Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-09-26
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

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Alfred =. Goddard. for twenty years a
prominent Elgin insurance man, died the
other day.
Louis Davis Of Wayncsvillc was killed
by train at Bloomington while walking
on the track.
Henry Jones, n, coachman employed by
Thomas Rankin of Lake Bluff. set fire TO
the little bungalow in which he sleeps
| and was suifocated.
Joe" Wright and George Clegg. serving
| sentences for murder. escaped from the
state penitcntiary at Chester and crossed
the Mississippi in skiff
Mr.. and Mrs August Kurbat. promi-
nent in German Lutheran circles of west
ern Illinois. celebrated their iifteth we'd
ding anniversary in Kewanee.
Charles Thun. an aged German meri-
can resident Of Bloomington. went home
the other night and after an unsuccess-
full attempt to kill his wife hanged him
self.
Swallowing the contents of bottleUcon-
| tanning arsenic. thinking II to be medi-
cine Mrs. j. I. Webster wife Of n promi-
nent resident Of Atlanta, was fatally poi
soncd.
Four hundred ministers were In attend.
ance at the cighty-ffth session of the ILL.,
nois conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, which recently met in Car.
| rollton.
The Marion County bank has been or
ganizcd at I'atoka. with W. W. Davis
president. j. II. Davis vice president and
Il. Lily Barettc cashier. Capital stock
S25.OOO.
| James Farlow and Robert Welsh, two
prisoners confined in the Moultric county
Jail. sawed through the cell bars and made
their escape. Both were held for minor
charges.
The Rev DIR. William y. Wilder Of
| Pana has been offered the presidency Of
the National Training School for Mission.
airy and Dcaconescs ut Washington. ID.
c.. and will accept and assume his duties
Oct. I.
| 4 party Of seven at the home Of Frank
Milliken. south Of Sterling, also the fam
lilies of j. NJ. Jacobs and Charles Free
man. were poisoned by eating cold boiled
ham. Several narrowly escaped fatal con.
sequences.
Frank Powers il dead and Clarence
Potter probably fatally injured ny re-
suit of being caught by timber which roll
cd from a car which they were unloading
at the Crawford locomotive and car works
In Streator
\ license TO incorporate has been issued
by the Secretary of State to the Gales
burg, Aledo and. Northwestern Railway
Company. capital stock $4,000. The road
IL to be- constructed from Galcsburg TO
Rock Island and Muscntinc, Iowa.
"Joc" James. the negro indicted for
the murder Of Clergy 4. Ballard, and
whose life was sought by the mob during
the recent riots In Springfield hut who
was spirited away In an automobile,
pleaded not guilty when arragncd before
Judge Creighton.
Mr. and Mrs. David Il. Buitcrficld. liv-
ing northeast of Ottawa, celebrated the
fftieth anniversary Of their marriage the
other day. Ninety guests were present.
Mr.. Butteriicld was n member Of n party
Of forty who went from Ottawa by wagon
to the California gold fields In fSi0.
When Roy Young, III years old. entered
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Sangamon county to charges Of roting
and burglary and larceny, his action
marked the first conviction for particin-
ton In the lynching riots Of last month
In Springfield. Being under age. Young
was sentenced to the State reformatory
at Pontiac under the indeterminate sen
tence act.
While Fred Renth. who lives one mile
north Of Masc0utah, was swinging an ax
back of his home his l6.months-old child
Freddie. came running up TO him. In
observed. the child toddled in front OF
his father just as the kcen-bladed tool
descended. 1t cut clean into the little
ones head, penetrating the skull. The
doctor says the baby has a fighting chance
for recovery.
Walter Prayer of Chicago was shot by
masked men on a bridge across the I'LL
nos In Peoria. Two shots were fired by
the robbers. The second struck the man
In the left side and he fell to the ground.
The men rushed upon him and took $40
In bank notes from his pocket Bridge
tenders heard the shots and ran across the
bridge, where they found Prayer lying on
the bridge. They notified the police and
Prayer was taken to ST. Francis hospital,
where he Is in a critical condition.
After having tcrrorized the citizens OF
Edgemont for two days and nights, Club
Otin. miner, was shot and killed by
Charles Berger, owner of an ice cream
purlor. Otin began drinking heavily Sat.
urday night and Stalkcd the streets max
ing threats of trouble Entering Bergers
Ice cream parlor he attempted to slash
I,crger with a razor and was shot dead.
Berger immediately surrendered to the
police and was taken into custody. Otin
came from Mystic, Iowa. two years ago.
1t is said he had wife and two children
In Iowa,
Due to an attack of meningitis, eliza.
beth, the 5-year-old child of George De
Groot, of La Sale county, is in trance.
like sleep and cannot be awakened The
child has lain for more than thirty days
in this condition and appears to be IN a
, healthy condition, save for the abnormal
sleep.
William Hewitt, whose home is said ia
be at indianapolis, was found dead in a
field north of the electric light plant in
Harrisburg by some tranmen. No marks
were found on his person and the verdict
Of the corOner's jury was that he died of
heart disease, caused by an oyer-indul.