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Some two weeks ago Mr. Breakwefi came from his pastorate in Wisebnsin, where he had been very happily and successfully settled over the Baptist church, to the home of his only son, Samuel J. Breakwell, the Highwood merchant. The two weeks had pass- ed very pleasantly for all concerned,‘ the Sun’s Wife and children being de‘ lighted to have “grand-pa Break. well" once more with them. as most of the lives of the children had been passed with him and they were de- votedly attached to him and he cared for Samuel J's wife as for an» own daughter. Wednesday afternoon about two o'clock Mr. Breakwell left his son’s house on the west side of the track; just ~¢0uth of the Summer's residence: to go to the store over east bf the depot. He walked along past the i home of his wife, who left him some three years ago, with whom Pehtke was living, and across the railway track with Miss Harriet M. Fox. a music teacher from Chicago, to the southWest corner of the depot park. where Miss Fox turned into and di- agonally across the park, while Mr. Breakwell walked alongthe sidewalk . toward the store, till he was about - half Way from the track to J. S. V, Prall’s real estate office, when Pehtke coming up behind sprang upon him. throwing him instantly to the wal and with his pocket knife. which he seems to have had ready for the pur- i pose. out seven gashes upon Mr. Breakwell's face and neck, two of which severed the jugular vein just below the right ear. Mr. Breakwell ‘ screamed and his struggles to escape attracted Miss Fox's attention, whol was only foul: or five rods away, but ? before she could get around the fence and up to the parties the deed was done And she,‘ with rare presence of v 'mind and coolness of nerve, did all she could to staunch the flow of blood and help Mr. Breakwell. Peh- tke watched a moment and then walk- ' ed briskly or ran around the corner i by Mr. Prall’s office till just in front‘ of Mrs. Stensohn’s new store, he was stopped by Judge W. E. Cummings, and constable W. F. Edwards, and ' taken to the new city jail, remarking to some one that be supposed he would “have to take the rope” for that. A dispatch was sent to Coro- ner Dr. F.C. Knight of Waukegan, Who came down on the 3:20‘train and summoning a jury of‘James McDon- ough, foreman; G. H. Lockhard, â€"rn‘_4m~mf\ C. J. Roberg. Joseph Miller, Henry I Lee and Charles Gordon, who re- turned the only verdict possible. Mr. Breakwell lived only a few minutes1 after the attack, and when his old i neighbors and friends ran to his aid at his first call, he looked up and said only “Pehtke” three or four times to indicate the author of the deed, and then expired and they car. tied his body to his son‘s house, forming such a procession as High- Wood never saw before, forn‘early the entire village was on the scene are Mr. Breakwell was dead, It did not Seem to us, yesterday as we vieWed the some of the tragedy, that ' the SAMUEL BREAK-WELL. The Highland Park News. blood of that little old man could have 'made such extensive stains on the sidewalk and park fence as we beheld. Like the blood of righteous Abel, it cries aloud for just punish- ment. As to the cause oi the tragedy. we know more than we care to speak, having lived near and dwelt with Mr Breakwell for Several years before coming to the Park. Mrs. Break- well was his second wife, whom he married about 1863,- Samuel J. and two others living, being the children of his first wife. Some three years ago. after having lived with Mr. Breakwell over thirty years, she left him, abandoned his home and took up her abode on the west side of the track not far from Samuel J’s home. Sometime after, how soon we can't ‘say, Mr. Pehtke went and lived with her and by and by sued Mr. Break. well for his wife’s board in a justice court and got judgment for the same by default. Mr. Breakwell took an appeal and beat him of course, and at the end of the legal term of two: years after abandrnmentsecured a de- cree of divorce. The failure of Pehtke to make MraBreakwell pay him for boarding the wife who had' aban- ‘doned him and gone to living with another man seems to have enraged him so that. we are told. he threatâ€" ened vengeance on Mr. Breakwell. Indeed some cue said to us that he was in a saloon drinking and making similar threats only a very short time before the deed. ‘.'W>1;3..;.gu-m )t l6 l l l ‘4 bought property, went into businessl ‘ ' and preached for the people at their l ' think. Something over at year ago: ' tled in Darien. Wisconsin. .his children, (lied at Fairbdrn Sept. 1' 24. 