Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-01-01
AMONG OUR NE1oHBoRs.

suicide in her home in Sterling.
The Navy Department has asked
Congress for 100000 for the equip.
ment of the training station at North
= Chicago.
The Knox County Farmers lnsti.
tute, in session at Oneida, declared
strongly for parcels post and for
the consolidation Of rural schools.
John Sullivan surrendered himself
to the Bloomington authorities, saying
that he had been a crook for mum.
Der Of years and wanted to pay for
his wrongdoing.
The Woman's Club Of Morrison Pc
titioned the City Council to pass
stringent curfew ordinance to apply
to boys and girls under the age Of 10
after 8 o'clock at night.
In a quarrel over keg Of beer at
Big Muddy, near Harrisburg, Frank
Wallace was shot in the breast. sew.
eral shot penetrating his lungs. vii.
liam Matthews was arrested.
The coal famine in Morrison has be.
come so serious that greenhouse men
and others have seized two cars OF
coal owned by the Chicago 4 North
western railroad and appropriated
them for their own needs.
Charles Howard, alias Edward Tay.
lor and James Kelley. who was arrest.
ed In Elgin after attempting to shoot
Patrolman Struckman, was Identified
as convict who escaped from the
state penitentiary in Joliet on Nov.
II, 1907.
The novel spectacle Of a party OF
twenty freight traffic oficials Of the
Rock Island. Frisco and Chicago and
Eastern Illinois making an inspection
OF the Illinois traction system. q com.
petitive trolley road. was witnessed
in Bloomington the other day. An
interchange Of trafic may result.
Fire damaged the Weems Brothers
laundry and dye works In Quincy, to
the extent Of between $4,000 and
$4,000. Most OF the loss IL covered
by insurance. The adjoining build
Ing, owned and occupied by the Fisch.
err Iron and Steel Company. suffered
a loss estimated at between $4,000
and $4,000. covered by insurance.
Katherine Finn, 15.year.old girl,
was burned severely by an uncovered
steam radiator In the Juvenile Deten-
ton home In Chicago. The girl fell
In an epileptic fit while In bathroom
Of the institution. She was missed
from group OF children by Miss
Adele Adele Abner, superintendent OF
the home. who searched and found
her.
Charged with leaving his pew in the
Christian Church at Arrowsmith and
publicly denouncing the pastor, r. r.
Russell. and then assaulting Mr.. Rus
sell In the pulpit, warrants were
served upon Police Magistrate w. p.
Eicher Of Arrowsmith. Eicher Is said
to be at the head Of a faction which
has sought to get rid Of the clergy.
man.
Fire that started In the store OF the
Model Clothing Company at Peoria
Quilted the building occupied by that
concern and then leaped to the ad-
joining clothing establishment OF j.
Schradzki 4 Co.. where the figures
were checked only after considerable
damage had been done by water. The
loss on the two stores Ia estimated ut
100000. partially covered by insur-
ance.
While decorating show window Of
her fathers store. Miss Verna Strick.
Ter. daughter OF Orville Strickler of
MendOn, upset an oil stove, setting
fire to some cotton batting. The
flames spread and threatened the bust
ness section of the town. Quincy sent
fire fighting apparatus by special train.
The Strickler store, the Mutt furniture
store and the Masonic hall upstairs
were totally destroyed, and the Men
don Bank building had to be torn
down to present the fire from spread
ing. The loss was about $4,000
Mrs. william Payton, manager OF
the Carlinville Telephone Company,
committed suicide there on recent
morning by hanging herself In an out
house. She was the mother of eight
children, all of whom live at home
save the eldest, Mrs. Frank Ruther-
ford, who lives three miles from the
city. Though she came to her Carlin-
vile office every day, Mrs. Payton
lived at Wildwood. nine miles north.
Her husband is an employe of the Car.
linville Coal Company and came to
town with her every morning, III
health is assigned as the cause of Mrs.
Payton's action.
The safe In the posto Office at Cul.
lom was blown open early the other
day and several thousand dollars
worth OF postage stamps stolen. The
robbery was not discovered until Post.
master J. w. White opened the Office.
He found the door of the safe was
blown off and the contents of the
safe scattered about the Office. The
postmaster kept no money In the safe,
the only thing of value being the
stamps. There We're several hundred