Lincoln Douglas anniversary marked in Ottawa with memorial boulder
Ottawa observes the fiftieth anniversary of the Lincoln Douglas debates with oratory music and a floral parade culminating in the unveiling of a twenty two ton bronze tablet memorial. Daughters of the Revolution presented the boulder and Mayor Farrell accepted it amid ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln- Douglas
Ottawa
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
Lincoln
Douglas
Washington Park
City of
Illini
Daughters of the Revolution
James F. Farrell
Abe” Lincoln
Steve” Douglas
Little Giant
Onehalf
B. F. Lincoln
M. A. Quirk
St. Patrick's
America
Jules Lombard
Farrell
J. McCann Davis
Springfield
Illinois county fairs dates and places for 1908 autumn exhibition
The State board of agriculture lists county fair dates and sites across Illinois for 1908. Entries include Boone Helvidere Sept 1 4. Champaign Urbana Sept 1 5. Carroll Mount Carroll Sept 9 12. McLean Danvers Sept 1 4. Will Plainfield Sept 28 to 25. Williamson Marion Sept 15 18. and many others from August 17 to October 30 in towns such as Princeton Galena Kankakee Libertyville Danvers and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Agriculture
Boone County
Helvidere
Bureau
Princeton
Cathven Mardin
Carroll
Mount Carroll
Champaign—Urbana
Clark
Martinsville
Coles
Charleston
Crawford—Robinson
Cumberland
Greenup
Grundy
Magon
Henry
Cambridge
Kankakee
Lake
Libertyville
Livingston
Fairbury
Logan
Atlanta
Macoupin
Carlinville
Madison
Highhind
U. Marshall
Wenona
McDonough
Bushnell
Richland
Stock Island
Ostin
Saline
Harrishburg
Stark—Wyoming
Stevenson
Treeport
Tazewell
Delevan
Union—Anna
Wayne—Fairfield
White—Carmi
Whiteside
Morrison
Will—Plainfield
Williamson—Marion
Rach Tragedy in Asylum at Bartonville
White inmate Max Sippleberger at Bartonville insane hospital attacked William Finney color ed with an ice hammer in a tuberculosis colony tent. Finney died after the skull fracture as attendants subdued Sippleberger and confined him in irons. Both patients from Cook County. Finney had been at Bartonville two years. The incident followed a discussion over the Springfield race war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartonville
Max Sippleberger
Witneis Hospital For the
Irons
William Finney
Sippleberger
Tuberculosis Colony
Finney
Cook County
Dunning Asylum
Bartonville Asylum
Springfield
Within Our Borders News Clippings From Illinois
A compilation of scattered incidents across Illinois reports fires destroying a Belleville shoe factory with $120,000 loss. drownings of two children in Rockford and Macomb. a Benton boy killing his sister during a gun part retrieval. deaths from heat heart trouble and farm accidents. a temperance speech by Gov. Hanly at Lena camp meeting. a 100-year-old Rockford pioneer widow Mary Torphy. legal actions in Kankakee and Browns. a dynamite scare near Ridgway. and various crime, marriage, and divorce notes across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jordan
Belleville
Earl Morse
Rockford
Benton
Charlie Scarlett
William Schnake
Harrisburg
Hanly
Indiana
Lena
Mary Torphy
F. Huntington
Ansonia Clock Company
Chicago
Riverview Hospital
Kankaslee
Calhoun County
Cecil Lowande
Harry Parrish
Kewanee
Parrish
Clyde Hardy
Leroy
Federal Grand Jury
Bloomington
Fred Underhill
Macomb
F. Ballinger
Heap
Elsie Rottier
Isaac Mitchell
Fairfield
Letitia Walther
Hotel Proprietress of
Browns
R. Fisher
Peter Kohl
Ridgway
Ilinois
Lincoln
Douglas
Metamora
Spears
Woodford
John Webber
Anna Schroeder
Martin Mu
Logansport
Ind
Togansport
Sterling
Thos. Brady
Forsythe
Springfield
Frank Sullivan
Sullivan
Sane
Brady
Grand Army to Hold 42nd Encampment in Toledo Ohio
Illinois G A R announces preparations for the forty second national encampment at Toledo Ohio with headquarters at 208 210 Superior Street near hotels for Illinois posts. A large parade is planned for Wednesday September 5 expected to draw many Civil War veterans in line.
