Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-06-04
Items from All Over the
State of Matters of In
terest to Our Readers.
Happenings of the Week from Cairo
to Chicago Carefully Com.
piled for Busy Men.
AMONG OUR NE1oHBoRs.

AMONG OUR NEIoHBoRs.
NJ. F. Walsh has been re-appointed
postmaster at Harvard.
The question of a new city hall Is
being agitated among Monticello ciii.
zens.
A class Of wenty.one will be grad.
uated June from the Morris high
school.
The new village board at Milford
is planning to do large amount Of
paving this year.
Citizens Of Rock Island have organ.
lied civic federation to secure bet.
ter enforcement Of the laws.
S!xty.one saloonkeepers Of La Saiis
County are called into court to answer
to the charge Of Sunday selling.
The purchase Of S22.5Oo electric light
plant for the city Is now being consid.
cred by the citizens Of Gibson City.
Leo Kolath. IA years old. was seized
with cramps and drowned while swim.
ming in stone quarry at Rochelle.
The Monmouth Plow Company has
/ decided to treble Its capital stock by
increasing It from 100000 TO 100000.
Rock Island club members have
pledged $500 Of the fund to be raised
for the erection OF modern home for
the organization.
The Council at Pontiac has passed
a new saloon ordinance whereby no
limit 10 placed to the number Of II.
censes to be issued. The license fee IL
placed at $3.50.
Examinations held in Sterling BY
the state BARRIERS examining board for
fifteen northern Illinois counties re-
suited In forty.four BARRIERS being ex.
amined and accepted.
The Elgin National Watch Company
announced that its plant would be
shut down for two weeks. The clos.
Ing Of the factory will leave 5000 EN-.
rloyes temporarily Idle.
While at work on the construction
Of the new Christian Church at Mat
toon. Henry Stapp fell from q scafiold
and sustained the fracture Of a hip
and three OF the vertebrae.
The Rockford club OF Rockford has
appointed a committee to prepare bill
'or the Legislature to enable the city to
organize municipal local corporation
In opposition to loan sharks.
Leroy Hendricks. IS years old. son
OF Mayor A. II. Hendricks of Sterling.
left the other day for tour around
the world on a motorcycle. He ex-
poets to earn his expenses by painting
signs.
Paxton voters have defeated, 534 to
SO. a proposition to contract with the
Paxton Electric Company for ten years
at $4,000 year for fifty arc lights
and the pumping Of the city's water
supply.
Freeport has raised $500 for usa
during the entertainment OF the Grand
Army encampment this year. Five
thousand dollars must be raised II ths
encampment entertainment Is to be
successful.
Two prisoners In the Rock Island
police station were caught In the act
OF attempting to escape by Detective
James Brinn. They had been caught
the night before while attempting "a
break into butcher shop.
Charles Holtz was sent to jail In
Rockford for failure to keep his son
In school. He had been fined and re.
fused to pay the amount assessed.
e! can get as much to eat In the coun.
ty jail as at home" he declared.
| Caaro poohucly n w ain lo.os~ -
factory In Coal City for the manu-.
facture of women's and chiidren's
clothing. 1t Is said that the factory
will start with about $50 employees,
mostly girls and elderly people.
Wayne Land, a victim OF the, auto.
mobile accident Of April l In Peoria.
will sue the Peoria Gas 4 Electric
Company for personal injuries. She
claims $1,000 damages. The claim will
be that she Is permanently disfigured
and her beauty destroyed.
Owing TO the ravages OF the Hesslan
fly and the chinch bugs. the wheat
crop In Gallatin County will not aver
age half crop Farmers fear that
bugs also will damage the oats and
| cOTu Win tue loss OF tue trult crop
by the cold weather. the outlook Is any.
thing but bright,
william Langham. who has been In
the general merchandise business In
KeyespOrt for many years, has sold his
store to Postmaster r. ID. Fox for 500.
900. 1t Is one OF the largest deals Of
the kind ever made In either Clinton
or Bond counties. Postmaster Fox has
rendered his resignation.
Three coal miners who had Just ar.
rived In Chicago from the village of
Vernon mistook four detectives for
robbers and fed. The officers gave
chase and each fired shot. killing one
OF them instantly and severely wound.
Ing another. The third miner. a
brother of the man slain. was arrested.
The Economy Light and Power Com.
pany of Joliet, which recently acquired
the Streat0r gas and electric light
plants and street railway system, has
not yet begun the reconstruction and
extension In which investment of
100000 Is proposed. The company