Bank Closed in Madison After Burgeoning Cashier Scandal
The Tri-Cities State bank of Madison shut its doors for inspection and possible reorganization amid claims that cashier C. W. Burton, brother of ex senator Joseph Burton, drained funds while boisterously flashing a $4000 roll. Burton was hospitalized and later sent home as directors planned a restart.
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CW. Burton
Madison Institution
Tri-Cities State Bank of Madison
C. W. Burton
United States
Joseph Ralph Burton
Kansas
Burton
Granite City Hospital
Tri-Cities
Madison
Rare Game Killed in Illinois by Hunters
Hunters report rare big quarry across Illinois. W. M. Garrison killed a 4 foot 2 inch chicken hawk near Duck Creek Burton County. Robert Dyson bagged a large bald eagle near Thompson Carroll County. John Brown shot a gray wolf on Eigiot farm Cass County. Robert Newell of Macon County trapped forty muskrats in a day netting $15.
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W. M. Garrison
Duck Creek
Burton County
Ilinois
Robert Dyson
Thompson
Carroll County
Illinois
John Brown
Eigiot
Cass County
Robert Newell
Macon County
500 Men Stranded in Kewanee Seek European Return
Austrian Consul Auguste DeNuber in Chicago cannot repatriate 500 Hungarian and three laborers stranded at Kewanee after mill shutdowns. With no government funds, he reports limited charity and twelve to thirteen men sent home. Many are destitute as locals shelter them while seeking work and potential European return paths.
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Europe
Auguste DeNuber
Chicago
Kewanee
Youth Confesses to Murder in Harvard Railway Shop Case
Michael Connell a 17 year old Harvard caller at the railway shops admitted killing Domenico Brunetti an Italian worker. He described striking Brunetti with a hammer on a walk home, dragging the body to a ditch and stealing $70 his watch and pay. He aided in removing the body and testified at the coroner's inquest.
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Harvard
Michael Connell
Domenico Brunetti
Connell
Deneen Signs Direct Primary Bill Into Law
Gov Deneen signs the Jones Oglesby direct plurality primary bill which becomes effective July 1. Attorney General Stead endorses the bill form. The law applies direct primaries to most offices and will be tested in August for November election offices. Nominations will be by direct vote without conventions.
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Deneen
Stead
Too Much Fashion in Church Brings Pastor’s Resignation
Rev. John W. Greathouse a young Baptist formerly of Louisville resigns as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Belleville saying the congregation is too fashionable and focused on social clubs rather than revival meetings.
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Belleville
John W. Greathouse
Louisville
First Baptist Church of
Mamma Boy Gets Ticket Home From Western Military Academy
John Flentge son of I W Flentge Cape Girardeau postmaster and Missouri politician expelled by student body with faculty backing at Alton based on unpopularity as a cadet. He was escorted to the train and told not to return due to perceived personal traits and aloof conduct.
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Western Military Academy
Alton
John
I. W. Flentge
Cape Girardeau
Missouri
Maton
Fientge
Tie
Flentge
Convention Call Issued for Illinois Republicans
Roy O. West announces the state Republican convention will be held March 26 in Springfield. Delegates come from counties or wards in Cook County, with representation based on votes cast for Republican electors in 1904, plus extra delegates for larger fractions.
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Roy O. West
Republican , Central
Springfield
Illinois
Cook
Devil Ouster Is Shy Parhamites Charged in Greenhalgh Death
Adam Greenhalgh the widower and his children Walter and Letitia disappear from Zion City amid a Parhamite case accusing Harold Mitchell of causing Letitia Greenhalgh death through devil ousting rites. Mitchell won a new trial after jury charge errors. the case awaits next month.
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Greenhalgh
Adam Greenhalgh
Letitia Greenhalgh
Walter
Zion City
Harold Mitchell
Mitchell
Arrest Minister as Bigamist in Kansas Case
Rev. T. Marshall Rice, formerly of Nashville and pastor of First Baptist, is jailed in Columbus Kansas on bigamy charges by his Kansas-based wife. He had served in Nashville until 1905 then Géxter Missouri and later supplied pulpits in Carlyle and central Illinois. his first wife, Helen Maxwell of St. Louis, left him for relatives in Kansas.
