Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-02-05
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF

ford celebrated their seventy.lifth we'd
ding anniversary.
| u. T. Trumbo of Pontiac, was ap.
pointed chief clerk of the Illinois
State Reformatory in that city by
| Governor Deneen.
Mayor Henry w. Koch Of Breese died
at his home In that city. His age was
A. He was brother of former State
Senator J. o. Koch.
Frank Brady confessed In jail in
Mount Vernon to being a member Of
band Of thieves that has been oper.
ating In southern Illinois for years.
Charles D. Ball Of Chicago was elect.
ed q trustee Of the American Society
Of Plumbing Inspectors and Sanitary
Engineers, whose convention closed re.
Gently at Trenton, n. j.
Robert Former. a young farmer who
lives near Metcalf, died from eating
three quarts of peanuts. He was taken
violently Ill and physicians performed
| an operation In vain to save his life.
Commissioners Of the Spring Lake
drainage and levy district got q TEN.
porary injunction at Pekin restraining
Attorney General Stead ct al. from in.
;erfering with their plans pending a
hear Ing Of the suit
William II. Taft, shot nrer al the
Majestic mine In Duquoin, was seri.
ously II not fatally injured by a prema.
ture explosion In the mine. The In.
jured man claims to be distant rela.
tive Of the president.
| While quelling q street fracas City
Marshal Peter Delphine Of Cherry shot
John Bergan, farmer. through the
body as Bergan was running to escape
arrest. Bersan is near death In q
Spring Valley hospital.
Marshall Eudd, negro who shot
and killed Mrs. Ann Bolterjack, an
aged woman In Carmi, was found guilty
Of manslaughter and received an In.
termediate penal sentence. Rudd said
the killing was accidental.
Lawrence Budjinski died in Joliet
from injuries received In smashup
while coastins Four others were seri.
ously injured and seven slightly in.
jured. Budjinski steered his bob into
a telegraph pole in order to avoid a
vehicle.
Judgments totaling 100000 were
rendered In the United States District
Court at Springfield against the order
of St. Mary's Benedictine Sisters at
| Nauvoo, on notes sold to eastern
financial men and institutions by p.
j. Kieran.
Dennis Kimbro, young medical stu
dent attending the College OF Physi.
clans and Surgeons at St. Louis, died
In that city following an operation for
tonsilitis. He was brought to his homo
in Anna for burial. He stood first In
his classes and would have been grad
uated in April.
Willard Fuller, farmer living In
the east part of Williamson county.
while working In his field was strick.
en- with q strange disease. and falling
unconscious. remained In that condi.
ZION few hours and died. Attending
physicians were unable to tell what
the trouble was.
A special train OF four coaches from
Chicago brought State Senator'S and
Representatives with their wives and
many prominent persons from different
parts of the State to Marengo the other
day to attend the funeral of Mrs Mary
Shurtleff. She was the mother OF
Speaker Shurtlen
Eleven cars Of an Illinois Central
coal train plunged through a bridge
over Yellow creek, two miles south Of
Freeport, carrying the bridge with
them into the water. thirty feet below.
The caboose was left standing on the
edge of a pier. A broken iiange caused
the wreck. No one was injured,
The Mitchell Carnegie Library build.
ing was formally dedicated In Harris
burg the other day. and In fitting
address was presented to the City Of
Harrisburg by DR.. c. Il. IIyington,
president of the Library Board. The
structure was accepted In an appropr-
ate address by Mayor James b. Black.
man.
Against his protests, Rev. Hugh NJ.
Bannen, pastor OF Trinity Lutheran
church. Rockford, was given an in.
crease OF $500 in salary at the annual
meeting of the congregation. The
Rev. Mr.. Bannen moved to amend the
motion by making the increase only
800. The congregation was unani-
mously for the $500 increase. however.
and he was obliged to submit. His
salary will now be $4,000.
Yielding to the pleas of the mother
of an 11.year-old girl who had been at.
tackled, that a lynching be prevented,
Judge Edward Rigg of Granite City or.
dered the release of a white man held
as suspect in the case. A mob was
gathering about the Jail at the time,
The Kewanee Foundry and Manu-.
featuring Company, capital $4,000, has
been organized to take over the bust.
ness of the Iowa Novelty Company of
Burlington. and establish In Kewanee
a plant for manufacture OF cement
workers tools. coal chutes and hot air
furnaces.