Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-01-29
WITHIN OUR BORDERS.

$4,000 damage and put 125 men out
Of employment.
Every employee of the Citizens Tele.
phone Company at Havana has struck
fCl higher wages. Telephone service
is at a standstill.
william d. Abernathie was shot
dead at Mcclure by John Glaab. who
mistook him for a burglar, 1t is said.
Both are farmers.
Mrs. Mary X. Tyler. 65. owner Of
the City Hotel at lrvington. was killed
by an Illinois Central train while
crossing the tracks.
The Illinois State Agricultural
Board has purchased twenty acres near
Mount Morris on which to establish an
experimental station.
Francis NJ. Patten. a prominent Fair.
bury business man. while working
around his home. slipped on some Ice
and was instantly killed.
Mrs. Mary Shurtleff. mother Of Ed.
ward d. Shurtleff. speaker Of the iii.
nois house Of representatives. died at
Geneva. She was rs years old.
The Illinois State Board Of Health
at its annual meeting reelected Presi.
dent George W. Webster OF Chicago
and Secretary James A. Egan OF
Springfield.
Wounded by stray shots discharged
from the shotgun with which boy in
the next house played, Frederick. the
3.months.old son Of Gottlieb Knoll,
died in Peoria.
Carl Papke. who while temporarily
insane wandered away from his home
In Freeport, OH Christmas eve. was
found frozen to death in a snowdrift
eight miles east of Freeport.
Vernon Simpson. . years old. died
OF tetanus In Chester as the result OF
a wound received from the blank cart.
ridge Of pistol with which he was
playing OH Christmas morning.
Three cars on the vandalia express
No. II were derailed near Woodberry.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. b. Baumes Of st.
Louis. Conductor John Felen and
Brakeman +. r. Booth were hurt.
Caught under q carload Of salt when
a freight train on which they were
beating their way was wrecked. two
young men. Marion Grail and Harry
Elston. were smothered to death at
Charleston.
J. II. Potts. 90 years old. dropped
dead from excitement In an East st.
Louis bowling alley when his son,
Thomas Potts, won the city champion
ship for his team by making strike
on his last ball.
Judge c. d. Campbell. dean Of the
Ogle county bar, twice county Judge,
twice states attorney. once mayor Of
Polo, member OF the board OF supervis.
ors and school trustee, Is dead at his
home In Polo. aged 10 years.
The plant Of the Evan Reed Manu-
featuring Company at Sterling was
practically destroyed by fire. The loss
Is about $4,000. Fire also did $1,000
damage to the municipal lighting plant
Of the Rock Falls, near Stirling.
Albert Albright. a resident OF Au-
rora. after calling on a girl friend at
Oswego. was unable to find his way
home and wandered around all night,
He was found In Plainfeld early In
the morning. half frozen and uncon-
scious. His condition Is critical.
Clark Johnson. assistant to State
Factory Inspector Davies. said he had
fled an information against the st.
Paul mine In Bureau County for en-
ploying ten boys under l6 years of
age. Three Of these boys persisted In
the fire last fall at the Cherry mine.
The two men known as John Burns
and Frank Williams. convicted of the
Woodlawn bank robbery last April, In
which $4,000 was stolen, were denied
new trial and ordered taken to the
penitentiary to begin indeterminate
sentences. Burns" told he Is John
Adams of Alton. H., and civilians"
says he is James Robinson OF New
York.
John b. Hess, defaulting collector
for Hinsdale, pleaded guilty at Whea-
ton and was sentenced by Judge MAJ,
zini Slusser to an indeterminate term
In the Joliet penitentiary. When he
had pronounced sentence upon Hess
Judge Slusser expressed his regret at
doing so because of the defendants
family. and said that he would for
ward the facts in the case to the par
don board.
The supposed Armenian laborer
killed at Madison by a train has been
identified as Prince ;Pagasdar Alongs-
sOrvia, former general In the Ar
menian revolutionary army. He was
buried in Madison. Hundreds of Ar
menians and affiliated races in that
and adjoining cities attended the flu
neral. When the Armenian revolu-
ton failed Prircs Mongssorvia es-
capped to New York, where he was di.
rector of a Observation-Disclosures bank
which year ago failed for $500, 900.
He then came to Madison and became
a mechanic for the American Car Com.