Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-03-27
NEWS FROM ILLINOIS.
Items from All Over the State Of
Matters Of Interest to Our
Readers.
Happenings Of the Week from Cairo 10
Chicago Carefully Compiled for
Busy Men.
SHORT STATE ITEMS.

SHORT STATE ITEMS.
Robert Fiede, 90 years old. a prominent
rass County pioneer. residing there since
the early '4Os. died at Charlottesville. Sat
nrdaq.
Sidney T.. Gorkey. % years old. West
Chicago. a brakeman on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad, was killed at Car
pentersville.
Nicholas Wood was acquitted Of at
tempting to kill u. II. Wood near Low
ington two years ago. Since that date
the death Of q. II. Wood has been expect
ed at any time and he has now lost his
mind.
The hot fiat iron which Joseph d.
Druse. q farmer Of New Design, took to
bed with him, burned one Of bis feet 20
badly that he died from resultant blood
poisoning. The accident occurred two
months ago.
Charles l.. Burpee, q prominent banker
and former Mayor Of Denver. Col. drop.
ped dead at the home Of his sister, Mrs.
Charles Brantingham. at Rockford. He
had attended q family reunion there the
previous day.
Rev. ]. F. 1Ackey Of GRANVILLE has &C.
cepted the call to the psstorate Of the
Presbyterian Church In Carrollton. The
church has been without Q pastor since
Rev. Robert L. Evans moved to st. Louis.
three months ago.
Governor Denecn has issued . procla.
ma releasing the quarantine on live stock
imported from the States Of Maryland,
Michigan and New Jersey, established
several weeks ago on account OF the foot
and mouth disease.
In an outbuilding at his home In So
rento William 4. Enloe. a politician In
Shoal Greek township, was found dead,
by his wife. Death was due to heart dis.
ease. lie was about % years old and
was an old soldier.
While Henry NARROW. a Kcwanee con.
tractor, was placing q stick Of dynamite
In q rock, the cap in bis hand was acct.
dentally discharged by defective bat.
terry. when only four inches from the ex.
plosive. Miraculously the dynamite was
not exploded.
Ulysses de Moulin. vice president OF
De Moulin Brothers Il Co.. lodge regslia
manufacturers In Greenville. was grant.
ed q divorce from Mrs. Emma De Mou.
lin. Charles II. Diamond. her brother.in.
law, q st. Louis street car conductor, was
named. No defense was made.
The entire coalhouse In Samuel Sedi.
mons back yard In Kewanee was stolen
| the other night. The building was loaded
on Q wagon, according to marks about
| the premises. The police are working on
this strange theft and 0edimon will offer
Q reward II his useful Institution In not
soon recovered.
After a heated argument and several
sessions. the senior class OF the Kewsnee
high school, voted to wear caps and gowns
at commencement. The greatest opposi.
ton to the innovation came from the
young women members Of the class, some
Of whom had to give up cherished plans
Of elaborate graduating dresses 90 result
Of the action.
Charles Bambaur, q years old, 10 near
death at the home Of his father, Jacob
Bambaur, two miles northeast Of Walsh,
a. a result Of two attempts at suicide.
Bambaur FIRST attached wire to the trig-
ger Of . shotgun. The charge shattered
bis right arm. He then no0sed Q rope
about his neck and leaped from q barn
rsftsr. His brother found him few min.
utss later and summoned q physician. Re-
covery Ii doubtful.
Chicago and Burlington passenger
train No. I was wrecked BY train wreck
ers at the Weary coal mine switch, 6vs
miles out Of Peoria. An investigation
showed where the lock on the switch had
been broken, the switch thrown and the
passenger. going ct the rate Of forty
miles an hour. thrown onto the siding
into q cut Of loaded freight cars. Tho
engineer and fireman jumped. Over 200
passengers were aboard.
| While temporarily insane. Andrew
Urechko Of Streator, u years old, satur-
sted his clothes with kerosene and ap-
piled . match, dying . few hours later.
Urechko was alone In his home at the
time. his body being found BY neighbors,
who discovered the house on Are and
broke down the doors. The death Of
Urechko marks the extinction Of his fam
lily, his wife and three sons having killed
themselves within the last few years.
DR.. j. G. Corbus. for twenty-ssven
years president Of the State board Of
charities and previous TO 1905 supsrin-
tendent Of the Illinois Eastern Hospital
for the Insane at Kankakee. died at Men.
dota, aged 10 years. In the Civil War
he served as assistant surgeon of the Sew
enty-6fth Illinois Infantry. lie was also
United States medical examiner for If
teen years. lie was formerly a member
Of the Republican State Central Commit
tee.
Two thousand four hundred patients,
attendants, members Of the administrative
staff, nurses and physicians at the Illinois
General Insane Asylum, South Barton
vile, passed through the hands Of the
surgeons and were vaccinated by order Of
Superintendent DIR. George A. Teller, who
set the example by himself being vacci-
mated. The general vaccination order was
carried out, when 1t developed that erup-
tions on the face and body of Grant Hall,
adjudged insane In Fulton County, and
sent to the asylum, were those of small
pox.
Found guilty of engaging In a drunken
brswl In . saloon, W. T., Penninger, an
attorney at the Northern Illinois Insane
hospital In Elgin, was discha rged by Su-
psrintendsnt v. H. Podstats. With him
were dismissed Eugene Crane and Charles
7. Achterman, who were charged with
| lighting and absence without permission,
respectively. The men, It 10 said, thought
they had pull, but they were summarily
discharged. '"rhe most frequent onense