Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23
ILLINOIS
i STATE NEWS

Aurora--The largest engineering
job in Aurora's history, the elevation
of the Burlington railroad tracks, will
be completed within few weeks. Pre-
liminary work was started six years
ago and the Improvement cost several
million dollars.
Rockford-Suit for $4,000 damages
has been filed in the circuit court by
six Rockford residents against the
Rock River Development company To
recover money invested by them in oil
stocks they declare have proved worth
less.
Observation-Disclosures persons were
killed and two injured when an Illinois
Traction System electric train was
wrecked in collision with an auto
mobile, three miles west of here One
coach was overturned and two sleepers
derailed. The dead are: Thomas Nay
Tor, sixty years old; George Naylor,
twenty-five, a son, and John Peterman
sixty, all of Troy. They were in the
automobile.
Urbana.-The Illinois Crop Improve
ment association, fostered by the Uni
versity of Illinois, has met with
marked success during its second year.
according to Prof. J. c. Hackleman of
the university. Professor Hackleman
said that greater acreage of wheat
was inspected than the previous year,
that the demand for seed wheat was
becoming more general and that many
growers already were having good
sale for their seed.
Observation-Disclosures on the ST
Louis division of the Illinois Central
railroad through Carbonate broke a
record few days ago. On that day
2,O73 cars passed over the division,
which is said by officials of the road
to be the best in the history of the
Illinois Central. The best previous
record occurred on a day during the
World war. On April %. 1918. 1904
cars passed through. This was the
crest of the war.
ChicagO.-American Legion comrades
| of Earl J. Wendell University of
| Illinois senior and war veteran, slain
| by a Watseka deputy sheriff, joined
the young mans parents in a fight to
have the slayer tried for murder. AT
| meeting of the executive committee
| of TrOwel post, of which Wendell was
| member, it was voted to ask state
national department commanders of
| the Legion to help prosecute Dep
uty Sheriff E. L. Heiks, son of Sher-
| iff George p. Heikes of Iroquois
| county.
| RockfOrd.-A tax commission ap-
pointed by Mayor J. III. Hallstrom of
| Rockford is believed by Rockford of
| fiicials to be the only one of it's kind
in the state. Its purpose is, in the
words of the mayor. ito organize such
storm of public sentiment that the
| time-hOnored system of taxation i'm
| this community will be blasted to the
Winds" Mayor Hallstrom charges that
the present taxing system is "satur-
| ated with glazing errors, intentional or
otherwise" The commission consists
of five prominent citizens and has no
legal standing or authority.
Peoria.-That several hundreds. per-
haps thousands, of gallons, of bonded
whisky was stolen from the Corning
| distillery here by thieves working
a syphon system through $50 feet of
rubber hose is the belief of police and
distillery officials investigating recent
losses The thieves are believed to
have syphOned barrel after barrel of
liquor and carried their loot away on
a truck. Discovery of the robbery was
made when Superintendent Taylor of
the dstillery found hose running to
| no ole
were found where the hose terminal
ed outside.
Chicago.-Charges of low regimental
morale, favoritism, inefficiency and
lack of military experience by the
commanding officer and his staff are
rife around the Broadway armory, fol-
lowing the resignation of IA line Off
GERS of the Two Hundred and Second
anti-aircraft artillery. All the officers
are veterans of overseas fighting in
| France. The designations have been
submitted to Adjutant General Black
a. Springfield by Maj Francis W. Par
ker, Jr., commander of the Two Hun
dred and Second artillery, to whom they
were first submitted last week. Pre-
dictions were made that the resigna-
tions would cause a thorough investi-
CATION of the illinois National Guard.
Springfield.-The volume of employ
ment in the industries of Illinois i'm
proved slightly during August. accord
ing to signed reports received by the
general advisory board of the Illinois
Department of Labor from 1882 en-
ployerS of the state. Despite the de-
pressing effects of railroad strikes, the
shortage and high price of fuel, hot
weather, and vacations, there was an
actual gain i'm the number of workers
employed amounting to one per cent.
In the manufacturing industries. the
gain in employment for LOIS employ
ers employing one-third of all wage
earners in manufacturing industries
was 16 per cent, and this change gave
jobs to BIAS more workers than found
employment in July.
Belvidere.-Thousand of fish, most
ly those of the species known as river
shad, resembling tire sucker, persisted
in Kishwaukee river during the last
month, as a result, it is believed, OF
the intense heat.
Peoria.-Edward A. Glad, past com
mander of Humboldt Park command
cry, Chicago, was unanimously elected
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