Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Plaoes. Joliet Prison Murderer Sentenced to Dio April 31. Joliet, 111., March 3,—“Chicken Joe” Campbell, the negro convict found guilty of murdering Mrs. Odette M. Allen, wife of the former warden of the state penitentiary here, today was sentenced to bo hanged on Good Friday, April 21.