Illinois flight of funeral train
The article recounts the McKinley funeral train journey from Buffalo to Washington. A vast, national sobbing crowd lined the route from Allegheny to the Potomac, with business halted and flags at half mast. Mrs. McKinley visited the coffin, and the train enjoyed exclusive right of way, with an estimated half a million viewing the coffin in 12 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. C
Buffalo
Susquehanna
Marble City
Potomac
Cardinal Newman
Lincoln
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
McKinley
Have Faith in Roosevelt Crisis Veiw from Berlin
Berlin reports note President Roosevelt’s oath remarks leave Germany hopeful of friendly ties. Papers praise his early popularity since San Juan Hill and stress his Monroe Doctrine stance as firm yet restrained, with duty guiding peaceful U S development and no abuse of policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Roosevelt
San Juan Hill
Berliner Neueste Nachrichten
United States
Germany
Serra
National Zeitung
Chicago Citizens Propose McKinley Memorial Arch
An informal gathering of about 100 Chicago leaders approved a plan to launch a movement for a grand memorial arch honoring President McKinley in Washington. Alexander H. Revell proposed the project and was joined by several other prominent speakers including a congressman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
McKinley
Washington
Alexander H. Revell
Commission proposed to raise funds for national arch in Washington
Boutell Shaffer ex Alderman Fitch and President Forter urge a commission of citizens be appointed to collect a public fund to build the arch in Washington. They seek honorary presidents including Roosevelt Cleveland and Bryan if action is favorable, with Gage Bliss Mitchell named trustees and state and city leaders as local receivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornelius N. Bliss
John J. Mitchell
Effigy Hangs Fire and Electric Pole Demo Rages in Chicago
A mob burned an effigy of Czolgosz on State and Madison Chicago and hoisted it on an electric light pole amid cheers and calls to treat Emma Goldman the same. In Baltimore Emma Goldman was likewise hanged in effigy from a telegraph pole late tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Czolgosz
Baltimore
State
Madison
Emma Goldman
Funeral Train Arrives in Harrisburg for Mass Ceremony
At Harrisburg Pennsylvania on September 16 the funeral train reached the station at 4 45 thousands filled the area. Church bells rang and a large choir sang Nearer My God to Thee as about thirty thousand people gathered to honor the deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Strikes Over Discharged Foreigner At Sharpsville Nauerse Factory
About 150 workers at the Claire blast furnace in Sharpsville walked out after management refused to discharge a foreign laborer who insulted President McKinley during a discussion of his assassination. The company later fired the man and workers returned to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharon
Sharpsville
Here
McKinley
Famine Fears As Honolulu Struggles With Short Food Supplies
The San Francisco strike disrupts shipments of provisions to Hawaii causing dwindling local stocks. Honolulu dealers slow to fill large orders and retailers struggle to restock as sales exhaust available inventories. The Britannia has arrived, sighting a cable route 220 miles east of the islands and reviving talk of British cable links via Fanning Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
San Francisco
Hawaii
Britannia
Victoria
Australia
Hawaiian Islands
Congress
Fanning Islard
Knights of Pythias Convention Adopts Anti Anarchist Resolutions
In Chicago on September 16 the supreme lodge of the Improved Order of Knights of Pythias German branch adopted resolutions deploring the president's death, denouncing Czolgosz, and urging laws to prevent such crimes in the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Supreme Lodge
Order of Knights of Pythias
Czolgosz
Jealous Wife Attacks In Omaha With Acid
Mrs. Mollie Mabry of Kansas City followed her husband to Omaha and hurled two ounces of carbolic acid at Miss Maud Hanson in a Capital avenue boarding house room. Hanson suffered severe facial burns and possible death from the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha Neb
Mollie Mabray
Kansas City
Omaha
Maud Hanson
Miss Hanson
Mabry Hereon
Archbishop Keane to Return Home Around Sept 28
A letter from Archbishop Keane says he will be home about September 28, indicating his expected return date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keane
Xray Congress Opens With World Medical Progress Report
New Haven hosts a congress on Roentgen rays five years after discovery. Reports show X-rays aid diagnosis of bladder, kidney and lung conditions and may reveal lupus treatment successes. Advances include stereoscopic radiographs for fractures and cancer applications, with South Africa hospitals cited for saved time and pain. Dr. Gibb notes evolving clinical use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Roentgen
