Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-22
ALL OVER THE STATE.

ALL OVER THE STATE.
Frank German. aged 40, was drowned
In the Mississippi river at Rock Island.
Ills boat capsizcd while he was fishing.
Mrs. Henry e. Bischoi1. wife Of a sotla
water manufacturer. and son were killed
BY gasoline explosion In CollinsvilDs
and another woman was badly burned.
Harry JeDcks. the i1.ycar.old son os
John Iencks. n wcll-known resident Of
E'gin, broke his neck while diving in the
Fox River at Trout Park and will die.
II" struck his head upon stump
Edward W. Olson of Rock ford was
Killed ~ Everetts. on the Illinois Ccntrn,
Itailroad. lie was walking along the
tracks aud stepped from one track 10
avoid train only TO be run over by an
other
John tyerlinsky. ~ Liberty street,
Chicago. laborer, was killed while work.
Ing NJ one of the naval training school
buildings near Waukegan. lie fell two
stories aud struck his head ON an iron
Lean.
While scuf.ing over the possession Of a
shotgun, Victor Swanson Of 81. Charles.
shoe his friend. Regnow Nelson. Seeing
what he had gone. Swanson then shot
himself. Nelson is dying and Swanson IN
dead =
watermelon patches containing hum
dreds Of ripcnng melons were laid waste
n the Green river valley when hail.
| storm passed over II. The hailsiones were
SO large that the biggest melons were III.
orally slashed to pieces.
For The first time this year Chicago IL
free Of smallpox. The last patient in
the isolation hospital was discharged the
other morning The hospital was closed
nc this time last year, showing that the
disease is not n summer mnlady
Jasper J.. Wood for many years u we'll
known resident Of DiQuoin. committed
suicide by slashing his throat with q
razor. with which he had just finished
shaving. lie left II note. bidding his fam
lily good.by. II IL thought his deed wns
prompted by III hcalrh.
Oscar Schneider became suddenly in.
sane ut Nandalia and, seizing n butcher
knife, terrOrizcd a whole neighborho0d he
fore he was arrested. During the inquiry
later Schneider declared he would kill
himself rather than go to the asylum,
| and, scizing u piece OF glass. severed On
artery In his wrist.
John Henry Porter. who. with his wife
and children, walked from Redbank, Pa,
10 Pontiac In a vain quest for work, has
found kind friends there though he In
still unemployed. lie has been given the
| use OF a vacant cottage ana neighbOra
are providing food for the family. An
effort will be- made to find work for the
persistent but unfortunate job hunter.
| burglars blew the safe In III. general
store OF j. i. Haley, in Shelter. and got
500 In cash. after ransacking the Wa
bash, Chester and Western railroad depot
and blacksmith shop in the village.
Haley was awakened at his home. acrOss
the street, by the explosion. aud. graspinx
his revolver. ran into his yard and opened
fire on the robbers. The burglars return
ed the fire, and held him at bay until they
escaped.
Mrs. Harriet Reeves. deputy county
clerk of Kankakee county, has the distinc-
ton of being the first woman to swim
the Kankakee river from shore TO shore.
Near her home the river is 600 feet wide
and there IL q strong current. She has
swimming class of young ladies, and
while instructing them announced her in
tention Of swimming across. Her pupils
attempted TO dissuade her. but she per-
| sisted and successfully performed the diff
cult feat.
Seven box ears and their contents, val
ned at $1,000, were destroyed. and other
property was endangered in fire which
broke out In the Michigan Central rail
road yards at One Hundred and Twenti-
eth street, Chicago. The blaze is beliey-
| ed to have been started by tramps who
had broken into a box car for lodging.
Quick work by the swtchmen saved .
greater loss. The burning section of the
freight train was "cut out" from the 9th
err cars and with buckets of water the
railroad employees fought the blaze until
the arrival OF the firemen. The firemeu
experienced difficulty in fighting the fire
because of the danger from moving trains
in the railroad yard
Richard Jordan, resident of Harris
burg, was shot and killed by Charles
Howard, a liveryman, following trouble
over rig. Jordan is said to have de
handed horse and buggy, and on being
refused attacked Howard, who then shot
him. Howard surrendered 10 the sheriff.
Jordan recently killed liverymnn Mt
Eldorado, following trouble of similar
nature.
II. j. Lewis, treasurer of the Savings
Life Insurance Company of Peoria, com
mitted suicide by taking poison in a sa-
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son and prominent lodge man. He
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