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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1907
Page
5
Boise June 10 Steve Adams an alleged associate of Harry Orchard arrived in Boise in custody and was jailed It is understood he will refuse to testify when called Adams appeared as the Haywood trial resumed with Orchard again on the stand
The agricultural department crop report issued today shows June 1 spring wheat condition at 88.7, down from 93.4 a year earlier. Sown acreage for 1907 totals 16,464,000 spring wheat, a seven percent drop from last year. winter wheat stands at 77.4 versus 82.7 on June 1, 1906.
Twenty eight passengers perish when the French schooner La Kelouse sinks while bound from Cayenne to St Lucia Friday night. The captain and twenty one crew members survived, reaching Barbados yesterday.
At Virginia Beach the Princess Annie hotel burned today causing over fifty guests to flee. Two African American chambermaids are missing as the Norfolk and Southern depot was destroyed. The loss is set at about 100000 dollars.
Concord New Hampshire June 10 Judge Chamberlain orders a competency investigation of Mrs Mary Baker G Eddy by a master in an accounting action brought by relatives over her property authorities to determine her mental capacity in the ongoing suit filed to settle her assets and affairs.
Music trade papers report the Hobart M Cable organ factory plans a move from Freeport to Holly Michigan a town of about fifteen hundred people. The residents have donated 30000 toward construction of a plant and subscribed for preferred stock to the same amount. S N Swan superintendent and manager declined to confirm or deny the report this morning. He is among the largest stockholders and a director of the company.
Showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and likely tonight in Illinois. Cooler air arrives tonight with Tuesday expected to be fair. Sunrise was at 422 AM and sunset at 736 PM.
June 10 closing quotations show July wheat at 95 3 4 to 97 1 4 cents, July corn 93 4, July oats 44 1 2 cents, July pork 16.22, ribs 8.90 to 8.92, lard 8.70 to 8.73. Cattle 40,000 steady to lower, beeves 4.50 to 6.60, stockers and feeders 3.00 to 5.20, hogs 10,000 lower with light 6.10 to 6.35, mixed butchers 6.10 to 6.32, heavy 5.80 to 6.27, bulk sales 6.20 to 6.30, sheep 20,000 steady to lower 4.50 to 6.85.
An old ad promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets at 35 cents, touting benefits for physical and mental power. It names Joseph Emmiert as the advertiser.
President Roosevelt addressed the National Editors Association and Georgia Day visitors at Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk Virginia. He urged editors to pursue truth with caution and outlined plans for federal taxation reform, including an inheritance tax tied to wealth and national resource foresight for lasting prosperity.
A Freeport area death notice memorializes Jerome Maynard pioneer merchant who died in Washington DC from heart failure. The article notes his Freeport residence, family ties to Elizabeth Taylor, and plans for funeral arrangements in Chicago and Freeport. It also reports on Dr. J R Corbus from Evanston and the large attendance at Charles Donohue's funeral.
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