Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-09-19
AMONG OUR NEIaHBoRs.

George Bruiton of Joliet claims to have
invented an automatic gas burner which
effects n great saving of money.
All records for duck shooting licenses
were broken at Joliet Sept. I. Every
man with a gun was on the river.
The possim which has made its home
under Nixon's cigar store In Alton ven.
tured out TO get the air and was killed.
Fire In the Newcastle greenhouse Of
the Coatsworth.l'enthey Company. for.
lists. Of Chicago. caused damage estimat.
ed at $l5.OOO.
llahlon W. Rickert Of Aurora was kill.
ed sixty miles west of Pierre. y. d.. by
the falling of u roof. The body was taken
to Aurora for burial.
In suit ut Quincy II IL charged that
one mans horse picked another mans colt
up with its teeth and threw 1t on top Of
a fence, injuring 1t for life.
Mrs. Annie Bones Is dead. the result Of
being hurt In runaway Mt Mount Yer.
non. The team she was driving was
frightened by an automobile.
Edna. the 2.year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. John Il. Stewart Of Centralia.
fell into a bowl Of boiling water and was
scalded so badly that she died.
The postofficc at Walnut Grove was
robbed Of $40 In cash and 81 in postage
stamps. Ycggmcn blew open n small safe
and escaped without leaving n clcw.
Sapucl l.. Chase. aged -. n well-known
farmer, living In Durham and a resident
of the county for sixty-fve years. hanged
IL, ha hsIx nj
by his daughter.
Failing to observe one Big Four train
while watching another. Mrs. Jacob
Knapp. aged ~. wife Of wcll-known
resident Of fremont. was instantly killed
at bloomington.
The Secretary Of State has issued ar
! ticles Of incorporation to the Saline Coun.
~ Traction Company. capital 5000,
which Is to build an electric line from
Eldorado to Carriers Mills.
A store building belonging to George
Wymnns. the residences Of Sam Raglan
and the Rev. J. Williams were burned In
Mount Vernon. The loss. which was ST.
100. was partly insured
Ellis Wennt was arrested In Paris while
selling whisky by the bottle In the base
mon; Of the court house. Paris Is n dry
| town and Wennt was doing u rushing
business when caught.
The remaining two of the five convic,s
who escaped from the Illinois State Re-
formatory Sunday night were captured by
a posse near Fairbury. where they had
been hiding for two days.
4 horrible accident In which child of
Morris Kirby. 3 years old. was crushed
TO death, occurred near Benson. While
moving q building the little one fell un.
der one Of the rollers and was crushed.
Miss Gertrude Williams. sister Of May.
or Williams Of Mount Vernon. the orig.
innl dry" mayor Of southern Illinois.
was married to II. J. Warren, n "iloly
Jumper" from Waukcshn, WIS.,, the other
day.
Primary election Is an expensive lux
ury for Warren county. Clerk Gaycr.
having completed checking the bills. finds
a total Of $l.2|7.,vD. being an average Of
| ~ cents for each vote cast ut the recent
| primary.
Frank Stout, who six years ago was
acquitted after a long trial on a charge
Of murder. seriously wounded John Gloss
in Springfield. The trouble was caused
shot In self.defensc.
| George Mulligan, employed ut logging
camp on Chandreau Island. was brought
to Quincy with two pistol balls In his
body. the result Of IN encounter at the
camp with J. Il. johnson Of Burlington.
Mulligan's condition il serious.
Mrs. Lucrctia Splitter Of East St. Louis
filed suit for divorce In the Bellevillc
Circuit Court. She ALLEGES that Otto
Price Splitter left her July I, 1907. after
stating that he could not longer live with
her because she was frcckle faced.
A Rockford and Interurban ear crashed
into buggy containing three men at
Mulfords Crossing, killing Nels Nelson.
while his companions. Charles Ryberg
and \. j. REIN. were terribly injured.
| The party was returning from a nutting
| trip.
Detectives are making a search for
| three men who are believed to have
| boarded n train bound for Chicago after
dynamiting n safe in the pos,o'lcc in
Polo, and escaping with 500 and 500
worth of postage stamps and stamped let.
| tiers.
At Bristol workmen digging n tile ditch
found u petriiied what-iS-ir.' which looks
| like a parrot, but isn't. Near by was
uncarthcd an Indian skinning knife. The
bird, il it is one, has beak like Il
parrot. II Is now on exhibition at an
Aurora store,
John Bcrnhardt, so years old, n resi-