Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-02
Items from All Over the State Of
Matters Of Interest to Our
Readers.
Happenings Of the Week from Cairo to
Chicago Carefully Compiled for
Busy Men.
state News i'm Brief.

Inc ItSl''nt HOhIlulFu ~ NlnS
FOR postmaster at Joliet.
Frank McGrath. farmer living near
Nashville. was killed in runaway.
Fire partly destroyed the Harrington
roller mills at harrington, causing a loss
of 5000
Gill Bush. civil war veteran was run
over and killed by a runaway horse in
Golconda.
The farm house of George T.. West OF
Sugar Grove was robbed of several hun
drcd dollars worth of jcwclry.
Charles Monccll. Eureka farmer. COM
mittod suicide by hanging. lie was de-
spondcnt over business matters.
| The SEVENTEEN anniversary of the found.
ing of Knox college was celebrated ut
Galesburg wit addresses and a banquet.
Mrs. Pearl Brown Patton. the young
wife Of Grin Patton of Walnut Hill. COM
mitted suicide by drinking laudanum. No
cause is known.
At the senior class election OF Dart
mouth college. J. \. bartlett Of Rock
ford was chosen class historian and ii.
II. Blythe of Aurora class poet.
John Camp. who stabbed James Allen,
i " Nv IsNlH. w s'pl''p'i'
1905. while defending his wife from an
attack. was acquitted OF murder.
The bonds of Miss Helen Dixon. who
Is held at bloomington charged with tho
cmbczzlcmcnt Of church funds and with
forgery, have been fixed ut $1,000.
John :. Wren. former superintendent
of schools. was indicted NJ Bloomington
as n result OF shortage in his accounts
found when he was succeeded In Office.
Cicero !. Iindloy of Bond county,
chairman of the Republican steering com
mittec of tho House. who was stricken III
at a dinner at Springfield. is improving.
Suits TO force the Illinois Central to
move grain IN the elevators between Kan.
kakcc and Champaign may be- instituted
by the affected grain men n the result
of the ear shortage. Men representing
2.OOO,UOO bushels ore back Of the move
mcnt.
Upon petition Of 1890 voters the Kc-
vance city council has instructed City
Clerk Mulligan to prepare ballots sub
hitting the question of licensing the sa-
looms nt the municipal election in April;
Eighteen saloons each are paying Sl,2OO
yearly.
Leonard Ludolph. n German merchant.
IN Newman. Is preparing 10 enter the
kniscrs army. According to the laws
of that country he must serve one year
or forfeit n bond for which he was grant
I'd passports. The German government
has demanded his service.
Fred Foster. after weeping over the
grave of his sweetheart, ESiclle Costello,
NJ Mount Olivct cemetery, Joliet, COM
mt,cd suicide by taking poison. Foster
had placed n picture OF Miss Costello on
the grave. Tho young woman died about
month ago from blood poisoning. Foster
formerly resided NJ Rockford.
because u. 4. l'cinoch, teacher In
the school NJ Orlnnd, slapped Marion
Doyle. aged 10, one of his pupils, the
child's big brother. Robert Doyle, went
to the school and landed on both jaws
of the teacher. knocking him down. Or
land Is much excited over the case and
the board of education may take II up.
Young Doyle il sou of ex.Chicf Of P0.
lice Austin Doyle.
The Steel Works Club House. which
cost $4,000, was damaged by fire In
Joliet. The building was erected by the
Illinois Steel Company nearly twenty
; years ago. aud has been maintained by Il.
The club has large membership among
mill employees. The library. assembly
: rooms, dance hall and athletic depart
. ments were damaged The fire started
: near the boiler room.
$ Residents of Oak Park will vote at the
spring election on n proposition 10 put the
t village under city government, In re-
Spouse to n petition bearing 23l sigma
, lures. which il far in excess of the re-
5 qurcd number, the village board decided
/. 10 put the proposition on the official bal
I lot. II is believed a change Ia city gov
/ eminent will make IL more difficult to AN
ncx Oak Park to Chicago.
DR.. William Patterson Bilcs, 10 years
old. one of the leading physicians of
Carlyle, died Monday night AT his home
IN Carlyle. lie was u native of Pennsyl-
vania aud graduate of three medical
colleges. For ten years Dr, BilcS was n
/, member of the faculty of one of the lead
, ing colleges in ST, Louis, and for several
years pracliccd in Mount Vernon, rcmOy-
ing from there 10 Franklin, Pa and from
' that city to Carlyle, three years ago,
, The Humphrey Dearth glass plant in
v Paris, established several years ago, has
y | b''h Spih ~ y w SNtISlN
j. claims held by the Citizens National
= bank. The plant was never operated sue
cessfully, and it was closed two years
ago. The supply of bottles was purchas.
ed by the Illinois Glass Company of Al
n ton, for Sl,G50; fifty tons of raw nate
q rial went to Il. &. Wilcox of Robinson,
IS for 50 n ton, and the plant proper was
o bought by William H. Hodge, stock.
o holder, consideration $500. An effort
}. will be made to lease the property, fail.
y ing in which it will be sold in sections.
d 4 bonus of $4,000 was paid to bring
Y the plant to Paris and about twice that
amount was expended in buildings, etc.
w. III, Dixon, an attendant at the
Northern Illinois Hospital for Insane at
N Egin, was discharged for improper con-
= duct toward an inmate who had escaped
70 and was running away.
u Frank Jeska, en- employe of the
J. Aurora, Elsin and Chicago Railway Com
J. pany, was instantly killed in Aurora by
coming in contact with live wire carry
ing a current of 10000 volts.
|. Gov. Deneen and the State board of
n pardons heard the application for commu-
y tati0n to life Imprisonment of the SEN
g tsucs Of Edward Clifford, who Is under
n nentence to hang at Peoria for thu mur.