Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-01-11
Items from All Over tho State Of
Matters Of Interest to Our
Readers.
Happenings Of the Week from Cairo to
Chicago Carefully Compiled for
Busy Men.
ALL OVER THE STATE.

by train near ringrcc station.
Four hundred employees of the Illinois
| Central shops here have been laid OF ID
| Clinton.
The new $4,000 NJ Il. church 10
Moweaq,ia has been dedicated. nr. lHk
Of Philadelphia. Pa. officiating.
While out hunting Jacob Mowrcr of
bloomington spicd number Of apples
in tree. In climbing to get them. he
fell and broke his neck.
Fire damaged the building belonging to
| the Kaufman estate and occupied by the
Quincy Laundry Company in Quincy. The
loss to both parties is estimated at 81
coo.
Fire Of mysterious origin partially de-
stroycd the home of Dr. j. +. flory In
Elgin. No one was at home nj the time
Officials believe the place was set ou fire.
as they detected a strong odor Of ksro~
sene.
Grant Sammons Of Kewanes. IS years.
| DID. after welcoming his two sisters whs
had returned home after a visit. went
into the barn to feed the horses and WAS
killed by the accidental discharge Of u.
rife. The ball passed through his mouth.
The shops of the Chicago and NI,ot
railroad In bloomington. with 1000 mcts
on the pay roll. rcopened after = shut.
down commencing 1'cc. ~. The round
house and some minor departments which
were reduced Dec. TO eight hours will
work ten.
At meeting Of the Republican, con-
gressional committee Of the Twcur,-hfth
district vt Murphy Captain y. IT,
rhistlcwood Of Cairo was nominated FOR
Congress to I'LL the vacancy accustomed
by the death Of the late Reprcscui alive
George W. Smith.
Robert J. Desmond tclcphoncd to Mrs.
John Freed In Sterling that he was cu,n.
ing to kill her and then commit suicide.
lie appeared ut the hour he Ntid he'
would and fired at her. but the buIlcs
missed her. Desmond then shot ti,us,if.
but will recover from his wound.
4 hermit who lived In u log cabie i'm
the timber southeast Of Red Bud. shoe
himself In the stomach with suicidal in.
tent and will die. lie owned forty acres
Of land. on the rental Of which he lived.
lie could not get the land cultivated aud.
fearing starvation. resolved to die.
Gladys Richardson. IL years old. ans
Lawrence Richardson. ~ years old. chill
drcn Of Joseph Richardson. wer, killed
by M Illinois Central train near Ncogm.
They were on their way to school. and In
leaving one track to allow n train TO pass.
stepped directly In front Of another. Z,
After filing suit for divorce. Mrs.
Indic Upton ended her life IN Elgin. She
Is the wife Of \. H. Upton. who disap-
pcnrcd about u month ago. The couple
were brought together. II Is claimed. by
the Marion Grey matrimonial agency. "
was reported NJ the time that Mrs. Upton,
was IN hcrcss.
l'nlcss the town Of Cicero comes MP
with something like $1,000 which |, owes
the city In back water bills II will he COM
, PEELED to Stake its thirst In sonnet hing
stronger than the liquid drawn from Lake.
Michigan. Supt. Harper Of tho water
department has served notice upon the
town that II must produce the money ut
once or go dry.
II hns been announced TINT Col. Yes.
pasinn Warner. United States commits
, sioner Of pensions. will erect IN nrn,Ory
NJ his HON" city of Clinton to cost $.,O.-
OO for the use Of n proposed company Of
State militia. Efforts to organize com.
pany have been hampered by lack OF
| bViNlIUs UUt NUTufE MN TtVuNtu
, the difficulty.
The explosion Of lamp NJ the home
of George Steger In Collinsville burned
his three children TO death. The flaming
oil saturated the bclclothcs covering tho
sleeping children. The children who lose
: their lives were Joseph, years old;
Mary. = years old. and GEORGE II months
old The mother Mrs. Mary Steger, was
: burned seriously Ia trying TO rescue the
children.
Five men were injured olfc of them
seriously, when an east-bound work train
of five coaches, carrying 800 mon, on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and 81. Paul rail-
road, crashed into the rear end OF u
freight train NJ Kcdzic avenue, Chicago.
, Failure on the part of the engineer in
charge of the work train 10 see u danger
signal ON the rear freight ear is given as
the cause of the accident.
, | Father Nolitns, pastor of the I.ithu-
anian Catholic church of 81. Anne barely
escaped assassination while asleep in the
parOchial residence across the street FROM
his church, The would.bc murdcrcrs fired
three shots through the window of his
bedroom and one Of the bullets just miss.
q ell the priest. This Is the second time
the pastoral residence has been attacked
j. on another occasion dynamite was used,
!. partly wrecking the building,
!. The watch night service AT the Swed.
J. ish Methodist church in Kewance was
:. subjected TO n strange interruption. Just
q before the stroke of II n man in Indian
= costume, bedecked with feathers, carry
o ing spear and slislening with war paint.
& entered the rear door of the church and
d rushed through the aisle, utlcrlng war
@ whoops. One woman tainted and many
e were unnerved. \ reward is offered foe
p information as to the mans identity,
William Lowman Of Galesburg has juse
celebrated his l05th birthday anniversary.
lie was born in Madison county, Ken
[, lucky. lie remembers clearly many oc.
currences of ninety years ago. Mr. Low
If man cast his first vote for Gen, Zachary
ID TAYLOR. shortly after the Mexican war.
$. lie is still active.
et DIR. William II. Hamilton, aged OF, ey-
" Mayor of Peoria, and who enlisted as a
q, volunteer surgeon under commission
II from Gov. Morton of Indiana in 1863,
y died the other night. lie was III only u