Peoria residents oppose parole for ex banker Daugherty
Peoria residents and business leaders plan a vigorous protest against parole for Newton C. Daugherty, former Peoria Board of Education president and bank president who later became a defaulter and forger. He has served two years in Joliet penitentiary.
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Peoria
Joliet
Newton C. Daugherty
Peoria Board of Education
N. S. Daugherty
Daugherty
Board of Education
State Board of Control Names Members and Plans
The new State Board of Control organized after being named by Governor Deneen. They adjourned to meet September 1 with a possible session earlier if urgent matters arise. Members include Chairman Lawrence Y Sherman Alienist Dr James L Greene Frank D Whipp Secretary Judge B K Burroughs. The future work and plans were not discussed at this meeting.
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New State Board of Control
Deneen
L. Y. Sherman
Lawrence Y. Sherman
James L. Greene
Elgin
Frank D. Whipp
Springfield
B. K. Burroughs
Edwardsville
Farm Elder Conned in Rockford Card Scheme
John Doran, an aged Rockford farmer, was drawn into a trust game with three men promising a split of a 5,000 dollar pot. He would place 5,000 in a box along with another 5,000 by the third man, hoping to win. The third man allegedly drew the right card. Doran received the wrong one and the two strangers vanished.
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Rockford
John Doran
Doran
Synod Denies Darwinian Evolution in Springfield Meeting
The Evangelical Lutheran Synod declared belief that God alone created the world, rejecting Darwin's theory and polytheism. Church leaders reaffirmed the unity and Trinity of God and dismissed evolution as a collapse in their district.
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Lutheran Synod
Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Springfield
Darwin
God
Evoution
Apple Crop Short In Illinois Says Advisory Board
Illinois will produce the smallest apple crop in years according to a State Horticultural Society advisory board report after a trip through fruit counties. The dry last summer and fall hindered good formation leading to scant broom growth across a wide area. Dowie Convert Disinherited Because he burned all his hogs valued at several thousand dollars when he joined Dowie Louis Benckendorf of Zion City cannot inherit his share of his father's estate near Ottawa. He must content with one seventh of the estate valued at $20,000. Gives Wife Poison by Mistake Henry Bartlett a Clayton banker, in hasty effort to relieve his wife's sufferings at night, gave carbolic acid instead of prescribed medicine. She died within minutes.
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Lewis Olinger
Beecher City
Kaskaskia River
Effingham
R. P. Parker
West Frankfort
James Stafford
Granite City
Bishop Goodsell
New York
Rock River
John Stafford
Walter Nims
Grafton
Illinois
Aurora
Alice Roach
Mary Rorem
Ottawa
Jacob Pearson
Samuel Garner
Kankakee
St. Louis
Maud Kirkpatrick
Chicago
George Rutledge
Mount Vernon
Wabash River
Mattoon
Methodist Episcopal Church
Church of the State
Walter Cole
Arthur Harrington
Moline
William Cole
Walter
The
State Horticultural Society
Louis Benckendorf
Zion City
Henry Bartlett
Clayton
Costly Dredge Sinks Off North Chicago
A crew of thirty workmen and engineers escaped death when the dredge Francis T Sim mons, valued at $200000, sank in thirty feet of water off North Chicago. In Cairo a dying woman, Mrs Mary Salzner, accused her husband Henry Salzner a photographer, of the ax attack in an ante mortem statement.
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Francis T. Simmons
Chicago
Cairo
Mary Salzner
Henry Salzner
Train Kills Women in Auto Near Kankakee
A rented car carrying Mrs. George Granger, Miss Genevieve Rabig, and five others was struck by a caboose at a railroad crossing near Kankakee. Mrs. Granger and Miss Rabig died after the crash. five other occupants were seriously injured. The Grangers had been en route to Mound Grove cemetery. The chauffeur and Paul Granger survived. Mr Granger protected his son during the collision. Cars on a side track blocked the view of the engine, and the crew could not stop in time.
