Affairs in Illinois Neighbors Doings and Local Notices
The Illinois section reports on a Supreme Court banking decision affecting stock liability, a governor commutation for a Chicago boodler, and state patronage totals. It recalls Chicago merchants deaths, pardon petitions for Joe Mackin, and a Hazelwood Farm cattle sale with high prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Richard Long
Long Spring Trust Company
Chicago
Allegheny City
Jackson Lucas
B. L. Lucas & Bro
Bloomington
General Assembly
Joe Mackin
Farrell
Cook
Fifer
Mackin
Brown
Hazelwood Farm
Daviess County
Phyllises
Marys
Kirklevington Duke
Springfield
J. D. Blackstone
Shullsburg
Wis
Harry Leroy
Decorah
Iowa
Quincy
Leroy
Charles Hutchinson
Patrick Reynolds
Reynolds
Hutchinson
Wit and whimsy from a bygone humor column
A collage of jokes, snippets, and quips from humorous anecdotes and cartoons. The piece features witty lines about lectures, love, money, and daily life with unnamed speakers and remembered punchlines. It captures a late era mood with playful moralizing and sly social satire.
Condition of crops shows need for rains across wheat and grass
The article reports a dry spring across the Midwest with oats and spring wheat needing copious rains. Grass is brown from a year of pasture use, while winter wheat holds its own though drought persists in the southern belt. Illinois Indiana Ohio Missouri Kansas Texas California show varied moisture, hogs fed well, and grain movement limited as of March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mississippi River
Iowa
Nebraska
Northwest
Minnesota
Dakota
Manitoba
North Dakota
Orthern
Illinois
Ohio River
Indiana
Ohio
Missouri
Kansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Texas
California
Pacific
Lakes
Michigan
Fatal Altercations and Disaster Hit Several States
All Sorts Henry Bru killed Wick Wickliffe in Curdsville Kentucky. Reuben Sands, 21, killed his brother George in New York by stabbing with a jackknife. RoostMan Company furniture factory at Davenport Iowa destroyed by lightning causing about 16000 dollars in losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Grange
Twine Trust
J. M. Thompson
Ilinois
Illinois
Grange
Pauline King
Springfield Court-House
Springfield
Alice Powell
Chicago
Joseph R. Dunlop
Chicago Times
Dunlop
Henry Wendell Thomson
Highland Association
Black Watch Brigade
Hubert Chambers
Adams & Westlake Company
Adams
Emile C. Atchison
John Atchison
St. Louis
Atchison
Philadelphia
Galena
Smith
Lake View
Julia D. Young
Wright's Grove
Henry Bru
Wick Wickliffe
Curdsville
Reuben Sands
George
New York
RoostMan & Co
Davenport
Iowa
Illinois Senate passes various measures and tax proposals
Illinois lawmakers advance several bills on the calendar including Hamer's hotel bill and infant abduction penalties. A tax bill aims to raise 2.86 million for 1889 and 2.3 million for 1890, with a school tax of 1 million. Bills on charitables boards and canal property were debated as sessions closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Hamer
Judiciary Committee
House
Committee On Insurance
McDonald
Matthews
Johns
Higbee
Finance Committee
Cooley
Committee On Canals and
Secrist
Paddock
Browne
LaSalle
Cook
Marseilles
Pike
Committee On Appropriations
O'Toole
Peppon
Chicago
Ohio
Mooney
Will
Interstate Commission
Hagle
Supreme Court
Mount Vernon
Springfield
Ottawa
MacMillan
Oglesby
Hadley
Secrest
General Assembly
Elgin
Peeus
Eckhart
Yeas
Hegle
Cochran
Railroad
Lester
State Board of Agricultu
Farmers’ Institute
A Severe Critic Makes A Point About Art Truth
An Atlanta artist showed a finished portrait to a friend who knows the original and sought a judgment. The friend claimed a child would best judge, but when the grandchild is asked who the subject is the reply is unfamiliar to her. The friend is left perplexed as the child cannot identify the sitter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Gussie
Atlanta Constitution
Might Have Been Worse Hat Satire
A man sits on his neighbor's silk hat at an entertainment and ruins it. The owner protests while the neighbor jokes that it could have been worse he might have sat on his own hat. The quip turns on avoiding self harm as the humorous twist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sonny
St. Peter
Lyon-Hunter
Frank
Nibbs
Bibbs
Philadelphia
Jones
Mr. Jones
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Farmer McClaughry
Treasury
United States
Indian Territory
Cherokee Commission
T.N. Morrison
Bright
Theodore N. Morrison
Pennsylvania
Aurora
Jacksonville
Wheaton
John Voss
Galena Volksfreund
Galena Normal School
Chaffingly
Tommy
Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Philadelphian
Mein Frient
Edith
Boston Bulletin
Dude
Illinois Law-Makers
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