Murder victim identified in Kolze farm death
Carl Nicksted, 40, a Chicago butcher of 230 Sangamon Street, was identified by his wife Marion at the county morgue in Dunning after a pawn ticket led to the identification. He was found dead on William Kolze’s Kolze farm, initially thought beaten with a sandbag but later found shot in the head.
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Kolze
Carl Nicksted
William Kolze
Sangamon Street
Chicago
Dunning
Marion Nicksted
Nicksted
Farmers to Fight Milk Out in Elgin District
Elgin district dairymen plan to organize a protective combine within a week to counter wholesale winter milk price cuts. Dundee dairymen also reorganize a mutual company to build and run a milk factory as wholesale prices fall about ten cents per hundredweight. Retail market conditions and butter prices are cited as key factors.
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Elgin District
Elgin District Dairymen
Elgin
Dundee Dairymen
Masked men rob recluse farmer near Alta Pass
William Wright, an aged farmer living seven miles west of Alta Pass at Pine Hills, reports two masked men entered his cabin and seized $2000 at 2 PM. The robbers, known in the area, forced him to hand over the money using his own rifle. A posse formed to pursue the suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Wright
Alta Pass
Pine Hills
Auto Crash Kills Joliet Woman in City Treasurer’s Car
A fatal accident in Joliet killed Mrs. John Lye when struck by a touring car owned by City Treasurer Martin B. Schuster of Schuster Brothers Realty. Witnesses blame wet pavements and the woman, while some fault the car owner for speed or judgment. the scene drew hundreds of witnesses.
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Joliet
Martin B. Schuster
Schuster Brothers
John Lye
Drought Hits Illinois Wheat and Corn Yields
Southern Illinois farmers report drought reducing corn and wheat. Wheat in Perry county will average about eight bushels per acre, far below 18 to 20 in 1907. Indications for a bumper corn crop six weeks ago have diminished due to moisture shortage.
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Tllinois
Illinois
Perry County
Frat Controversy Spurs Board to Oust Hyde Park Students
The Chicago school board moved to suspend fifty two Hyde Park High students who kept their fraternity charter. About forty fraternity members from various schools met to plan legal action to challenge the board's authority to abolish Greek letter societies.
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Chicago
Behneider
Hyde Park
Black Hand Worker Guilty In Vermilion County Case
Italian suspect Antovio Romao was found guilty after a trial in Vermilion County United States Court for sending a Black Hand letter to Charles Cacaleen a prosperous Italian merchant of Johnson City threatening death unless $2000 was left in a designated spot. Cacaleen reported the scheme, a deputy sheriff observed Romao removing the receptacle cover and acted to arrest him.
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Charles Cacaleen
Johnson City
Antoviio Romao
Vermilion County
Cacaleen
Romao
Minister Changes Creed at Quincy Conference
The Rev. P. H. Aldrich a leading United Brethren divine in central Illinois resigns to join the Baptist denomination He leaves the United Brethren church at the Quincy conference and will lead the Baptist church at Weaverly in Mazion county.
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P. H. Aldrich
United Brethren Church
Ilinois
Mazion County
Baptist
Geire
Quincy
Weaverly
State Happenings Mixed With Tragedy And Odd News
Drought damages in McLean county reach 500000 dollars while Mattoon farmer Charles Young dies by suicide amid mental illness. Other items include long-time Mattoon resident John Goodle's death at 86, Illinois postmasters elected in German Valley, rattlesnakes found near Grayville, and various local legal and crime notes across towns such as Hopedale Urbana Aurora and Waterloo.
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Charles Young
Mattoon
John Goodle
F. R. Aykes
German Valley
Illinois State League of Postmasters
Springfield
Grayville
Nels Juul
Chicago Drainage Board
Will County Board
Julie
Sanitary
W. H. Shuite
Hopedale
Shulte
Ella Briscoe
L. C. Riss
Streator
United States
Francis M. Wright
Urbana
George Bassett Williams
Memphis
Tenn
First Presbyterian Church
S. W. Findley
Aurora
Grand Army of the Republic
Quincy
Department Council of Administration
James W. Craig
Citizens’ League
Mattoon Township
Tom Inman
Mquality
Eagle Creek
Shawneetown
Inman
Asther Thompson
Camp Point
Howard Seaton
C.M. Honey
Fox Township
Jasper County
Honey
Kewanee
McCarthy
Hofer
George Brown
Walsh
Waterloo
Charles P. Crook
Mrs. Crook
Dam Stands Despite Bomb At Henry Illinois River
An explosion aimed at the dam and lock at Henry failed to destroy the structure. A boat party planted dynamite by the river bank and detonated it, tearing a hole in the bank but leaving the dam and lock intact and no floods reported. The Henry chief of police noted no visible suspects and questioned the motive possibly aimed at the dam or for fishing.
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Henry
Illinois
Tlenry
Illinois and
Michigan
Joliet
Illinois River
Peoria
Abraham Raymer Not Guilty in Springfield Lynching Case
After a three hour deliberation the Springfield jury found Abraham Raymer not guilty of murder in the William Donnegan lynching amid rioting. He faced additional indictments and was remanded to jail. his sister Mrs Albert of Boston attended the trial and praised the acquittal.
