Plans to create 250000 strong national army from state troops
The War Department plans to amalgamate regulars and state guard units into a single army under the President and War Secretary. Assistant Secretary Oliver says about 250000 troops could be mobilized, with eight army corps forming the Department of the East. State militias would become regular units and lose separate status.
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Wor
War Department
United Tes
Oliver
National Guard
New England
New York
Department of the East
Pash Warner Loses Suit Over Clinton Estate
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled against Vespasian Pash Warner in the will dispute over John Warner estate of Clinton valued at about two million dollars. The decision upholds that Mrs. Warner, stepmother to Pash, receives a widow’s share. The ante nuptial pact was upheld as valid, and allegations of mixed blood were deemed irrelevant.
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John Warner
Clinton
Supreme Court
Vespasian
Pash
Warner
Gunness Family Interred in Chicago Cemetery
Supposed bodies of Mrs Belle Gunness and her three children from Laporté Indiana were buried at Forest Home Cemetery Chicago watched by relatives and morbid onlookers. Sheriff Smutger private detective and undertaker Frank L Cutler oversaw transport. permits were secured at city hall. arrangements funded by Gunness estate.
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Laporte
Belle Gunness
Laporté
Ind
Forest Home Cemetery
Chicago
Nellie Larson
Smutger
Frank L. Cutler
Editor badly hurt in Mount Carmel street fight
Captain Havill May Die from injuries after a clash with Norman Bedell outside Havill's office. Bedell previously debated Havill over a controversial article, led to an arrest and acquittal. A second street confrontation left Havill with a fractured skull and serious injuries. Bedell is on bond.
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Havill
Orra F. Havill
Norman Bedell
Mount Carmel
Bedell
Eloping youth signs license after urging bride
Roy Smith, a Greenfield farmer, eloped with Mannie Hankins of Madeira on Saturday. Nervous he could not write his name before Justice A H Quinn, while the composed bride urged him to sign. The couple left the scene after he finally penned his name.
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Roy Smith
Greenfield
Mannie Hankins
George Hankins
Madiera
Roy
Justice of the Peace
A. H. Quinn
Attempted Wife Murder Case Hints at Indiana Crossing
Marshall County Sheriff reported George Haddix of Darwin killed his wife after a quarrel and struck her with a garden hoe. Haddix crossed the river into Indiana before arrest, and authorities delayed action awaiting his wife’s condition. The couple has appeared in court before.
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George Haddix
Indiana
Davison
Marshall
Darwin
Haddix
Bashful groom in Jerseyville stalls wedding thrice
Daniel Matthews 24 of Jerseyville again dodges the altar delaying his marriage to Miss Mary Frazier in front of Rev. J. H. Jones and 150 guests. He vows this time to face the music though his bashfulness recurs at the critical moment.
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Jerseyville
Daniel Matthews
Illinois
J. H. Jones
Mary Frazier
Daniel
Mary Miller
Rosedale
Jersey County
Wall Renamed Bar Examiner By Supreme Court
Former Judge George W. Wall of Duquoin is reappointed to the State board of bar examiners by the Supreme Court. In Galesburg, the bootlegging trial jury reports a disagreement after forty five hours of deliberation.
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Wall
Bar
George W. Wall
Duequoin
Supreme Court
State Board of Bar Examiners
Galesburg
Among Our Neighbors Passings and Local Incidents
A roundup of deaths accidents and local news reports across Illinois. Drownings in Sun fish lake Crooked creek and the Big Muddy river. a Burlington train fatality near Centralia. a youth’s swimming accident and a drowning. a man killed in a scaffold fall near Kewanee. Fire department leadership change in Elgin following a fatality. a murder quarrel in Cowden. suicides and legal actions reported in multiple towns. Civil and county incidents include damage from lightning in Indianola and Springfield kitchen fire, a split water dispute in Grape Creek, and a LincolnDouglas debate anniversary in Freeport.
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Cass Nicholson
Union Grove
Sunfish Lake
Clinton Boyer
Burlington
Centralia
Claude McRoy
Crooked Creek
William Haible
Elgin
Pearl City
Lucian M. Fifield
Kewanee
Fred Deborer
Big Muddy
Murphysboro
John Derat
J. W. Hatchieson
Colfax
Dan" Matthews
Jerseyville
Methodist
Benedict
Mary Fraser
Parson Jones
Charles Woods
Chicago
Indianola
Gov. Yates
Springfield
Yates
Grape Creek
Blue
Seiter
Freeport
Smith D. Atkins
Dolliver
Iowa
Lincoln
Col
W. G. Davidson
Lewiston
Stephen A. Douglas
Frank 0. Lowden
R. R. Mitt
House of Representatives
Hitt
Ina Smith
R. J. Shand
Third Infantry
Camp Lincoln
Vance
Company I
Aurora
Death in Another Form In Storm Burns Killed By Live Wire
William M. H. Burns of Waukegan in a dramatic storm incident escaped drowning with Sadie Baker of Rockford. After delivering her to safety he was fatally struck by a live electric wire as he walked home, ending his valiant struggle.
