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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1907
Page
6
Reports from Alma recount 49 dead from yesterday’s Rock Island wreck including 44 Mexican passengers and four men and a black porter. Coroner’s inquest planned.Rock Island officials later downplayed fatalities citing 30 killed and 30 injured with 12 still hospitalized.
Governor Folk in a message requests Congress to call a convention to propose amendments to the federal constitution. Thefocus includes direct election of senators by the people, adoption of initiative and referendum principles, and the establishment of a just income tax.
A snowbound wreck at Brule Station 20 miles west of North Platte involved the Union Pacific overland limited and the Los Angeles limited. Actor E. W. Hastings of New York was killed. Mail Clerk Gilbert Worley of Omaha and passenger Jennings were badly injured.
St. Petersburg on January 3 reports Major General Von Der Lantz chief of police shot dead at the institute of experimental medicine. As the assailant attempted to flee an officer killed him with a sabre. the shooter's identity remains unrevealed.
Weather forecast for Chicago notes fair skies tonight and Friday with decidedly colder temperatures. A northern cold wave is expected, and the sun rises at 7 30 a.m. and sets at 4 40 p.m.
Closing board of trade quotations show May wheat 7 63, May corn 4 33, May oats 3 61, Jan pork 16.07, Jan lard 9.32, Jan ribs 8.77. Union stock yards market lists cattle 6,000 steady and strong with beeves 4.15 to 7.20, cows and heifers 1.50 to 5.10, stockers 2.60 to 4.60. Hogs 22,000 up 5 to 10, sheep 138,000 steady 3.75 to 5.75.
John Atchison longtime member of the John A. Davis post and a veteran is reported very low after a period of illness today.
Real estate transfer records show F. M. Gund and others convey lots 1 and 2 and part of lot 3 in block 1 Clark's fourth addition to Thomas Grant for four thousand dollars.
Fragmentary lines discuss sorrow and resilience with phrases about wiser responses and avoidance of self harm. Mentions Rocky Mountain Tea and unclear names Jos and Fmimert in a poetic, unfinished fragment.
In La Belle the store offers a $2.00 ladies shoe selection including styles from a big girls school heel to a large ankle shoe in kid Dongola Gun Metal and latent leathers. Sold only at the W.
An open letter denounces Charles FE Gregory accusing him of false claims of gas and electric franchises. It cites city clerks in Hyde Park Omaha Council Bluffs and Rock Falls denying any valid franchises and condemns deceptive statements about backing by the American Trust and Savings bank of Chicago.
Federal Judge Landis overruled Standard Oil demurrer to eight indictments charging rebates from railroad companies and sustained two for technical defects. He said the court must enforce congressional will to secure uniform railroad rates, noting the Elkins law was strengthened with harsher remedies and penalties.
Congress reassembled after a holiday recess with the house in session. President directs an appeal of court rulings overturning the employer's liability act and nominates Brigadier General J. Franklin Bell to major general. Representative Morrell introduces a resolution to probe railroad wrecks.
Michigan Governor Warner’s address to the legislature urges creation of a legislative committee with the Interstate Commerce Commission to study freight car shortages, state supervision of electric lines, elimination of professional lobbyists, rail fare reforms for the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, and aligning Michigan pure food laws with the national standard where feasible.
All banks except C D Knowltons plan annual elections in a few days. The German bank sets officers on Monday January 1 after declaring a 4 percent semi annual dividend. The State bank votes Monday January 7 and First National and Second National set elections Tuesday January 8 at 11 a.m.
Miss Clara Wasley of Highland and Grover E B Jacobson of Stoughton were married yesterday afternoon in this city by Police Magistrate Bentley.
A J Shimp owner of the Hippa vaudeville house is in the city today on business connected with the Bijou theater.
In a testimonial from O Flosd of Wershaw South, after years of coughing and weight loss, Dr Wing's New Discovery cured the lung trouble and restored his weight. The drug is guaranteed at Joseph Emmert's drug store with 50 cent and 1 dollar trial bottles available.
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