Colonial Bills Found Hidden in Old Bible After 100 Years
Walter Kraft of Belleville discovered nearly $1,000 in Colonial currency tucked in a family Bible dating back to early Illinois settlers. The notes include issues from George III era and one printed by Benjamin Franklin, with the counterfeiting warning on the back. Kraft now stores the bills in a safety deposit box.
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Walter Kraft
Dine Street
Belleville
Kraft
John HH. Dennis
Illinois
George 111
England
Benjamin Franklin
Wraft
Peoria Enoch Arden Case Ends as Husband Alive
In Peoria Circuit Court New York Mutual Life Insurance faced a claim from a wife for 600 dollars on a policy. James Ellison, long presumed dead, appeared in court, leading to the case being dismissed. Ellison had vanished after desertion decades earlier.
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Peoria
New York Mutual Life Insurance Company
James Ellison
Ellison
Curtis
Neb
William Gray
Toluca
Ill
Blunder Spoils Peoria Vote On Civil Service Ballot
Voters faced a costly, fruitless campaign to place Peoria police and fire on civil service. A ballot error misstated the issue by listing a five member police board for election, while the act intended to grant civil service status becomes active March 20, 1805.
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Peoria
Fire Departments
Death Reveals Buried Past of Deserting Army Solder
United States Army deserter Simon Joachum lived fifty years under the alias John Miller after fleeing arrest for taking a small supply. Born in Germany in 1829, he served in the U S Army before deserting at Fort Leavenworth in 1858. His postwar life ended with burial at Smithfield and his secret now disclosed.
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United States Army
Simon Joachum
Smithfield
Germany
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Joachum Wone
John Miller
Teacher Fails To Leave Jail For Debt Dispute
Sherman Cass, a school teacher jailed for debt under an old English law, has completed six months in Champaign county jail but cannot win release after failing to pay $1,800 to W. F. Burke for whipping his child. Burke paid the sheriff $3.15 for another week’s board, and Cass must seek legal action to gain freedom.
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Sherman Cass
Champaign County
Cass
W. F. Burke
Burke
Peters
Plan repeal of lid laws shakes Illinois politics
With state elections barely counted, temperance and anti temperance forces in Illinois prepare for the next battle. Saloon men intend to repeal local option laws by the Legislature and target Sunday closing laws in Chicago. The first clash will come at the state primary for legislative candidates.
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Chicago
Illinois
Judge R N Botsford Dead After Brief Illness
Judge Richard N Botsford of Elgin dies after brief illness. Born January 26, 1830, in Newton Connecticut. Senior partner at Botsford Wayne Botsford, attorneys for Chicago and Northwestern railroad and Elgin National Watch Company. Son Carl E Botsford, former Elgin mayor.
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Elgin
Richard N. Botsford
Newton
Conn
Botsford
Wayne & Botsford
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Elgin National Watch Company
Carl E. Botsford
Wealthy Farmer Ends Life in Clinton Tragedy
Alexander Bird a retired Clinton farmer died by his own hand using a butcher knife and a razor. He was said to brood over his wife's death. Bird leaves an estate valued at about 100000 dollars.
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Enda Life
Alexander Bird
Clinton
Illinois brief highlights and arrests in state news
Maurice Joyce East St. Louis mayor dies after five weeks illness. Editor Charles Mentzer of Stock Falls News dies in Sterling after 35 years in journalism. Triplets born to Wilbur and Mrs Johnson of Ohio station. Boiler explosion at Paw Paw tile works kills Arthur and Frank Boiers and injures Louis Burnett Karl Marks and Leslie Elliott. Bloomington council approves saloon license hike to 1200 with eighty saloons existing. Curtis B Savage dies from a blow by Remus Potts over hitching posts. James P Slade dies in East St Louis aged 65 former state superintendent. Lewis D Barth sues Bob Jackson over assault damages. Olney election results anti license. druggists' permits revoked. State's Attorney McNutt seeks reindictment for Central Illinois Traction wreck. Mayors of Granite City Madison and Venice pledge relief aid. Riot at American Aluminum works over hiring practices. Clarabe I Tayes 25 given life for wife murder. witnesses testify. Rev J M Francis to Pennsylvania after May 10. Lillian Reinier 3 fatally shot by brother in Bartlet. Mrs Gertie Pierson Leasure ONeal indicted for poisoning husband. Exhumation due to Florence Kellar statements. Drunk car fire in Freeport endangers passengers. Railroad officials in Carmi elect leaders for Effingham to Brookport line. Suit over $37.50 decided. Harrisburg case yields potential future action. Miss Zera Hanson aids jail escape thwarting seven prisoners. six escape.
