Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-18
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.

nols traction system. was Killed at Bloom
ington by falling under a car.
Lewis Sawyer. aged I. was drowned in
the Wabash at Mount Carmel. lie was
in swimming and got beyond his depth.
Having thrown a $500 bank certificate
of deposit into n stove, Joe Walinsky,
thinking he could not get the money. com
mittcd suicide by drowning in eighteen
inches of water at Moline.
While playing about bonfire in Ar
cola with other children the clothing of
Calvin Bennett. aged 1. caught fire and
he was nearly burned to death before his
companions could put out the blaze.
Gov. Dcncen has appointed Mazzni
Slusser of Downers Grove Judge of the
Circuit Court of the sixteenth judicial
circuit. to succeed the late l.. G.. Ruth of
1Iinsdale. Judge Slusscr Is county judge
Of Du Page county. The Governor has
issued a proclamation for a special cleo
ton Tuesday. Nov. 2. to fill the vacancy
caused by Judge Slusscr's promotion.
Fire Quilted the Joliet Evening Herald
building Wednesday night. causing loss
of $4,000 on building and contents. The
fire was due to spontaneous combustion.
1t started on the third floor. where paint
crs had been working. The o. Il. Brush
Printing Company. on the second floor.
lost $1,000. insurance $500: the Herald
Printing Company, first floor and base.
ment. $4,000. The building was covered
by insurance.
Policemen from Alton. assisted by cit.
zcns. searched Benbow City in an effort
to find Eta Flake. who was kidnapped in
front of her home Monday. Later for.
eigncr told the police he had seen young
man deliver a girl answering the dcscrip-
ton Of Eta Flake to three Italians at a
house In Benbow City. The Alton police
searched the premises. but obtained no
trace of the girl. The three men have
disappeared.
Using torpedo cane with heavy iron
ball at the bottom rs n weapon. Everett
Frank struck William Morton on the
head in an encounter in Eewanee. The
fight was the outgrowth Of family quar-
rel Morton's condition is serious. Frank
Is young man of Mineral township.
who has an excellent reputation. Nor
ton Is u prominent farmer Of Annawan
township. Frank was taken to the coun-
ty seat by officers.
Archibald Cherry of Cambridge killed
himself after having fired upon his sweet
heart, Annie Wicngcrtz of Swance. The
shooting followed quarrel between the
couple over the girls refusal to marry.
Miss Wicngcrtz was shot behind the right
ear and the ball lodged near her right
eye. Cherry then shot himself through
the head. The girl was taken 10 ST.
Francis hospital in Kcwancc. where It Is
believed she will recover. She was more
anxious over Cherry than her own in
jurics.
James II. Stock, liquor dealer of Pc
oria, Is dead as the result of sncczing
while hunting last Friday. Following
the sneczing Stock suffered from hcmor-
rhngc of the nose which his companions
were unable to stop. Stock was brought
to his home and physicians discovered
that a small blood vessel In his head had
been rupturcd and an operation was per-
formed on Sunday. Stock. however, con-
tinucd to sneczc at intervals, thus undoing
the work of the physicians. lie died from
loss of blood.
~ am going TO kill myself. Ny family
will come for my clothes" Leaving this
note, Percy Popincau, l0-ycar-old son of
Chicago insurance man, disappeared
from the home Of Peter Hanson on the
Durham farm at Wayne Efforts of
searching parties to locate him or find his
body have proved futile. Popncau was
at Wayne to recover from nervous
breakdown. lie is writer of short sto-
ries and an artist. His illness worried
him and during the last few days he has
suffered from mclanchola. Police are
dragging Durham creek,
W. {. MINIS. wcll.known and truth
full farmer of Christian county. tells the
following remarkable story Last March
one of his prize porkers disappeared, and
all efforts to locate II were futile. On
June II it was discovered wedged in be-
tween a pile of bacd hay and the wall of
a shed. The hog had squeezed itself in
between the hay and the wall to a point
about thirty feet from the end, and was
prevented from going farther by the mar
rowing space. Here the animal remained
for three months, and three days without
water. The hog appears TO be none the
worse for the long fast, although it's
weight was reduced from 10 to 80
pounds.
Col. Alfred Miles ("Long") Jones. ~
years old, for years n picturesque figure
in Illinois politics, has fallen victim TO
the wiles OF Dan Cupid. The erstwhile
Republican war horse bowed the knee TO
the little god Of love the other day when
he and Miss Blanche J.. Smart. II years
his junior, were married. The marriage
of "Long" Jones, now owner of the fam
Gus Bethesda springs in Waukcsha, is the
elimination of n romance which had it's
inception several weeks ago, when he was
n patient at local santarium. His bride
was trained nurse, She was assigned to
his bedside. and during his illness there
developed a mutual attachment between
the white-aproncd attendant and her gray
haired charge.
John Symmetrical. one of the most
prominent farmers in Tazewell county,
was killed while blowing near Washing
ton. His team ran away. Summerfield,
In his efforts to stop the horses, fell be-
meath the pillow and his body was almost
cut in two. lie is survived by a widow
and three children.
Thomas A. j. O'Connor, money order
clerk of the Pacific and Southern Express
companies, who fed to Mexico several
months ago and was recently brought back
to East st. Louis on q charge OF embez-
zling $1,000, entered q plea of guilty,
He was sentenced To nm indeterminata