Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

ianitor. was found in the ruins % The Val
ley hotel. destroyed by fire i'll GRAFTON
President Frank G.. Barnes of Illinois
Wesleyan university at Bloomington has
resigned to take u post graduate course at
Harvard.
The Commonwealth Steel Company will
reopen its big plant AT Granite City. af-
ter month of dicnrss for 1000 men
employed there.
Fire In Rockford damaged the bust
ness block occupied by the Rock ford and
lntcrurban company and the W. Clark
Printing Company. TO the extent of ST.
800.
Henry lIollister was drowned while
boating on the Little Wabash river. near
Carmi. The capsizing of the boat was
witnessed by two small children. The
body has not been recovered.
Ioring Snow and Thurs,on Wildes have
taken to the county clerk at Cambridge
2GI crows. for which they were paid q
bounty Of $3.50. One hundred and for.
ty.nnc Of the birds were killed In one
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert II. Craig. pioneers
Of Henry and stark counties. celebrated
their sixiicth wedding anniversary In Ike
vance. They came from Vernon: in
1851. making part of the journey by pratt
ric schooner.
Paul Baker. the 3.year.old son Of Jos.
Baker Of Alton. woh was severely burned
while playing with matches. died the fol.
lowing morning. The child and little
brother had been left at home by Mrs.
Baker while she went to n neighbours to
do their washing when the accident oc-
Cured.
Andrew Tcnscl was instantly killed and
two others were seriously injured by the
falling of the west wall of the Hart
Wcighcr Company building. which was
recently destroyed by fire in Peoria. The
high wind which had been raging caused
the wall to topplc over. Fifty men were
nj work clearing away the debris when
the accident occurred.
Through fear of a panic u few months
since j. W. Corrinvton. an aged resident
Of Jacksonville. drew from his bankers
5000 In gold. and hid II at his home.
Thursday he found that thieves had taken
his horse and buggy and every cent Of
the $1,000. The horse was found later
In the day near u small town In the coun-
f.. but thcrc IL M trace of rho S5OOO
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, ,a". $500 ,,.,,,i" 80 a, " 's, , ",,''
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made the Elgn academy. affiliated with
Northwestern university, will he closed.
The \. VI. &. 4. building. to which insti.
tuition q. l.. Lord gave Sl5O.OOO, Is de.
clarcd to be n fire trap.
Tho Illinois confcrcncc of ,he J',i,ol
EynrpclicnI church concludcJ i,s sessions
Ia pcotonc rho rcnor,s Shaved n nros.
n.rous vo,r In tho churcb Tbc ,ssjc,.
mon, If Cbicnyo n,s,ors w,s ~ sol,ow..
Ashland oycnue q. 7 Ercy. no,rhorn
street, q, / sinister. niycrscy boulcvorJ,
j. q. Ellcr: Iloync avenue, +. W, Land.
wer: Harvard street. &. NJ. Kaufman:
Adams street. T.. X. Yenkle: Kimball
avenue. W. Il. Marshall.
Rooze will find o,nos,,io, n, tho ,o,,.
inc nI,c,s In SnrincGo,L InriI ? \, oh,
form nj coffee and sondwichos Innchos
will No surnishoL 10 ,ho r,i,hs,,i vo,ar
Vho npnonr IN hu In favor of crt shiuy
the dramshons but rho Ijouor nser will
NOT no depriyed of tho right m nor,okc
of tho Offering. This n,on has boon do.
cided upon by the women of Springfield
who have organized in attempt to bring
about the success Of the anti-saloon cru
SADIE.
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men were arrested. One of the prisoners
il alleged to have confessed that they
have coined and hidden more than ST..
600 in counterfeit money.
nh may no used NJ suol bv c.,t,oi
Illinois monufocturrnc p,onts n IN. conI
famine should become acute throurh the
strike of the miners. An oil company has
nine line from the Kansas fields I, the
Indiana rclincrics which passes throurh
central Illinois. The oil company has
been asked TO furnish n price for the oil
and If II is found that the expensp Is moi
prohibitiye the nine will be tanned and
loterals run 10 the central Illinois indus.