Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-08-19
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS O go 90,
ILLINOIS STATE NEWS.


to wall in darkened room. The ar
rest was made on complaint of officer
Brayne of the Illinois Humane Society,
who exhibited a heavy dog chain,
which, he said, he removed from the
boys leg. The parents declared that
the boy was incorrigible and that he
was chained only as a punishment.
Weary and worn, but happy at be-
ing restored to friends and home once
more Joseph A. Proctor of Peoria col
! lapsed as he entered the door of his
I residence, and physicians are at work
determining the mental condition of
the man who SO mysteriously disap-
peared from Peoria leaving debts esti-
mated at 100000. Relatives and
friends are investigating the condition
of Proctor's wild financial investments
and consider that with prudential
handling all debts will be paid and
sung fortune will remain.
Mrs. Minnie Carter and her 6-year-
old grandson, Elmer Carter, were
drowned while hunting for pearls in
/ the Fox river near Wedron. Wading
around the river, the woman and boy
were picking up clans and putting
them into a bag which Mrs Carter
carried. Twice they had filled the bag
and the same number of times had
/ gone to the bank and opened them in
search of pearls Each time they were
/ unsuccessful and the last time they
walked down stream, stepping into an
eighteen foot hole.
"Joy rides" entertainments at
amusement parks and dinners for their
friends were the pleasures INDUCED in
from the proceeds of robberies by
three youths under arrest at Chicago,
according to the police. The prison
/ ersI each IS years old, are said to have
been leading the gay life" for some
time. A special detail of detectives
has been working night and day for a
month to solve a series of daring rob-
berries. In every case were the bur
glars were seen they were reported to
be "boys"
Mrs. LawreAce of Geneva, Ill, is cir
cularizing the country to secure
traces of her son Lawrence, 16 years
old, who disappeared from home May
26. Although the boy left notes saying
he intended to end his life in the Fox
river the police have not found his
body in thestream He was tall, slen-
der, weighed about 125 pounds, had
regular features, brown hair, gray
blue eyes and apt to stammer.
Chicago friends OF the late Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll united in celebrat-
ing the seventy-seventh anniversary of
his birth at the Garrick theater. H
Perry Ward of Liverpool said Colonel
Ingersoll was one of the worlds great
+ est orators and that he did more good
in his own way than did dozen other
ordinary individuals. Other speakers
were w E. Clark, H. H. Hardridge
and Richard J. Cooney
Five persons were injured at Chica-
go when an automobile skidded and
crashed against lamp post at Sheri-
dan road and Edgecomb place The
machine caught fire following the crash
and firemen were summonded to eX-
tinguish the flames. Those hurt were
William Cooper, chauffeur; William
Sutter, a special policeman, and three
women whose names were not learned
by the police.
/ At Chicago, Everett Busse Webber,
5 years old, living with his GRANDPA
ther, John Howell was injured when at
tackled by game rooster owned by
his grandparent. The rooster jumped
at the boys head, and in attempting
to throw the bird off the boy suffered
/ several deep gashes in his forehead.
one of which, it is said, cut a blood
vessel.
Judge Lands of the United States
district court, sitting as umpire of the
Joint arbitration board of the building
contractors and ironworkers, dealt the
| sympathetic strike of the building
trades a body blow when he declared
that the union had violated it's agree
ment and ordered the men to resume
work at once.
Ruth DunlSp, years old, of Chica-
/ so, was killed by street car. The
child was crossing the street and pass
( ing behind a north bound car failed to
notice the approach of the south
bound vehicle The motorman threw
on the emergency brakes and reversed
/ the power but not in time to avert the
accident
/ Four special agents Of the Carnegie
Hero Commission Fund of Pittsburg
are in Streator after three weeks of
Investigation at Cherry. DR.. Liston
Howe, now located here, one of the
! CONSPICUOUS heroes of the ST. Paul
mine disaster at Cherry, was the OBJ
iject of their inquiries in Streator
Many women tainted when Reidas
Trogstad of Chicago, window wash
/ er, lost his balance and fell from
] easement on the fourth floor of the
Columbus Memorial building directly
( into the midst of the conclave throng
J He was killed almost instantly
+ ! DR.. Nathan S. Parsons of Kewanee,
+ who was at the head of the surgical
staff at the Chatsworth wreck, is dead
He was 60 years old When the wreck
occurred, in which he did heroic work,
he was in practice at Fairbury, H., but
for eleven years had lived fsre.
Miss Helen Degnan, of Rockford,
pretty and just seventeen, has been
missing from her home in this city
+ since July 27 and her mother, Mrs S.
I S. Peavey, fears she has run away to
4 Chicago with another girl of about the
saule age, Miss Clara Bishop.
CAPTAIN A. E. Eddy, of Bloomington,
/ for forty years a prominent banker
and public officer of his city and civil
war veteran. is dead. aged 73 years