Illinois State News Record of Events of the Past Week
Rich Illinois woman dies in Peoria leaving an estate near four million dollars. Mrs Lydia K Bradley founder of the Bradley Polytechnic Institute and a donor to charity, left two point two million to the Peoria school. Her death prompted flags at half mast. nieces from Stockton will contest the will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradley
Peoria
Lydia K. Bradley
Tinois
Bradley Polytechnic Institute
Bradley Tome
Bradley Institute
Dr. Harper
University of Chicago
Switzerland County
Indiana
Sitiel
Moss
Society of the D. R
Death Leap At Joliet Penitentiary Incites Despair
Frank J. Constantine, confined in Joliet penitentiary for murder, leaped from a gallery in the prison rotunda in a suicide bid and lay near death in the penitentiary hospital. Constantine, once a boarder at La Salle Avenue victim Mrs. Louise Ik Gentry, faced a life term after being sentenced by Judge Kavanagh for the Chicago murder. He had fled to Europe but was captured in New York when attempting to return to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Constantine
Penitentiary Hospital
Joliet
Tafa
Louise Ik Gentry
Chicago
Tie
Lie
Constantine
Europe
New York
Former Waif Claims Estate in Missouri Battle
A Civil War era waif, now Mrs. Samuel Vantine of Bradley, seeks a share of the John Butler estate in Boone County Missouri. The case centers on Butler allegedly marrying while still married to his first wife, making Vantine the sole heir to about fifteen acres of land and a substantial sum of money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Butler
Boone County
Missouri
Samuel Vantine
Bradley
Hutler
L Y
Butler
E. T. Wetmore
Paris
Rand
Buttler
Vantine
Escaped lunatic shoo fires buckshot at helper near Chestnut
William Hegenbaugh, 60, a farmer near Chestnut, was fatally shot by Sam S Hatchett, an escaped asylum inmate. Hatchett has been insane for years and escaped last June. He had hatred toward Hegenbaugh after aiding in Hatchett’s hospital return months ago. Hatchett previously attempted to kill his wife and family. he was arrested after the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hegenbaugh
Chestnut
Sam S Hatchett
Hatchett
Liberty
Hegenbaugh
Decatur
Jesse Black
Tazewell County
John Murray
Edward Sheahan
Elgin
Peter Neusbaum
Seatonville
William Tegenbaugh
Sam Tlatchert
Marvin Crawford
Champaign
John Leonard Roeder
Quincy
Ile
Standard Wash Company
Tissell
William Merian
Carlyle
Isabella Pollard
Antioch Church
Fairfield
The
Ilinois State Historical Society
Springfield
Horace White
New York
Edwineo
Gale
Chicago
Adlai Li. Stevenson
Thomas King
Cairo
King
Fred TI. Wood
Deratur
Wood
Cornelia Wood
Danville
Peoria Heights
Peoria
Carl Rtebsame
Bloomington
Berlin
Christian Riebsame
Grand Army of the Republic
Charles Baldridge
Mount Vernon
Baldridge
Illinois
Anna
Murphysboro
Pinckneyville
Vienna
Golco
Paris
West Baden
Harris
Daniel GC. Stover
Freeport
Stover
Porter S. Stover
May Winger
Ravenswood
Porter Stover
Winger
George Moran
Waukegan
Racine
Tyrrell
Swamp Land To Be Drained In Central Illinois
Fifty thousand acres of swamp land across Christian, Sangamon and Macon counties will be reclaimed for agricultural use after a drainage organization of seventy five land owners formed. Levees will line the Sangamon river with other steps to drain the partly submerged land once valued mainly by hunters and fishermen. James Bailey of Tazewell county was elected president and Charles Correll of Christian county secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Illinois
Christian
Sangamon
Macon
Sangamon River
James Bailey
Tazewell County
Charles Correll
Christian County
Dramatic Death of Veteran at G A R Banquet
Dr J B Mayes a Civil War veteran aged 68 died from heart trouble at a Carrollton G A R banquet. While addressing the group Dr Hayes pointed to a vacant chair for J B Norton who died in 1905, said the chair was vacant but victorious, then collapsed and died at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Mayes
Carrollton
Hayes
J B. Norton
Norton
Victor
Judge Jesse Black enters race for Governor on Democratic ticket
Judge Jesse Black of Tazewell county formally announces candidacy for Governor as a Democrat. The report also lists a string of local deaths, accidents and notable events including births, robberies, suicides, and legal notices from communities across Illinois.
