Solons End Deadlock on Canal Adjournment
Illinois lawmakers recessed after a joint resolution to pause the Forty fifth General Assembly until fall. The move follows deadlock on the Chicago sanitary district bill amid opposition from Economy Light and Power interests and Joliet citizens. Gov Deneen’s deep waterway message will be revisited when they return to Springfield to resume deliberations.
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Solons
Fingal
General Assembly
Springfield
Deneen
Chicago
Economy Light and Power Company
Joliet
Forty-fifth General Assembly
Saloonkeeper Guilty in Gin Death Case at Carlyle
Edward Reener, former Carlyle saloonkeeper, found guilty of manslaughter for supplying a quart of gin that led to Edwin Sharp, 15, Centralia, death. Verdict carries 1 to 14 years. new trial likely. Case linked to Yunker, who advised supplying the alcohol. his indictment later dropped. Reener, with wife and five children, says he did not know a quart could kill a person.
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Boustinus Roy
Edward Reener
Carlyle
Reener
Edwin Sharp
Centralia
Albert Yunker
Young Sharp
Yunker
Coles County Votes on Bond Issue to Meet Debts
Residents face an eighth bond election on June 8 to authorize 225000 in bonds over twenty years as Coles county seeks funds to cover a 231000 indebtedness. Court costs, running expenses, and unpaid bills since March 1906 threaten county operations with limited receipts after mandated reserve payments.
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Coles
Coles County
Board of Supervisors
Wilkin
State Supreme Court
Whis
Charleston
Mattoon
Illinois teachers hold meet at Bloomington
The Illinois Schoolmistress Club annual meeting in Bloomington drew teachers from across the state. Jane Addams spoke on settlement work in Chicago and industrial education paired with intellectual training. Officers elected: Boseman of Peoria, Gowdy of Bloomington, Martin of Peoria, Walker of Chicago. The next meeting site is to be set by the executive committee.
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McLean County
E. Shonts
Kankakee
Robert Macklin
Maccabees of the World
Bloomington
J. F P. Downer
Chicago
Thos. M. Doig
Weldon Clark
A. H. Gordon
Bertha Walters
Elizabeth Walters
Fulton
Hazel Case
Bishop
Aurora
William T. Deisel
Lima
Ohio
T. H. E. Club
Miss Case
Burlington Freight House
Burlington
Gruber
Breckinridge
Burlington Road
E. C. Finch
F. Clyne
Fred Fauth
Illinois River
Frank Burg
Minnie B. Love
Peoria
Fort Sheridan
Joseph Seagart
Cedar Point
Seagart
Illinois Eastern Insane Hospital
Illinois State Bar Association
Galesburg
Edward Morse Shepard
New York
James H. Wilkerson
John M. Zane
Judge Olson
Municipal Court
Municipal Court of
A. Hanley Jones
Frank F. Reed
Jane Addams
Illinois Schoolmistress’ Club
Cora Hamilton
State Normal School
Macomb
Boseman
Belle Gowdy
Anna Martin
Clara Walker
Popcorn Machine Explosion Burns Three Children in Du Quoin
A popcorn gasoline tank exploded near a machine in Du Quoin burning two boys and a girl. Wiley Sizemore and Robert Roach suffered severe injuries, along with Miss Ella Sizemore, as Roach inhaled flames. All three are listed in critical condition.
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du Quoin
Wiley Sizemore
Robert Roach
Ella Sizemore
Roach
Stranger pays back one fare with note at depot
A stranger entered the Alton passenger depot in Springfield and left an envelope over the ticket office. The next day the agent opened it to find a note claiming a ride to Bloomington on a one fare ticket bought in another name and including $1.76 for the fare.
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Alton
Springfield
Bloomington
Pension graft alleged in famous Newby case double
Federal sleuths claim a double for the Bill Newby pension case with a June term set in United States District Court at Springfield starting June 3. Charles Perry Watson alias William Wooten, indicted by the Quincy grand jury, is accused of false pension affidavits and war service under an assumed name.
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Bill Newby
United States District Court
Springfield
United States
Barkely
Smithboro
Bond County
Charles Perry Watson
William Wooten
Quincy
Illinois
Watson
Madison County
Flora, Ill
Rock Island Couple Honored by Colorado Bequest
Wilbur L. Rutledge, painter of Rock Island, receives a $40,000 land bequest from H. Paul of near Cotsierra Colorado. In 1890, Paul and Otto Smith, sick and penniless cow punchers, were aided by the Rutledges for two weeks in their Colorado cabin, gaining recovery and later fortune, a gesture remembered in the bequest after Paul’s death.
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Rock Island
Colorado
Wilbur L. Rutledge
H. Paul
Cotsierra
Colo
Paul
Smith
Water power lease adjusted for Joliet dam No 1
State canal commissioners renewed the water power lease at dam No 1 in Joliet to Economy Light and Power Company. The 1900 increase sets annual rent at 10 457 dollars for the unexpired term, based on a continuous 800 000 cubic feet per minute flow.
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Joliet
Dam No. 1
State Canal Commissioners
Economy Light and Power Company
Henderson Hawk
John B. Preston
Two Railroads Raise Wages for 1000 Workers
The Elgin Joliet and Western and the Chicago Lake Shore and Eastern railroads owned by United States Steel Corporation granted a voluntary wage increase effective May 1. Skilled workers gain 30 cents a day and common laborers 10 cents a day. The raise covers yard, shop, and road employes, affecting about 1,000 workers.
