Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-21
State News In Brief.

| Miss Lillian Mauk of Jamestown. n.
y. has accepted the call as secretary Of
the Kewanec Y. W. G. a.
| Herbert Thompson fell thirty feet from
a slack wire in an amusement park in
East st. Louis and was fatally hurt.
| The body of an unidentified woman was
found floating in the Illinois and Michi.
gan canal near Ottawa by Mrs. Mary Il.
Funk.
| Frank FAIRIES. an inventor. Of Deca.
tur, committed suicide at Milwaukee by
throwing himself in front of q steam
roller.
Charles W. 11osto of Alhambra con.
fessed that he murdered Charles Hist.
a ncighbor, who was found dead the night
before.
William Morrisy. residing at Marion,
drank carbolic acid. Death followed. No
note or other explanation was left to ex.
plain his suicide.
Frederick NJ. Fish. a rich retired brok.
.r living In Evanston. killed his wife, cut
his own throat and threatened the lives
Of his daughter and her nurse.
The Illinois Mayors Association at
bloomington elected Silas Cook OF East
st. Louis president and chose La Sale
as the meeting place for next year.
Harry llanncy. 3 years old. fell head
first into a posthole filed with water
at his home In Chicago and was drowned.
The body was found an hour later by the
mother.
Three men lost ears and twenty others
were badly cut In the face by flying glass
/ ... ...1-
ware store shattered the big plate glass
windows.
Just as he was starting on an automo-
bile trip to Clinton. Iowa. Frank q.
Smith. manager of the waukcgan Daily
Gazette. announced that he had been
married. June .. to Miss Marion Rookie
Teller of Waukcgan. at Lafayette, Ind.
The September term of the United
States District Court was adjourned In
Quincy by Judge Bcthca of Chicago. The
grand jury returned twcnty.one indict-
ments. and as the offenders are not under
| arrest they were not made public. except
| In the case of John Pier of Augusta. who
appeared In court. pleaded guilty to boot.
Logging and was fined 800.
Gov. Dcnccn. acting on tho recommen.
da,ion Of the State board Of pardons,
committed to expire Immediately the sen.
tcncc Of James Allen. who was convicted
In April, 1000. Of being an accessory to
the murder Of Sheriff Barnicole In the
Jail delivery at the 1t. Clair county jail
and was sentenced to fourteen years In
the penitcntiary. 1t having been shown he
was innocent.
| Twenty-three persons were injured.
probably fatally. by a gas explosion In
West Frankfort Mine No. II, owned by
the Decring Coal Company. The gas
was ignited by a lamp In the cap Of Pit
Boss Cooper, who was watching laborers
building a concrete wall 10 stop gas com.
ing from an abandoned mine. The In.
jured men were taken to Mount Vernon
on n special train.
Fred Settler. IL years old. held up
Frederick Colback. pcddlcr, with
a revolver In Chicago and robbed him Of
watch and 81. Colback said Settler
stood In a doorway and called to him.
Thinking he wished to make a purchase,
the peddlcr responded, and when he reach.
ed the boy. a pistol was placed against his
head. Policemen captured Settler after
a chase. lie was held to the juvenile
court.
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| me youngest woh'h hunter ot iNinois
MISS Eva Flynn, age" ,'' OF Ner'
for a hunters license among the feminnie
residents of central Illinois. She has
becn shooting since she was % wears Of
ago and owns n oO-raure hnmmerless shot.
gun and n l6.shot rifle Of % caliber and
Is an expert shot. Her father Is A police.
man and usually goes with his douphter
on her hunting expeditions. 1t frequently
happens that she will bring home more
game than he.
Mrs. Norah Gravel Krast of Konkakce.
N wears old Nc. mother ~ o.vaar.o,S
daughter. IL thoupbt 10 mo tho victim of
a love SCENE she saw In n local thoo,er
The hero Of the show committed suicide
because Of unrcouited love. Mrs. Krast