Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-02-15
MINOR STATE ITEMS,

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been appointed to take charge of tho
Methodist church at Newman.
Charles and james Lipsy. brothers,
aged ~ and 30 years respectively, com.
mitted suicide in Raymond as the result
Of an agreement.
Former Vice President Stevenson de.
livered an address on "Stephen A. Doug.
las In Springfield before the Illinois
State Historical Society.
Frank o. Lowden has sold his four.
fifths interest In the Springfield Evening
News to Charles II. May. publisher Of the
Peoria 1lcrald.Transcript.
All the business houses in Rockford
were closed for the funeral Of Col. Thos.
q. Lawler. Services were held at tho
Centennial Methodist Episcopal churcl, at
2 p. m. Thursday. The schools Of tho
city closed.
The Mississippi Valley 1nterurban Rail-
way Company was Incorporated at
Springfield with a capital stock Of ST.
OO.OOO. II is planned to tuild a limo
through several cities in the central pare
Of the State.
Farmers Of Windsor and vicinity have
organized the Windsor Farmers Mutual
Elevator Company. with a $4,000 capi.
tai. SIO.UO Of which will he paid up
Harry Storm Is temporary secretary, and
has applied for a charter
A petition for submitting the local op-
ton question at the April town election
has been filed In Rockford. 1t contains
?.l65 names, over 1,1OO more than nee.
essary.
The graduate school Of the University
Of Illinois. Crbana. was formally opened
the other day. At the last session Of the
Legislature 100000 a year was voted to
maintain the school.
Gov. Denecn has issued call for a
special election for county judge In White
county, to fill the vacancy caused by tho
death Of Thomas Il. Barker. The cleo
ton will b. held on Saturday, Feb. ID.
While picking cucumbers last summer
Mrs. George 4. Pettigrcw. n farmers
wife near Fairfield. was prickcd on her
great toe by thorn from an anaran-
thus weed Blood poisoning developed
and caused her death. She was 10 years
old.
Rev. John A. Holmes Of Oak Park has
been called TO the First COngrcgat ionaIa
church Of Champaign. lie was formerly.
stationed at Pasadena. Cal.
Ollie Rockobind. whose home IN I'M
Clinton. Iowa. was struck and killed by a,
freight train nj Sterling. lie was wait.
ing Tor train TO carry him home.
.inrtin trophy ana John batter. aged
- and % respectively. who murdered
Floyd Churchill at Princcville last Octo.
ber were sentenced to fourteen years,
imprisonment In the Joliet pcni,cntinry.
Mrs. +. II. Hun. wife Of Supcrintend-
ent Hun Of the north and south division
Of the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
railroad. was shot In the head by John
Rutherford Of Mount Vernon, a 13-ycar-
old boy. who fired nj the passing train.
The weapon was 22-caliber rifle, and
the bullet struck Mrs. HUI In the head.
innicting severe wound.
The one hundred and one-quarter ton
family Of John Kramer and more than
two tons Of their heavyweight relatives,
thirty.ive In all, Toasted on ground hog
ut Fidelity. The combined weight Of tho
1000 pounds, broke the jOist
under the dining room floor. Fortunately
there was no basement beneath and tho
dinner party fell only two feet.
John Riordan. an inmate Of the Bar
tonville insane asylum, was killed by fall
ing from the top OF porch to the ground
Riordan was trusty and allowed moro
liberty than the ordinary patient. lie
slept In part Of the building where no
guard is kept and during the night walk
ed on to the porch. Ii was covered with
ice. lie slipped and fell. Riorhan had
been insane for twenty-seven years.
The champion nature taking story
comes from Fulton county. Bennett 4
Sons, Ice dealers there, were engaged in
out their houses preliminary to
storing the new crop, when they came
across ten tons which had been cut sew
eral years ago and overlooked. Exam.
ination showed the ice to be worthless,
having been completely honeycOmbed by
moths. When the discovery was made thu
ice was hoisted out and thrown to one
side to melt.
Mrs. Laura Hamilton Of Smell case
notoriety left Champaign at midnight the
other night. apparently recovered from
the nervous attack which kept her con.
fined to her apartments in local hotel
for several weeks. Mrs. IlamiltOn's dcsi-
nation is said to be Florida, where she
and her husband. Rev. u. A. Hamilton,
plan to begin life under new name.
Miss Edna Hamilton is still student at
the university and residing at the Alpha
Chi Omega house. She still wears the
diamonds said to have been given to her
by Col. Smell.
The l2-year-old son Of Charles Nc
Clellan of Mount Carmel was attacked
and bitten by bulldog. The hoy was
crossing a field near his home when tho
animal sprang at him, knocked him down
and bit him several times about the legs
before 1t was beaten off.
Mrs. Martha Ann Davis, 60 years old,
died In Peoria after an illness of dropsy.
During this time Mrs. Davis had been
operated on eighty-tive times and 1000
pounds of water drawn of at different
operations. Physicians declare the case
to be one of the most peculiar of it's
hind In tho historv of tho nrnctica IF