1,862. Mr. Breakwell bade profit- 0 Methodist preacher. The communi» ‘ligious. secured the erection of. a , urgent request of a brother in suct l1 this country in 1873, intending to go ‘ ,ito Colorado; but stopping a few days ‘ : that he became a Baptist,and as such . '- he rendered valuable service to many i ' weak churches in this county. He ‘ Samuel Breakwell was born in W Shropshire, England, Feb. 22. 1836. His father was a Wesleyan Methodist e1 preacher, and some of his other sons 0 were veryisuccessful business men in 3‘ the west of England. His first wife. ‘ 3' Mary A. Norris. and the mother of 0 able business there, having the boot l‘ and shoe supply of the troops at fl Aldershot, and at the time same a t v l ty was rather rough, but he succeed- ed in great reforms; social and reâ€" 1‘ \ commodious meeting-house and the transformation of the place. At the I A cessful business in Monmouth he went there a year or two after his 1 first wife died and thence came to I in Chicago he fell in with Ashley E. ‘ Mears and so came to Highwood. . request. It was about this time also spent about a year in pastoral work in South Dakota, Elkton, We be sold out his interest in the store and business in Highwood and set» Mr. Breakwell was a goal man: not great as the world measures greatness, but he was thoroughly 00d and down deep in bi sheart, be- low all else, a consuming desire to do people good. He preached the lgospel out of pure love for it and love for the souls of men. We had busi- ness dealings with him all the time for half a dozen years and never found anything dishonest. unfair or tricky. If he made any mistakes he was always ready to rectify them. d lKnowing as we have for years the difficulties and burdens of the man's HIGHLAND PARK. ILL, AUGUST life, our wonder has been that he did as Well as he did. That such a life should go out in such a way, oom- pela us to say with Ruskin. “Behold the cloud." The funeral in being held this afternoon in the Highwood church conducted. in accordance with Mr. Breakwell’a own request, by Rev. Lewis B. Hibbard, and theintermeut will be in Lake Forest. We cannot cloee this brief and im- perfect sketch without congratulat- ing our old fellow citizens of High- wood on their rare self control and respect for the orderly processes of the law, for if ever a villain deserved lynching. Carl Pehtke deserved it Wednesday: Everybody knows thut J. Mc- Greggor Adams is a public npirited citizen of the Park, but agood many have limited ideas as to how far this spirit carries him It crops out 1‘ every little while and in various} wave Just now it in in a new bridge‘ on \V av erly aVenne the street lead ing down to his fine summer resid euce flom the Sheridan road. It is. a public bridge. just the name an the Middleton and Bo} ington bridges are, only not on a street as much In» ‘ed by the public, as the big bridge farther north on \Vaverly avenue has rotted down and disappeared. This new bridge now being built by Mr. Adams is to replace the old one which became unsafe from decay and was recently torn down. Now Mr: Adamawanmd a, good enduring bridge, one that would‘not Only be safe, but an ornament to the street approaching hie home. So, some week:‘ ago he proposed to the council that the city appropriate money enough to build one of our ordinary 'pile wooden bridges, and let him have it toward the coxt, of a fine steel bridge that will last for all time‘ if kept properly painted. The wood bridge would have