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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1906
Page
5
Hollister and Barrett Jewelers announce their stock is larger than needed this season and offer special March prices to reduce inventory. The sale runs through April 1 and invites comparison with competitors before purchasing.
A severe snow storm sweeping the Northwestern, Middlewestern and Southwestern states halted streetcar and railroad traffic. Snow fell overnight with depths up to a foot in many areas and continued as a strong wind caused heavy drifting while temperatures stayed moderate.
Six hundred miners near Ouray Colorado are cut off by snow slides isolating twenty miles of mines. Twenty miners are feared dead and twenty-five mines remain completely isolated. Damage may reach a million dollars as rescue efforts await clearer information.
In Washington on March 19 the executive council of the American Federation of Labor began a several days session called by President Samuel Gompers. The meeting will be conducted as an executive session.
Closing board of trade quotations show May wheat at 787, May corn 4ity, May oats 303, May pork 816.20, May lard 8.17, May ribs 8.65. Union stock yards Cattle 3,100 steady to 10 lower with Beeves 3.00 to 6.35. Cows Heifers 1.60 to 5.10. Stockers Feeder 3.70 to 4.75. Hogs 45,000 5 to 10 lower. Mixed butchers 6.10 to 6.40. Good heavy 6.30 to 6.40. Rough heavy 5.10 to 6.20. Light 6.06 to 6.86.
J M Stiffer sells block 2 Clark's fourth addition Freeport to Missouri Emigration association for 9500 and buys west half section 3 township 21 Barton county Mo from the same association for 14400 in a real estate transfer notice.
Long delayed divorce suit of Henry Coffman against Carrie Coffman resumes in Stephenson County Circuit Court. Cross bill alleges cruelty and improper advances by Coffman, with an injunction and alimony already granted to Mrs. Coffman. Prosecution cites Chicago connections, potential witness-buying, and many local observers as jurors are selected for the weeklong session.
A caucus by the Republicans of Freeport will be held at the County club rooms from 8 to 9 this evening to place a complete township ticket in the field. Suggested candidates include Henry Hoyman and H. F. Hawke for assistant supervisors, T. M. Kauffman for assessor, Emil Sward for town clerk, Frank Pickard for collector, and Frank Southwick for commissioner.
The Harlem township caucus nominated Democrats for supervisor Bryan Pope, town clerk H W Mogle, assessor Charles Brandt, collector Adam Becker, and commissioner Herman Ohmsgera. The afternoon session opened and will close at 7 o clock with candidates for supervisor Harry C Knauff and John Bauscher Jr, assistant supervisors Louis Dickes JL Cronkrite and G W Brown, town clerk Michael Steffen T F Lawless Kari F Kash, assessor Charles B Franz, collector Joseph Dean W T Rockey, and highways commissioner Christ Koehler Cari Herbig.
Large crowd attends the Schryver funeral in Polo on Sunday. The blue lodge of Masons conducts the service with the Commandery as grave escort. Freeport Consistory committee members present include Dr. J. F. Fair, Jas. R. Cowley, B. L. Cronkrite, 8. LePelley, W. H. Flachtemeier, and Dr. C. Is. Snyder.
An old advertisement notes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea tablets priced at 85 cents. The copy emphasizes warming effects and stimulating blood flow with a product attributed to Joseph Emmert.
Secretary Taft received cables from Major General Leonard Wood in Manila denying claims of women and children killed in Mindanao. Major Hugh L. Scott, expert on the situation, may be called for fuller facts. House accepts Grosvenor amendment removing lieutenant general grade and approves postoffice appropriation bill. Congress also reorganizes the consular service and names Charles S. Francis as ambassador to Austria-Hungary.
The United Commercial Travelers council met at the Masonic temple on Saturday evening. Four candidates were initiated and two former members were reinstated. Elected officers include Past senior councilor D. H. Johnson, senior councilor J. W. Bengston, junior councilor E. C. Grossman, conductor C. W. Leichhart, page Harry Marcelles, and sentinel John Hill. Installation is set for the first Saturday evening in April. The group aims to host the annual state council at the Mason temple with several hundred delegates expected.
Mrs Frank Rishel of 34 Delaware Street hosted a Saturday evening gathering. Cinch and flinch provided entertainment with prizes awarded to Frank Miller and Mrs John Judolph in cinch, Edwin Staas and John Quincer as runners up, while Mrs George Deininger and Mrs August Bodenstein won in flinch, and Miss Bertha Staas took the consolation prize. Refreshments followed.
Robert Nusebaum of the Union Stock Yards Chicago will be in Rock City on March 28 to buy horses and mules three years old and up. Davis will be there on Saturday March 24 to purchase stock.
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