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Steel Corporation
Elgin, Joliet and Western
Chicago, Lake Shore and Eastern
United States Steel Corporation
Night watchman robbed at Fox River Bleaching Aurora
Fred Martin began his night shift at the Fox River Bleaching Company in Aurora and four hours into duty a desperado entered, robbed him of twelve dollars, kicked him from the building, and told him never to return. He has resigned.
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Aurora
Fred Martin
Fox River
Martin
Naomi of Crosby Burns in Lake Michigan Disaster
Five lives were lost and about seventy escaped as the passenger and freighter steamer Naomi of the Crosby-Bousneeeagle Company burned mid lake on a Grand Haven to Milwaukee run. Four coal passers died in the forecastle. J M Rhoades of Detroit perished after severe burns. The Kerr towed the burning hulk and crews aided terrified passengers.
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Naomi
Crosby Bousneeeagle Company
Lake Michigan
Grand Haven
Milwaukee
Kerr
Kansas
J. M. Rhoades
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Chronology snapshot of wars and world events 1642
A compact list of notable global events spanning 1642 through later centuries, noting baronial victories, battles, political shifts, discoveries, and notable appointments. Includes Lewes and Hexham outcomes, Henry IV’s assassination, voyages, vaccinations, explorations, and royal inaugurations.
Judge Hargis Freed Again Not Guilty Verdict
Lexington jury finds Judge James Hargis not guilty in the Thomas Cockrill murder case after a trial that lasted over two weeks. The acquittal marks a second exoneration in a Breathitt county feud case, following earlier dismissal in the Marcum killing at Beattyville.
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Tor
Lexington
James Hargis
Thomas Cockrill
Cockrill
Jackson
Breathitt
Cockill Way
Hargis
Ed. Callahan
Cockerill
E. D. Cox
J. B. Marcum
Curt Jett
Marcum
Phe Hargis
James B. Marcum
Beattyville
Sayre girl shot to death under unclear circumstances
Lena B. Reeves, 20, was shot and killed in Sayre Pennsylvania. Authorities question whether she self-inflicted the wound or was murdered. Four Italians are being held in connection with the case.
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Lena B. Reeves
Sayre
Kansas Supreme Court appoints receivers for breweries
The Kansas Supreme Court has appointed receivers for all breweries in Kansas, asserting state power to confiscate property from illegal businesses. Most breweries support Jemaaibecues company of St. Louis as they contest the receivership rule based on the 1881 prohibition law.
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Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court
United States
Jemaaibecues Company
St. Louis
Passenger deaths spike in railway quarter report
A bulletin from the Interstate Commerce Commission shows 3,965 rail incidents in the December quarter, with 1,480 killed or injured, and 180 passenger deaths, the highest quarterly toll since September 1904 except for that peak. The data mark a record in passenger fatalities outside the September 1904 high.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Royal and European Leaders in Odd Portraits and Plans
The Sultan of Turkey loves animals at Yildiz palace. Norway’s king trained as a naval apprentice for nine months. The Russian czar dislikes solo photos, but poses well in groups. Raisuli the Moroccan bandit traces lineage to Mulai Idris. Leopold II of Belgium is Europe’s wealthiest real estate figure. The German emperor rarely crafts speeches and avoids gates in public. Lord Cromer in Egypt is busy for England, while M Ronvier negotiates Paris newspaper funding of 600000 dollars toward a 1400000 dollar project for Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas.
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Turkey
Yildiz
Norway
Briish
Russia
Raisuli
Mulai Idris
Leopold
Brussels
Europe
Lord Cromer
England
Egypt
M. Ronvier
Paris
Banque de Parin Et Des Pays-Bas
Rate of Forest Destruction Warns of Timber Famine
A forest service bulletin shows per capita wood use in the United States over six times Europe’s. U.S. annual timber consumption exceeds three times growth. Population rise since 1880 lags behind timber cut growth, causing inevitable shortages. Northeastern mills peaked. the South near max. Washington tops timber cuts. Government owns one fifth of forest land. felled trees average 150 years old.
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Forest Service of the Agricultural Department
Europe
United States
Washington
The Negro in the New South in Baker's View
Ray Stannard Baker argues in American Magazine that the South seeks a new social order yet clings to old racial lines. He notes that northern readers misjudge blacks, while many blacks misperceive white elites, and he links this to danger amid class tension between educated and poor whites.
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Ray Stannard Baker
American Magazine
Darkey
South
Drowned when picking flowers Esther Carter of Newark falls in canal
Sparkes from the Wires reports Esther Carter daughter of E R Carter of Newark Ohio drowned after falling into a canal while picking flowers. Gov Folk grants respites until June 27 for John and Americk Brooks Iran county and Tom Clay Boone county Missouri who face death sentences for murder. Counsel in Mary Baker Eddy estate accounting suit at Concord New Hampshire attests that origin and charges are true.
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Sparkes
Esther Carter
E. R. Carter
Newark
Ohio
Gov. Folk
John and
Americk Brooks
Iran County
Tom Clay
Boone County
Missouri
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Concord
N. H
Origen
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Charles W. Grassell
Hillsboro
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Medding College
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Fairbury
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Montreal
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Lewis and Clarke
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Anholt
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Caroline Murat
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John M. Niles
Connecticut
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Quebec
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Adelina Patti
London
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Louis Biel
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Iowa
Count Kalnoky
Austria-Hungary
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Dundee
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Alfonso XIII
Madrid
Maelnnati Post
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