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Ohio
Department of Illinois
State of
Ill
Joseph Rosenbaum
Illinois Department
Superior Street
Peoria Mother Sacrifices Life To Save Child And Dog
Mrs. Joseph Mackay Jumped Before a Passenger Train to rescue her child and the family dog on railroad tracks in Peoria. The child and dog escaped unharmed, but the mother was struck and killed as the train hit her while pulling the child away. A companion woman was present during the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Mackay
Peoria
Chicago youth arrested in murder confession linked to Springfield crime
Thomas Bryant alias Frank Sullivan, 23, arrested after being seen with friends on Park Avenue Chicago and confessing to murdering Grady at 915 North West Street Springfield. He claimed the killer concealed $12 in silver in the old man's trunk amid drunken revelry. Bryant spoke of a harsh life, while other items mention Hitchcock, Swanson, Hisgen, Bradford, and Justice Fuller amid political and civic notes. The report mixes crime with political biographies and a cement production statistic from 1997.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Thomas Bryant
Frank ‘Sullivan
Park Avenue
Bryant
Eloper Held for Perjury in Albion Court
Walter G. Tucker is found guilty of perjury for swearing the bride Gladys Craige of Centralia was 18 at marriage when she earlier claimed to be underage. Judge Schofield presided as Tucker’s bond was pressed by sheriff, clerk, and nineteen others. Craige testified she had said she was 18 during courtship and Tucker denied his Chattanooga, Tennessee home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucker
Chattanooga
Tenn
Sioux City
Towa
Minneapolis
Lemmon
S. D
Clay I. Carpenter
Sisseton, Register
K. G. Coleman
Plandreau
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Marshalltown
Marty Mortison
Fargo
N. 1
Meade County
Kelle Mourcha River
Lynchers Death and Riot Fallout in Decatur
William Vest died of apoplexy in the Decatur detention ward while awaiting a sanity inquest. The era’s tension followed the Springfield race riots. Vest’s wife, assaulted in 1898 by Bush, a wandering Black man, led Vest and neighbors to forcefully seize Bush from the sheriff and hang him from a telegraph pole. Vest then armed himself, keeping his family under guard until deputies captured him.
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William Vest
Decatur
Springfield
Vest
Bush
Court House
Bridge Drops 24 Into Canyon at Starved Rock
A group of 24 Peorians on a bridge over French’s Canyon at Starved Rock fell when the structure broke. Nine were injured and seven were brought to Peoria by steamer. The two most seriously hurt stayed at a hotel in Starved Rock, with others sent to Orland. The Rev John V Whiting resigned from the First Baptist church of Kewanee to accept a role at a Jacksonvi line church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starved Rock
Hans Guess
Miss Lulford
New Call
John V. Whiting
First Baptist Church of
Kewanee
Frat Baptist Church of
Vilas Dies After Stroke in Madison Years Of Service
Colonel William F. Vilas of Madison Wisconsin died at 10 45 am after a second stroke of paralysis following five weeks of illness He had served as a post office official under Cleveland and later as a U S Senator He led Wisconsin politics and helped supervise construction of the state capitol and a war memorial He was born in 1840 and long hosted a prominent public career with the Chicago and Northwestern Railway as chief counsel and a key role in state and national Democratic circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Harris Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Taft
Nomin Nation
Pirst
Hitchcock
Amherst
Harvard University
Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
Post Office Department
Claude Augustus Swanson
Virginia
William Jennings Bryan
Denver
Swanson
Gov. Swanson
Justice Fuller
United States Supreme Court
Highes Tribunal
William F. Vilas
Madison
Wis
Philip Fox
Vilas
Charles H. Vilas
New York
Fox
Commission of Five
Wisconsin
Vicksburg
Cleveland
Democratic National Committee
Lamar
Department of the Interior
United States
Senate
Congress
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Union News Across Cities and Trades In 1907 Labor View
Boston Hebrew painters unions organize anew while movements push for an Ber temple in Memphis and a building trades section in Fargo. New Orleans forms a permanent arbitration board. Waterville applies for a textile workers charter. Halifax hosts Trades and Labor Congress of Canada in September. europe and US unions report wage deals and eight hour pushes. UK mining safety and Japanese competition noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Memphis
Tenn
New Orleans
Waterville
United Textile Workers
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
Halifax
American Federation of Labor
Fargo
N. C
New York
Ypographical Union
Big Six
International Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America
New Haven
Hartford
Boot and Shoe Workers’ International
Steel
Amalgamated Iron, Stee and Tin Workers
Pittsburg
United States
Union of Stationary Firemen
San Francisco
Cal
Northumberland
England
New York City
Massachusetts
National Union of Journalists
Wales
International Association of Machinists
Golden West Lodge of Machinists
Kansas City
Frank Feeney
Philadelphia
Elevator Constructors’ Union
Central Labor Union
Ci Y
Building Trades Unions
Buffalo
N. Y
Building Trades Department
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Western Bar Iron Association
Journeymen Bakers’ Society
United Kingdom
Haver
Austria
Belgium
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Illinois State News
Illinois
Simte Hospital
Jennie A. Nelson
Illinois Eastern Hospital
Kansikee
Toledo
Thomas L. Hisgen
Independence League
Petersburg
William Hisgen
Albany
Thomas
L. Hisgen
Beame
Illsfgen
Standard Oil Company
Mary
R Murray Leslie
Incorporated Institute of Hygiene
London
Eloper
Lyncher
Canyon
Wisconsin Mail
Statesman
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