Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-04-30
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.
BRIEF STATE HApPEN1NoA

BhlEF STATE HADIENIN0A
Bonnie Methodist church., south OF
Mount Vernon. was destroyed by light.
ming and fire during an electrical
storm.
The village board at Mackinaw has
issued orders to have the city COM
pletely cleaned up and all garbage de-
stroyed.
HIailstones as large as goose eggs
fell at Hillsboro, breaking plate glass
windows and causing damage aggregat.
ing $1,000.
The First National bank of Kanka-
kee has increased its capital stock
from 100000 to 100000. The sur
plus is 1925 OCO.
The old Rushville hosiery mills. op-
Grated for nearly half a century. have
been dismantled and the machinery
will be sold to junk dealers at Gales
burg.
A petition signed by $4,000 Indian
Walsh, former Chicago banker and
railroad financier. has been fled with
President Taft.
The Bonny Bank was organized In
Mount Vernon with capital Of $25..
900. J. II. Crosnoe IL president. Jacob
w. Wayland vice.president. and Il. NJ
Dare president.
The old Central Presbyterian
Church in Rock Island collapsed, hut
fortunately no one was injured. The
building was one OF the landmarks OF
the city. having heen erected In 1887.
Charles Davis, Of DeKalb, has been
arrested by the Federal authorities at
Cortland on the charge OF sending q
threatening letter to Louis Mann. the
actor The writer OF the letter threat.
ened Mr.. Mann's life unless he was
paid 500.
John Mehaffey. veteran Of the Mex.
ican and Civil Wars, died In Sterling.
He was one of the many thousand SOL
diers in the Mexican war who con.
tracted yellow fever and recovered. al.
though he had been placed In coffin
for burial.
Congressman Frank o. LOwden, Of
the Thirteenth District, announces
that he will not be candidate for re.
election. Physicians orders are given
as the cause for his retirement. Mr..
Lowden married daughter OF George
NJ. Pullman.
c. II. Colston, grand marshal OF the
Grand Lodge and grand State deputy
Of Illinois. Fraternal Order OF Rangers.
died In Peoria after short illness
with typhoid pneumonia. The body
| hot haan IN ha.
home Of the deceased.
Charles II. Backus. OF Hampshire. a
former State representative. and Mrs.
Fred r. Brill, wife Of the postmaster
at Hampshire, are two Of the heirs OF
the Lyons estate that has been held in
trust for $50 years by the Bank Of En-
gland. The estate amounts to $4,000
900 and will soon be divided.
The State board of railroad and
warehouse commissioners issued tenn.
porary order that where gates and
watchmen are maintained at street
railway crossings OF steam railroads in
cities they must be maintained from =
a. m. to midnight. instead Of 6 p. m,
and imposed other safety regulations.
The management Of the Cunning
ham home for orphans, which the Illi-
nois conference Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church supports at Urbana. II
trying hard to locate a plausible per-
son calling himself ]. Watkins Maxey
and collecting money on the pretense
that he Is an authorized agent and 20.
licjtor for the orphanage.
The lO.year.old son OF Mrs. Anna
Hoeter. OF Streator. who has been miss.
ing, Is thought to have been kidnapped
by his father. and Mrs. Hoeter has
asked the assistance of the police in
locating her husband and child. Mr..
and Mrs. Hoeter have been living aparr
for almost year, Mrs. Hoeter resid.
ing In Streator, while her husband re-
NAMED on farm.
The War Department has notified
Adjutant General Dickson. OF the Illt-
nois National Guard. that the com.
bined regular and militia artillery en-
campment at Sparta. Wis, will be held
July 11-2l. The department also nou-
fed him that the maneuvers of infan.
try and cavalry at Indianapolis will be
| on september Sl-oV. AZ least one III
nois regiment will participate with
the regulars In these maneuvers.
A mans head was discovered packed
in box in the Springfield office of the
Wells.Fargo Express Company. 1t was
sent on March 20 from the Chicago of.
fee of the Company in West Madison
street. It arrived there April l and
was in storage at the local office. The
local and Springfield police immediate
ly began an investigation. The ex
press company officials state that they
do not know who sent the package.
Butter dealers declare that an in.
vestigation of conditions under which
the Elgin butter board fixes prices has
been started, with view to present
ing the evidence to the United States
district attorney. At the meeting AT
Elgin Monday, 1t is declared by Chi
cago commission men, the Elgin board
fixed the weekly price of 80 cents. out
voting the Chcagoans by packing"
the meeting with clerks and other em.
ployes.