Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-14
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ILLINOIS
| News Notes
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Chandlerville - Bandits robbed the
Peoples State bank here of nearly
$4,000 in cash and Liberty bonds and
escaped
Morris.-A wOman's auxiliary of the
American Legion has been formed at
Morris. with more than 100 charter
members.
Peoria.-A new hospital for disabled
veterans of the World war is soon to
be erected here by the Knights of
Columbus.
MacOmb.-FOur oil wells are TO be
sunk on farm a mile southeast of
Scotia, in the hope of developing a
paying oil field in McDOnOugh county.
CarbOndale-PrOf.C Charles I. Knipp
of the University of Illinois was elect
ed president of the Illinois Academy
of Science at the closing session of
its annual meeting.
Macomb.-The largest graduating
class in the history of the Macomb
high school will go out this year, when
46 students receive diplomas. Com
mencement exercises will be held
| May 26.
Decatur-Prices of materials and
labor having declined adequately, it
| was decided to construct the Macon
/ county tuberculosis sanitarium this
| year. The approximate cost will be
| S15OOOO
| Chicago.-The offices of the Illinois
public utilities commission, the state
| fire marshal, and the game warden
have been moved to the twentieth floor
of the City Hall Square building from
the Insurance Exchange building.
| Chicago. - Charging cOnspiracies
which have doubled the price of GER
tain building materials in Chicago, the
federal grand jury returned indict-
ments against 40 individuals and
firms in the sheet metal, plumbing and
steamitting lines.
Freeport.-Dr Alden E. Smith,
prominent for many years in hOmeO-
pathic medical organizations and anti
tuberculosis societies in Illinois, Is
dead at Freeport. aged sixty. Doctor
Smith served as army surgeon in the
Spanish-American war.
Edwardsville.-An investigation at
|
stance Foreigners there are in the
habit of repairing broken fuses by in
sorting a penny in the aperture, clos
ing it with a solid contact which does
not break the circuit as a soft fuse
would. This permits powered current
TO enter their homes and has resulted
in the death of one resident and in
jury to several.
Springfield of "a state
wide farmers insurance company fol
Illinois Agricultural association mem
bers is being considered by the finance
department of the organization. Auto
mobile, fire and lightning insurance arr
being investigated. 1t is believed b.
officials of the association that Sucl
an insurance company would be of ali
to the farmers mutual companies tina
| operate over a limited territory.
Waukegan.-The Illinois state high
way department has agreed to adver
! tiSe for bids for the paving of one mile
: of one of the worst and most Travelled
: highways in the state-Sheridan rOa'
: at Zion City. This decision wa
= reached at conference at Springfield
The state officials agreed to advertis
for bids for the proposed mile of roa
f under their plans, but held out firml
f against a price of more than $4,000
4 mile.
f East st. Louis.-The postal rObber
: at Mount Vernon on January IA, whe
registered packages containing S212
600 in cash and securities were stoleI
d was planned several weeks in advance
+ according to Guy Kyle, former paste
s of the Free Methodist church of Noun
~ Vernon, who testified in federal cOur
at East st. Louis at the trial of Lore
Williamson, his alleged accomplish
= the theft, who furnished infOrmatio
n which led to Kyle's arrest and reco'
p cry of the loot.