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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1897
Page
6
The Chicago & North Western Railway announces a personally conducted tour through Mexico led by J. J. Grafton. A special vestibuled Palace train will depart Chicago on Tuesday morning February 2 1897 for a thirty day trip visiting major cities and attractions with options to extend the ticket period.
Train schedules show rail arrivals and departures with times for multiple routes. Daily and partial stop services list Nos. 1 2 83 34 6:05 p.m. and other morning and evening departures. Some services run daily while others are except Sunday or Monday.
Fragments show trains from Ouwz and O 61 to Madison with mixed freight and passenger service daily excluding Sunday. Entries mention arrivals and departures, with unclear times and destinations.
Passenger timetable notes trains to and from Dodgeville with arrivals and departures. Freight trains 0271 show service to Dodge and Sevan 2 264 arriving from an unknown origin. Daily operations by the company agent indicate regular service.
A fragmented transit snippet lists times and codes such as 014 and 0161 with morning and afternoon slots. It includes a note about not carrying passengers on certain days and a daily schedule with exceptions, signed by R. H. HOLDER.
Notices detail eastbound and westbound train departures with passenger and freight service. It lists connections to Madison Rockford Chicago Milwaukee and Milwaukee connections via through coaches from Rock Island and Milwaukee. Freight and passenger movements reference Bank Ilan Freeport and Cedar Rapids destinations.
Excerpt shows routes to Chicago and midwest cities with multiple daily trains. Mentions South Freeport Brewster House ticket office and baggage handling through to destination with extra charge. Lod, general pass agent in Chicago.
National mine workers convention adjourns with a defeated motion to cut dues to six cents per member. Delinquent locals may reinstate by paying two months dues but cannot vote PHILA PENNA until six months of dues paid. A joint conference with Ohio and western Pennsylvania operators is set for next Monday. A scale for mining is adopted with regional tonnage rates including 69 cents in Pennsylvania and 60 cents in Indiana and Hocking Valley.
The eighth annual UMWA convention approves a defense fund with safeguards. Contributions start at 26 cents monthly, funds to be banked in national officer and district president names, with investigations by the national executive board and member votes before any draw. A two year Harrisburg meeting plan aims to push labor legislation.
Mrs Gottholf Klein a pioneer resident of Delafield Wis died of heart disease while washing dishes at her home. She was 78 and had lived in Delafield since 1851.
Bradstreet's reports no broad shift in trade activity with few early signs of improvement. Some Chicago and St Louis jobbers note higher demand for dry goods hats shoes hardware and groceries for spring while textiles show no revival. Leather pork lard petroleum and cotton prices rise. hides wheat corn coffee pig iron and steel billets fall. There were 478 business failures this week, down from 488 last week.
In Washington on private bill day the house forwarded pension measures for widows of generals including John Gibbon and W A Nichols with monthly stipends of 100 and 75 dollars. A free homestead bill with senate amendments was referred. Eleven other pension bills were favorably acted. Local notes include civic papers in Illinois and a czarist era tragedy in Tsarskoe Selo.
London dated dispatch reports Earl of Mayo urging cooperation with Irish Nationalists at Kildare to secure financial justice. He clashes with Arthur Balfour’s view that Irishmen cannot unite on the issue. He cites over taxation as a driver of revolutions including the era of Charles I.
Washington January 16 supporters fear the free homestead bill is dead for this congress after Speaker Reed referred it to the house committee on public lands to consider senate amendments. The committee is not strongly in favor of the plan. Jefferson City Missouri January 16 the Standard Shoe company a leading user of convict labor in the penitentiary assigned yesterday John W Edwards named trustee for preferred creditors total liabilities expected around 75000
A boy named Glaydon was shot through the neck by an ambusher while loading corn fodder near Dupont in this county. The weapon fired a fatal shot, and investigators treat the incident as a malicious attempt at murder.
Rochester N Y January 16 Professor Lewis Swift of Mount Lowe California has received notice that the Royal Astronomical Society of England awarded him the Jackson gold medal in recognition of his astronomical discoveries.
In Kokoiny Indiana on January 16 Taylor Whiteker won the Republican post office election among nine candidates. The total votes reached 1669 from 2500 eligible, with Whiteker at 445 votes and nearest rival at 257. In Napa California also on January 16 William M Roe was hanged for the murder of Mrs. Greenwood after a smiling ascent to the scaffold and no faltering when secured.
Ethel Assnes sues Abraham Assnes of Cleveland for divorce claiming he deceived her into marriage by portraying himself as wealthy. The husband files a parallel complaint.
Sheriff Bennett of Lafayette county escorts John Green and John Wilson from Janesville after a Fayette store robbery. A lively fusillade erupted during the crime, and a sleeping clerk was targeted. The pair are bound for Madison for safekeeping due to jail concerns.
A flannel compress dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm bound over the chest helps relieve pain especially when caused by a cold with a tendency toward pneumonia. Sold by Emmert & Burrell, druggists.
Three wealthy residents of Tarrytown died within hours of each other yesterday morning in New York. The deceased are Louis N. Tunemaire Jesse Witzgerald and Stephen P. Sackett, all prominent figures in local society and business circles.
Merchants Perry and Cameron of Flushing Michigan state they recommend Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to customers as the best cough medicine they have sold and say it always gives satisfaction. Emmert and Burrell druggists sold it at 25 and 60 cents per bottle.
Beau Campbell Gen Mer leads a Mexico tour January 19 to February 27 with bleeping and dining cars and special baggage cars through the trip. More miles and days in Mexico with more cities and towns than ever offered. Tickets cover all expenses sleeping and dining cars hotels.Apply to Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul railway ticket agents for details.
Letters from farmers in South and North Dakota published in pamphlet form by the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. The pamphlet is illustrated and one copy can be sent to any address on receipt of a two cent postage stamp. Apply to Geo H Heafford General Passenger Agent 410 Old Colony Building Chicago Ill.
The Northwestern Line plans a 30 day personally conducted Mexico tour led by J J Grafton. Participants meet in Chicago, depart February 2 on a special ventibuled train with palace sleeping, observation and dining cars. Extension tickets offered. illustrated pamphlets and rates available from Chicago and Northwestern Railway agents.
William Watton promotes No 104 106 Stephenson Street as the place for the finest stock of 1897 spring carpets including Ingram Tapesty Body Brussels Velvet Moquette Axminster and straw mattings. The display starts soon with low prices and reliable merchandise.
Advertiser seeks an improved farm of 120 to 160 acres near Freeport. Provide full location details, improvements, and terms. Respond to P O Box 5938 Freeport.
Scissors razors and knives sharpened and ground with specialty in barbers’ and paper hangers’ shears. Christopher Albion No 23 Cheatnut St near hospital Freeport Illinois 192w
James Manson, the town Tax Collector, announces a new office in the rear of the First National Bank to collect 1896 taxes. He urges prompt payment. Ed Burkhart has moved his tailoring shop to rooms over Wright and Co. clothing, corner Stephenson and Chicago streets, inviting friends to visit.
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