25 Apr 1899
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1899
Page
1
Our lumber is used for all purposes by top builders. We offer good grades, well seasoned, and kept under cover to protect from rain and sun. If you are not using it yet, switch now for better, more satisfactory lumber.
General Otis reports casualties from Sunday's fight with killed including Col. John M. Stotsenberg and Lt. L. E. Sisson, plus several sergeants and privates across Nebraska and other units. Wounded include multiple privates with varying injuries. Area reports from Manila theater note General Lawton advancing toward Norzagaray and Hale’s brigade moving along the Rio Grande with considerable enemy loss and 850 prisoners captured.
In Punapetruta Pennsylvania two men were killed outright and two are missing after benzine explosions at the Fleets' chemical works. A woman died, twenty others were injured, and the factory is wrecked with debris and shattered windows over a wide area. Two bodies recovered, one burned, another blown through the roof. Over a block of buildings sustained damage and hospitals received a dozen injured.
Cantor April 25 reports scene in Kas. where Attorney Sterling speaks for defendant Gapena. Charles Williams, alias Jones, a colored man, was shot by a masked mob in the jail. Williams had killed Laura Canafax yesterday.
Sprinarero April 25 special report notes the governor vetoed the voting machine bill and the beet sugar bounty measure, signaling a clash over key election and agricultural policies.
Generally fair tonight and Wednesday with no decided change in temperature. Winds mostly easterly.
Frank Howe and Alphonse Weber are listed among the sick. The son of F Bonnini also ill, while Miss Alice Guarrels has recovered from an illness.
Conrad Meyers, about eighty, long an area settler near Loran village in Jefferson township, hanged himself last night using a rope made from handkerchiefs attached to a bed post. Found at 9 o clock, he had been nearly blind since youth after quack medicine ruined his sight. Coroner Currier notified.
Major James M. Bell of the Fourth United States Cavalry is praised for his Civil War and Philippine campaigns. Records show he began as a lieutenant in 1862 and earned brevets for the Wilderness and Ream s Station. He is well known in Freeport with relatives nearby and recently returned from Cuba wounded. The April dispatch notes his ties to Washington and a cabinet discussion of the Coughlan case as Captain nears retirement.
Chicago Apr 25 closing board of trade quotations show May wheat at 7 14, May corn 4, May oats 263, May pork 9.02, May lard 5.20, May ribs 4.70. Union stock yards reports hogs 22,000 barely steady with light 3.75 to 3.95, mixed 3.75 to 4.00, heavy 8.65. Cattle 2,500 steady. beeves 4.10 to 5.60, feeders 3.50 to 5.00. sheep 16,000 steady. Freeport Board of Trade lists wheat May July prices and hogs July and May futures with varied bid/ask ranges. Chicago receipts include 84 cars wheat, 312 corn, 830 total. Northwestern shows Minneapolis and Duluth relate to car counts. primary receipts compare with year ago totals for wheat and corn.
In Hall County Nebraska probate court Mrs Dra Hayes of Chicago and other children contest the 1894 will of Horace Tarbox. The will gave nearly all property to his second wife Mrs Horace Tarbox and her son Lee Scrambling. Estate includes Freeport Illinois and property in Grand Island Nebraska and Gainesville Florida worth 150 000. Tarbox over 80 at will time. Proceedings will take at least a week with skilled lawyers on both sides. A capsule note mentions a new air tight coffee can feature for T and T brand.
Mrs Mary L Carpenter head of the Rockford academy nine years superintendent of schools in Winnebago county and a prominent Northern Illinois educator died in Rockford Indiana yesterday age 60. Ad for Rocky Mountain Tea by Emmert & Burrell seeks fifty five young ladies with pimples black heads tasty complexions to have a beautiful face.
H. HOLLISTER, jeweler and optician, succeeds A. V. Hart in the local shop. Details imply continuation of established business, maintaining offerings in jewelry and optical goods under new ownership.
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