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State News
Maurice Joyce
East St. Louis
Charles Mentzer
Stock Falls
Leslie Elliott
Bloomington
Curtis B. Savage
Rockford
Remus Potts
Savage
James P. Slade
Illinois
Lewis D. Barth
Wayne County
Anti-Saloon League
Bob Jackson
Mill Shoals
Olney
John McNutt
Mattoon
Grosscup
Central
Inois Traction Company
Granite City
Madison
Venice
Clarabe I Tayes
Alton
Hayes
Mildred
Clarence
J. M. Francis
Ilinois House of Representatives
Grace Lutheran Church of
Springfield
Northumberland County
Pennsylvania
Lillian Reinier
Bartlett
George
Gertie Pierson
Leasure O'Neal
James L. Pierson
Champaign
Hektoen
Walter Staines
Chicago
Florence Kellar
Beardstown
Sadie Garman
Cummings
Toledo, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad Company
Carmi
Nathaniel M. Burns
St. Louis
Det Reid
Marion
Henry Semple Ames
Thomas W. Hall
Effingham
Brookport
Wabash
Southern Illinois
Harrisburg
Roberts, Johnson & Rand Company
D. B. Yezner
Yezner
Zera Hanson
Sylvester Flanson
Murphysboro
Sheriff Hanson
Marion Grey Sentenced in Elgin Matrimonial Agency Case
Marion Grey, linked to the Searchlight Club of Elgin, was sentenced by Judge Landis in Chicago to one year in prison for running a marriage brokerage. He denounced agency witnesses as false and said applicants were mentally and physically inferior. Judge Baker later released Grey on a $750 cash bond pending appeal in the higher court.
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Landis
Chicago
Marion Grey
Searchlight Club
Elgin
Nials
Miss Grey
Baker
United States Court of Appeals
Teacher’s Rail Ride Wedding Prank at Mount Vernon
Orley Waters, a Frank school teacher in Mount Vernon, was carried astride a rail around the school grounds as a wedding gift after secretly marrying Lena Chaney of Belle Rive last April. Pupils mocked him, hoisting him on a borrowed fence rail and circling the building before releasing him.
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sLacere
Orley Waters
Frank
Mount Vernon
Pastor Held as Disorderly At Warrensburg Service
Rev. C. P. Pledger assistant to Billy Sunday was held on a charge of unbecoming language and disorderly conduct after a Warrensburg revival. Bond set at 200 dollars for appearance. Complainant C. B. Batchelder, a stockman, said Pledger warned a stranger he could not be trusted, then quoted he would steal coins from dead men's eyes if given a chance.
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Billy
Warrensburg
C. P. Pledger
C. 8
Batchelder
Pledger
Crunk Former Patrolman Faces Jail to Protect Women
Friends of James Crang Crunk claim the ex patrolman is serving a prison term at Cheater State Penitentiary to spare two married Granite City women from scandal. He and a fellow ex officer were convicted of robbing a Granite City saloon and its patrons. Crunk allegedly drove with the women and refused to prove an alibi, compromising them.
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James Crang
Granite City
Crunk
Cheater
Surprise reunion after mistaken death sparks tombstone surprise
John Garrigus of Mount Auburn walked 4 street to Springfield and met his brother Jefferson Garrigus whom he mourned as dead for eighteen months. John had erected a tombstone for him after reading a train wreck death story. Jefferson explains a tramp stole his pension papers and he survived the wreck.
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John Garrigus
Mount Auburn
Springfield
Jefferson D. Garrigus
Jefferson
Jefferson Garrigus
New unions form and meetings span national scene
A Minneapolis sign painters union forms with fraternal exchanges planned with St Paul. The International Hod Carriers and Building Laborers Union reports 292 branches across US and Canada. Actors National Protective Union eyes a large New York City convention in May. A Tobacco Workers Union organizer plans a chewing tobacco workers union in St Paul and Minneapolis. The United Garment Workers set August discussions on the eight hour rule in Milwaukee. Eastern Massachusetts Carpenters Council aims monthly visits to 200 affiliates to tighten ties. The Typographical Union of Germany reports 53,807 members and about 1.5 million dollars in treasury. Detroit hosts next August conventions for glove workers, teamsters and firemen. Pittsburgh labor temple funding remains short of the needed stock. Minneapolis unions plan a crusade against Sunday businesses. Cigar makers vote on a $300 death benefit draw for 25 years of international membership. Kentucky labor inspector Thomas A. Davis recalls long service in the Typographical Union. Greater Newark dental mechanics union threatens strike over wages. Boston Sign Painters renew for minor changes and maintain $3.50 daily eight hour wage. Jersey City launches unemployment work program paying $1.25 daily for spring cleanups. United Textile Workers to raise per capita tax starting June 30 and back a Lowell weaving strike. Memphis area farmers and unionists propose a direct farmer to consumer exchange to reduce middlemen.
