Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-07-29
ILLINOIS
News
Happenings


Harold ChallacOmbe, six years old.
is dead at Alton of anthrax 1t is not
known how the child contracted the
disease.
Resources of the 1,406 Illinois state
banks were S2.O43, 226,91S on June 80,
according to a statement by Auditor
Andrew Russell
A badger, the first found in years,
was captured on farm near Sterling
The animal weighed more than seven
ty-fve pounds.
With the completion of the trans
ferring of 343 square inches of skin
from siXty-four persons to the body
of Helen HOage, siXteen-year-Old eX-
l,lOsOn victim, Belvidere physicians
declare that the most extensive skin
grating operation ever attempted in
northern Illinois is a success.
Mrs. S. z. Leith, aged seventy,
of Farina, is cutting her third
set of teeth A few days ago she had
her teeth extracted. expecting to re-
place them with false ones. Soon
after her gums healed she noticed they
were swelling and few days later
she announced that some of her third
set of teeth were breaking through her
gums.
Every living thing in the Salt Fork
river from Sidney east to Homer Park
and for an equal distance west of
Sidney has been killed by acid carried
into the river from the BOneyard
branch in Champaign and Urbana, ac-
cOrdng to a statement made by c. f.
Huff. state Inspector of the depart
ment of agriculture, of which the
game and fish division is a part.
Sudden deaths and misfOrtunes have
beset the Van Duse family of ST.
Charles. Mrs. Leo Van Hove fell dead
in her husbands arms few days ago
Before the inquest her brother, Peter
Van DuSe. went in a taXicab TO take
another brother, AlphOnse, to the pro-
! ceedings The taXicab turned over
several miles from St Charles. Peter
was killed. AlphOnse was probably
fatally injured Gus Alleman, the
driver, was seriously hurt.
Illinois has 1851, 900 acres
| planted in oats, $4,000 acres in
barley and 10000 acres in spring
wheat, according to the monthly re-
| port of crops prepared by A. J. Suratt,
! United States agricultural statiStician.
! Only barley shows a greater acreage
| this year than last. Last years acre
age of this crop was $4,000 The oats
acreage this year is $4,000 acres less
! than last year, while the spring wheat
! acreage is 1900 acres under last
| year.
| Seventeen separate contracts for
| construction of twenty-SiX bridges by
| the state along new hard highways
! have been awarded upon Governor
| Smalrs instructions. They will cost
1893, 975. The most costly are two in
| Clinton and Mason counties, for which
! the lowest bids respectively are $4,000
! and $4,000. These ninety miles of
| paving. thirteen miles Of fills and
! twenty-siX bridges which the governor
! has ordered built will make an inrOad
totaIing 50, $780, 3D. into the states
! $50. OOO. 900 fund for good roads.
New indictments were returned by
the grand jury against w. II. Ii. Mil
|
! ton and registration, and three others,
| charging them with conspiracy to is
! sue licenses contrary to law, to give
| out questions in advance of state eX-
! aminatiOnS, and to withhold and give
! out licenses ION the payment of cor
rupt and unlawful consideration" X.
! A. Fries, AIiller's SOn-in-law, and a
/ department official, DIR. OdeOn BOuque,
head of a medical review course, and
! William BrOniarczik a druggist, are
named as Miler's cO-defendants.
Charles r. Francis, city COM
missioner of public works at
| Chicago, will succeed Cornelius r.
! Miller, director of the state depart
ment of public works and buildings,
! according to reports from Michigan
| City where leaders of the Chicago
city and state administration are
mapping out plans for the coming
political campaigns. Mr.. Miller, it is
| said, will resign from Governor
Small's cabinet soon after Commits
siOner Francis returns from Europe.
William II. Reid, city commissioner of
public service, or William Burkhardt,
brOther-in-law of the mayor, who is
| now deputy commissioner of public
! works are under consideration for the
public works cOmmissiOnerShip. Two
other members of Governor SmalPs
cabinet are reported to be planning
to resign in the near future. They are
George A. Barr, director of the state
department of commerce. and W. III.
! II. Miller, director of education and
| registration, who was recently indicted
for alleged fraudulent issuance OF
certificates.
| Death due TO shots fired by
parties unknown to the jury" was
the verdict returned by the corOners
Jury which investigated the killing of
% In the Herrin mine war. The jury
reported it could find no witnesses to
the tragedy.
The first white settlers in what
is now Quincy came to that sec
ton 100 years ago and plans for the
observance of this centennial are be
ing made. The ceremonies are to be
held some time this fall, probably in
the building of the Quincy Historical
society. The first settlers were John
Wood and William Keyes.