Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-18
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

shirley Johnson, aged So, a veteran
In the railway section service, was
killed by train near Orion.
8. Russell Bowen, a Joliet attorney,
was attacked at the Morris depot and
robbed OF 5000 and check for $1,000.
Herman Hoog. aged 20, OF Blooming.
ton. while hunting received an acct.
dental injury by being shot In the
breast and died.
Thieves entered the poultry yard Of
Mayor George Burch OF Gait the other
night and stole half ton Of poultry,
valued at 5000.
Knox and Beloit colleges have select.
ed Should the English House Of Lords
oe Abolished?" as the subject for the
annual debate this year.
The Missionary Baptist Minister'S
and Laymens Union Conference ad.
journed In Murphysboro. after decid.
Ing to meet In Mount Vernon In 1910.
Andrew Nelson and Thomas Smith.
who were entombed in the Harrisburg
Southern mines. near Eldorado. Friday
night. were killed by the gas explosion
which caused the accident.
The sum OF $5S9.S6l has been paid
into the State treasury by the Illinois
Central railroad. this being Z per cent
Of the company's gross earnings on
certain lines. paid instead Of taxes.
The forty.fourth annual encampment
Of the G. A. r.. Department Of Illinois.
will be held In Freeport May 1926. The
date were fixed by the council Of ad.
ministration at session held there.
Harry Correl. an iron worker Of
Davenport. Ia. employed by Contractor
J. l.. Simmons Of Chicago In the cree.
ton OF seven.story building In
Bloomington, fell four stories. receiv.
Ing injuries thought to be fatal.
Governor Deneen has received and
accepted the resignation Of Roland A.
Russell of Bloomington as county
Judge Of Mclean county and appointed
Homer w. Hall Of Bloomington to sue.
coed him. Judge Russell resigns be.
cause he was appointed superintendent
OF the reformatory at Pontiac.
Because his wife gave him healthy
dose of medicine concocted to remove
excrescences from the family horse,
Ira Mccarthy, farmer of New HOl-
land, nearly died. Mccarthy had been
suffering from severe cold and his
wife gave him the horse medicine by
mistake for some throat balsam. The
former contained acetic acid and chlor.
ide of potassium. The victim will re.
cover.
According to advices received by
Circuit Clerk Beatty the United States
Emigration Bureau Is preparing to
fight the petition of Kamil Farha OF
Quincy, who wants to become citizen
of the United States. The communica.
ton, which was received from Allan
Church, chief naturalization examiner,
OF st. Louis. stated that the petition
would be resisted on the ground that
Farha was an Asiatic. Farha is a
merchant In Quincy.
The village of Golden has brought
suit against the Illinois Central Rail.
road Company on charge of exceed.
Ing the speed limit with the special
train Of soldiers. who accompanied tine
negro Alexander, implicated in the
Policy murder case. out of Cairo. to
Urbana. where he Is now. The rail.
road company announces 1t will appeal
the case to the supreme court II need
be. on the ground that they had in
structions from Governor Deneen to
proceed at the greatest possible speed
Elmer Kaltenbronn, II years old,
employed In the mine of the Southern
Coal Company at New Baden, died
from the effects Of blow given by
Joseph Drowy. lad who also was
working In the mine. Kaltenbronn
had been tantalizing the Drowy boy
and finally struck him. The latter
struck Kaltenbronn over the head with,
q piece Of wire.