Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22
ILLINOIS

| BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Sept. because
he was forced to go to school, Miller Weld
ner, son of James eidner of Farmer
City, drank laudanum. An antidote was
quickly administered and the youth may
live.
GALEsBURG, ILL.,, Sept. 21.-The city
council has approved recommendation
of the special committee that a case
pending for the last year against the
gas company be dismissed without preju-
dice, providing the company will enter
into a proper contract with the city to
furnish gas of twenty-candle power at a
fiat rate of 81 thousand cubic feet and
will accept an ordinance providing for
inspection OF gas meters and gas and pay
costs cf litigation.
GALESBURG+The taking of evidence
in the Welsh-Shumway mayoralty con-
test was closed, leaving thirty-five votes
in question on which Judge Gray will
pass. The judge held that the city coun-
Gil had a right to fix boundaries of cleo
ton districts, which was point in favor
of Welsh.
ROCK 1a4AND-The Central Illinois
Methodist conference appointed general
committee to establish fund for the sup
pOTL OI lulIliSlSlS. IHS
lay association elected the following Off
GERS: President, o. X. Morgan, Canton;
vice president, DIR. Oliver, Winona; treas
urer, DR.. Douglas, Colfax; secretary, 1.
E. Merritt, Buckley; assistant secretary
Miss Mary L. Sexton, Alpha.
CHICAGO--At a general conference held
in this city it was decided that the Kan
sas railroads will utterly ignore the order
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requiring a 2-cent passenger rate. The
decision was unanimous and was reached
| after thorough discussion of the situa-
| tion by attorneys and executive officers
| in charge of the traffic departments of
the roads.
METAMORA-A new pressure gasoline
lamp being tested in the village pump
house exploded, wrecking the building.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 2.-Attorney James
Harnett this afternoon concluded seven
hours address to the jury in defense of
Amasa A. Campbell, charged with the
murder of DIR. Benjamin f. Harris. Court
then adjourned until Monday. The case
may not go to the jury until Tuesday.
ROCK IsLAND-The Central Illinois
Methodist conference has opened here,
Bishop Earl Cranstor presiding, at the
First Methodist church, at which the mu-
sical program was carried out and ad-
dresses delivered by local ministers
EDWARDSVILLE-A fatally stab
hing his neighbor, Charles Hest, with
whom he had quarrel in the highway,
Charles w. Hosto lifted the injured man
into his wagon and drove him to his
home, where he died in few hours. On
hearing that Hest was dead Hosto hur-
ried to the Clover Leaf station, and find
ing that there would be no passenger
trains for severaA hours. boarded a freight
and rode here to give himself up.
CHICAGO-George S. Stoll, a wealthy
contractor and real estate man. who left
his home at Whiting, Ind, August 27. to
come to ---.cago on business has not been
seen by relatives or friends since. Wher
he left home Stoll had nearly $4,000, which
he had collected that morning at Gary
Ind
PEORIA-A fight between organized
labor and the various organizations ci
employers of the city promises to become
the greatest break in the industrial field
that Peoria ever knew The trouble was
caused by the Building Trades council
Withdrawing aI1 union workmen from the
temporary postoffice which is being
erected for occupancy during the remod-
cling Of the present structure.