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Minneapolis
Minn
St. Paul
International Hod Carriers and
United States
Canada
Actors’ National Protective Union of America
New York City
Tobacco Workers’ Union
United Garment Workers of America
Milwaukee
Wis
Carpenters’ Grand Council
Massachusetts
Typographical Union of
Germany
Thomas A. Davis
Maysville
Kentucky
International ‘Typographical Union
Louisville
Dental Mechanics
Newark
Boston
Mass
Jersey City
Laborers’ Union
Public meetings for the unemployed urged by charity expert
Editor Devine of the Charities, New York’s leading charity organ, advocates reestablishing the old-time town hall adapted to cities. He argues suppressing meetings by police harms public policy and that free discussion of grievances, real or imagined, should be defended, warning that fear of anarchism has given police excessive powers to break up gatherings.
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Devine
The
Charities
Charity Organization of
New York
Oldest temple unearthed at Bisya in Central Babylonia
Excavators in Central Babylonia at Bisya uncover what may be the oldest temple. A brick bearing the name Dungi dates to about 2750 B C, with other bricks linked to Sargon and the era around 45 00 B C. The fragmented text notes a theater remark about keeping heads upright.
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Bisya
Babylonia
Dungi
Sargon
Babylon
Fire destroys Chelsea district in massive 10 million loss
A Sunday blaze in Chelsea Massachusetts engulfed a broad swath of the suburb’s manufacturing and retail areas. The fire killed three, injured about 100, left 1,500 families homeless, and destroyed one square mile of buildings including churches hospitals banks and a library. Martial law and militia protection followed as flames spread to East Boston.
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Chelsea
Boston
Charlestown Navy Yard
Chelsea Brigade
Boston Blacking Company
West 3d Street
Boston and Maine Railroad
Everett City
Chelsea Creek
East Boston
Genius and Insanity Seen As Connected Yet Distinct
Prof Cesare Lombroso argues genius and insanity share an identity link in mind states, a view challenged by Dr Joseph Grasset in The Semi Insane and the Semi responsible. Grasset shows intellectual superiors often carry marked psychic defects yet intellect and nervous fault are not strictly causal. He argues a temperament links superiority and neurosis, not a disease.
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Cesare Lombroso
Joseph Grasset
Jelliffe
New York
Grasset
Telegraphic Brevities on cotton and rail violations
The Bureau of Plant Industry reports promising results introducing Egyptian cotton in New Mexico and Arizona after years of effort. Eight suits have been filed against the Great Northern Railroad for violating federal law by failing to unload cattle for rest, food, and water at intervals of no more than twenty eight hours.
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United States
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
New Mexico
Arizona
Great Northern Railroad Company
Trade review notes cautious progress in Chicago district
R G Dun and Co reports mixed signals for Chicago trade with overall slower advance than usual for the season. Confidence remains, aided by favorable agriculture. steel and mine delays and weak iron prices weigh on expectations while moneyCredit strengthens and bank payments fall. Transportation earnings rise, retail buying improves, and summer and fall orders in textiles, food, footwear, and clothing show solid demand. Failures in the district total 29 with liabilities over 5000 dollars up from prior weeks and last year.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Chicago
New York Market Trends Show Mixed Improvement In Trade
Bradstreet’s Commercial Report notes irregular but improving trends week to week with Haster’s approach boosting retail and some jobbing, best news from the Southwest and Northwest, milder gains in Southern areas, and early crop and soil conditions ahead of 1907. Prices fall to annual lows, while leather and hides hold, eastern shoe shipments drop 27 percent from 1907. Business failures total 258 for week ending April 9, up from 247 prior week. Canadian failures total 28, steady against prior week and year.
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New York
Haster
Southwest
Northwest
Bradstreet
Chicago to New York Farm Prices Reported for Cattle Hogs and Grains
Market list of livestock and grain prices by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo Toledo New York with ranges for cattle hogs sheep and crops such as wheat corn oats rye hay butter eggs potatoes and clover seed. Prices shown in cents per unit or per bushel across multiple dates and locations.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Northern
Ste
Toledo
New York
New York Board of Education Plans $1 Million Safety Spending
The New York City Board of Education will allocate 1 million dollars to improve safety in school buildings. A brush fire ignited in Greenville, Kentucky, destroying the village center.
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New York
Board of Education
Greenville
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Peoria Enoch Arden
R. N Botsford
Executive Council
United Textile Workers of America
Lowell
Memphis
Tenn
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