to he re- lmilt every ten or fifteen years, the steel one once in about chry 5m» years, more or less. The city very wisely accepted Mr. Admua' proposal and he is now pub ting in place the steel bridge, which will cost several times the $600 up- propriated by the city. It will rest on end piers and two abutments be- tween. The piers and abutments are mere footings about two feet square, laid securely in cement and drained so as not to be disturbed by frost. It will be about 70 feet long. the It will be about 70 feet long. the steel "l" beams or stringer, which will rest 011 steel piers above ground ‘ are 20 inches deep. finch thick. and bolted tmvether on each pier and‘ then (1088 steel beams are bolted to these stringers 011 which will rent‘ the pine joists 011 which the plank ing will be laid and nailed. It will be a first class job throughout. A W Flete her has the work in chmge which will ensule tl101ongh wo1k and all possible dmpatch Nlrlrnl DI... Fun-union to Boston ‘leading (itizem present protested} What there 11 1% no ‘ bundle pasmdi iaround and the)" wuuld nut nccept‘ 11111} if ufl'ered them. be heldnextT11e1~daynigl1t for fur A meeting will ither discussion. The fire and water committee re- ‘commend the laying of new water i11mins as completing the water sys- tem a 10 inch main on Linden ave, 'frum Forest to Highland a1 enue a ti inch main on Maple from StJohne I to Sheridan awnuv; 11 0 inch main '1)“ l‘urm-t [1) Hazel. Nickel Plate Excursion to Boston ? Tickets on sale for trains leaving ‘ Chicago September 16th to 18th, in 1| elusive, at rate of $19. ()0 for tho. ! round trip and good returning until September 30th. Also cheap rates to all points east. \ estibuled sleep . l ing cars to Boston, and solid {rains I to New York. Rates IOWer than via ‘ other lines. For further informa- tion call on or addressJ. Y. Calahan, {General Agent 111 Adams Street Chicago THE ADAI’IS BRIDGE. There was an adjuurned meeting] Tuesday evening the 10th After thel clerk read records of last meeting. they took up the matter of the or- dinance to permit the Electric rail way folks to put their double tracks farther apart so they can run their open care and make it more safe for passengers than it is now. so that the distance between the outside rail. ishall be 17 feet some of the way and 19 feet the balance [of the way. All the expense incurred in moving the easterly track shall be paid by the railway company: work to be begun within three days and completed within sixty days after their accept- ance of this new ordinance. and (they must accept within a week of its paa- sage and publication. 19, I898. P. A. Montgomnry made a brief speech saying that hm property ow“. ers along the line had held om or twu meetings and they all asked the council to defer action for u Col-lple of weeks. n Alderman Phillips made a brief '2 speech emphasing the duty of the corncil to bear in mind the interest: a of the entire city and not merely' the interests of the property owners of one or two streets. L He also said the l] original ordinance II as not put a through 1118 hurr} noruas there any desire expressed III the propertv ( owners for compensation. 'l he . people did urge the city to insist on I girder rails and also that them be 1 built as soon as possible fl. gloo 1 opposed the suggestion flat the ‘ council appoint a “dickering’ can I mittee. Also. he would not favor any plan to sell the future franchise I for ready cash. This cit) is not hurdl up ' we have $23.! “(ll in the bank l all our bilh are paid that are due and heopposed" pa“ ning the future of this city for ready money. Alderman Cobb concurred in 'Mr, PhIllipI-i' idea that the council must look for benefits for the whole Cityl Land not II part ofit. He favored II committee of conference with the" l propertv owners committee and thei othcials ofthe road. I ( ul. DIIIidIIon S'Iiid he IIoIIld rutherl ‘hflVt‘ given $7M“ than tune the rondl '(In St Johns-x but he believed then‘ 'Innd now that the road IIIIIIld benetitit L the town and so he burned