Rollins
South Africa
Canada
G. P. Girdwood
McGill University
Gibb
M. D
War Surgery Old and New As Told By Sir William McCormack
At the British Medical Association in Cheltenham Sir William McCormack reviewed changes in warfare surgery from the Crimea to South Africa. He noted lower fatality rates, improved anesthesia and antisepsis, smaller bullets causing less tissue damage, and faster field care including first field dressings Roentgen rays and better transport with hospital ships and trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
British Medical Association
Cheltenham
William McCormack
Crimea
South Africa
Los&ies
Frech
Sir William
Colenso
The Earl Russell Plans a U.S. Run From Nevada
The Earl Russell, jailed in England for multiple marriages, vows to come to America after release. He wed an actress in Nevada after a divorce there, but an English court did not recognize it. He may seek a Nevada U.S. Senate seat if he can back free silver. Voters in Nevada rarely count a man’s wives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Russell
America
Heck
Nevada
United States Senate
Swindler arrested in Illinois case linked to multiple cities
John Hull Becker was brought to Kankakee after a Dwight arrest. He faces swindling charges across Kankakee, Chicago, Streator, Ottawa, Des Moines, St. Louis, Evansville and Elkhart Indiana, Thawville and Lafayette Illinois, Rossville and Michigan City Indiana. His schemes yielded about $15,000. once a Lafayette Bridge Co agent he allegedly posed as for a non existent Missouri Bridge Co and issued bogus drafts. A Big Four train and North Vermillion street streetcar collision in Danville killed motorman John Young and seriously injured two women, with others escaping by jumping. The crash stemmed from failing to heed signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hull Becker
Kankakee
Dwight
Chicago
Streator
Ottawa
Des Moines
St. Louis
Evansville
Elkhart
Ind
Thawville
Ill
Lafayette
Rossville
Michigan City
Lafayette Bridge Company
Missouri Bridge Company
Big Four
Vermillion Street
Danville
John Young
Miss White
Mathews
Plans for Biggest Live Bird Shooting Match in Chicago
Charles R. Stephens of Moline Illinois vice president of the Illinois State Sportsman association is organizing what he believes will be the largest live bird shoot in the United States. The tournament will be at Washington park Chicago with a $100 entry fee per shooter and 100 birds per man. About 100 entries are expected including top wing shots from across the country, with 60 already signed. The event will use 10 000 pigeons in the main contest not counting tie shoots and the $10 000 prize may all go to the winner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Stephens
Moline
Illinois State Sportsman Association
Washington Park
Chicago
Death in Cider Mill Leaves Man 30 Dead
Adam Dittmann an employee at a hydraulic cider press for John Mertz was instantly killed last week when a belt on the engine broke and its quick stop caused the press lever to strike him on the head. He was 30 and unmarried. his mother lives in St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Dittmann
John Mertz
St. Louis
Illinois in Brief headline items and local incidents
Northwestern editor resigns after short tenure as student paper changes leadership. A Chicago couple aged 60 and 62 were found dead in a Belmont avenue flat as police suspect a joint death by agreement. Illinois Third Vein Coal Co plans a Field operation near Ledd with $1 million capitalization. American Glucose Sugar Refining plant shuts down, 1200 workers affected. FBI style swindling exposed in Chicago involving cigar labels and internal revenue stamps totaling over 150000. P G Rennick sworn in as internal revenue collector at Peoria with $10 million in stamp receipts. Corner stone laid for Christian county courthouse by Masonic Grand Lodge Illinois. Morrisonville teacher Edward Smalley seriously injured by falling cornice. Springfield private Michael Lynch arrested, sent to Fort Sheridan, linked to a dying relative and family hardship. Lynch deserted to home, his brother dies shortly after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Harry BE. Weese
The
Northwestern
Northwestern University
Weese
Peter Jackson
Annnie
Belmont Avenue
Chicago
O. S. Richardson
American Glucose Sugar Refining Company
United States
P. G. Rennick
Circuit Court
Christian County
Masonic Grand Lodge of
K. Ricks
W. T. Vandever
W. M. Provine
Edward Smalley
Morrisonville
Michael Lynch
Springfield
Oscar Charles
Fort Sheridan
Lynch
Fort Leavenworth
John
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bowen Chronicle
Fu. S. McCoy
Bowen
Citizens Plan
Hawai
Pythias
Xray Congress
News OF Illinois
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!