Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-05-07
WITHIN OUR BORDERS.

jonas Johnson. IS years old.
Galesburg has started its new fiscal
year with the sum of $2S,O34.l2 in its
treasury.
new high school building at Au-
rora is to cost s150,OOO. This amount
includes the site.
Thomas Pierce. a pioneer resident
Of 10 Daviess County. is dead at Apple
River, aged "a years.
Both the No-License and Citizens
tickets are again in the field for the
city ele,o.on Of Princeton.
The total registration at Galesburg
Is $3.50. which Is 975 votes over the
registration of a year ago.
The aerie of Eagles at Moline has
laid the cornerstone Of new building
to be erected for the organization.
George II. Page Of Bingham has
been fined $500 for making a false
statement to the township assessor.
The new board of supervisors Of
Bureau County will contain fifteen Re
publicans and thirteen Democrats.
The Prohibition County Convention
held In Nashville Endorsed william
J. Bryan of Nebraska for President.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Sidestrom re-
Gently observed their golden wedding
anniversary at their home In Mon
mouth.
Katie Hullinger, ~ years old. has
disappeared, making the third mys-
terious disappearance from Sterling In
two weeks.
J. W. Lovdahl. living north OF Mon
mouth. was kicked SO badly by
horse recently that he sustained q
fractured rib.
A new concrete church. built by the
Methodist Episcopal congregation at
Elwood. at a cost Of $4,000, was dedi-
Gated last week.
Alexander Collier, former sheriff OF
Winnebago County, announced his
candidacy for representative to sue
coed L. ID. Reynolds.
The Evangelical Synod OF North
America, In session In Evansville. Ind.
decided to erect new $4,000 college
building at Elmhurst.
John w. Afford OF Chicago was
elected president Of the American
Water Works Association at Its con-
ventiOn In New Orleans.
Chester Roser. the l5.year.old son OF
MIR. and Mrs. william Roser, Of
Kewanee. has been neither absent from,
school nor tardy In eight years.
Dependent because of III health;
Philip SOhn, one OF the wealthiest
farmers In Livingston County, hanged
himself ut his home near Fairbury.
On account Of case OF smallpox
which has been developed by pupil
In one OF the Beardstown schools II
was recommended that all pupils be at
once vaccinatcd.
The new saloon ordinance at Morri.
son prohibits saloon.keepers from,
throwing intoxicated persons into the
street and provides that they be given,
a place to sleep.
Mayor Cronen of Joliet has recon-,
mended to the City Council the plac.
Ing Of heavy tax on billb0ards. Rev..
enue Is not SO much the object as i'm,
provement of the scenery.
The Elgin Watch Company closed It's
big plant In Elgin for ten days. 1t L.
said too many watches on the market
caused the shutdown. Three thou
sand employees are affected.
The report of the special committee
recommending municipal saloon
was tabled by the City Council Of
Rockford by a vote of to Z. The,
new saloon ordinance forbids treating.
The alumni OF the Elgin high school
are to have part In the laying of
the new cornerstone for the new high
school, The old stone. laid in 1888,
will be inspected and the contents laid
away In the new.
The model saloon" license ordiu,
ance was given Its first reading by the
City Council of Rockford The new
plan puts ban on women patrons.
minors, drunkards or blacklisted per.
sons and prohibits treating.
The members of the WOman's Club,
OF Streator are circulating a petition!
for the purpose of influencing the City
Council to enact an ordinance which
will eliminate the dangerous element
from the annual Fourth of July cele-
bration.
Otto Maukert and Albert Kroenig two
residents of Aurora, were found sleep.
Ing peacefully in hotel after a
searching party had spent many hours
along the banks of the Fox River look
Ing for their dead bodies. They had
gone fishing, had been missing for
several days and their friends had
given them up for lost.
In stepping from one track to elm
mate danger attending the approach
Of a westbOund Burlington freight
train that was passing through West
ern Springs, John Anderson stepped
on the south track and was struck
by an eastboInd suburban train and
Injured so seriously that he died a
Few hours laear