Illinois State News Highlights Census Trends and Local Incidents
The census bureau reports declining birth rates across several states including Illinois with figures showing fewer children per 1000 women 15 to 40 since 1850. In Illinois and neighboring states declines are detailed, alongside a mix of local events from deaths by sun stroke to crimes, fires, and civic actions across the state.
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Consus Bureau
Stork
Ilnois
Census Bureau
Department
Ilinois
Indiana
Maryland
Kentucky
Michigan
Ohio
Kane County School Board Flouts State Supply Law
Kane County School Board plans to buy desks from non state sources despite a law requiring that supplies be secured from state institutions. Warden Murphy of Joliet penitentiary offers desks chairs or tables and seeks orders, noting the law allows an inability certificate only if state institutions cannot furnish. This test will affect many manufacturers amid wide interest.
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Kane County
Luvi‘es
School Board
Murphy
Joliet Penitentiary
Illinois fights plague with Murphysboro quarantine rules
The Murphysboro board of health reestablishes rules against southern yellow fever areas. Strangers without health certificates face five day quarantine. Cairo imposes global quarantines. travel is light and refugees have left. Entry to Cairo requires a permit, even for factory workers outside the city.
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Murphysboro
Board of Health
Cairo
Paducah
Surprise reunion after twenty one years for Mrs Morris Baker
Mrs Morris Baker met her son Thomas Vincent in Champaign after twenty one years apart. The family once lived at Philo. Vincent’s father died and his mother remarried before Vincent drifted away. Half brother F M Baker arranged the surprise meeting in Pana, where Vincent, tied to a carnival company, had spent much of his time in Mexico. Mrs Baker is eighty years old.
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Cook County
Soldiers and Sailors
Fort Sheridan
Richard Wilson
Glenwood
Buffalo
N. Y
Cook County Board of Review
Ilinois
James McKinney
Aledo
Congress
BR. F. Marsh
August F. Weiner
Jones Malone
Oreana
Emil Flachs
Quincy
Flachs
August Januusch
Frank Baker
Kanka Oe
Rogers Williams
Dwight
Joseph Pembert, Jr
Beaverville
Howard Grulick
Kinmundy
Finkler & Harrison
Princeville
Peoria
Highland Park
Houston
Texas-Illinois Association
W. J. Morrow
Frank Darst
Samuel A. McClean
National Packing Company
Chicago
McClean
Springfield
Hay
Secretary of State
Illinois and Indiana Electric Railway Company
East St. Louis
St. Clair
Washington
Clinton
Marion
Centralia
F. J. Kerrus
Jerry J. Kane
Eb, P. Keshner
Horace Eggmann
James Ramsay
Fairfield
William Sheak
Peru
James French
Kansas City
Irene Strader
Dayton
Ohio
Martin Brandt
Carisle
Morris Baker
Thomas Vincent
Champaign
Philo
Vincent
F. M. Baker
Pana
Carnival
Mexico
Mrs. Baker
Mother Goose
Homer
Philadelphia Telegraph
Kaliser
Pittsburg Dispatch
New York Mail
Christopher Columbus
New York
Puck
Sherman
Portsmouth
Rates Higher in Illinois in Freight Rate Case
Former Illinois attorney general Hamlin, representing shippers, filed a supplemental brief with the Illinois railroad and warehouse commission. He argues evidence shows Illinois freight rates exceed neighboring states for same distances and that many rate inequalities and discriminations exist.
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Shippers
Railroad Commission
Hamlin
Shippers of Illinois
Illinois S Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Illinois
Mistaken for Governor Causes Peoria Mix-Up
A Peoria reception committee mistook a traveling man for Wisconsin Governor La Follette. The man stepped from the rear car while the real governor arrived at Canton for a Chautauqua. The committee, thinking it was the governor, grabbed the traveler and hustled him into a carriage toward the hotel, causing embarrassment.