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Tl. Marshall Rice
Nashville
Kansas
T. Marshall Rice
First Baptist Church
Columbus
Kan
Tice
Géxter
Helen Maxwell
St. Louis
Baptist Church
Carlyle
Ilinois
Equine Intelligence Rescues Rider After Snow Drift Fall
Faithful horse saves unconscious Miss Eleanor England after stumbling in snow and throwing her. The mount stood guard until she revived, reins brushing her face. Despite pain and dizziness she remounted and continued home as rescuers arrived.
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Eleanor England
John C. England
Logan County
Cows at Bartonville Asylum Condemned for TB
Tests on a herd of thirty cows supplying milk to Bartonville insane asylum inmates found twenty with traces of tuberculosis. The condemned cows are removed while the asylum’s pasteurizing plant is expected to protect residents from infection.
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Bartonville
Bartonville Insane Asylum
Support for Deep Waterway Prompts Taylorville Club
Congressman Lorimer and Representative Lindly addressed 800 people at the Taylorville court house on the lake to the gulf deep waterway. The audience pledged support for issuing 20 million dollars in bonds to fund the project and county central committees formed a deep waterway promotion club.
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Taylorville
Lorimer
Chicago
Lindly
Greenville
Court House
Census changes and reforms spark nationwide planning
The 1910 census will start on April 15, replacing June 1 to improve accuracy. A permanent bureau will oversee the effort with about 70,000 workers and a projected cost near 14 million dollars. It will focus on population agriculture manufactures and mines with a 1915 agriculture census planned and future feasibility studies on farm data comparisons.
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United Sates
North
United States
Congress
Attempted assassination of the Shah of Persia
Friday afternoon an assassination attempt on the Shah of Persia failed as two bombs were thrown from a roof, killing three outriders and wounding the chauffeur and bystanders. The Shah was in a carriage further back and escaped unharmed, later taking refuge in a neighboring house before returning to the palace with a guard. Police searched the bombing house and nearby buildings but made no arrests.
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Persia
Shah
Teheran
Unrest in India Triggers British War Office Mobilization
Reports say Britain orders immediate mobilization of auxiliary forces as India unrest grows. War Office aims to ready large reserves for potential deployment to India, with telegraphic directives and adjutants kept informed. debates Boers and Transvaal motives fuel the crisis.
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Great Britain
British War Office
India
War Office
Transvaal
Miners Die In Gas Explosion At Moody Coal Mine
Nine miners were killed in a Moody Coal Company mine in South Carrollton Kentucky due to a gas explosion. The fire at Friend Paper Mills in West Carrollton Ohio caused $100,000 in damage from a blaze that started at a hot box on machinery and was insured. Bishop Berry of the Methodist Episcopal church is ill in Guanajuato Mexico with la grippe and other maladies.
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Moody Coal Company
South Carrolton
Bishop Berry
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Guanajuanto
Mexico
la Grippe
Friend Paper Mills
West Carrollton
Ohio
Trade and bank report signals midyear recovery in Chicago area
R G Dun & Co reports mixed signals for Chicago and vicinity with weather delays easing and demand rising. Bank lending steady at 6 percent for commercial paper while deposits grow and machinery and iron work increase. consumer and wholesale activity show cautious improvement and several sectors report lighter output. Failures rise to 41 in Chicago district. large-liability failures total 12.
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Chicago
R. G. Dun & Co
Trade and industry in a stormy period reported by Bradstreet
Widespread storms dull distributive trade and disrupt rail traffic as floods in Ohio and tributaries constrain grain flows. Retail demand moves slowly while wages and industrial hours shrink. finishing lines in iron and steel rise while crude activity dips. Cotton goods hold prices, export trade for light cottons to China grows slightly, and woolen looms idle at 65 percent.
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Ohio
China
Bradstreet
Commodity Price Averages Across Cities Noted
Market notes list Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Buffalo, New York, and Toledo quotes for cattle hogs sheep and grains. Prices show wide ranges with wheat at 99 cents to $1.02 in New York and corn around 55 to 63 cents elsewhere. Livestock values peak for cattle and lambs in Buffalo and Chicago reports.
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St. Louis
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New York
Toledo
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