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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1896
Page
6
Train and tram numbers appear with routes from Freeport and West, listing departures and arrivals at small towns like Warren Galena Lena and others. Timetables show daily except Sunday and multiple departures at early morning hours with ambiguous labels.
Daily freight trains operate except Sunday. Passenger service on Madison line includes trains No 101 to Madison, No 108 arriving from Madison, No 151 to Madison, and No 164 arriving, with mixed runs and arrivals around 8:30. Dodgeville line shows No 201 to Dodgeville, No 202 arriving from Dodgeville, and No 371 leaving from Dodgeville with Sunday off.
Chicago and Northwestern schedule details list passenger and freight trains with arrivals and departures for Freeport. Notes show connections to Racine, Janesville, Madison, Rockford, Chicago, Beloit, Clinton, Dubuque, St. Paul, and other western points. Baggage checked through to destinations. January 13, 1806.
Chicago Great Western operates trains to Chicago Dubuque St Paul Minneapolis Des Moines St Joseph and Kansas City. Trains depart South Breeport RAQT with daily Chicago Limited at 6 15 a m and Chicago Express Sundays 6 26 p m. No 181 P and K GC limited 0 37 p m daily No 3 Express daily 6 0 p m Sundays 9 04 p m No 6 Express gate scene gate 8 00 p m. Ticket office Brewster House Stage from Brewster House 7 45 a m 5 00 p m and 7 45 p m baggage checked residence to destination without extra charge H LOR General Agent Chicago
Readable fragments indicate a timetable style notice from Forrestonae Departmental with times 20 35 and 6 00. The fragmentary text lacks complete details but suggests schedule or reporting times linked to a Forrestonae department operation.
Havana dispatch reports Captain General Weyler ordering guerrillas to gather cattle to deprive Cuban insurgents of food. Gomez vows revenge for his son and lieutenant’s deaths as Cuban and American towns react to potential Weyler campaign signals. Local editorials and public meetings in Lincoln and Baltimore weigh recognition of Cuban belligerency and U.S. stance.
In Pender Nebraska the preliminary hearing for Dr J S Goodmanson recently from Chicago begins after his wife died from suspected strychnine poisoning. The process is expected to last several days with many witnesses and crucial testimony anticipated. In Cleveland Ohio the firm Corrigan McKinley Co has arranged to buy the Blue Iron mine at Negraunee Michigan for about $50 000.
Detroit jurors found Frank Ashley guilty of murdering James McGee and he was immediately sentenced to life imprisonment.
Judge Tuley rules nine grain elevator firms cannot engage in trading their stored products. The matter advances to the Supreme Court. Chicago Mayor Swift vetoes a four cent streetcar fare bill. council failed to override. Multiple victims and incidents span Ark, Ky, Ind, Ia, Minn, Colo. Political and crime notes weave through regional events.
Dubuque Iowa December 23 Senator Allison denied that he would join McKinley’s cabinet as minister of state saying he has not been offered any position by McKinley nor has anyone offered him any post.
New York reports engineer John W. Bogart and fireman A G Halleck died when their Erie local train derailed and ditched near Fish Creek on the Hackensack meadows just after leaving Jersey City last night.
The forecast covers twenty four hours from 8 p m yesterday. Indiana and Illinois see fair weather with colder northwesterly winds. Michigan expects snow ending this afternoon with variable winds. Wisconsin stays generally fair and colder with northerly winds. Iowa reports fair weather and colder northerly winds.
New York money on call 2 percent with heavy sterling demand and bank note rates shown. U S government bonds firm. Chicago Board of Trade quotes for wheat corn oats and livestock traded with mixed results. Hog cattle and sheep prices posted with receipts and ranges for the day.
The New York Tribune argues that rising per capita exports do not prove tariff success. It cites 1896 as weak despite high exports, warns against selling at a loss abroad, and notes heavy imports, indebtedness, and gold outflow. It stresses that foreign market conditions, not tariff cuts alone, drive prosperity.
The passage argues the McKinley protection policy to American labor is driving mills to reopen. It cites the mere prospect of lowered tariffs as already stirring industrial activity and forecasts effects on workers and industries if protection ends.
The document compares fiscal years: in the first three years of Cleveland's administration expenditures exceeded receipts by 110.27 million dollars, while in the last three years of Harrison's administration receipts exceeded expenditures by 152.50 million dollars.
The excerpt cites Major McKinley urging labor support while questioning why wages are spent at home and paid as rich fees to farmers and workers, eliciting applause and the phrase That's the stuff.
The Murray Creek colliery in New Zealand is worked by a single Chinese owner Bolitho who salvages and runs the small hut like mine. A second tiny mine in New Zealand operates with one man and a donkey. In England Nelson Lancashire a two man family run a small village mine near the Colliers Arms with donkey help and selling output to nearby households. A Caddo Oklahoma editor reports a child threatened with croup and credits Chamberlain’s cough remedy given by bottle to relief, with 25 and 50 cent sizes sold locally.
Five second hand organs and one upright piano nearly new. Will be sold for half their value. Contact Joan Hea 84 Galena St Freeport. Also advertised celery cabbage carrots beets onions parsnips and turnips for wholesale and retail at Harlem Gardens near water tower West Freeport. 11 27 dw.
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