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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1909
Page
1
Unsettled weather from Illinois Wisconsin and Iowa. Illinois expects showers tonight or Tuesday with moderate temperatures. Wisconsin forecasts rain or snow in the east and north. Iowa shows partly cloudy skies with possible showers in the southeast tonight or Tuesday.
The Senate judiciary committee voted on the disagreement report concerning investigations into the absorption of Tennessee Coal and Iron by United States Steel. The finance committee favored nominating George S. Terry as assistant treasurer in New York. A special committee ruled Cook's Colorado speech did not violate debate privileges and requires no further House action.
Jim Jeffries said in Omaha he would fight Jack Johnson after his theatrical engagement ends. In Chicago he added he had authorized no one to announce a Johnson bout.
The Associated Press reports Madison March 1 that $600 in checks paid to a dozen ministers had no connection to Senator Stephenson’s campaigns. The payments were linked to a large check routed through a Milwaukee bank used by Stephenson’s managers.
An explosion ripped through the boiler of a locomotive pulling a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton passenger train near Findlay Ohio. The engineer died, the fireman was seriously injured, but all passengers escaped unharmed.
The Associated Press reports J P Lucky Baldwin famed horseman died today in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was eighty one years old. The Daily Journal mentions city delivery pricing in the same note.
A freight collision occurred at Everts during routine transit, injuring a worker whose left arm was affected. Emergency crews responded, securing the scene and transporting the injured individual to a nearby hospital for treatment. Investigation into the cause is ongoing.
East bound No. 60 and west bound No. 51 crashed head on near Everts just before 1 am. Engineer H Wooley and Conductor Lee Bowley led crews injured though Bowley suffered a severe elbow injury. Engines 41 and 43 damaged. draw bars broken. one horse died en route to stock yards. Dr Charles Barstow arrested for criminal operation. coroner holds him to grand jury. burial planned at Galena Glenwood.
Passengers traveled from Rockford toward Freeport faced detours on the Northwestern line. Train No. 2 arriving Freeport at 5:25 from the west was rerouted via the Great Western road from South Freeport to South Elmhurst. Other trains resumed on the main line after 7:45.
Rev. Frederick I. Webb of Macomb NL chosen by Freeport First Baptist Church after unanimous pulpit committee recommendation. Webb, Boston native, 32, unmarried, educated at Rochester university, has pastored Cincinnati Cedar Rapids and Macomb. Salary set at 1500 dollars annually with one month vacation. Church has been pastorless since January.
The infant child of Mr and Mrs Roy Rummell of Ridott is seriously ill with pneumonia. Henry Hahn of Delaware street is confined at home with tonsillitis.
J Hill, collector for Lancaster, will be at Bokemeier and Kaney's shoe store on Saturday to collect personal taxes. All taxes must be paid by March 6. Read the Journal's want column.
Reverend Beynon spoke on Sunday night about America’s unique home life and its threats. He quoted an eminent author on disappearing homes at society’s extremes and warned that rich homes become hotels or clubs while the poor suffer a grim slum-like life and eroding morale. He urged attention to social conditions molding family life and virtue.
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