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Peoria
Mr. la Follette
la Follette
Wisconsin
Canton
Town
Mastodon Bones Unearthed Near Marshall in Gravel Pit
Workmen digging a gravel pit near Marshall unearthed an immense mastodon skeleton. A twenty foot tusk and a ten inch molar were found among fragile bones that broke easily with the shovel. The discovery drew attention to the prehistoric creature and its massive remains.
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Marshall
Child Swallows Forty Medicated Tablets Dies
Cassie White, four, daughter of L A White of Ellsworth, died after taking forty medicated tablets. A physician had prescribed one daily dose, but the child reportedly swallowed the entire supply at once.
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Cassie
L.A. White
Ellsworth
Cisco Man Seeks Commitment to Insane Asylum
Frank Watson of Cisco asked Judge Shouk wiler for a commitment certificate after realizing his mind was failing. The court approved, and Sheriff Clow escorted Watson to the Jacksonville insane asylum. The case drew attention as Watson was nonviolent but despondent and his relatives opposed the move, hoping he would improve at home.
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Cisco
Frank Watson
Shoukwiler
Macon
Clow
Watson
Jacksonville
Circus in France Strands 120 Zouaves and Staff
About 120 members of McCadden's Great International Show camped in Grenoble France amid torn tents and cages as owners vanish. The troupe allegedly earned good money yet funds disappeared. No salaries since July 4 and the show collapsed August 7. Sixteen Streator Illinois members of the Streator American Zouaves cannot return home.
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France
Streator, IH
Streator American Zouaves
Mineworkers Thrown Out as Shot Firers Fired
In Chicago and Alton subdistricts experiments test powder needed for firing shots in machine mines. Operators say two pounds or less suffices, miners dispute this. Refusal to employ shot firers has laid off about 1500 workers. Tests began at Auburn with results withheld until completion.
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Chicago and Alton
Auburn
Elgin Man Missing After Japan Mission to Russia Spies
C A Wheeler of Elgin vanished three weeks ago in a case tied to submarine torpedo boats sold to Japan. Friends fear kidnapping or murder by Russian emissaries due to his wartime role teaching Japanese crews. Wheeler had warned his life could be at risk if Moscow learned of his activities.
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Elgin
Japan
C. A. Wheeler
Wavliament
Wheeler
Japa
New York
Courthouse Dome Wedding at Forty Mile Gate Charleston
W J Davis and Miss Pearl Johnson both of Rushton were married on the roof of Charleston's courthouse in a windy forty mile an hour ceremony conducted by County Judge Cofer. Only the deputy county clerk and Miss Grace Frazier attended as friends of the bride.
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Charleston
Court House
W. J. Davis
Pearl Johnson
Rushton
Cofer
Grace Frazier
Murdered Elgin Man Found Floating in North River
Herbert L. Johnson formerly of Elgin and an employee of Gamewell Fire Alarm and Telegraph Company of Boston was found dead in the North River New York with a bullet hole above the ear. He was en route to visit his father Edwin Johnson when killed. Relatives suspect robbery and murder and body dumped in the river.
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Elgin
North River
Herbert L. Johnson
New York
Johnson
Gamewell Fire Alarm and Telegraph Company
Boston
Edwin Johnson
Streator Girls Damage Beer Keg in Farm Incident
Mrs Nation's method referenced as two sisters of Henry Richards' farm near Streator confronted men trying to buy beer. The pair seized a keg hidden in a hedge, then used two axes to damage and spill the beer, ending the incident.
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Streator
Farm Handa
Henry Richards
Carrie Nation
Mr. Richards
Hunt for hospital site delays Methodist plan in Mattoon
The Methodist church of Illinois at Mattoon seeks to build a hospital but delays arise from difficulty locating a suitable site. An offered building is old and deemed unsuitable, while donors prefer a new modern structure likely to be the final outcome.
