Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-25
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.
SHORT STATE ITEMS.

SHORT STATE ITEMS.
Mrs. A. N. Piper, fifty-flve years
old, was struck by train at Freeport
and instantly killed.
The accidental discharge Of q shot.
gun caused the death Of Henry Kop-
pen, farmer living near Damascus.
Clyde Grover, seventeen years old,
while fox hunting near his home in
Brown county was accidentally shot
and died.
Timothy Ramsden. one Of the old
settlers Of Dix township, died at his
home in Elliott. He leaves three
daughters.
Fire destroyed the livery barn Of
o. o. Read, barber shop Of L. r. 0raus.
tof and saloon Of Koch 3 0reenaecsh
In Strawn.
The board Of education has placed
. ban on football In the Sterling high
and public schools. declaring the game
dangerous to life and limb.
Fire destroyed the warehouse Of the
Como Mills. containing about 100 car.
loads Of grain, at East st. Louis. The
loss IL estimated at 100000.
Guy Lenox was sentenced TO the re.
formatory at Chicago on q plea u
guilty Of having stolen diamonds from
the express ONCE In Harrisburg.
A verdict Of not guilty was returned
by Sioux Falls jury In the case Of
Charles BEDFORD, q young man from
Sterling, who was tried there on the
charge Of having murdered George
Hurd.
Herman F. Hanke has been appoint.
ed deputy United States marshal for
the western division Of the Northern
District Of Illinois, with headquarters
In Freeport. He succeeds w. D. Mack,
resigned.
Rev. J. Y. Aitchison. pastor Of the
First Baptist Church Of Galesburg for
seven years, has resigned to become
district secretary Of the Home MIS-
sionary Society. with headquarters In
Chicago.
J. d. Reid died In 81 Paso. aged 81
years. He was engineer Of the train
which carried Lincoln from Spring.
field to his Inauguration and Of the
train which brought his remains back
to Springfield.
The special grand Jury impaneled
IN Cairo to investigate the connection
II the negro Arthur Alexander with
the murder Of Miss Anna Policy and
TO investigate the lynchinss and other
matters has adjourned until Jan. 3.
Kamil Farha. . Syrian merchant
whose petition for naturalization pa
pers the federal. immigration bureau
cent notice would b opposed, wss
granted bis papers BY the Circuit
Court In Quincy. without opposition.
Letters signed The Mana" have
been received BY Addison Bidwsll,
president Of the First National Bank
Of Fresport, In which the threat was
made that bis house would be burned
unless he gives $4,000 TO Q person who
10 to call at the bank for Il on . cor.
tain day. The postal authorities are
investigating.
Sheriff Gresson. Of White County,
brought Marshall Rudd. oolored. nine
teen years old. to jail In Mt. Vernon.
to prevent lynching at the hands OF
Q mob. Rudd shot Mrs. Charles Boiler.
Jack. nfty.three years old. white wo-
man. through the head because she
objected to his attentions TO her
daughter. This is the third time be
has been In trouble for shooting.
The Grand Opera House Building
In Peoria. including the once Of the
Peoria Journal and the Peoria Demo-
crat. was destroyed by Are. One man
was badly injured. The total losses
are more than 100000. Tho Journals
loss IL completely covered by insur.
ance. Thirty prisoners In the county
jail, across an alley from the scene
Of the fire. were taken out by q single
turnkey.
The following judgments against the
81. Mary's Academy. Nauvoo. were
rendered In the Circuit Court In
American Glue Company,
l5,425; Chicago Savings Bank and
Trust Company, S6.Ol1; T. A. Ennis
and c. F. Stoppani. 5000: Cleveland
Trust Company, &l6.025; Central Trust
Company. S4l.0l5: Ferguson.McKin.
ney Dry Goods Company, 1854; Loudo-
Company. 1885,; total.
ll08.7l1.
A. G. Mattaz, of Hardin, won the
lirst prize In the sweepstakes offered
by the Illinois State Horticultural 60
ciety for the best collection Of apples
grown In Illinois. The society, which
held its annual convention at the Uni.
versity Of Illinois. elected ofIicers as
follows: President. r. O. Graham. of
Normal; vice president, F. D., Worries,
Of Neoga; secretary. w. b. Lloyd. of
treasurer. J. w. Stanton.
of Rich View.
At meeting the other day the
Rock Island County Medical Society
took issue with DR.. James Egan, sec.
rotary of the State board of health,
who was charged with advocating the
accountability of bovine tuber.
culosis to man, a theory which, 1t was
declared, has not been established.