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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1905
Page
5
Ex aurgion tickets will be sold August 12 and 18 with favorable return limits on account of various meetings. Apply to agents Chicago North-Western Ry. July 20.
In Albany on August 9 a thorough search shows all men and all but one woman from Myer’s department store unaccounted for. About thirty cash boys are not yet reported. Thirteen bodies have been recovered. This morning 220 men were still laboring over the wreckage. Twelve deaths are known, all workers. It is likely fifteen to twenty more bodies remain. The number of missing men is about the same.
New Orleans report shows 12 new yellow fever cases by noon with 8 deaths. The infection remains concentrated below Canal street with very few cases elsewhere. Chappelle died of yellow fever this afternoon.
New Orleans launches a broad street cleaning drive with paid workers and thousands of volunteers joining inmates in a city scrubbing effort. Officials announce a halt to all foreign immigration until the fever is stamped out.
Six armed men attempted to abduct Miguel Otero son of Governor Otero but failed as the boy was away from Mrs. W. B. Childers summer home on the Pecos River. This marks the third such attempt in recent months.
The National convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence union opens in Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania with all arrangements for President Roosevelt's visit the next day completed.
Aug 9 special report says The Western Bank failed to open and Henry H Beatty assistant cashier is named assignee. A run on Denver Savings Bank was resumed today.
Partly cloudy with local rain and cooler north. Thursday fair weather expected.
Closing quotations from Chicago markets show September wheat and corn mixed around futures levels, with pork at 14.22 dollars and lard at 7.70. At Union Stock Yards trading, cattle 18 000 head slow and down, stockers 2.30 to 4.00, hogs 20 000 up early then receding, mixed butchers 5.55 to 6.20, heavy categories 5.50 to 38.20, sheep 20 000 steady 4.00 to 5.00.
The first session of Russian Japanese peace plenipotentiaries at the Portsmouth navy yard ended after about an hour with no business beyond credential exchange and scheduling. The envoys agreed to use English and French jointly, but optimism for an armistice hangs on negotiation progress.
Roanoke Va Aug special. The Republican state convention adopted a platform endorsing the national platform with sound currency protective tariff expansion the Panama canal and Roosevelt administration. Judge Lt. L. Lewis of Richmond was nominated for governor.
King Edward marked the coronation anniversary by reviewing seventy vessels of combined French and British fleets. Enormous crowds filled both shores and excursion boats. later he dined aboard Admiral Caillard on the French flagship.
John H. H. Wilson, prominent Freeport resident, fell ill while en route to Lake Geneva with his sisters Martha and Mary. A timely injection revived him, but another seizure occurred at Harvard. he was treated by railroad doctors, then brought home to West Freeport. A separate incident on the Fontana pier saw a young woman fall into the lake but be saved by boat crew.
A new corporation to be named Northwestern Advertising agency plans to open around September 1 by a locally known young man. Backed by prominent supporters, the firm will be incorporated with 100000 capital to write advertising copy for merchants manufacturers and other businesses and place ads with leading publications under favorable terms.
W. R. Woodward traveled to Freeport to claim his missing son Harshlel whose death after riding a freight near Lena and Wallace yards was confirmed. The boy, last seen in Lena while seeking work, likely joined a circus before boarding a freight and perishing, his body identified by a photograph sent to Iola officials. The coroner ordered exhumation and burial costs will be borne by the father, who awaits transporting the remains to Gas City Kansas.
Meeting of the trades and labor council at City Hall laid plans for the Labor Day celebration. Freeport parade division captains named John Moritz W H Burdick and Julius Wagner. Police coordination with Sheriff McCool and Chief Sweeney ordered. Posters and small handbills to be printed and circulated. Rockford Beloit delegations urged parade readiness by 9:00 AM. Railways and ladies auxiliaries to join the march. Beloit Rockford bands to accompany, Globe band provided by Freeport unions, more bands possible if finances allow. Program details to be announced August 28.
The Freeport Railway Light and Power Co received two large Washington timbers for a derrick to hoist heavy machinery. A 12x12 timber at seventy feet and a 10x12 timber at sixty feet were secured by W O Fry the lumber dealer. They are reported as the largest timbers seen in Freeport.
Oakdale campgrounds bustle as tents are raised to host opening services tomorrow evening. Many more tents will be needed to accommodate campers after Indica supplied a large order. The first bus to the grounds departs the courthouse at 1 o clock tomorrow afternoon.
The advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as the best medicine for children this month. It claims to make children "prow" and give rosy cheeks, offering tea or tablets at 34 cents and credited to Joseph Em mert.
Classified ad seeks a motive lady to demonstrate and display simplus concepts across counties. Salary grade unspecified. No capital or experience required. Apply at Bilver Up 720 Chestnut St Philadelphia PA.
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