Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-01-21
ILLINOIS
StateNews



Zen men. including Sheriff John
w. Wilson of Bond county and
Constable Benjamin Battleson of
Greenville are under indictments re-
turned by the Montgomery county
grand jury, duplicating them in the
Panama bank robbery, in which S37.-
600 was stolen. The charges made in
the bills include burglary and larceny,
assault with intent 10 kill, and per-
jury. Sheriff Wilson's bond was fixed
at $4,000. which was given by eight
Bond county farmers Others indicted
on burglary and larceny charges are:
Constable BattleSon of Greenville;
Jerry Brown. POcahontaS: Paul Uur-
ling, Greenville: Johnson Maytield
Greenville. and Lawrence O'Mally, st.
Louis Darling. BattleSon. Wilson and
Mayfeld also were charged with intent
to kill Three st. Louis men also were
named in indictments. 5. F. Bandy,
farmer of Bond county, was indicted
for perjury.
Governor Small. in conference with
his director of finance, directed
that the item of $5,0O0.OOO in
the omnibus bill for the purchase
of stone quarrieS he not spent. but be
carried over until the END of the bien-
NAL as excess. The reasons the gov
ernOr advanced We're that when he
started to build new state roads the
contractors average bid was SOL 900
a mile. TO cut this down, he pro-
posed that the state OVID its own stone
Quarries and the appropriation was for
that purpose. However. he said. the
determination of the state to compete
with the quarrymen had produced the
same effect and had brought the aver
age cost down to $4,000 a mile
The Illinois Manufacturers assO-
citation, in Il resolution sent to Dan
iel Ryan, president of the Cook
county board, urges that body to
make appropriations necessary to pro-
vide for motorcycle police to patrol
country roads leading to and from
the city of Chicago. At a recent meet
ing of the Circuit court judges the
request for rural police was approved
and the sheriff instructed to employ
necessary appropriation, however. has
not been voted by the county board.
OF the AS new cases of diph-
liberia in the state, Chicago re-
ported 206. Jacksonville reported
and Jacksonville precinct s new
cases of scarlet fever of the 35S cases
reported, while Chicago furnished 151.
Smallpox is increasing, 60 new cases
being reported to the department, of
which Chicago furnished but 6. Itch
field reported Z Pneumonia was much
worse in Chicago than dOwnstate,
that city furnishing 1915 of the $40
new cases reported, or almost two
thirds.
Directors and stockholders of
the First State bank of Lyndon will
make good the $4,000 shortage of Ar
thur BuZZell, cashier. who mysterious
ly disappeared. This action was de-
cided upon at a conference. As soon
as the state bank examiners have COM
pleted their work the bank will be re-
organized and reOpened. Warrants for
the Arrest of BuZZell. of whom no trace
has been found, have been issued and
the Whiteside county grand jury will
he asked to indict him.
Decatur'S 100000 water i'm
pounding project will be completed
in so days The concrete dam. costing
the exception of two sections of the
spillway. The Decatur Water Supply
company has spent $6O0,OOO, outside
the building of the dam, obtaining land
| to be flooded or which will be dam
aged by the lake. The lake will be
approximately 13 miles long and in its
| widest part will be three-Quarters of a
| mile across.
A gift of $4,000 to Rockford
| college has been made by John T.
| Buckbee, scotsman and hOrticUtur-
| list of Rockford. Half of the sum
| is to be used I'm establishing a
| chair of botany in memory of Mr..
Buckbees father, the late Theodore
E. Buckbee, and chair of good
housekeeping in honor of his mother,
/ the late Katherine f. Buckbee.
"Moonshiners must answer for
murder became the slogan of Cor
OLSE eItI W. DIS llc
drive against bOOtleggers whose
product is alleged to have been re-
| sponsible for many deaths in Chicago
within the past few weeks.
One hundred and twenty-five mayors.
| commissioners, aldermen and other
| city and village officials will attend
the eighth annual convention of the
Illinois Municipal league, to be held
at the University of Illinois January
1921.
The jury trying Edgar A. StrauSe.
| charged with the murder of Berne NJ
| Meade, in Peoria. in December, 1917,
reported a disagreement and was dis
charged in Mclean county Circuit
court The final ballot stood six and
! six.
| According to reports received
Edgar county officials have been
warned that raids are being planned
on Paris and county banks during the
next month. 1t is said the bandit gang
is composed of Chicago criminals
Twenty-seven car repairers were
re-employed at the Harrisburg
shops of the Big Four railroad
after several weeks idleness. Similar
increases in the working forces were