Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-02
ILLINOIS
StateNews

Jacksonville. - Patients from the
Jacksonville State hospital will shock
five thousand acres of wheat i'm Nor
gan county this year. Superintendent
e. L. Hill announces that contracts
have been signed between the hospital
management and Morgan county farm
ers. The farmer, who hires this kind
of labor, agrees to furnish transporta-
ton for the patients TO and from the
field and to provide plenty Of fresh
drinking water. The hospital I'm turn
agrees to send only patients physical
ly fit to do work IN the field and to
furnish a competent attendant with
each squad of men sent out Payment
for work done by the patients is made
in grain, which is subsequently used
to feed live stock at the institution.
Springfield Chiropractors are jubi-
liant over the overthrow by the Supreme
court of the medical practice act of
1917. The decision of the court,
unanimous one, returns to full force
and effect the law of 1911, under
which chiropractors will be subject to
no state qualifications except the ne
ceSsity of passing a state examina-
ton. The act just held unconStitu-
tional provided that applicants for
chirOpractorS' license must pursue a
course of study equivalent to that of
the medical practitioners and, in adj
dition, qualify in their own school.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the pell-mell
rush of bills during the closing hours
of the Fifty-second general assembly,
this years legislature passed 119 few
er bills than the Fifty-first The total
number OF bills approved by both
houses was 34S, of which 236 were
house bills and 112 were senate bills.
Former Gov. Frank o. Lowden vetoed
only SO of the 429 bills that were
passed on to him for his signature by
the 1919 legislature.
Chicago.-Service of women on
juries in Illinois was declared uncOn-
stitutional in a decision by Judge
Kavanagh of the Superior court at
Chicago. The judge refused to issue
a writ of mandamus compelling the
jury commission to place the names
Of women on the jury lists after hear
ing arguments on behalf of the jury
commission declaring the Constitution
specifies that jurors must be men.
Pana.-Imprisonme of an entire
family, including three babies, was
ordered at Pana when Robert G. FOs-
ter and his wife were arrested on a
charge of attempting to murder their
next-door neighbor, Mrs. Ora Craig.
A line of burned grass leads from
cellar window in the Foster home to
a place at we'll where Mrs. Craig
was shot.
-Sobbing fitfully as she
held her fourteen-month-Ol baby in
her arms in the Macoupin county jail,
Mrs. Catherine Harmon confessed that
she killed Roy Harmon, her nineteen
year-old stepsOn. She said she killed
the youth with an ak and threw the
body into a well, where it was found
by neighbor who was picking black
berries.
Springfeld.-A movement to build
hospital in the city of Chicago for
training ex-service men desiring to be-
come nurses has been started by the
Knights of Columbus organization.
Springfield council was the first in the
country to adopt a resolution asking
that 100000 be appropriated from the
war fund balance for this purpose.
Madison, Wis.-Attorney General
Morgan of Wisconsin asked Governor
Blaine and the legislature for author
ity to start suit in the United States
Supreme court to restrain the state
of Illinois from lowering Lake
Michigan to the detriment of Wiscon-
sin harbors and from obstructing nav
igable tributaries of the lake.
Chicago.-Ninety-fo unidentified
persons will go unmOurned and Union
Forest. The bodies were taken from
the lake, river or canal, or found else
where. Of the total, 20 are of adults.
The others are of infants.
Rock Island.-As a memorial to
Rock Island soldiers and sailors in
the World war Rock Island post,
American Legion, will plant a stretch
on either side of the thoroughfare, and
about 1,5OO in all.
MISUNDERSTANDING churches in
the Swedish free church conference
shall have the privilege of holding
services in either English or Swedish,
1t was decided at meeting of the con-
ference here.
Peoria.-A campaign to raise $780,
600 TO establish a woman's camp of
the Caterpillar trail in Tazewell coun-
ty is planned by the Women's Civic
Federation of Peoria.
BeardStown.-Beard watermel-
on growers recently effected a coop
erative organization to be known as
the Melon Growers association
Dixon.-The Illinois Luther league
will hold its annual convention In Dix
on July 1917.
erSeyville.-Bounties on wolf scalps
have been paid in Jersey county at
every meeting of the county board of
supervisors during the past two years.
The animals are plentiful in this coun-
ty and short time ago a shipment of
young wolves was sent to the zoo at
st. Louis from here.
Peoria.-Acting under the expressed
belief that public opinion seems to
hold that fire departments are not
justified in holding charters as labor