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Methodists
Mattoon
Methodist Church of Illinois
Pearl Found in Mussel by Silas Johnson on Okaw Bank
Silas Johnson of Kankakee becomes about five hundred dollars richer after finding a pearl inside a mussel shell along the Okaw river bank in Coles county. The gem is believed worth around $600, following a previous find by Johnson's wife that sold for $525.
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Silas Johnson
Kankakee
Okaw River
Coles County
Johnson
Fourth Is Less Deadly Statistics Show Decrease in Injury
Health statistics from the Journal of the American Medical Association indicate the Fourth of July injuries dropped from prior years. Tetanus cases totaled 104, cartridge injuries 800, with 32 other nonfatal injuries from various causes. Pennsylvania led in casualties with 721, Illinois 642, and New York 506 out of 1,007 more injuries than last year. total deaths reached 182.
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The
Amer Medical Association
Parison
Pennsylvania
York
Illinois
Donne
Baltimore
Missouri Losing Prestige Through Tonnage Decline on Big River
United States engineer reports for the fiscal year ending 1905 show reduced tonnage on the Missouri River as a commercial highway. Upper river freight dropped from 37,904 to 28,951 tons, while the Tower River tally fell from 750,201 to 455,000 tons. Snag boat Mandan cleared 335 snags at a cost of $5,848.89 amid ongoing dredging and appropriations for dredging and river improvements.
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Neer
Big River
Tenden
United States
Missouri River
Alexander Macie
Washington
Enriier
Jact
Sioux City
St Joseph
Missorisia
Upper River
Tower River
Fraudulent life insurance schemes sweep New York hearings
The legislative insurance committee in New York probes extensive fraud in writing policies on high risk lives. Reports allege collusion between officers and agents across multiple companies and bribery of physicians. Additional arrests include J. ad. Purnell in Valdosta for counterfeiting a $5 coin.
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Legislative Insurance Committee
New York
Gses
Panama Canal Type To Be Decided By International Board
An expert consulting board convened in Washington to decide if the Panama Canal will use locks or be sea level. The panel includes generals and engineers from the United States and Europe, with pay of 5000 dollars on report plus 15 dollars a day and travel expenses. The group may tour the Isthmus before delivering its findings.
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Washington
Panama Canal
America
Europe
Henry Hunter
Eugene Tincauser
M. Guerard
M. Quellenez
Suez Canal
J. W. Welcker
Netherlands
Isthmus
Roosevelt
Panama
Buffalo Courier
Edward VII
China
Japan
United States
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Mitchell
Oregon
Louisville Post
Benjamin Franklin
Boston
Franklin
Springfield
North Pole
Chicago Tribune
Railway specials and wireless trains dominate early 20th century rail news
General Passenger Agent Lynch explains presidents trains exist mainly for business reasons to avoid hindering normal service. Alton Railway tests wireless telegraphy on engines, signaling with green and red indicators shared by front and rear trains. The Interstate Commerce Commission plans higher air brake requirements after recent fatal buckling incidents. New York Central advances terminal electrification and switch engines, while a few small railways default on debts in 1905, improving over last year.
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Lynch
Big Four Road
United States
Chicago and Alton
Alton
Bloomington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Naw
New York Central
New York City
Brooks
Lake Shore Road
Railway Age
Beame
Witty Clippings Reflect Early 20th Century Views
A string of brief satirical quotes and notices from various papers mocks politics, society, and international affairs. It cites figures like Wu Ting Fang and Senator Mitchell, comments on Turkey and Panama, and observations on manners and journalism, all wrapped in a collage of opinions and snippets.
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Illinois State News
Calvin Sly
Morrison
Self
Zouavis
Russ
Mrs. Nation
Missouri
J. Ad. Purnell
Valdosta, Ga
Goodwin
Constantinople
Inter Ocean
Turkey
Daily News
Agricultural Department
New
Wilson
Springfield Republican
Portland
Thomas B Reed
Tom
Boston Herald
Wu Ting Fang
Pekin Court
St. Petersburg
Hartford Comrant
Mass
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