Illinois Bank Robbery Confession Shocks Franklin Case
Joseph Grant alias Vigus of Springfield confessed to Sheriff Graff that the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Franklin was not robbed for money but to stage a plot. Grant says he was paid 75 dollars by James Tribble to commit the fake robbery. Getty Wright and Tribble are accused of devising the plot. Grant’s cash found on arrest. Wright later doubted Grant’s identity.
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Franklin Bank
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank
Franklin
Joseph Grant
Vigus
Springfield
Getty Wright
James Tribble
Graff
Board of Trade
Grant
Jacksonville
Lightning Kills Baby Joker Near Courtland
Four year old Alice Roach died when a lightning bolt struck her home near Courtland during a fierce electrical storm. The bolt knocked the girl’s sisters unconscious and tore a hole in the house. James Rosch, four miles west of Maple Park, is the child’s father, with other relatives injured. A. H. Beck of Chicago, a cigar salesman and Illinois Merchants Union member, was found dead under lumber at Sycamore yard, believed to have died from shock during the storm.
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Courtland
Alice Roach
Kane
DeKall
Kendall
James Rosch
Maple Park
Waterloo
Perrysville
Casey
New Dixon
Elmer Anderson
Elgin
Fox River
Rhorer
John Regan
Rockford
Ohio River
Cairo
William Ashlan
Frank Egan
Huffmansville
Frank Farnum
Freeport
le Roy
Westfield
Paris
Ralph Griffin
State Highway Commissioners
Paxton
James Cobble
Charleston
Aurora
Inez Smith
Bath
Old Salem Chautauqua Grounds
Petersburg
Miss Smith
Custis
Masked Men Rob Postoffice in Maple Park Heist
Three masked robbers entered the Maple Park post office at gunpoint after midnight. They blew open the safe and raided the Government vault, taking about 250 dollars. Frank OMalley, the postmistress son, was assaulted and forced to unlock the vault before the dynamite blast. The trio fled the scene.
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Maple Park
Frank O'Malley
Chicago
O'Malley
Tower W
Illinois Judge Drowned in Minnesota Lake Accident
Judge S F Busey of Urbana and his daughter Anna McClain drowned when their fishing boat capsized on Man Trap Lake Minnesota. They moved to disentangle a tangled line after a muskellunge bite, boats overturned, and rescuers found them submerged about two hours later in twenty feet of water.
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F. Busey
S. F. Busey
Urbana
Anna McClain
Man Trap Lake
Minnesota
Asylum Jobs Quickly Filled At Elgin State Hospital
Dr. V H Podstata superintendent states trouble with employees at Elgin State Hospital is ended. Twenty five resignations will not affect patient care. Thirty applicants sought jobs since the walkout. Two Hartland Crash victims injured near Kankakee when a Chicago bound Illinois Central train struck their auto.
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Mead of State Hospital
Elgin State Hospital
V. H. Podstata
Harry Baskerville
Asa Barron
Kankakee
Uinols Central
Deneen Plans Solons Work for Extra Session
Governor Deneen to issue call in October for an extraordinary session of the General Assembly. He aims to include codification of revenue laws and railroad laws, with commissions to prepare findings for November assembly. Also expected to push a new primary law.
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Deneen
General Assembly
Springfield
Engineer James Voorhies Wilson Dies at 73 in Elgin
James Voorhies Wilson, veteran Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroader and former master mechanic, dies in Elgin after 55 years service and 2,000,000 miles driven with no accidents. Survived by widow, four daughters, and one son. Funeral at Forest Home Cemetery chapel, Chicago.
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Raly
Elgin
James Voorhies Wilson
Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul
Alonzo E. Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Glencoe
N. Y
Milwaukee Road
Madison
Chicago
H. E. Fairchild
Leslie M. Barkwell
Minneapolis
William S. Nicholson
William R. Adams
Wheaton
Forest Home Cemetery Chapel
Illinois Wheat Best Yet Harvest Marks Record Yield
The August crop report shows Illinois winter wheat harvested yielding 22.5 million dollars the largest on record. Oats total value 38.13 million dollars, corn condition 98 percent of average on Aug 1 with 516,182 more acres than last year. Wheat acres 1,097,703 the largest ever. oats 2,760,426 acres. corn total yield 208,703 bushels. fruits report weak with apples/grapes at 43 44 and 88 percent respectively.
