Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-02
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

to death by bull.
A 5-year.old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Melvin Sanders, of Girard, was drown.
ed In water trough.
Charles Hastings, of Mansfield. was
killed by Pennsylvania passenger
train at Mcdonald. Pa.
David Wine purchased the Western
Illinois Railroad at masters sale, to
make 1t a link In an interurban rail.
road.
Convicted Of selling liquor to mi
nors. Charles G. Carlen gave up his
liquor license to the Rockford city
| clerk.
The Nippersink Hotel. a fashionable
Fox Lake resort, has been sold to Sen
ator Lorimer, who will improve 1t
greatly.
| George A. Taylor was fatally sca,d.
ed when a pump head at the Lockport
electric light plant exploded as he was
examining It.
Thrown to the floor when she fell
while retiring. Mrs. Frank ingalls,. OF
Urbana. suffered broken arm and
dislocated hip.
From injuries received more than a
year ago In a gasoline explosion. Mrs.
Ira Goodell died without leaving the
Moline hospital.
Stumbling as he carried Frank Jap
pei, aged . years. across the street In
Waukegan. lna,z Chodinck crushed
the baby to death.
Samuel Berg, farmer living six
miles northeast OF Fairfield. was
drowned In Grinnel Pond, fishing re-
sort near his home.
Grieved over the death OF her IA
Their, Miss Josephine Farrell. Of Joliet
attempted to end her life by taking
poison at his grave.
The Moline city council has ordered
that twenty new arc lights be put In
place by the street lighting company,
making 800 In the city.
Mrs. Larry II. Depew, OF Blooming
ton. was seriously hurt when run
down In Peoria by an automobile drlv'
en- by Mark Ratchelder.
Playing with a dog belonging to q
neighbor, the three-year.old daughter
Of Earl Moran, OF Waukcgan. was bit
ten In the face by the dog.
In attempting to separate two men
fighting In his saloon In Waukegan
Peter Wutzen was struck In the breas,
with knife by one Of them.
Reading note from the Black Hand
which had been sent him demanding
that he leave the city, John Swan fell
dead at his home, In johnson,
Because she baked delicious pies
Miss Lou Stockland. OF Freeport. cap
tivated Weber Fox, a railroader. who
proposed marriage. She accepted.
After robbers had pilfered the gen
eral store OF Daniel st. John In Brad
bury, and taken $500 In cash. they Sc,
fire to the building. destroying It.
Miss Marguerite Hasdenteufel. Of FL
gin, has been recommended for a Car
negie hero medal for having saved
Frank Huber from death under Q
train.
Mrs. George Lawson, OF Carpenters
vile, aged 20 years, suffered serious
injuries when she slipped and fell L
the platform OF the interurban statior
at Elgin.
Ellen Brown and Helen Watkins
aged l6 and IA years. were ARRESTED
at Pana after running away from VII
la Grove with boys. singing In NOV
Ing picture show.
The plant of the Aurora AutOmati,
Machinery Company. makers OF thu
Thor motorcycle and OF bicycle anI
motorcycle parts. will leave the city
probably going to Detroit, Mich.
| Josephine Grabas. aged 20 months
died In Joliet from the effects o
drinking liquid rat poison which sh,
found on table while her mother
was In another room of the house.
When the State Board OF Contro
visited the Kankakee State institution
they placed the seal Of approval OF
methods employed at the institution
and praised the officials In charge.
Floyd s. Winnegar Is under arres
at Meriden, Conn, and will be brough
to Peoria to face a forgery charge
He was on his honeymoon with hi
16-year-old bride at the time of his ar
rest.
An attempt to swindle the Byron
bank out Of $500 on spurious certfi
Gates of deposit was frustrated by of
fcials of the Joliet Trust and Saving;
Bank on whom the certificates were
drawn.
The little son Of Dolph Turner OF
Pearl. was bitten by snake recently
and died from the effects of the poi
sOning. He was with his father In q
field when harrow turned the snake
over as 1t was summing itself The
snake was rattler and stuck its
fangs In the boy, getting away before
he could make an cutlery.
A special election to vote on the
question of establishing city court In
Kewanee was called by the city coun
Gil for Tuesday, Oct. 10, This will be
the first attempt In Illinois to estab
fish a city court since the last legis
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