Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-23
Items from All Over the
State of Matters of In.
terest to Our Readers.
Happenings of the Week from Cairo
to Chicago Carefully Com.
piled for Busy Men.
WITHIN OUR BoRDERa

WITHIN OUH BONOGHN
DR.. r. G. Taylor. aged n. Civil War
veteran and one Of the city's foremost
physicians. died in Carmi.
The Illinois State Conference Of
Charities and Corrections was held at
Peoria with 1000 delegates in attend.
ance.
Miss Florence Hansen. secretary OF
the Young Women's Christian Associa.
ton In Springfield, has resigned to &C.
cept similar position at Springfield,
Mass.
Thirty.four persons. most Of them
women. were injured in two street car
collisions at st. Louis due to slippery
tracks. Mrs. Amelia Pfeifer Of Cen.
tralia was seriously injured.
Burglars entered A. W. Ford's Jew.
elry store and stole watches, rings and
other jewelry valued at $3.50 and es-
capped. The proprietor was asleep In
the store at the time Of the theft.
william H. Thatcher. who has been
treasurer and assistant treasurer OF
Whiteside county for forty.two years.
and who was the first clerk Of Sterling,
IL dead at his home In Morrison at
the age Of 81 years.
Mrs. Alkaline Werner Lee, q mu.
stefan and member OF wealthy OF.
tawa family. has been granted a di.
vorce from Burton Cook Lee. to whom
she was married September IS. 1900.
Mrs. Lee was given the custody OF
their child.
Eight persons suffered injuries when
an Elgln.Aurora interurban car col
lided with a Walnut avenue car at
South State street and Walnut avenue.
in Elgin. Wet leaves falling on the
rails caused them to become slippery
and the brakes failed to hold.
Elmer Popejoy and Isaac Fritz were
killed and Noah Jenkins fatally in
jured recently at Lexington when the
buggy in which they were driving
across the Chicago Z Alton tracks was
struck by locomotive which had been
hidden by a passing freight train.
Arthur Keithley. disbarred as an
attorney and indicted two years ago
on a charge Of circulating reports at
lacking the character Of. the late
Judge Mccullough. was found guilty
by jury in the Circuit Court In
Peoria. Unless new trial IL granted
he must serve q term in prison or pay
a fine Of $1,000. or both.
Disclaimed by his parents. the body
Of Frank Scheiper. who was run over
and killed by train In Monmouth,
was buried In the potter's field. Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Scheiper. the dead
mans parents, reside ut Peoria. They
had been estranged from their son for
several years. owing. 1t is said, to the
latter's dissolute habits.
Registration figures at the University
Of Chicago showed the largest attend.
ance in the history Of the institution.
with gain Of seventy.three over 1908.
OF the 2.2l8 students for the fall term
1889 are men and 929 women. The
increase in the college Of literature
and arts Is thirty.eight and the grad.
uate schools show thirty.four more
students.
Chicago postoffice inspectors, under
General James r. Stuart, began an In.
vestigation into the robbery OF the
Bank Of Varna. Burglars broke into
the bank building blew open one Of
the vault doors and carried away 3762
in postage stamps and supplies. The
Varna bank Is used as a depository for
stamps and general postal supplies by
the Varna postoiiice.
The body OF the man found In the
drainage canal at Lemont was identi-
fed as that Of Albert Kirchner. men,
Der Of the c0operage Arm OF Kirchner
Brothers, West Twenty.second and
South Halsted streets, Chicago. Kirch-
ner disappeared from home October 8.
The coroner's jury decided he died
from drowning, but was unable to de-
eide whether his death was suicidal
or accidental.
Francis G. Blair. State Superintend.
ent of Public instruction, insists that
all country schools, as we'll as those In
towns. have plenty of shade trees and
shrubbery near the buildings. That ia
one OF the points-and one of the most
important, holds the superintendent
In which country schools must be-
found equipped In order to receive the
official o. X. from the State office in
the campaign for model rural schools.
A large house cat belonging to Sol
l.. Hall and wife, Carmi, discovered a
copperhead snake trying to make it's
way into the house. While pussy
started out to make plaything of
the snake 1t soon found that 1t had a
real fight on Its hands. Mrs. Hall ar
rived toward the end of the battle
to see pussy fasten Its teeth and claws
In the neck Of the snake, and snaky
soon went to the happy hunting
grounds.