Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-05-30
Items from All Over the State Of
Matters Of Interest to Our
Readers.
Happenings Of the Week from Cairo to
Chicago Carefully Compiled for
Busy Men.
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.

u)We east OF MOUNT STERLING. celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary.
Lightning struck the shaft Of the Supc-
ror coal mine. near Bellcville, causing
the imprisonment of 100 men for nearly
an hour.
Philip NJ. Gundlach. said 10 be mill
ionaire and one of the wealthiest men in
southern Illinois, died at Bellcvile of
Brights disease.
The body of Mary Carmody. little
daughter Of G. NJ. Carmody of Galesburg,
was found in a tub of water, into which
she had fallen.
Christopher Bemming Of Rock Run. "A
years old, and Mrs. Elizabeth neitkan Of
Gratiot. Wis.,, II, were married in Free
port the other day.
Nine-year.old Maree L. Trevor of Ma.
rion was awarded Carnegie silver medal
for rescuing a 7.year.old boy who fell
into flooded stream.
The committee of the Illinois Christian
,hurch at Bloomington decided the charges
OF heresy against members Of the faculty
ofAhe Eureka college to be unfoundcd.
One of the levees In the lower part Of
Beartlstown. upon which men had been at
work for a week. broke. inundating TWEEN.
ty.five residences and compelling the fam.
lilies to vacatc.
Mrs. Conrad Tilkmeicr. wife of one Of
the wealthiest residents Of Stephenson
county. hung herself in storeroom In
the family home near Dakota village. She
was nearly 20 years old.
Ivan J. Coles of Gillespie was seized
with cramps and drowned In an attempt
TO rescue friend similarly stricken in
reservoir. a Carnegie silver medal has
been awarded to his mother.
Game Commissioner Wheeler has ship.
ped $4,000 pheasant eggs from the State
game farm near Auburn to various parts
of the State for Matching purposes and
like number are being Matched at the
game farm.
Ensign and Mrs. Robert Booth Of the
Salvation army were indicted In Rock
Island for murder by the Rock Island
county grand jury. charged with having
caused the death Of 2-months.old babe
found dead in their bedroom with its
throat cut.
James Reno, aged ~. has signed con.
tract to walk from Guthrie, Okla. to
Washington. ID. c.. pushing whcclbar.
row, carrying a message of religious
yociety to President Roosevelt. As a
practice trip he will walk from Kcwa.
nee TO Guthrie.
Walter Mathicson. 10 years old. at.
tempted TO commit suicide by hanging
himself with his bel; in cell in the West
Chicago avenue police station In Chi.
cago. llc'was found and cut down. lie
will recover. lie had been arrested on a
charge Of disorderly conduct.
George G.. Cummings of Mount Yer
non, a Spanish-Ameriran war veteran,
arrived at Mount Carmel the other day,
and. after greeting his father, went TO
the local Y. NJ. e. a. building. where he
was given room, and committed suicide
a few minutes later by swallowing car.
bolic acid
The Bisseli college Of engraving in En-.
ingham has been practically put out of
business by the screwng down of the lid
since the local option law went into Of.
feet. The city council failed to grant
permits to druggists TO sell alcohol for
medicinal and mechanical purposes. and
students are unable 10 procure alcohol
for their work.
Judge W. q. Cochran In the De Witt
County Circuit Court handed down a dc.
rision In favor Of vespasian Warner.
United States pension commissioner, In
his protest against spreading upon the
lax hooks the nssement of S1,250.OOO
evied against the Warner estate by the
'oard of review. The court held that an
error had been made IN not notifying the
EXECUTOR. The mistake costs the county
thousands Of dollars.
Otto Geiger, a bookkeoper at the Joliet
branch of the Hammond Packing Com.
'any, is missing. and his employers de-
'lare he Is short In his accounts. No def
lite statement of the amount of the short
'ge Is given out, but II is estimated M
rom $1,000 TO 5000 George Reayy,
manager OF the branch. declares that Gel.
GERS hooks are "doctorcd," and that firms
hat have paid cash are charged with
he purchases for seyera months back.
The shortage was discovered when Fred
Fritz. local butcher submitted receipts
'or sums for which he had not been given
,redit
Because there We're no witnesses. a note
eft by Miss Anna Horn. who committed
suicide in Macoupin county two months
lgo, and which directed that all her estate
10 given to her sister, Mrs. Henrietta
SnOlhauf of ST. Louis. has been declared
'oid as will in the County Court. The
curt declined TO accept Az fact that
Miss Horns death and tina reference TO
Ter intention to kill herself, In the note.
we're evidence that she alone wrote the
will. The court, instead, decided that she
lied intes,ate and will appoint an admin
strator TO divide the property among the
elatives. They Include the following
rother and sisters Mrs. Caroline Baum
enistel of Alton, Mrs. Henrietta Knoll
auf of st, Louis and Louis Horn of
Brighton.
o. H. Loomis, aged SO years, a pioneer
usiness man, died in Kewanee. lie had
cen Sunday school superintendent
niger than any other person in the
'orld, according to recent Investigations
y church societies. For sisty-two years
Q had been superintendent of the Con.
regatiOnal Sunday school there.
w. j. II. Strong, president and pro-
,oter of the defunct American Company
I Momence, Is on trial in the Kankakee
'Ounty Circuit Court on charge of OBJ.
lining money under false pretenses. How
off of