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Illinois
State Board of Agriculture
Kidnaps Son and Flies With Child in Centralia
Carroll Holloway of Mt. Vernon abducted his former wife Harve Fitzgeralds 9 year old son from Centralia where he was with his stepfather. A posse captured Holloway but he escaped with the boy. The mother offers 5000 dollars for the boys return. The incident occurred as the child played with other boys on the sidewalk.
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Iom
Carroll Holloway
Mt. Vernon
Harve Fitzgerald
Centralia
Holloway
Marshal kills burglar in pistol duel during postoffice robbery
Night Marshal Skages pursued three safeblowers who dynamited the TMlinota Postoffice safe and took $60. In a running fight the marshal shot and killed one robber believed to be Charles Mitchell. Mitchell’s body was found with a forehead wound in an alley at daybreak.
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Skages
Charles Mitchell
Mitchell
Peoria Miner Dies By Dynamite At State Hospital Ravine
Charles P. Jones 73 a coal miner from Hanna City blew his head to bits with a dynamite cartridge in a ravine near the Peoria State Hospital for the Insane. He was committed Aug 3 at his own request and had been in mild care.
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Peoria
Charles P. Jones
Hanna City
Peoria State Hospital
Jones
Mack Nominated for Fourth District State Supreme Court Seat
Former Judge David E. Mack of Carthage secured the Republican nomination to succeed the late Guy C. Scott as State Supreme Court justice from the Fourth judicial district. He won on the two hundredth ballot at Malcomb, ending a deadlock lasting over twenty seven hours in the Fourth circuit convention.
Rock River Ordered Navigable by Government Declares It
An official opinion declares the Rock River interstate and navigable, limiting encroachments to War Department permission. The ruling affects dams, docks, and water-power facilities from Madison to Janesville, with plans to deepen channels to reach the Mississippi. Drainage Trustee Wallace G. Clark says Des Plaines is navigable after a power boat trip Joliet to Kankakee.
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Rock River
Wisconsin
Rockton
Rock Island
Illinois
Rockford
Oregon
Dixon
Sterling
Prophetstown
Rock Valley
Wis
C. W. Durham
United States Corps
United States
War Department
Janesville
Beloit
Dixon and
Madison
Lake Mendota
Lake Monona
Waubesa
First Lake
Mississippi River
Wallace G. Clark
Des Plaines River
Joliet
Kankakee River
Jealous husband slays wife then dies by suicide
John Busby, driven by insane delusion of jealousy, killed his wife Mrs Adams of Bloomington in their Weston home and then killed himself in a small room. The crime shocked Central Illinois, witnessed by four children. Busby had once been a Sunday school teacher and barber, aged 45.
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John Busby
Weston
McLean County
Illinois
Busby
Adams
Bloomington
Fainting Girl Killed by Train on Gasoline Speeder near Springfield
Miss Nora Sams fainted on a gasoline speeder along the Chicago & Alton tracks near Springfield as a freight train approached and she was killed. Her three companions leaped to safety in time. separately on a Chicago street car, Thomas Katsnes shot Victoria Kawalec for rebuffed affection, then wounded himself.
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Chicago & Alton Railroad
Springfield
Nora Sams
Chicago
Thomas Katsnes
Victoria Kawalec
Katsnes
Local Tragedies Claim Two Lives in Abingdon and Bushnell
Miss Jessie Merrill of Abingdon died after jumping into a cistern while suffering typhoid fever. Mrs. Lou Wallace, also of Abingdon, was fatally struck by a locomotive at Bushnell and died shortly after.
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Jessie Merrill
Abingdon
Lou Wallace
Bushnell
Chicagoan Drowned in Ohio River Incident
George DeWeese aged 17 son of William DeWeese of Chicago was drowned while bathing in the Kokos ing River near Mount Vernon in Ohio.
