Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12
ILLINOIS
tn TIE NEWS


from 1905 TO 1922. The report indi-
Gates that one nay sleep with COM
parative safety in the Old-fashioned
folding bed, which was the cause of
| only two deaths. Automobile acct
! dents killed 3,249 persons, while 5,274
died in railroad wrecks Asphyxiation
! caused the deaths of 1895 persons and
345 were suffocated.
PeOria.-MOst of the distilleries in
Peoria and Pekin, which have been
producing various food products and
| alcohol for the United States Food
Products corporation, are to be reOr-
ganized. Some will be sold and used
for other industrial purposes. New
York representatives have been in Pc
oria TO work out the liquidation plans.
Under dry conditions the great plants
have brought only 1.-THE of their for
mer profits.
Springfield.-Bidsf for approximately
144 miles of hard roads in % counties,
II miles of grading and 80 steel and
concrete bridges and culverts in vari-
Gus parts of the state have been asked
for by the state highway division.
Sealed proposals for this W Ork will be
received in the office of the depart
ment of public works and buildings,
division of highways, until 10 a. m.
August IS
Sterling Maxwell of Ster-
ling claims to be the champion wood
| chuck destroyer of the state. A few
days ago he added 80 skins to his
| record, which for the past year is p
OOO. Farmers find the wOodchucks as
destructive as the prairie dogs of the
far West, and are anxious to have
them destroyed. BOunties offered are
sufficient to reward nimrods for their
efforts.
Springtield-The lady bug is a sure
antidOte for chinch bugs, says W. Z.
! Flint, state entOmOlGgist. A few days
| ago a report came from Leroy that a
cOrntield near there had been cleared
Of the chinch bug by use of the lady
bug. From a half dozen to a dozen
| lady bugs were found on each corn
stalk. where n few days before the
stalks had been black with chinch
! bugs.
Urbana.-A joint campaign against
the chinch bug is to be waged in the
states of Illinois and Indiana, accord
Ing to plans laid at a conference held
in Danville. Chinch bugs have been
| increasing in abundance and the area
Of infestatiOn charging in Illinois and
Indiana, and the present indications
are that the bugs will continue to be
abundant
Miners at some smaller
shafts of Henry and Rock Island cOun-
| ty agreed to get out enough coal at
! one of the mines near Cambridge TO
| enable the farmers to operate their
| threShing machines. A committee of
! farmers appealed to the miners and it
was voted to grant the request upon
! the agreement that this fuel would be
, used for no other purpose.
pringfield.-IllinOiS fruit crop said
to be the largest in years, will suffer
serious losses because of lack of trans
I pOrtatiOn facilities. according to II. f.
| Young, secretary of the State Farm
| prs' institute. Thus far. he said, car
! load shipments have Jared moderately
well, but smaller shipments are not
going to market at all
Sullivan-UpOn the failure of DIR.
! Logan Estes to appear in court at Sui
! Ivan to receive a sentence to the peni-
| tertiary upon the charge of assault
| with intent to kill Sheriff LanSden, his
| bOndsmen were notified that they must
| pay the sum Of $1,000. Estes was re
| leased on bail pending an appeal to
the Supreme court.
BlOOmington.-Centr Illinois live
stock will be on exhibition at the Bra
J lillian centennial exposition at Rio de
| JaneirO, which opens September and
! closes October 10 A carload of prize
| POland-China hogs has been shipped to
| South America by the Illinois Poland
| China Breeders association.
Urbana-Prof. Walter Frederick
Handschin, vice director of the agri-
cultural department of the University
| of Illinois and head of the farm man.
agement department, is dead at his
home in Urbana.
Springfield.-S Treasurer Ed
ward E. Miller appointed his brother,
! Charles A. Miller, as assistant state
treasurer, and named G. r. Beck, for
mer secretary clerk, as chief clerk.
Apple River-JO Daviess county
war veterans, those of Civil, Spanish
and World wars, will hold their an
nual reunion here on August 10. Sen
| atOr Mccormick will speak.
! Winchester.-A pure bred breeders
| association has been organized in
Scott county to assist in promotion of
! better live stock.
BlOOmingtOn.-Fire destroyed the
Piper City ice plant with a loss of $1O,-
900.
! Bloomington Melida Stalters,
one hundred and ten, is dead at the
Mclean county farm.
| FreepOrt.-EffOrts are being made to
! bring to Freeport al residents of this
part of Illinois who attended the Lin
cOln-Douglas debate, August %, 1853.
! The siXty-fOurth annual celebration
commemorative the debate will be held
August 20. Several Rockford residents
who heard the debate have sent word
they will attend.
| EdWardSville.-A trap set by Mrs.
Earl Foute of Glen Carbon to catch
thieves who have visited her henhouse
recently, proved to be her own death
trap when she was electrOcuted by in
advertently touching the wire which