Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-20
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.
WITHIN OUR BORDERS.

The factory of the Columbia Heater
Company at Belvidcre was burned. Loss
$4,000. with $4,000 insurance.
st. Mary's Roman Catholic church at
West Brooklyn Wa destroyed by fire. 1t
cost $4,000 and was insured for $4,000.
In Kewanec Harry Swanson. 90 years
old. while shooting gophcrs trippcd and
his gun was discharged The load of
shot passed through his neck. instantly
killing him.
While she was playing croquet at her
fathers home in jacksonville Mrs. J. Il.
Austin of Franklin was shot dead by her
husband. from whom she had been sep
arated three weeks.
l.. X. Roach. for several years yard
master for the Baltimore and Ohio South
western In Pana. committed suicide by
swallowing carbolic acid. lie had been
brooding over the death of his wife.
which occurred several years ago.
While standing in the doorway Of his
barn in Harrisburg. waiting for a thun-
der storm to pass over. Clarence Cum
Minis was struck by lightning and instant
~ killed. Ills hat was burned from his
head and his shoes were torn from his
feet.
The peach crop In southern Illinois this
season will be light. many growers having
only a few trees laden with fruit. The
budded varieties have not borne well for
many years and this spring the untoward
weather cut short tie crop. Seeding trees
are full.
Caroline lIoagland. a patient at the
Illinois Eastern hospital In Kankakce.
was found dead locked In the screen room.
IL developed at the coroncr's inquiry that
the patient died during the night. but no
body knew at what time or under what
circumstances.
After a three days search. Hazel Bat
man. a Decatur high school girl. was
located at Springfield. where she had gone
TO make her own way. The girl left
rather than tell her parents she had fail.
ed to make the required marks and could
not graduate with her class.
The Carondclet, Waterloo and Columbia
Auto Transit Company filed articles Of
incorporation In Waterloo. II will run an
automobile passenger and freight line
from the Mississippi river Mt East Car0n-
dclet to Bixby. thence to Columbia and
Waterloo. about twenty-five miles.
Momence. Il In said. has two citizens
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall-who have nineteen
living children. the fruits Of twcnty-one
gears Of married life. Tie wife and moth.
er In one Of family Of twcnty-eight chill.
dren. and she has a sister living In Chi
cago, who Is the mother Of seventeen chill.
drcn. although she In only ~ years old.
With his face beaten. his left leg brok.
On and suffering from internal injuries.
Fremont 81. Masters. 20 years old, Of
Streator. was found in an unconscious
condition In an alley near South Water
street. In Chicago. by Policeman Flani-
gan OF the central station. No money
was found In his pockets and II 10 the be-
lief OF the police that he was rhe victim
Of . hold.up.
Some of the recent Sundays have wit.
messed the unusual sight of nearly half
Of the farmers about !Arcola working In
the fields. The season IL late and heavy
rain during May delayed spr' 4 blowing
and planting to such an Q, mt that the
farmers now believe they must avail them.
selves Of every favorable moment for
work. The latcncss of the season will In.
crease the broomcorn acreage.
An interurban electric car on the Nc
Kinley System Line. containing fifteen
passengers, cOllidcd with Wabash coal
train At a crossing mile south OF Staun-
ton. killing Charles Boehmer Of Hitch.
Geld aud iujuriny five other passengers.