Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-16
state News Ira Brief.

While attempting TO light lamp the
match suddenly ilarcd UP and igntcd the
tresscs of Miss Eva Mummert of Sterling,
burning her fatally.
Nelson lIcaly. 80. struck and instantly
killed Herbert Spence. IL. after they had
quarrelcd in Carmi. The killing is the
result of love affair.
T.. G. Shippc and Lawrence Bowman
were burned to death in fire which de-
stroycd their home in Belvidere. An ex-
posion Of a gasoline stove was the cause.
CHS Evans. who asserts that his
home Is In Chicago. attempted to commit
suicide in Jail at Elpin. Guards discov-
cred the attempt In time to save his life.
Judge Hooper denied Attorney stephen
X. Moorcs application for an injunction
restraining the school authorities from
allowing football playing In kankakee
schools, holding that the board has no
right to interfere.
The miners Of Stoughton. who have
been on strike because they had been fur.
nished with what they claim was an in
ferior grade Of powder. returned to work.
the operators agreeing to furnish the pow.
der which the men desired.
Capt. Edward J. Lewis. aged ~. died
at bloomington. lie was pioneer editor
Of the bloomington pan,agraph. postmas-
ter at Normal for eight years. and COM
mnnded company in the 1hirty.,hird
regiment. Illinois volunteers. during tho
Civil War.
4. y. Walls. n veteran Central Illinois
newspaper man. who several days ago at
tempted to kill himself with a pocket
knife by cutting the arteries In his wrist.
was adjudgcd insane IN the Coles county
court and sentenced TO the Eankakcc in
sane hospital.
Homer II. Green. president, of tho
bloomington Business Mems Association,
and one of the best known residents OF
that city. died suddenly. lie was past
grand commander of the Knights Tcmplar
OF Illinois. One child, Mrs. Stillman
Jamison of Chicago, and his wife survive.
The bloomington police took into Gus.
tody two truant girls from Chicago. They
gave the names Of Elizabeth l<as,ncr and
Helen Wcistcrnhauscn. and told u story
Of ill.trcntmcnt at home. They were pen.
niless and had made up their minds to
walk back 10 Chicago when arrested.
u. \. Wise. manager Of the blue Grass
Quarry Company Of Hop Hollow. was
bruised by an explosion ut the quarry.
Wise saw the fuse had started md knew
there was nothing to do but jump for his
life over an 1S-foot ledge. aud this he did.
\ shower Of stones fell on him. and no
was bruised. and injured also by jump.
ing.
Laboring mems wages are going down
NJ In MT .,.,.l. la, -
Louis, but the price Of meats Is not gong
10 be reduced and may he advanced. ac-
cordng to statements made In the packing
house district. \ large number of stock
yards laborcrs receiving l1is cents an
hour have been discharged and the few
laborers hired are receiving only IL cents
an hour.
Elmer Franklin, Carter Mills. and
James McClintock, n former boardcr.
fought q revolver duel which cost Me-
Clintock his life. Franklin was wound
cd In the arm. An mir of mystery IL
thrown about the affair by the survivors,
refusal to give the reason for the quarrel
which led to the fight. No one saw the
duel and Franklin asserts that he shot
only In sclf.dcfcnse. Sheriff q. q. Cum
Minis Is holding Franklin at the Jail with
out bail.
The jury In the murder trial OF VIM.
Shields in Carlinvillr, charged with the
killing of Clinton Barker Feb. II. 1905.
returned a verdict Of granddaughter. Tho
punishment for manslaughtcr ranges from
l to II years In the pcnitentiary nc Joliet.
The killing for which Shields was con-
victed occurred In quarssl over a dice
game. Shields formerly ran lunch
counter In Mt. Olive. The night before
the killing the two men Quarreled over a
debt. and the next day the quarrel was
renewed. resulting In the killing Of Bar
ker.
After Miss Artie Maude Wilkey and
Walter II. Evans, Argcnta, had been mar
ried by the Rev, Mr. Montgomery at tho
home of the bride In Macon county, it
was discovered that the license had been
issued In DE Witt county. In order to
comply with the law Il was necessary for
the couple to accompany the clergyman TO
DE Witt county. The "trip was made in
buggy, and, after crossing the county
line, the principals mounted a fiat car,
which stood on side track near at hand,
and the ceremony was performed for tho
second time.
The five weeks revival services by Rev.
William \. Sunday closed in Galesburg
with 2,3OO converts, which breaks the
record for all REVEALS there. 4 free-will
Offering OF $3.50 was given Mr. sun
day and his assistants. Clark u. Carr,
eX-minister to Denmark, led OF with 500.
Among the converts are Sheriff H. q.
Mathews, W. i. lioyes, county slperin-
tendent of schools; Leroy Marsh. promi-
nent horse dealer; Alderman Harry Grit
fiths, NJ. II. Sweeney, the contractor who
built the tabernacle; Lester u. Lawrence.
jeweler; Il. \. Tate, n labor editor, and
scores of railroad men.
The new buildings Of st. Via.eur's col
lege, built to replace those destroyed by
fire two years ago, were dedicated at
Bourbonnais Grove. a suburb OF Kanka-
kee. One hundred and fifty priests at
tended. Bishop Muldoon of Chicago de-
livered an address. Archbishop Quigley
of Chicago also spoke.
Harry Boren, 23 years old, a clerk in
the postofiicc at Reeves, was arraigned
before United States Commissioner Rob-
inson on charge of embezzling S1,11i.25
of money order funds. lie was bound
over In the sum Of $1,000 to await the ac-
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