Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
NEWS FROM ILLINOIS.
Items from All Over the State 0;
Matters Of Interest to Our
Readers.
Happenings Of the Week from Cairo to
Chicago Carefully Compiled for
Busy Men.
SHORT STATE ITEMS.


II. Rampendahl, Jr., q Co.'S stave
and heading factory was almost totally
destroyed by fire at Metropolis.
Erba Drake. ii years old. was
struck by motor car in the Panama
coal mine while working as trap.
per at the gate, and died.
Mrs. John X. Lonergan. IS years
old, died at her home in Rockford.
She was the mother of nineteen chill.
dren. eleven of whom survive her.
The coroner from Mattoon was call.
ed to Oakland where Mrs. Samuel
Brading had died most suddenly. while
feeding her chickens in the back yard
Of her home.
The c.. p. & st. l.. station at Pal.
myra caught fire about 2 o'clock II
the morning from lightning. The FIRE
was extinguished before much dam
age was done.
While DIR. J. F. Harris was walk.
ing to the postoiiice in Ogden. he was
fred at from ambush. The shot miss.
ed, but on his return he was fred
at again and was wounded in the leg.
The police have been unable to find
the assailant.
Judge Harris at Paxton heard argu.
ments for the dismissal Of the case
against Private Joseph b. Klein, Of
Chicago. charged with killing O boy
while his regiment was on its way
10 Springfield. The case was taken
under advisement.
Robert F.. Pace drowned himself in
Mount Vernon. He premeditated self.
destruction. according to note he
left, saying he was respondent. He
was Ga years old. wealthy wheat
broker. and was postmaster under
President Cleveland.
The contract has been let by Peter
Weast Of Peoria for the erection Of
an eight.story hotel building on the
site now occupied by the Weast ga
loon and theater. The plans call for
21O rooms and the contract cost Of
the building Is $4,000.
A dynamite bomb was the means EN-
ployed by Carson Martin. a farmer liv-
ing south Of Mount Vernon. to commit
suicide. Martin took the explosive to
an outbuilding. The structure was
blown to bits and his body was scat.
tered over the premises.
Albert Jackson. a young business
man Of Farmer City. committed sui.
eide by cutting his jugular vein. He
was respondent over III health. His
parents and one brother. Rex Jack.
son, reside In Chicago. He was &C.
tive in secret society circles.
Mary Klikunas. Of Westville. engag.
ed to be married to John Marks. told
him that she dreaded the approach OF
her wedding day. The next morning
her mangled body was found on the
Big Four Railroad tracks. She had
thrown herself In front Of a train.
Mrs. Margaret Nohe. aged IS years.
mother OF former Legislator A. w.
Nohe. Of Chicago. died In Freeport.
She had been III three years with
paralysis. She was the mother Of
fifteen children. and there are twelve
grandchildren and seven great.grand.
children.
Fire that started In the wa\ehouse
Of the National Cooperage Company,
Apple and South Washington streets.
Peoria. destroyed the warehouse with
its contents and spread into the lum.
Der yards. destroying thousands of
slaves, hoops and tops before 1t was
got under control. The loss Is about
$4,000.
Grace Smith. the young wife Of
Charles Smith. formerly OF Carlyle.
threw herself under train at Lemon,
Colo. and was instantly killed. Her
husband conducts the Rock Island
Hotel at that place. She left note
which read: Am losing my mind.
Good.by to ALL" The body was taken
to Denver for burial.
A strike that may assume serious
proportions has broken out at the coal
mines Of the Big Creek Coal Company
at st. David. where 800 coal miners
have walked out and refuse to work
because the company, Of which Charles
!. Pierce. OF Kewanee, Is the head,
has installed two coal mining ma.
chimes and brought on new men to
operate them. The strike threatens to
spread to other mines.
Charles b. Thompson, proprietor of
a candy store in Pana, was arrested
and placed In Jail on charge of
having passed worthless check on
Eiler Blothers, grOcers of the same
city The check was signed, 1t is said,
by Thompson and was for s.. The
assistant States attorney dismissed
the case against Thompson, 1t is as.
serted. when his wife returned the 81
to Eiler Brothers and paid fine OF
$50 for her husband.