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Ohio
George DeWeese
William DeWeese
Chicago
Kokosing
Mount Vernon
Death of Dr. H W Thomas Founder of People’s Church
The Rev Hiram W Thomas longtime Chicago clergyman died Thursday night in De Funiak Springs Florida after a long illness. He was buried in Chicago. Jenkin Lloyd Jones led funeral rites at All Souls Church. Once expelled from the Methodist Episcopal Church for heresy he founded the People’s Church in Chicago and later resigned as pastor. He was born April 29 1832 in Virginia and had seven children. his legacy includes ties to Professor Swing and liberal religious activism.
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People’s Church
Chicago
Florida
Hiram W. Thomas
DeFuniak Springs
Fla
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
All Souls’ Church
Thomas
David Swing
West
Swing
Methodist Episcopal Church
People's Church
McVicker’s
Frank Crane
Hiram Washington Thomas
Hampshire County
Cooperstown Academy
Berlin College
Iowa
Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Aurora
Centenary Church
Homer W. Thomas
Vandalia Varnum
Extra Session Costs Mount For Tariff Passage
The cost of passing the tariff law during the extra session nears $500,000. Mileage at 20 cents a mile for each member from home to Washington accounts for the largest share. House members total $154,000 in travel, Senate travelers $47,000, plus $73,000 for Senate employer pay and about $100,000 for House clerks and assistants. The deficiency bill lists $25,000 for general expenses and $10,000 for official reporters and extra clerk hire.
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Samuel
Washington
Pacific Coast
House
Treasury
Senate
Bank Robbery By Youths At Santa Clara Bank
Two unmasked youths armed with shotguns robbed the Valley Bank of Santa Clara California shortly after 10 PM. They demanded 7000 dollars from the cashier and three clerks, then fled in a waiting car. They were captured two hours later seven miles away, surrendered without resistance. The boys appeared under 19 and came from well dressed, apparently affluent families.
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Valley Bank of
Santa Clara
Cal
Argentina Allows U S Cattle After Embargo Lift
Argentina rescinds its cattle import embargo and will admit American cattle as Congress moves hides onto the free list influencing the policy shift. The action signals a swing toward freer imports and aligns with U S and Argentine policy changes.
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United States
Congress
Argentina
Historic Milestones From 1642 to 1908 in Early American Records
Chronicle-like list covers Harvard’s first commencement 1642, Canadian expedition 1690, Boston’s King's Chapel 1749, Hutchinson mob 1765, Savannah evacuated 1782, 1804 abdication chain, naval actions and early U S industry milestones, earthquakes and disasters, and late 19th century building costs. Names, dates, places, and events traced with broad atlas of notable incidents.
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Harvard College
Sir Wilam Phipps
Boston
Canada
King’s Chapel
Gov. Hutchinson
Savannah
Francis II
Germany
Austria
Georgia
South Carolink
United States
Constituction
Guerriere
Mohawk
America
Peston
Hanks
United
Bates
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Thevon
Vet
Congress
Yorus
San Pruisco
Tuscany
United Kingdom of Italy
Victor Bonreenoed
Fremont
St. Lanse
Pennsylvania
Mississipp Iver
Home
Nate Bank
Baltimore
Grover Cleveland
Ferdinand
Czar
Bulgaria
Terry
Justice Pict
Hathoap
Martinique
Larned
San Franciscos
Minneapolis
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Postoffice
Solons
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DR. H. W. Thomas
Sam
ROB Bank
Linecoln
Neb
Tsig
Turkey
Crete
Pease
Pekin
Noredenskjold
Storkholm
Lord Northcote
Lord Teoungson
Peleval
Australia
Panapul Einal Company
Ainsworth R. Spofford
Tbe
Persia
Athens
Greece
Geological Survey
New York
Brooklyn
San Francisco
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Seattle
Syen
Pittsberg
Rostov
Becwuse
Ounty
Missouri
Cleo
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