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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
3
Chicago Fire Chief Horan releases year end figures showing twelve civilians and two firemen killed, sixty nine civilians and fifty five firemen injured. Alarms total 8,691 with 6,387 actual fires. Property loss 4.18 million, insurance 75.36 million. The department operates 108 engine, 31 ladder companies and other equipment with $2.62 million value.
Mrs. Lucinda Watkins dies at home near Oakford aged 98. She celebrated her birthday with more than 200 descendants spanning six generations, including Temperance Hilliard of Oakford, Sarah Davis of Kilbourne, Mary Showalter of Bath, Bessie Ashurst of Kilbourne, and Lloyd Ashurst, all part of her direct line. She had lived on the same farm for 79 years, oldest resident in central Illinois.
A violent tornado struck Duquoin and the western Perry county area causing a cloudburst. The storm formed northwest of the city and swept southeast along East Cole Street and Reese Creek. At least 100 residences were wrecked and many homes lifted from foundations. Mine tipples partially blown away and cars in yards of the Illinois Central railway were lifted and carried off.
Gov Deneen halts Rose Hudpeth a 17 year old white girl from marrying P S Williams an 80 year old Black man after her arrest in Edwardsville for waywardness. Charles Virden of the state charities bureau reports Williams planned to have the girl bound out to a farmer and then elope to join a side show troupe.
Miss Minnie Haag and Miss Delphia Koerting about 16 drown in Kishwaukee River Belvidere while boating with Claude Wheeler and Ray Tremblie. Their boat overturned near the dam and the teens clung to the craft as rescuers struggled. Tang’s body was recovered. The swift current carried the party over the dam, local fishermen aided, three feet of water below, and air near shore unable to reach them.
Louisa Steele a Chicago resident and inmate at the Illinois Masters hospital in Kankakee died by her own action. She slipped beneath a restraining sheet strapped to a bed in her private room causing strangulation. Discovered by an attendant soon after the attendant had stepped out minutes earlier. Admitted from Chicago detention hospital in early April she had been violent and restrained since admission.
Dr Charles E Martin a Democratic member of the Forty fourth General Assembly from the Tenth District is in a Rockford sanitarium with acute mania. His condition is critical. Insanity followed brain fever from overwork in practice and grief over the death of his mother and brother.
The Secretary of State has issued a license to incorporate the Springfield Beardstown and Quincy railroad and interurban railroad proposed to construct from Springfield to Petersburg Chandlerville Beardstown and Quincy. Capital stock is nominally 25000 dollars and principal office is in Springfield.
Wisconsin mother Ruby Clark fled Rockford hospital with help from prominent local women after a coroner’s jury indicated infanticide charges. She escaped in an automobile from a wealthy resident’s home and boarded a train to Wisconsin. A hospital search uncovered twins in a trunk, one boy alive and the girl dead. the living infant had been abandoned during the escape.
A derailed Chicago, Indiana and Southern freight train near Reddick caused a fire and a dynamite car explosion. Three men died and ten were seriously injured as iron piping and burning cars flew into the crowd of onlookers. One victim was Fred Happing, a barber from Reddick. Two others were unidentified men.
The Cermak salary bill to raise General Assembly stipends from 1000 to 2000 per session was halted by Lieutenant Governor Sherman. As Senate presiding officer he refused to sign the engrossed copy and sent a message to Governor Deneen that the bill was not regularly passed, sealing its fate. The measure, after House passage and Senate amendments, failed to reach the governor due to procedural flaws during the session's frantic end.
Attorney R Putnam of Mount Carmel collapses and dies after the death of a relative, Mrs Katherine Retsignil, who suffered a paralytic stroke. Putnam, who had just reached the pavement, fell dead moments later from heart failure caused by nervous strain.
Eddie Tate known as the gentleman burglar, linked to a Dougherty forged scrip theft from the school board vault in January, is to be brought before Peoria county grand jury in a few days. Former Chicago police officials Collins and Conick are expected to testify. Tate was arrested in New York.
Relatives contend over the $150,000 Rock Island estate of the late Father Thomas Mackin reached an agreement after a ten week Circuit Court trial. Beneficiaries under the will have paid costs, and the terms remain unknown. The contest had led to a verdict for the contestants which was set aside by Judge Gent. Miss Mary Calvin, daughter of Captain J O Calvin of Fairfield, fell into a cistern she was drawing water from, and was rescued by her father who heard her cries.
Government figures show America will have little or no wheat to export even if winter crops remain steady, with 6164,503,000 bushels total and split 368,529,000 winter and 248,064,000 spring. Last year produced 735,000,000 bushels, 492,000,000 winter and 243,000,000 spring, amid rising population and falling per capita use. Acreage revisions, spring wheat condition near 89, and regional shifts in winter wheat signal ongoing supply tensions and potential market stringency. Fraudulent pension cases also being found at Washington office, with new rule barring cure for veterans lacking days of service.
Federal statistics for 1904 show pneumonia near tuberculosis in deaths with about 45,000 pneumonia fatalities. Recovery rate around 75 percent suggests roughly 180,000 annual cases and repeat attacks, while early treatment favors bright rooms outdoor air and water therapies. Old practices of confinement and alcohol use are rejected by experts.
From a diary begun in 1810 the Danbury Connecticut News recounts 1816 as the coldest year in memory across the United States and Europe. January to August brought rare warmth then severe frost, snow and drought, destroying crops, freezing fruit, and prompting famine fears despite abundant fish and game.
The Findlay Ohio Circuit Court ruled Buckeye Pipe Line Company must accept all oil offered by independent producers at a fair remunerative price. State charges accuse 20 cent per barrel transport rate as prohibitive, a decision aiding Prosecutor David ahead of trial against Standard Oil and Rockefellers.
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Mrs Edna R Platt who left her husband in New Haven and married again in Iowa remains Platts wife and is guilty of bigamy with illegitimate children The first husband sued claiming service by Iowa newspaper notice and alleged bigamy
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