Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-01-01
News Nuggets
From Illinois

Springfeld.-By not selling the
waterway bonds provided for by the
last legislature. the state of Illinois
saved $4,000 in interest, it was an
nounced in the retirement of the first
million dollars worth of bones by
State Treasurer Fred E. Sterling.
Twenty million dollars worth of bonds
were authorized for the construction
of the waterway from LockpOrt to
Utica. The bonds are to be retired at
the rate of $1.OOO,OOO a year The last
general assembly specified that enough
money must be raised by taxation to
pay off $1OOO.OO0 on the first of Janu-
airy every year The first million dol
lars raised in this way was collected
in 1920. AS the money for cOnStruc-
ton has not been needed up to this
time none of the bonds were sold
ChicagO.-"GOOd rOads'~is the key
stone of the state administration policy
that will be presented to the new leg
1slature by GOvernor-elect Len Small
This was disclosed following confer
ences recently in Chicago. Men who
Will sit in the senate and house agreed
with Mr.. Small that he had touched
the important chord. 1.-The immediate
problem that the new administration
must work out is the formulation of a
construction system for road building
that will put Illinois on the map" Mr.
Small said. eve should take every
advantage of the preliminary work
that has been done under the $6OUOO,-
900 bond issue system. The first pur-
pose will be to pull Illinois cut of the
mud"
Springtield.-Two hundred persons,
including fifty children, many of them
babes in arms, were made homeless
as the result of one of the most disas-
tr0us fires in the city'S history. The
small army of suffering humanity was
driven into the streets at night when
flames consumed the Diller-ROOSa
apartment. and two adjoining Struc-
lures at First and Washington streets.
The property loss is estimated at $780,
600, partially covered by insurance
The flames started when wrapping on
the heating pipe became ignited from
some unknown cause. Fires of other
years which have brought suffering to
residents of Springfield were over
Swallowed by the gigantic blaze.
ngfield.-Scarlet fever continues
TO spread in various sections of the
state, according to the weekly health
report. issued by DR.. c. ST. Clair
Drake, director of the state depart
ment of health. OF the 35S cases
which were reported, 149 are in Chi
cagO. Cases from the dOwnState were
reported from Urbana, Taylorville, Ell
gin, Sand Ridge, Menard county ;
Rock Island. East st. Louis, Hills
borO, Witt. Sterling and Rockford.
The report shows that Springfield has
the largest number of cases under
quarantine of any city in the down
state, with total of IS. One hun
dred and ten cases of smallpox are
also under quarantine.
Urbana.-Miss Mary c. Funk of
Bloomington, a student at the Univer-
| sity of Illinois. has just added another
blue ribbon" to the record of the
noted Mclean county family through
| winning the title of "ctar reporter of
| the school of journalism OF the state
| educational institution from a large
| field of contestants Incidentally she
won cash prize of S25 for her repor-
| torial skill
Carlinville.-During the month OF
| November, under auspices of the
| MacOupin County Cow Test associa
alton, "a herds were tested represent
| ing 305 cows Twenty-Five cows made
over 40 pounds of butterfat for the
month. and out of these ten made
over so pounds. Twenty-seven I'M
profitable cows were sold and several
| purebreds were purchased.
Springfield.-Fred c. Dodds, super
| intendent of registration in the state
department Of registration and educa
ton, holds the record for Christmas
| gifts. He sent out a total of 800 tt
| residents of Illinois, who have sue
cessfully passed tests for physicians
| sistant pharmacists.
I Geneva.-In the Kane county court
| Judge Mazinni Slusser ruled that the
will of T. r. Mcknight, late head O.
the Western Wheeled Scraper compan,
! was invalid, because the testatO
failed to name the legateeS, though h,
did specify his widow should be ex
ecutOr.
Pana-Fleeing from his home IL
NOkomis, where he had shot to deatl
Fred Peter KOsek in a drunken brawl
William Stepeck, thirty-three, Slipped
in attempting to board a freight train
fell beneath the wheels and was killed
Spring junior higl
school. the largest in Springfield, wa
destroyed by fire. Firemen laid tn,
cause to an explosion in one of thu
boilers in the basement, which blew
an entire side out of the wall
Jacksonville.-The board of educa
ton of Jacksonville has called a spe
cial election for January 10 to approx
the issuance of bonds for S1500O0 t
cover the cost of erecting a new hig
school.
East st. LOuis.-Sales at the East ST
Louis mule market, considered one o
the largest in the world, are only abou
one-fourth of what they were last win
ter, according to dealers.
Marion.-Circuit Judge D. t. Hart
well denied the petition of Settino d