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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1905
Page
3
Former Gov Richard Yates and Chicago court officials attended the formal dedication of the St Charles School for Boys at St Charles. About 300 interested people joined the event as the farm opened with 156 boys, 600 acres, and operations including dairy, barns, and workshops.
Judge Gray announces that the expense of operating the shot firers law must be borne by both employers and miners. The decision, issued after joint boards approved a wage scale for shot firers at $4 a day for eight hours, was welcomed by miners and surprised operators.
Fourteen county jail inmates in Murphysboro attempted a breakout using nitroglycerin at 1 30 Sunday morning but a third charge failed to explode. Sheriff John R Thorpe stopped the escape with a rifle as citizens helped recapture the prisoners. The escape plan involved Pat Bobinger who faces federal dynamiting charges. Mary Malloy, mother of prisoner John Malloy, delivered the explosive to the jail in a basket.
Chicago chemists report no poison in Mrs Dufree and pneumonia cited as cause of death. They find no arsenic or strychnine. coroner's jury rules death from natural causes. The case involved W H Dufree jailed on suspicion of murder with bonds over a thousand dollars.
The Springfield Federation of Labor and the local bricklayers union resolved that union men should lay prison made brick for the State dairy building at the Illinois State Fair grounds in Springfield. The State Board of Agriculture must use prison made brick in all future state buildings.
Samuel Roseberry of Moultrie County dies at his home ending a long career that included nine consecutive terms as constable and roles as chief of police deputy street commissioner and tax collector. He survived three near burial events and endured long hospital stays for leg injuries. A large farm and $60 000 in property were left, all spent on surgeons and hospitals. He twice faced apparent death and was placed on a cooling board by undertakers.
Catholic Bishop and Trustees push a $1,000,000 expansion for the Feehanville home for boys in Deplaines. Groundbreaking occurred recently as plans released by John Lynch of the National Bank of the Public indicate the completed institution will become the nation’s largest home of its kind. The school currently houses 800 boys and will offer work for students on a 1000 acre tract by the Plaines River with a Chicago downtown employment clearing house to connect graduates with jobs.
William Molroff and his aunt Miss Lillian Whitish, both residents of Stockton, were married after obtaining a license from Steph County. A state warrant was issued for violation of new marriage laws. both were arrested and bound over to the grand jury with $250 bail each.
Elgin moves to transfer its municipal lighting plant to the traction company after a city committee finalized an inventory. Officials from both sides are reviewing the property before the ten year contract ends, with nonusable equipment stored and street lighting to begin immediately.
A special Saline County election approved issuing 146000 in negotiable coupon refunding bonds at 4 percent to redeem existing 6 percent bonds. The plan pays 8000 annually until all are paid. Bond issue sold to N W Halsey of Chicago at par plus 2500 premium.
Illinois towns face halted plans for summer carnivals and street fairs after Attorney General Stead ruled that cities cannot permit such events. In several municipalities opponents have sought injunctions, and the attorney general states injunction proceedings are necessary to block the fairs.
Horace 8. Reardon resigns as chief clerk in the State Game Commissioner's Springfield office effective August 1. He will devote full time to his Gallatin County farm. He helped frame the current game law and its amendment and was assistant to former Game Warden Lovejoy.
Guide explains building a ground oven in a hole with fire and ashes to bake beans with pork and a bird such as chicken or grouse. Parboil beans, place in a kettle with salt and water, cover, bury in coals and ashes overnight. Dig up to reveal tender meat and beans, with clay wrapping and green seasoning.
Portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, born 1728 in Plympton near Plymouth, Devon, was the son of a Devon rector. He trained in London, studied in Italy, and settled in London painting notable patrons. The article also describes a large naval shell demonstration and a fairy tale anecdote from the Tribune.
Col David B Henderson once Speaker of the U S House and renowned soldier is described as a dying shadow in Dubuque. Paresis and a recent stroke have left him mentally incoherent and physically frail, dreaming of battlefield and Washington days as doctors call his condition hopeless.
Gen W W Blackmar, commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, died in Boise Idaho from interstitial nephritis after a tour of Northwest posts. Capt John R King becomes commander in chief until the next encampment. Blackmar born July 25 1841 in Bristol Pennsylvania and served in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry and the First West Virginia.
A compilation of witty, often critical remarks from several newspapers. Topics span US politics, diplomacy, and public issues, mentioning figures like Taft Roosevelt and Go mez and events around the Panama Canal and governance practices. The tone remains ironic and observational across multiple publications.
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