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William M. H. Burns
Waukegan
Sadie Baker
Rockford
Burns
Mystery in Rockdale Girl Death Sparks Ice Cream Poison Rumors
Anna Verbich nine died after a Rockdale picnic where ice cream was served. Doctors cite scarlet fever but villagers swirl three rumors of poisoned ice cream, overindulgence, or parental cruelty amid reports of alleged abuse by her parents.
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Anna Verbich
Joseph Verbich
Rockdale
Geneva Comtes
Supreme Court Rules Implied Criminal Intent in Bigamy Case
The Supreme Court holds that criminal intent may be implied in bigamy prosecutions. William Spoor of Sangamon County, though an unintentional offender, must face prison after his wife sent letters claiming divorce and remarriage to provoke him. Spoor later married Grace Watts and was arrested.
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Supreme Court
William ©. Spoor
Sangamon County
Spoor
Grace Watts
Limestone Rock Fuel Experiment At Alton Plant
Alexander Marshall, manager at a Salt near Alton plant, completed tests using limestone rock mixed with coal as fuel. The plant ran two weeks on coal and limestone with carbonic acid gas forming heat, no furnace changes or ash residue required.
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Alexander Marshall
Salt
Alton
Marshall
Bryan on the Platform Denounces Republican Planks
William J. Bryan reviews the Republican platform in his paper the Commoner, denouncing it as a silent repudiation of Rooseveltian principles. He criticizes currency, trusts, and the “Regro problem” while praising Roosevelt’s policy. A separate essay argues for a sympathetic approach to anarchists and better treatment of the poor to curb radicalism.
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William J. Bryan
Roosevelt
Bryan
Tform
Benatora
Congress
Walter P. McGuire
June van Norden
Rail and Railroad Finances Move Amid Industry Strains
Pega oromal The Great Northern orders 60 000 tons of steel rails covering about 425 miles of track. Western transcontinental lines threaten to abandon foreign traffic to avoid publishing inland shipper rate shares. Erie bond issues secured with J P Morgan charges to fuel road improvements. Pennsylvania Railroad plans to cut staff to 25 000 by May and may cut wages after early next month. Public Service Commission of New City orders rail cars must provide seating space with minimal car flow five to pass on crowded streets.
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Great Northern
Interstate Commerce Commission
J. P. Morgan & Co
Erie
Pennsylvania Railroad
Public Service Commission of
New City
Frontier surgeon and guide risk life to save Penrose
In Montana's mountains Arthur Stiles and Dr. Charles Penrose endure a brutal grizzly attack. Stiles performs improvised surgery by a campfire to stabilize Penrose. With dawn they descend eleven hours along a hidden route to reach the railroad and surgeon care at Mayo Hospital.
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National Geographic Magazine
Montana
Arthur Alvord Stiles
United States Geological Survey
Charles B. Penrose
Philadelphia
Penrose
Dr. Penrose
Providence
Bill Hague
Malcolm Force
Montclair
N. J
Billy Kemeys
Washington
District of Columbia
Great Northern Limited
Minnesota
Mayo Hospital
Powdered eggs and evaporated spinach at sea duty?
A satirical dialogue mocks sailors receiving powdered eggs and evaporated spinach in rations. Voices condemn the practice as stale, overprocessed, and misrepresented. a chorus ridicules shipboard egg handling and the idea of eggs prepared with water and salt.
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Sam Lawson
Cnow
Lem
Peppery Pimento Dishes And Stuffed Onions Featured
Reading through pantry tips and kitchen notes from the Indianapolis News and Boston Post, readers learn uses for canned Spanish pimentoes in soups and salads. A recipe then provides steps for a sweet butter and milk batter, followed by a method to stuff onions with bread crumbs and beef or chicken, baked with stock or butter and hot water.
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Indianapolis News
Boston Post
Spanish Chicken and Lilies Dessert in Boston Post Given
Spanish chicken recipe serves 10 with two birds boiled, stock reduced to two cups, onions and peas added, livers and peppers folded in, served in a pyramid with toast and parsley. Lilies dessert uses separated eggs, sugar, flour, lemon, baked on saucers then rolled and filled with whipped cream.
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Boston Post
Cornucopia Roll Cookies Instructions
A New York World recipe describes tearing butter and sugar to cream then adding milk flour and vanilla. Spread thin on a tin square bake to light brown cut into squares roll from a corner like a cornucopia and rewarm if too brittle.
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New York World
Household Hints From An Old Magazine
Practical tips cover extinguishing small fires with flour, avoiding spread with water, cooling beans with a water saucer, pneumonia chest rubs with vase line and turpentine, pre mixing turpentine into gasoline, securing an expensive back comb with a gold chain and hairpin, and pantry tricks like onion juice with fuller's earth vinegar for sauces. Also include lemon rind storage, adding lemon zest to pies, thinning omelets with hot water, and peppering plain omelets with raw green pepper for flavor.
Voting Quotas Noted in Belgium Election Law Text
The text states that married men in Belgium receive two votes while single men have one vote. Priests and certain privileged persons are allotted three votes each under the same framework.
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Belgium
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United Spanish War Veterans’ Association of Illinois
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Fred Mester
Bruce Green
Lewistown
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John Gorin
Chicago and
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Anna B. Ming
Fox River
Trout Park
Frank W. Scott
University of Illinois
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