Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-06-04
News Breuifies
of Illinois
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Poi0.-FOr destroying the nest of
fur-bearing animal Henry Waterbury
was fined SO and costs by Justice
Gridley. The nest he destroyed was
that of a fox.
ChicagO.-AIrs. Edward S. Bailey of
Chicago was elected president of the
Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs
at the closing session at Chicago of its
tWenty-sixth convention.
CarbOndale.-One hundred and twen-
ty-fOur students will be graduated from
the Southern Illinois State Normal
school at Carbonate, according to
list which has just been compiled.
MonticellO.-Thel largest graduating
class of the Monticello seminary will
receive diplomas here June Z. DR..
Edward AlswOrth of the University of
Wisconsin will deliver the commence
ment address. There are SO girls in
the graduating class.
Urbana.-The will of Mrs. Mary Cum
ningham, filed at Urbana, directs that
the $4,000 homestead be sold and the
proceeds used to erect a memorial to
Abraham Lincoln. The late Judge J.
.. Cunningham, her husband, and Lin
coin were close friends.
ChicagO.-Swift 4 Co., packers,
announced completion of the arrange
ment under which committee of
representatives of employees anud en-
ployers will thresh out problems such
as wages, working conditions, hours,
safety and other matters
FreepOrt.-The Stephenson county
board of supervisors adopted a resolu-
ton indorsing the state police measure
and asking the governor to appoint a
state superintendent and 500 police
whose duty it would be to patrol the
public highways of the state.
Joliet.-Carpenter work on the
new prison here stopped when 80
union carpenters refused to accept an
offer to continue at approximately 81
cents ali hour. 1t is reported the civil
service commission is able to supply
carpenters at 70 cents an hour.
ChicagO.--The Illinois Central has
awarded a contract for grading in
connection with the construction
prOvementS include the construction of
nOrthbound unit of IA tracks and a
southbOund unit of 10 tracks, each of
100 car lengths. The total cost of the
work will be $650OOO.
Aurora.-Three boys and one girl
were killed when an automobile in
which six high school students were
returning home from a school dance,
slid down hillside road in front of a
west-bOund Burlington railroad pas
senger train near Aurora. The four
met instant death. The driver of the
car was slightly hurt and one of the
girls escaped with a few scratches, al
though the automobile was flung far
up the tracks by the flying train. The
dead include: Joseph Beck, seventeen;
Wilbur Ames, eighteen; Alice Reilein,
seventeen; Walter Gattfelt, seventeen.
Springfeld-Gov. Len Small has
suggested to Gov. ]. ]. Blaine of Wis
cOnSin that the governors of all the
great rOad-builGing states in the Mid
die West meet in conference to adopt
measures that will secure q just re-
ductiOn from the present eXOrbitant
prices of cement, that our rOad-build-
ing programs may go rapidly forward
on an economical basis" The gov
errors suggestion was made in a let
ter to the governor of Wisconsin.
Commenting on the bodybuilding stu
alton, Governor Small said: Recent
letting of contracts reveals the fact
that the contractor, the stone,. sand,
gravel and all other material prOduc-
ers. save the cement trust, are cutting
costs. We have definite plans in mind,
plans which we hope will afford re-
lief"
DeKalb.-Are bees a nuisance2 At
torney General Brundage has been
asked by States Attorney Cassius
POust of DeKalb to decide the ques-
ton. When Carl Tudor had 90 hives
of bees his neighbOrs did not COM
plain, but when the number was in
creased to $50 they appealed to the au
thoritieS.