Fairs to Receive 30000 Under New Premium System
Illinois will endorse county fairs with 20000 this year under a premium plan. Each fair receives 40 percent of last year’s premiums, replacing the former fixed 200. Total premiums paid last year reached 77845 with Knoxville and other counties posting varied distributions. Several counties had fairs, while others lacked events, and eight new fairs formed under the new system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilinois
TE. E. McCoy
State Board of Agriculture
McCoy
Kankakee County
Putnam County Fair Association
Will County
Wilwood
Joliet
Monroe
Plainfield
Peotone
Madison County
Mighland
Randolph
Houston
Macoupin
Carlinville
Reate
Micon
Washington
Clinton
Foxs
Schoolteacher Wins Temporary Writ to Stay Jail
Miss Annie Kelly, Tolono teacher, gains a temporary writ of habeas corpus from federal Judge Veaneis M. Wright, delaying incarceration tied to a joint judgment with Prof Sherman Cass over alleged injuries to Michael Burke, a Tolono schoolboy. Cass has been jailed since last September as the Burke family covers his board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Kelly
Tolono
Champaign County
Veaneis M. Wright
Cass
Burke
Wright
Kelly
Arcola Man Shoots Neighbor and Son Over Courtship
Arcola resident Attente Owen Devere shot James Hickey and his son Ed while they drove by his farm with a load of corn after a quarrel over Ed Hickey courting Devere’s wife’s sister Miss Stabler. Ed Hickey died from a chest wound and James Hickey was wounded. Devere surrendered to a marshal and was jailed in Tuscola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arcola
Owen Devere
James Hickey
Ed Hickey
Miss Stabler
Devere
Hickey
Tuscola
State Buys 900 Pheasants for Auburn Preserve
Nine hundred English pheasants were bought by the Illinois State game commissioner at about six dollars per pair to stock a breeding preserve at Auburn. The birds come from Wallace Evans of Oak Park, whose four mile west farm houses 4,000 birds, the largest in the country, intended to promote pheasant shooting in Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Illinois
Wallace Evans
Oak Park
Battle Royal in the Chicago Convention
Washington observers foresee a decisive Democratic field and a fierce GOP battle as Taft, Hughes, Foraker, Fairbanks, Knox, and Cannon vie for influence. Chicago hosts the Republican convention while Washington residents brace for campaigns from coast to coast and the outcome of the 1908 race looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Washington
Bryan
Jis City
California
Maine
Mir Roosevelt
Abedin
Taft
Guary
Moraker
Knox
Cortelyou
New York
Gov. Hughes
Fairbanks
Cannon
Senate
House
Indiana
Illinois
Aft
Hughes
Foraker
Presidential Campaigns Since 1856 In Brief
A compressed ledger of Republican and Democratic campaigns from 1856 to 1904. Names mis-spelled in OCR include Fremont Hayton Lincoln Ham lit Grant Colfax Garfield Arthur Blaine Logan Harrison Morton McKinley Hobart Roosevelt Roosevelt Wairbanks Buchanan Breckinridge Douglas McClellan Pendleton Seymour Blair Stevenson Sewall Parker Davis and others. The piece notes a struggle for party standards, Chicago and Denver conventions, and market-wide impact as nominations loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont
Hayton
Lincoln
Hamlit
Johnson
Grant
Colfax
Wilson
Hayes
Whieler
Garfield
Arthur
Blaine
Logan
Harrison
Morton
Starrison
Reid
McKinley
Hobart
MeKinley
Roosevelt
Wairbanks
Buchanan
Breckinridge
Douglas
McClellan
Pendleton
Seymour and Lair
Relby
Brown
den and Hendricks
Neock Ant Inglish
Endricka
Land and Thurman
Cleveland
Stevenson
Sewall
Parker
Davis
Breckinridge and
Lane
Republicans and Democrats brace for pivotal 1908 nominating battles
The piece reflects on the coming presidential nominating contests, noting a rare real battle within the Republican ranks and a fierce, clearly defined Democratic contest centered on William Jennings Bryan. It predicts frenzied stump speaking, sharp platforms, and a four month campaign with top orators drafted to present opposing arguments.
Chicago Regulates Bake Shops Revokes Licenses for Filthy Conditions
Chicago adopts a regulating ordinance to revoke a baker's license immediately if cleanliness rules are not followed, a direct outcome of widespread agitation over filth in city bakeries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Trade conditions in Chicago district show cautious revival
The weekly Dun & Bradstreet review notes a large commercial mortality ratio but increasing signs of revival. Banks are active, settlements smooth, and borrowing needs met. Steel, iron, lumber, hides, and minor metals show firmer prices while raw material demand grows, and lumber and factory needs look brighter. Weather favors retail and jobbing, and early spring trade is anticipated with slow wholesale openings and wage-talk cautions. Business failures reach 408 for the week ending Jan 23, with Canadian failures at 51.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
G, Dun & Co
Rome
City and Regional Grain and Livestock Prices Snapshot
A dense listing of terminal market quotes across multiple US cities. Cattle hogs sheep and wheat prices are shown for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo with ranges for quality grades and assorted commodities like corn oats rye barley clover seed and creamery butter. The figures reflect shipping and grading terms common to the era and indicate a broad cross market snapshot rather than a single event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Ste. Detroit
Catte
Milwaukee
Ava
West Castle
New Neurological Hospital Planned on Blackwell's Island
First Neurological Hospital for Nervous Diseases to open in New York City with a separate medical board. Commissioner Hobberd of Charities and local experts oversee the project on Blackwell's Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Neurological Hospital
Charities
Hobberd
New York City
Ocal
Blackwell's Island
Hospital For Nervous Diseases
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Illinois State News
Waif Claims Estate
Shoo
Len Stonecipher
Charles Lotshaw
George Feuther
Salem
George Nasser
Centralia
Stonecipher
Elgin Grocer
Paul Kretchmar
Kretchmar Brothers of
Aurora, Elgin and Chicago
Kretchmar
Mount Carmel
Charles Reign Scoville
Scoville
Thomas Penn Allom
Jesse van Camp
William Hamlin
Pontiac Reform School
Quincey
Beleve
Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company
Republican National Gathering
Magnetic
Hep. Dem. Plu
LS. Sigs
Breckinridge-Lang
Douglas-Johnson
Benjamin Harrison
Judge Gray
Gov. Johnson
Minnesota
Chanler
Hoke Smith
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