the road I 1 Mr. Phillips said people in Lukei 3' l‘ ores-It were paid to Sign for the road :it is a dail) om urence ini himgoand lihe did not kIIoII that the l’ ark people 'lwere "behind the times. " but the j . . . "Ileading Citizens present protested Thu \utml to (()\(‘r the pound' l “ith corrugahd iruu m1 it ir- In the fire district ' ‘ Ordinances for cement sidewalk ill‘ Ifrom of tin \IL-Quiaton placa- on the Sheridan Road north and in from of the McDonald atoms were passed ‘aud the street and alley committee authorized to employ an ougimaer to fix grades and set stakes [or the in- side lines. The question of putting i I cement crossing over the 20 foot CITY COUNCIL ‘r the pound m1 it is in the In this city at the ro-sme-noe 0! pound i Henry C. Summon. un (‘cmral ave- “ "1 lh91uuv. Thursday altvrmmn August 1h. lat 4 o'clock p. m . by Rev Blake of ewalk in l the Unitarian church Chicago. Ern- e on the l all E. Hunt of Euglr Mills. Arkwtn in from l Miss Edna M. ()lm-y of ()akland.Cal- : passed.l ilorniu. The bridv is u duughller of mmitloequsl Emily/M (Mm-y. formerly of ginver to‘ Highwood, and m-llkunwn in (heu- r the in- lparts. Afu-r u brie-l wedding trip {puning the happy pair will take up their 20 foot I residence in Eagle Milk. Arkanbab. alley way in Mr. McDonaid’s new walk around the corner on the Sher» idau rold wu referred to the finance committee. At 1! p. m. the council adjourned. | Among the prominent citizens pre- sent on mm 0! this street rail- way ordinance. were: evaldermen P. A. Montgomery, C. B. Rioe.J.‘C. Cushmnn; June! XcDonIld. M. Bortree. ex-Mlyor David M. Erskine, Cushmnn; June! XcDonIld. M. Bortree. ex-Mlyor David M. Erskine, T. H. Spe-ncer. W'. H. Emerson. Lawrence ()leaen. C. W. Aldridm. ex-City Treasurer G. B. Cummings. Mr. Cole. Wm. Tillman and others. Last Saturday “The North Shore League"-â€" the Sabbath school class of young men taught by the Rev. 1’ fanstiehl of the Presbyterian church, returned from their Weeks' campink at Third Lake. The boys report a most excellent time. The first even- ing in camp the class adopted a series of rules and penalties no that they weregnnder military discipline. Rev. Pfanstiehl was captain. and one rmm wus appointed daily to be his assist- ant. and two men detailed daily to assist the cook The two penalties moat dreaded by the lxiyij were scab dut-y as caiks'assistant arid two hours in mm during day. guarded . by a sentinel. ' In the language of one oftbe boys constantly heard in camp. the boys "wok it easy" whenever temp'od to break a rule. lest they be made to serve out the penaly. Throwing horseâ€"shoes. fishing, rowing, swim- ming, 1):”de etc. during “today, “an.“ of an aofh muudjho miug, blue-wt. aw. uunua my..-“ and‘gnma of in soft mundjho camp-fire in the evening, together one night with a “nun! battle” (ask Tommy Troxell about it.) made the days pass all too quickly. One rule was that all should be in camp by 59 p 11).. lo answer Fall-cull and attend awning prayers, aft‘rr which thv buys laid aroundtbe camp fires playing games and rehearsing the- day's doings. Jim Everett was tlnl hero in fishing. having landed lhv lines! and largm! hubs. Jack Flinn and his "friend" (‘aptalnfiâ€"the faithful hnrse loaned the boys by Mr and Mrs. Morris. were insepar- able and were winning the most use)» in] in camp It was a sight to see “old Cup" lift up his head and prick up his tail when the horn blew or tin pans and plates were rattledâ€"he having partuken of the war-like spirit uf the tiniest The best friend of the boys in camp was “Joe." the cuuk. as he was also the best horse- shoe thrower and checker player. :Tho boys could not decide as to who v‘wun the lmt enter ! The last H'uning of the vucamp- 1”)?!“ their war a mock auctibu. and :thv boy had great sportin “bidding ! in" articles of varioua deficriptiun land of no description ! Altogether the outing success and the boys planning for noxtsumme THE ENCAMPMENI'. MATRIHUNIAL. the outing was a grand the boys already are noxtsumnwr'n camping. the reside-nee 0‘ no.1;