Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-06-24
EAGLE |IEWS[ETS

William Peterson, Winthrop HarbOr
motorcycle policeman, from hanging
in Waukegan. The governor granted
a 60-day stay of sentence on the
ground that important alleged cir
cumstances not hitherto brought out
had come TO his attention" The Su-
preme court had refused a stay of
execution. An attorney. representing
the sentenced man. told Governor
Small that his clients trial had been
rushed 70 clear the way for the gov
errors own trial, now in progress.
Chicago.-COl. L. G.. Mutt, who has
been waging an independent clean
up campaign of Illinois dry law viO-
lators following his assignment here
from Washington, is TO be in supreme
command of the dry enforcement ac-
tivities in the state according Ia
Washington dispatches. Charles a.
Gregory, who has heretofore been
chief state enforcement officer, will
retain his office, but will take his or
ders from Colonel Mutt. who will hold
the title of associate director and
personal representative of Mr..
Haynes"
ChicagO.-Practically all of the 90
county farm bureaus in the state will
hold countrywide outdoor entertain
mentS this summer, according TO re-
ports received by the Illinois Agricul-
tural association. The picnics. which
are an annual event eliminate in Sep
TENDER with the statewide farmers
picnic. Crowds at the county picnicS
last year were seldom below 5000,
and often ran as high as 10000 At
the annual picnic last year at Dixon
$1,000 people were in attendance.
Galesburg.-An evangellstic move
ment supported by well-defined
course of Bible study to reach the D.
100000 residents of Illinois who were
declared TO be without church con
nectiOns was urged as part of the pro-
gram of the Illinois Sunday School
association at the annual convention.
The enlarged program was outlined in
the report given To the executive com
mittee of the association.
Ottawa.-A saving of considerable
| sum to counties of Illinois is seen in
| the recent decision of Judge Edgar
/ Eldredge of the La Sale county Cir
| cult court, denying that Il county is
obligated TO pay jurors for service
| when they have been excused, but not
! dismissed. The action was filed by
| three jurors who refused TO accept
pay only for the days they were actu-
ally present in court.
Springtield.--Lake county officials
must wait until the Small trial has
been completed and the county clerk
of that county has filed a certified
! account of the expenses of the trial
before SangamOn county will pay the
bill, according to the action of the
board of supervisors. This action is
provided by law and is the only one
that could be taken.
Mulberry GrOve-COVered by weeds
and debris of many seasons. two graves
one of a Civil war veteran and the
other of a Revolutionary war soldier
were found on a farm near Mulberry
Grove by members of the Bush Brown
post, No. 2O6, American Legion. The
tombstone of the Revolutionary soldier
bore the name of Peter Hubbard. who
died in 1914
JOliet.-Ira Walker, received from
Cook county March %, 1918, on sen
tence of one year to life, on a charge
of robbery, and Charles Conway, from
Kankakee county. June 20 1915, OF
a sentence of five to twenty years fOl
burglary, escaped from the peniten
tiary here by climbing over tn
wooden framework at the railroad
gate
PCHtiac-J. S Jones. a guard at thu
Pontiac refOrmatOry, was beaten t
death by Byron COrbridge of Jackson
vile, an inmate Other inmates wh
saw the attack said COrbridge jumpe'
on Jones without prOvocation, beatin
him about the head with a piece o
gas pipe.
Observation-Disclosures thieves are tn
latest lawbreakers with whom tn
| Rockford police have to contend. Sey
eral receiving sets have been stole
from private radio stations. and a
least one dealers place has been pi
| LACED.
BlOOmingtOn.-FOur thousand 81
hundred and eighty-Seven feet of pa'
ing was laid in this city in the fisci
year ended April 80, according to tn
report of the city engineer There al
: now 256, sos lineal feet of paving
the city.
Danville.-The contract has bee
: awarded for the construction of Dal
:. ville's new 100000 high school bull
: ing. The bid of st. Louis firm Wa
$685., S12 Four other contracts, tota
, ing 1920, 500 with the general cOntraC
: also were let.
Geneva.-An appropriation of sat
p 900 from Kane cOunty's S1,5OO.O'
y hard-rOad budget has been approved
. the county board of supervisors to pi
! for road construction in the vicinity
! Dundee.
Is Urbana.-The University of IllinC
has again been selected as a ''diSti
a guished college" by the War depal
o ment, according to an annOunceme
r received at the university.
IF PeOria.-COnstable Arthur Smi
il was shot and instantly killed in
v fight with automobile thieves on
road northwest of here.
n Washington, D. C.-The people
Il Illinois paid into the United Stat
to | treasury in income taxes for the We