Trial Notice for W R Vanartsdale at Opera Block
A trial notice lists W R Vanartsdale appearing at the Opera Block in Bowen Illinois. The document provides location and defendant name for a court session.
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Newspaper
Bowen Weekly Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1899
Page
8
A trial notice lists W R Vanartsdale appearing at the Opera Block in Bowen Illinois. The document provides location and defendant name for a court session.
The Illinois National Guard will conduct regimental camps at Springfield during July and August. The Illinois Y M C A announces a tent on camp grounds with reading and writing tables, charitable meetings, and two secretaries. Funds of 500 dollars sustain the tent, with gifts invited via L Tary, Association Building Bowman, Chicago.
Potsdam scientist Herr Zekall plans a long duration balloon voyage to test how long a given sized balloon can stay aloft. The craft will carry instruments and provisions for at least 60 days, with four scientists and two journalists aboard starting in August.
A 65 year old Louisville fire department engineer on duty for 15 hours during a severe blaze had hair that froze with ice. Exposure cooled his eyebrows and whiskers but kept his head warm under a skullcap and helmet. The next afternoon his hair, once gray for eight years and white for three, turned completely black.
A Table Grove young lady asserts a constitutional right to wear short sleeves under a provision about bearing arms. She seeks authority to bare her neck and shoulders, citing high court precedent. The Prairie City News humorously notes no one would object to bare necks anyway.
Alexander M. Schreyer known as the Australian Whirlwind plans a six day home trainer ride atop a 195 foot chimney above Pennsylvania avenue. The apparatus will use a bare bicycle and the chimney holds the Capital Traction power house remains, one of Washington's largest structures aside from the monument and dome.
While supervising water pipe laying in Queensland a worker sought refuge in a two foot diameter iron pipe as a colossal cattle stampede bore down. Thousands charged past trampling many. seven cattle lay dead near the pipe after the herd passed.
Joliet Illinois July 12 the city council granted a franchise to Northwestern Telephone company. Two weeks later no faction has filed acceptance of the ordinance and an appeal to the courts is probable.
Henry Butts, a farmer near Williamsfield, discovered his reaper failed to run. He found the cycle guards clogged with rattlesnakes, and the sickle was a mass of mangled reptiles.
Delbert Rawson, a 30 year old farmer living on W M Logue's farm three miles northeast of town, fell from a hay ladder when a rung failed and a pitchfork punctured his bowels. He hangs suspended and is treated by Dr. Black. the prognosis is poor as his condition worsens with high fever.
A compilation of brief items: a New Jersey girl dies after swallowing gum. Cuba opens 2000 saloons since the war for humanity. a Kansas judge walks to a circus after adjournment. war revenue nears $100 million. Klondike clean-up worth $15 million. a Chicago undertaker fined for kissing a died child. Michigan may ban trusts. Baltimore’s large black population. Standard Oil investment in American Distilling. New Jersey courts defend trusts. Philadelphia erects a Franklin statue. Philippine volunteers reject bounty and enlistments. Coors county assessment near $60 million. France forms another cabinet. drought hits southern Russia wheat. 102-year-old Geo Wray seeks divorce from 37-year-old wife.
Lieutenant F J L Chadwick recalls a 40 feet long whale ram in the side of the cruiser Raleigh as it returned from Manila Bay. The crew reversed engines to free the ram and the whale floated away dead, a true event later recorded in the ship's log.
A modest Dakota newspaper man is teased over a joke about a new baby at a party. The gag ends with the host stating she usually has a winter cold and implying the journalist will soon do the same. Also notes a small Cook’s addition home for sale or rent with easy terms and low cash.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised as best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions with a guarantee of satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. Sold by C Marsh druggist.
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