Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-03-06
ALL OVER THE STATE.

Miss Carrie Fisher. who lived FIVE
miles south of Central. committed suicide
BY hanging In the corn crib. She was 81
years old.
Hugh u. Hess. a motorman of the ILL
no;s Traction System. was cle!.rocuted
at Attic, while repairing a headlight wire.
lie was unmarried.
Edward Exby. son of II. T.. Exby. trav-
cling engineer Of the Illinois Central
Railroad. was killed by electricity In the
roundhOuse at Carbonate.
DIR. Il. +. Coop has sold his farm OF
427 acres southeast of Greenville to
Frank Potthast and John johnson. The
consideration was $2S.755.
Mrs. c. w. williams. wife Of the for
mer horseman whose race tracks In indie
pendence. Iowa. and Galesburg were we'll
known. Is dead Of apoplexy.
George Rupp. aged 6S. Of Rupp Broth
ers. dealers In iron for many years, drop
ped dead while attending mass at st.
Francis Catholic Church In Quincy,
George Muldock. Z years old. son Of q
merchant, broke through the Ice on the
Rock River at Oregon, while at play and
was drowned. The body was not recov-
cred.
More than 1900 Illinois corporations
have failed to report to the Secretary Of
State. as required by law. rs to the
names Of their officers and the kinds Of
business they are engaged In.
Robert North. a young farmer. near
Gridley. was found dead In the snow
near his home. lie had been missed for
two days. While hunting he fell, shoot
ing himself through the neck.
Robert North, young farmer, near
Gridley. was found dead In the snow near
his home. with a load Of shot through
his neck. lie Is supposed to have shot
himself accidentally while hunting.
A boy baby, probably two weeks old.
was found hanging from the girders Of q
railroad bridge few miles west Of Ster-
ling. 1t was strangled to death and was
wrapped In several Chicago newspapers.
Adam Yogum. a bachelor, aged %
years, who had lived a miser for thirty
years near Chadwick, was found dead In
bed. and under n straw beltick $500 In
gold was discovered In addition to several
bank certificates.
While playing highwayman with
shotgun In the garrett mt the home Of
John II. Jones. u high school pupil. In
Bloomington, the gun was accidentally
discharged by Jones. instantly killing
Walter Bean, 10 years old.
Jonas Ringers family In Sterling eel.
cbrated six birthdays the other day. Tho
father IL o., the son Jonas 49, Jennie and
| Susan, twins, are 90, and Clayton and
Robert. twins, are %. All were born on
the same day of the month.
Charles and Amanda Switzer were ar
rested ut Carmi on a charge Of wholesale
burglaries. They were operating house,
boat on the Wabash River. and when Of
fcers searched the boat over $1,000 In
stolen merchandise was found.
Luke Crews. one Of the commission
crs Of the Mount Erie drainage canal.
was shot and perhaps fatally wounded
by the accidental discharge Of gun In
the hands Of his nephew. Frank Crews,
while duck hunting near Springfield.
The department Of household science
| Of the Illinois farmers institute re.elect-
ed Mrs. II. A. McKeene Of Springfield,
President; Mrs. J. NJ. Altman. of Gil
lespie, Vice President. and Mrs. Jennie
G. Barlow. Of bloomington, Secretary.
Miss Amanda Mahlandt. daughter of
Mic Mahlandt, one OF the wealthiest
farmers Of WheatAeld Township. eloped
to Bellevillc with Andr,w McAlistc-. Of
Beckmeyer. They were married Were
and will make their home In Beckmeyer.
The Illinois Terminal Railway Com
pany and the Illinois Glass Company of
Alton were fined $4,000 and $4,000 re-
spectively, In the United States District
Court at Springfield, for violation Of the
interstate commerce law. Both companies
pleaded guilty.
In ManitowOc, Wis.,, Miss Blanch Rose
Boehm of St. Louis christened the steel
passenger steamship United States, own
ed by the Indiana Transportation Com
pany, of which ]. ]. Spiro Of Chicago,
Miss Boehm's fance, Is president. The
ship 10 the first on the lakes OF the ocean
type.
John 1Ooney, attorney and newspaper
publisher, and w. w. Wilmerton, pub
Usher of the Morning Journal, formerly
owned by IOoney, engaged In duel with
revolvers In a street In Rock Island, in
front of Wilmcrton's office. Iooney sus-
tanned wounds In the abdomen, but was
not seriously hurt,
| Dale McKown, 20 years old, committed
suicide by shooting at his home In Allan
tn. He had been attending a business
college in bloomington and of late had
been in i'll health. lie left this note
Dear Folks: have tried so hard to GET
well. Love each other and tell Oscarine
she Is not to blame" lie had been a
student at Valparaiso, Ind, and the Uni.
versity of Illinois
| Charging that his son Joseph Is a
thief, Joseph IIartly, wealthy contrac.
tor of South Chicago, has asked the Chi
cago police to help him find the boy, who
| Is IL years old. The father left the boy
In charge of the Office while he went to
dinner. When he returned Joseph, Jr.,
was gone and so was $500 which was In
| the safe. Hartly refused to shield the
boy, and he employed detectives to cap.
ture him.
Henry Thomas, 40 years old, charged
with having murdered his mother, Mar
garet Thomas, SO years old, in their home
In Winnetka Dec. "a, 1908. was SEN
fenced to thirty-fve years In the peniten-
tiary by Judge McSurely In Chicago. Ac-
cording to the evidence of the accused's
brother, he struck his mother on the head
with an AZ. The defendant insisted that
his mind was a b'sas on the day Of the
killing a. result q drinking bout Of