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Kankakee
Chicago
George Granger
Genevieve Rabig
Grangers
Rabig
Mound Grove Cemetery
Mr. Granger
Paul Granger
Illinois Holds Second in Coal Output Despite 1908 Drop
Government figures show Illinois remains the nation’s second coal producer in 1908 with 47,659,690 short tons of bituminous coal, behind Pennsylvania. West Virginia and Ohio follow, sum total output reaches 415,842,698 tons valued at $532,314,117, down from 480,363,424 tons and $614,798,898 in 1907.
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Illinois
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Peoria Officials Seek Whipping Post Law for Abusive Husbands
Peoria County leaders push for a new whipping post law after daily abandonment cases and widespread mistreatment of wives. State's Attorney Scholes supports the plan, while crowding in the work house pushes others toward older remedies.
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Peoria
Peoria County
Illinois
Robert Scholes
Conductor Helps Foil Bank Robbery Plot Near Lincoln
Springfield interurban car conductor Jasper Oglesby overheard two tourists plotting to rob a Broadwell bank near Lincoln. He notified Sheriff Devine, leading to the arrest of George Huff and Charles Daily with burglars tools in a box car.
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Jasper Oglesby
Oglesby
George C. Huff
Charles Daily
Young Oglesby
Springfield
Broadwell
Lincoln
Devine
Vicksburg Commission Named by Governor Deneen
Governor Deneen assigns the Illinois Vicksburg Park Commission to compile a roll of Illinois soldiers who fought at Vicksburg. The panel includes Col. C. R. B. Koch of Chicago, T. B. Crear of Jacksonville, J. M. Trimble of Princeton, Carroll Moore of Benton, and F. D. Meacham of Chicago.
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Deneen
Illinois Vicksburg Park Commission
General Assembly
Illinois
Vicksburg
Col
C. R. B. Koch
Chicago
T. B. Crear
Jacksonville
J. M. Trimble
Princeton
Carroll Moore
Benton
F. D. Meacham
Drownings on Illinois River After Leisure Cruise
Master mechanic Maverick Vorhees, 35, of Rock Island Railroad at Peoria, fell from his launch into the Illinois River near Beardstown during a pleasure cruise. His wife and two small children witnessed the accident and were left stranded for hours before fishermen found help at daybreak.
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Rock Island Peoria
Maverick Vorhees
Rock Island Railroad
Peoria
Illinois River
Beardstown
Decatur Fire Devastates Hardware District
A six story Morehouse Wells Hardware building fire in Decatur NL started by defective wiring and raged for over twelve hours. Fire caused losses estimated between 1 and 1.5 million dollars as flames spread through Main Street brick blocks aided by three towns. Water famine followed due to drought and low river levels.
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Morehouse & Wells Hardware Company
Decatur
Main Street
Decatur Fire Department
Sangamon Tr
Leprosy Probe At Illinois Asylum Sparks Alarm
Government doctors from the army and public health service are detailed to the Illinois General Insane Asylum in South Bartonville to study pellagra, described as Alpine scurvy or Italian leprosy, affecting about fifty of two thousand patients. Officials say the discovery signals a major development in insane treatment, with pellagra linked to brain-origin insanity and not contagious.
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South Bartonville
J. T. Siler
United States Army
Lavinder
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Illinois General Insane Asylum
Washington
Ilinois
J. A. Egan
Illinois State Board of Health
George A. Zeller
United States
Georgia
North Carolina
Illinois
Zeller
Chicago Postmaster Warns Against Writing on Stamps
Postmaster Campbell of Chicago warns users who write on ordinary stamps instead of special delivery stamps that such markings invalidate the stamp and may affect delivery. The notice targets individuals who place handwritten notes on mail to claim special handling.
