Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-24

ILLINOIS STATE News



favorable to a township high school,
the factional fight which has been in
progress for some time at Pawnee is
believed to be ended A total of 355
votes was cast. J. r. Harris and j.
e. Crowder are elected for terms of
three years, G. w. Miller for two years
and G. E. Baker and J. w. Lupton to
serve one year each. The election was
an exciting event and the vote was a
large one.
A jury in the circuit court at Free
port awarded $4,000 damages to H
w. Coffman of German Valley in his
suit against Henry Jansen of Chica-
go, charged by Coffman with having
alienated the affections of his wife
Jansen formerly had a store at Ger
man Valley. COffman is one of the
wealthiest men of Stephenson county
and is president of the bank at Ger
man Valley.
Chicago's drainage project, approved
by the voters of the sanitary district
when it was believed that $30,000,000
would secure a permanently pure
drinking water supply, already has
cost double and certainly will cost
triple that amount before the essen
tials of the primary plan are COM
pleted
The stockholders of the Farmers
Elevator company at meeting at Illi-
opolis failed to reappoint G. H Gray
fO tho pocition OP MON oor o1+L o,,ob ~
was decided to increase the capital
stock of the corporation from $4,000
to $4,000, and to resume business in
the near future.
George D. LaReau, a messenger in
the delivery department of the Chicago
postoft1ce, has been sentenced to the
Bridewell for two years by Judge
Lands. The boy was charged with
having stolen about 1000 special de-
livery letters from March to May of
this year.
The farm residence of William F.
Steadman, near Sterling, said to be
the finest in northeastern Illinois, was
destroyed by fire in the night with ali
contents, including jewels and cloth
ing. The loss on the house is $4,000
and on jewelry, furniture ETC., $4,000
Sensational charges that inmates cf
the soldiers widows home at Whining
ton are neglected, enc death being at
tributed to alleged lack of care, have
been fled with the state board of ad-
ministration and an investigation has
been ordered by Governor Dene1n.
George w. Lyman, attorney in Chi
cago since 1891, was disbarred by the
state supreme court at Springfield,
having made no defense to the charge
brought by the Chicago Bar associa-
tion that he sold note for $4,000 and
pocketed the proceeds.
Announcement from Washington
that the government will bring suit
against the Union Stock Yards at Chi
cago charging that it is maintaining
monopoly in the cattle shipment bus
mess, came as a surprise to officials
Of the concern.
Mrs. Mary Benjamin, fifty-fve years
of age, was arrested in Chicago on the
charge of kidnapping her grandchild,
Mary Cahill, aged four. She was ia
ken into custody on complaint of her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mary Cahill of
Harvey.
A severe tornado swept over Cairo
and the Ohio river harbor, blowing
down trees, telegraph poles, street
signs and chimneys. The ferryboat
Three States was blown from her
moorings and carried down stream
John w. Groves, for a number of
years resident of Springfield, and al
so of Williamsville and Mt. Pulaski,
suffered serious serious injuries when
he was struck by an Illinois Central
suburban train in Chicago.
The greetings from King Gustav V
of Sweden, whose personal representa-
tive he is, and from President Taft
were presented to the Augustana Sy-
nod at Rock Island by Bishop Won
Scheele of Sweden.
The Rev. J. H. Gillilland, who has
helped obtain the building of three
churches of the Christian denomina-
tion in Bloomington, resigned the pas
torate of the third to engage in evan
gelistic work
Mrs. Adelai Shepherd of Savanna
and her twin sister, Mrs. Amelia Nipe
of Argo, Carroll county, celebrated
their seventy-ffth birthday. They are
the eldest twins living in Illinois, it is
claimed.
Attorney General Stead or his as
sistants are to be called to Rockford
TO explain to the grand jury why the
merger of the Fraternai Tribunes with
the American Home Circle was not pre-
vented.
The Rev Morris Kemp, former rec
tor of ST. Chrysostoms Episcopal
church at Chicago, was acquitted for
the second time of serious charges
brought against him by choir boys.
After a fight lasting for five years
intercollegiate athletics, with the ex-
ception of football, were restored at
the Augustana synodical institutions
by the synod at Rock Island.
A bill asking that the trustees of
charged and that the property be con-
veyed to the surviving heirs has been
fled in court in Chicago.
Application was made at Springfield
for a charter for the Savings and
Trust Company of the Republic Ma
tional bank at Chicago, with a capital
of $1,000,G0G
A floater taken from Rock river be-
low Rockford is believed to be Charles
Ellingson OF Sharon, Wis, who has
been missing for three weeks.
j. NJ Sheets of the Oblong Oracle
was elected president of the Illinois
Press association at the closing ses-
sion at Chicago.