheels
\ romance that has attracted much at
tcntion eliminated when Mrs Catherine
Smith of Detroit, Mich. aged G3, and
Benjamin Bctt of Sterling. aged ~, a
bachelor, were united In marriage.
\ burglar blew open safe in tho
Standard Oil COmpany's office in Rock
ford, but there was no money in it. The
safe cracker left a note apOlogizing for
making a litter In the Office, saying 10
was novice.