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Springfield
Abraham Raymer
Raymer
William Donnegan
Albert
Boston
Prohibition State Convention Indorses Nominees and Trustees
Illinois Prohibitionists met in Springfield with about a hundred delegates. They nominated two men and two women for University of Illinois trustees Marie Brehm Inla Meiner Curtis E Percival and Howard Netherscott and named presidential electors from each district Robert H Patton and K E Eaton were named electors at large.
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Illinois
Waterloo Man Goes Insane After Store Tour
Hubert Kunster aged 79 of Waterloo loses reason after a shopping day in St. Louis with his daughter Mrs Carrie Schmidt. In a city hospital observation ward he imagines ongoing shopping and argues with imaginary clerks following lengthy discussions on dry goods dresses furniture and household items.
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Waterloo
St. Louis
Hubert Kunster
City Hospital
Kunster
Carrie Schmidt
Fire on Potomac launch claims two clerks' lives
The bodies of William H. Gray of Illinois and William S. Rule of Kentucky, clerks in the Department of Commerce and Labor in Washington, were recovered after a gasoline launch fire on the Potomac River near Devils Elbow. The vessel owner William B. Alger swam ashore safely.
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Inoixn
William H. Gray
Ilinois
William 8
Four Joliet prison guards dismissed over escape
Warden FE J Murphy announced four guards were discharged for negligence and carelessness after convicts Clarence Wise and James Kaiser escaped from Joliet quarry. The dismissals followed an extended warden investigation into the daylight escape by the two inmates.
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FE. J. Murphy
Clarence Wise
James Kaiser
Joliet
Steals 6,000 Pound Girder From Alton Bridge Site
Alton police seek thief who vanished a 35 foot long iron girder weighing 6,000 pounds. City construction on Vandalia road bridge halted until the beam is found. Also reported: Mrs Danie Peck, wife of a De Kalb county man, eloped with Charles Johnson, a Kane county bartender.
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Alton
Illinois
Vandalia Road
Danie Peck
de Kalb County
Kane County
Charles Johnson
Our Great American Crops Highlight U S Global Lead
The United States leads world agriculture in multiple crops and outputs. It produces the most corn, wheat, oats, barley, cotton, tobacco, flaxseed, hops, oilcake, rosin, and spirits of turpentine, with figures showing dominant shares of global production and exports across these commodities.
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Germany
Russia
Cholera Grips St Petersburg Threatens European Cities
Cholera grips St Petersburg with rising cases and rapid fatalities. Reports note fear of wider spread across Germany Austria Sweden and France while authorities expand measures. Also covers Maxim silent gun test results and aviation insights from Farman and Atlantic Monthly notes on social reconstruction.
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St. Petersburg
Germany
Austria
Sweden
Russia
France
Smith
Philippines
Manila
Father Reunites With Daughters After Years apart
Living within 100 miles of each other, a father and two daughters were reunited after the daughters believed him dead. Daughters are Mrs. Charles Kunow and Miss Ruby Petersen of Marietta, Minnesota. Father is Charles Petersen of Tiverville, Iowa. The grandfather notified the children, and the family reunion followed.
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Charles Kunow
Ruby Petersen
Marietta, Minn
Charles Petersen
Tibherville
Iowa
Forest Fires and Human Carelessness Highlighted by Toledo Blade
The Toledo Blade argues forest fires result from weather and white man carelessness. It laments railroad sparks, camp embers, and stray matches, noting Indians kept fires controlled but that modern society neglects forest protection. The piece blames persistent negligence for fires until rain returns.
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Toledo Blade
Editorials On Labor Injunctions And Vice Presidential Role
The August Federa tionist prints Gompers on injunctions as property protection, opposing misuse against personal rights, with Kern urging directness in vice presidency and Taft on federal licensing for corporations. Prohibition campaign uses phonograph to spread its gospel. Stockwell leads New York Prohibitionists for Governor. Manufacturers' Association denounces the Democratic labor plank in Denver.
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Gompers
Labor
Executive Council
Federation
Ife
Kern
Collier’s
Senate
Congress
Hot Springs
Taft
Prohibition Party
New York
George E. Stockwell
Fort Plain
van Cleave
National Manufacturers’ Association
American Industries
Denver
Notable British Navy Row and American Figures
Headlines recount Lord Tweedmouth under attack after a Kaiser letter and a sharp Times editorial. The piece profiles John Frederick Spencer’s burglary arrest, Victor Rosewater’s Omaha Bee editorial role, Bert M. Fernald’s Maine gubernatorial bid, Lady Dorothy Howard’s political influence, and Henry M. Nevius rising to G A R commander in New Jersey with Civil War ties.
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Lord Tweedmouth
Times
England
London
John Frederick Spencer
Spencer
John F. Spencer
Raffles
Henry M. Nevius
New Jersey
Inte Rt. A. Alger
Ile
Seventh Michigan Cavalry
Fort Stevens
State Senate
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McLean County
Ena Maxim
Hiram Percy Maxim
United States Army
Mass
Maxim
Atlantic Monthly
John Martin
America
The
Civile Federation
Health
Martin
Farman
Henrix Farman
Hoad
Victor Rosewater
Omaha Bee
Republican National Committee
Omaha
the Bee
Edward Rosewater
Mr. Rosewater
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Columbia University
Columbia
Bert M. Fernald
Maine
South Poland
Fernald
Islature
Dorothy Howard
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Earl of
Carlisle
Howard
Earl
Great Britain
Henry M. Neville
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