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Campbell
Chicago
Men Act as Human Ballast at Mount Vernon Revival
During a union revival in Mount Vernon a gospel tent was nearly blown away by a windstorm. Men quickly tied into the ropes acting as ballast to stabilize the structure. Two thirds of Uganda’s native population were wiped out by a deadly sickness over seven years.
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Mount Vernon
Uganda
Bible Not Original, U of C Professor Says Pagan Influences Aided Christianity
University of Chicago divinity professor Gerald B. Smith argues the Bible is not original with its compilers. He cites preexisting creation and flood stories from Babylonian literature and notes Christian beliefs have evolved under secular and intercultural pressures, potentially shaping Christianity through future contact with Oriental peoples.
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U. of C
Gerald B. Smith
Divinity Department
University of Chicago
To Day
Israel
Babylon
Earthquake Rocks Siena Province Italy Injures and Destroys
A heavy quake hit the Siena province in Italy on Wednesday damaging most of San Lorenzo and Buonoconvento, injuring several and killing one. Monteroni also reported damages and masonry fell into streets while Siena itself endured severe shaking though escaped major loss. Residents fled outdoors in panic until aftershocks passed. The region covers 1470 square miles with about 233000 people.
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Siena
Italy
San Lorenzo
Buonoconvento
Monteroni
Piombino
Vessels Crash at Montevideo Collision Claims Many Dead
A collision at Montevideo harbor between the Argentine excursion steamboat Colombia and the North German Lloyd steamship Schlesien sent the Colombia to the bottom. About 150 to 200 people were killed or drowned, many women and children, as rescue boats struggled in heavy seas. The Schlesien suffered minor damage and its commander blamed wind and high seas for the crash.
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Colombia
Montevideo
Bremen
Buenos Ayres
Taft to Urge Postal Savings Banks Action
President Taft plans to urge Congress next December to establish a postal savings bank system quickly. He will press the Republican platform pledge while opposing rushing Congress. Some leaders favor delaying until monetary commission reports, linking postal banks to broader financial legislation. Seven West Point cadets dismissed for hazing Roland Sutton, brother of the late Lt. James N. Sutton.
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Congress
Taft
Republican Party
Senate
House
Monetary Commission
United States Military Academy
West Point
Rolando Sutton
Sutton
James N. Sutton
Annapolis
Cholera Serum Stands Test Under U S Supervision
After a thirty day test under strict U S government supervision at Kansas City the serum discovered by Dr M Dorset a government specialist for hog cholera prevention has proven fully effective.
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United States
Kansas City
M. Dorset
Farmers urged union to favor regulation and farms over ships
B F Yoakum, head of the Rock Island Frisco system executive committee, told Oklahoma Farmers Union at Shawnee that organization is essential. He urged regulation of railways, cooperation with railroads, and expanding farms over building battleships, proposing reduced government expenses instead of higher taxes. He cited irrigation gains and canal/river projects as models for prudent spending.
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B. F. Yoakum
Oklahoma Farmers’ Union
Shawnee
Mr. Yo
Mississippi Valley
Yoakum
Department of Commerce and Labor
Right to Swear Upheld Against Phone Etiquette Rule
Court of Appeals rules telephone companies are in business to supply service not to police user language. A man who swore at a operator had his line cut. he refused to pledge future behavior and sued, but the higher court held the company may deny service for rude conduct while not requiring language reform.
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Court of Appeals of Laws
Central
Bank consolidations in Louisville and Kentucky
The First National Bank of Louisville and the Kentucky Title Savings Bank have consolidated. An overheated spark at Hendricks Copper Company works in Belleville New Jersey caused a fire loss of 150000 dollars. Frank N. Doubleday of New York offers a cap valued at 1000 dollars to the American aeronaut with the best endurance record in a motor propelled airship.
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Louisville
Kentucky Title Savings Bank
Hendricks Copper Company
Belleville
N. J
Frank N. Doubleday
New York
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Ogle County
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Marion Steele
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