Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-19
Items from All Over the State o,
Matters Of Interest to Our
Readers.
Happenings Of the Week from Cairo to
Chicago Carefully Compiled for
Busy Men.
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Charles Jones. the convict who es.
capped from the Southern Illinois peni.
Tertiary Friday. was recaptured and
returned to the prison.
Brooding over his infirmities. Casper
Walk. "a years old. one of White Coun.
tvs oldest German citizens. took his
life by drinking carbolic acid in Car.
mi.
Harry Craigland. 90 years old, the
brakeman who was injured by Wa.
bash. Chester and Western train Fri.
day, died at Chester. His home was In
Tamaroa.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Johnson Of
Para celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary. Friday. entertaining 100
friends to dinner. They received
purse Of gold.
John T. 8. Lynn, a retired farmer
residing In Jonesboro. the twin city OF
Anna. while visiting his farm. dropped
head Of heart disease, and his body
rolled into creek.
Robbers entered the residence OF
Jonathan Lands, a farmer, living I'VE
miles northwest Of Anna, at night, got
$50 In money. ransacked the house and
then drove of with a mule team and
horse.
Justice John p. Hand Of Cambridge.
Republican. was reelected to the I'LL.
nois Supreme Court from the fifth
trta lat tnt lao tnWt NJ x
3O2 over Charles c. Craig Of Gales.
burg, the Democratic candidate.
John II. Eden. aged SO. who prac.
ticed law In Illinois for hfty.seven
years. was found dead In chair at
his home In Sullivan. He served five
terms in Congress and once ran for
Governor on the Democratic ticket.
A special election was held in Mar.
lon County to vote on the proposition
Of tax levy OF six mills on the dollar
for period of four years to build
now court house In Salem. and the
proposition carried by majority Of
about 600.
The infant son OF Mr.. and Mrs. 10.
seph Letter. who was born fifteen days
before. died Tuesday afternoon Mt the
residence Of its parents In Chicago.
The cause Of death was given by the
attending physicians as infantile cere
bral hemorrhage.
Twenty boys OF the st. Charles State
School for Boys voluntarily have sup.
piled the cuticle necessary to perform
grating operation on Elmer Monte,
II years old. Of Chicago. Ten others
will submit to the knife to complete
the cure. Monte was burned severely
on the sides. back, and legs when he
fell against red hot stove.
Daniel willard Of Chicago. vice
president Of the Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy Railway Company; John G.
Bannister. manager OF the Kewanee
plant OF the National Tube Company;
Randall Parrish, the author, and G. c.
Taylor were speakers at recent Great
Boosters banquet Of the Kewanee Com.
mercial Club.
An engine on the Indiana Harbor
Belt Railroad plunged through a
bridge into the Calumet River at Blue
Island, and as result two men re.
ceived severe injuries. That they es.
capped death was due only to the fact
that they jumped out of the windows
OF the locomotive as II made It's down.
ward leap. Sensational rescues fol.
lowed.
Russell Cass, aged II, son Of John
Cass. a merchant of Table Grove. was
| drowned In a successful attempt Sat.
urday morning to rescue companion,
Gaylord Beatty, from pond near that
place. Beatty. who was In swimming.
sank In about six feet of water. Cass
leaped from the bank and pushed
Beatty toward the shore, where others
aided him out. Cass sank and
drowned.
When the waters of the Wabash Riv.
err washed away the sins of John Nor.
gan of Mount Vernon they presented
him with a $500 pearl. Morgan. who
Is a fisherman, was converted to Chris.
tlanity. The other afternoon he was
baptized In the river During the cere-
monies mussel took hold of his shoe.
string. On landing Morgan dislodged
the mussel and found pearl inside of
the shell which Is valued at $500.
John Mclean gave up his life in
vain attempt to save 5-yearold Laura
Staten from drowning in Cahokia
| creek at East St. Louis. The child
had accompanied her parents on
fishing excursion and she and her
mother fell into the water when
plank on which they were seated
broke. Joseph Parrish rescued Mrs
Staten and the child's father swan
| after his daughter. Mclean jumped
into the water when Staten was seized
with cramps Staten was rescued by
fishermen with difficulty.
A sensational incident in Central
| Illinois college circles was the public
| expulsion of r, Raymond Turner of
TaylOrville, from the James II, Mill.
| ken University In Bloomington on the
charge of plagiarism, The monthly
magazine published by the students re-
Gently contained. a story credited to
Turner entitled THE Influence of
Thrills" Turner was also credited
with authorship of poem In the same
publication. Investigation showed the
| story almost identical with one pub
nt.l~ H..