Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-29
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Melvin watts. aged III. was drowned
while bathing In Rock river. at Oregon.
William +. Ritter. a farmer, residing
near KinInundy. was kicked by horse
and killed.
Frank Knapp. aged % years. was run
over and killed by Burlington train
south of Centralia.
Mrs. Rosa Conroy. 81 years old. Of
Mason City. who imagines that blood.
hounds chase her. was taken to the asy-
lum at Jacksonville.
The body Of n well.dresscd woman was
picked up by the Goodrich liner Carolina
eight miles from Waukcgan. There Is
no clew to her identity.
Louis Ryan shot himself and his wife
at Noble. Mrs. Ryan may recover. but
the attending physician says that Ryan
cannot recover.
4 crusade has been started by the llar-
risburg City Council against cigarette
smoking and an ordinance has been pass
ed making 1t an ofcnsc for merchants
selling cigarettes containing any sub.
stance other than pure tobacco. The Or
dinance also provides that any person
under IS caught smoking on the streets
will be fined. Persons allowing minors
to smoke on their premises also will be
fined.
Mrs. William A. Ball. who began suit
In replcvin In the Circuit Court in Spring
field a few days ago against Il. q. Gold
smith. q former county judge, for dia-
mond valued at 500, has filed bond and
obtained possession of the gem. Mrs.
Ball has three witnesses who, she says,
were present when she found the stone In
the crop Of a chicken while dressing the
fowl. Goldsmith asserts that he lost the
stone from ring ut the funeral OF
friend nearly a year ago. lie identified
the gem by its peculiar weight and size.
Charles Casilino. an Italian Of John.
ston City, received letter directing him
to deposit 500 In barrel on the @. 4
T.. !. bridge. II he failed to do so his
life would be the penalty, the letter said.
The money was to be placed there Thurs
day night. Casilino notified Sheriff bul.
liuer, who advised putting $50 In the
barrel. At the hour named the sheriff,
with his deputies, caught the offender
Immediately after he got the money. The
writer of the letter proved to be Sicil-
ian, working In u store there. He IL call
ed Antonio. He Is In the county Jail at
Marion.
James IL. Eaton sued Edward Mayo,
farmer near Champaign, for $4, which
he says IL due him In addition to his
regular wages for killing ninety-six rats.
Eaton alleged that when he went to work
for Mayo an agreement was made that
he was to receive - cents for each rat
he killed. In spare time and on rainy
days he kept his eye on rat holes, and
when his contract for farm work was end
ed had ninety-six rats charged to his en-
ployer. Mayo refused to pay the amount
and took the matter into court, where
Eaton got judgment for S5,75, it being
proved that he killed twenty-three rats.
The will of the late Peter Meier, the
7O-year-old Jerseyvile hermit, who was
found dead In his box car home Aug. q.
has been filed in the Probate Court at
Jerseyville. Meier left the greater part
of his estate to charity. The will directs
that $4,000 be placed in trust for the
benefit of his wife, Caroline Meier, who
is in the Central hospital for the insane
at Jacksonville, lie leaves $1,000 to the
German Evangelical Orphans Home at
Hoyelton. The remainder of the estate,
both real and personal, he bequeaths to
the Evangelical Synod of North America,
to be used for the benefit of the widows
and orphans, and directs that the most
needy have the preference. The estate
is valued at $4,000.
August Engelhausen, Forest Park, sho-
twice at his wife, and then committed
suicide by shooting himself in the mouth.
His wife was only slightly wounded. The
shooting was the outcome of quarrel
about property owned by Mrs. Engel-
hansen.
Alta Lentz of Jacksonville and Kenneth
Reynolds of Buffalo were run over by
freight train on the Wabash in Hannibal,
Mo. Lentz was killed instantly and Rey-
nods died within two hours. They were
walking IN the track and did not see or
hear thu approaching train. Both are
young men and had just arrived In Han
sibal.