Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-05-28
Items from All Over the
State of Matters of lin.
terest to Our Readers.
Happenings of the Week from Cairo
to Chicago Carefully Com.
piled for Busy Men.
SHORT STATE ITEMS.


Mr.and Mrs. Nels Martin Of Altoona
celebrated their golden wedding.
Thirty journeymen plumbers at Mo.
line are out on strike for higher
wages.
Harold Thompson, formerly OF Pone.
nah. was struck by lightning and
killed at Edna, Mo.
Rose Dugo. 12 years old. OF Streator,
disappeared from her home and the
police are completely baffied.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah Chenoweth, aged
residents Of Rankin, celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary.
Extensive improvements are being
made In Piper City. and considerable
paving Is to be done this year.
DR.. Sol Morton, a prominent physi.
clan Of Vernon. while fishing In .
stream near his home fell dead.
An ordinance has been passed BY the
City Council at Maroa to prohibit the
exploding Of dangerous fireworks and
explosives In the city limits.
An explosion in the settling vat IN
the Commonwealth Steel Company's
works in Granite City killed one work.
man and injured several others.
Business on the Burlington out Of
Galesburg. which has been on the
slump for the last couple Of months,
shows no signs Of improvement.
After having been on strike. the
BARRIERS Of Galesburg have been grant.
ed a salary Of 312 per week and go
per cent Of all taken in over SIS.
The work Of recovering the bodies
OF the victims Of the explosion year
ago In the mine at Zeigler was begun
the other day and one headless body
was found.
The Keithsburg Town Board has de.
cided to limit the number Of saloons
this year. Six applications had been
fled. The license has been increased
from 5000 to $1,000.
After an idleness Of Ave days, the
street railway company at Kewanee re.
sumed running. A strike was on and
II was decided to settle all differences
through arbitration.
oliver Smith. foreman Of switch.
Ing crew at Moline. Ia dead 40 Q re.
suit Of having been run over by
string Of cars while switching in the
Deere railway yards.
Rummage sales have been forbidden
and the street cars have been ordered
fumigated and put In sanitary coudi.
ton a. the result Of the prevalence Of
scarlet fever In Rockford.
De Kalb County's birth record was
broken when to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Alfred johnson Of Sycamore we're
born bankruptcies. three boys and one
Girl. each Weighing about four pounds.
The private bank In West Union or.
ganized by A. B. Anderson Of Indian.
ap0lis In 1908. closed It's doors. with
$4,000 deposits. It 10 said loans were
made too close to the amount OF the
deposits.
After almost year Of litigation. No.
komis will have twenty.six blocks OF
streets paved. An ordinance to have
this number of blocks paved wan
passed July Is, 1909. and the matter
has since been In the courts.
Charles Harvey. night ticket agent
ut the Louisville & Nashville passen.
ger depot at Belleville. was held up In
his ONCE at the point Of a revolver by
q masked man and robbed Of IS. Har.
vey saved over 800 Of the company's
money.
John Greb. aged SO. was found dead
In bed at his home In Dimmick town.
ship, seven miles south OF Mendoza.
1t was at first supposed that he had
been foully dealt with. but later devel.
opments proved that he died OF heart
failure.
Thomas Howard, charged with being
connected with the Coal City bank rob.
berry on April Z, was held to the grand
jury under bonds of $4,000. He was
identified by several witnesses as being
In Coal City on the day and evening OF
the crime.
Michael Harvey, residing nine miles
southeast of Streator. claims the wolf
hunter championship of Livingston
County. He captured, alive, eight
young timber wolves and would have
gotten the whole litter. ten, had he not
left the scene for few minutes to get
Miss Eleanor Toble, for ten years
In charge of the ChaddOck Boys School
at Quincy, has been granted leave of
absence, and In company with Miss
Johnson. one OF the deaconesses prom,
inent In the work of the school, has
gone to Denver. The ladies will To-
cate on a claim which had been SO.
cured by Miss Johnson.
Upon his written confession that he
Is the murderer of Alma Wilmore, who
was killed in Benton, Franklin County,
Aug. /, 1896, Riley Price, now in the
penitentlary at Columbus Ohio. will
be returned to Springfield at the ex
piration of his term to answer the
charge. Governor Deneen issued
requisition on the Governor of Ohio for
the mans return the other day. Price
1t Is supposed, under the sting of CON
science, confessed to the warden of the
prison that he killed the Wilmore
woman with a club. He indicated his
desire to return to Franklin County.