Father shoots Summers in Spring Garden feud murder
Mount Vernon Illinois reports a 82 year old Thomas Summers was shot dead by Sikes Riggs after Summers returned to clear his alleged abduction of Riggs daughter. Summers left his wife and children as Riggs waited with a revolver. Riggs was arrested after the killing. Nearby a Carbondale Wisconsin feud ends in a dance shooting where Bush is killed by Cheatham after Bush fired at Cheatham.
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Mount Vernon
Tils
Thomas Summers
Spring Garden
Sikes Riggs
Summers
Riggs
Manton
Bleing
Carbondale
Wis
Bush
Mississippi
Heatham
Cheatham
Conditions Favorable In Illinois Crop Bulletin May 21
The weekly weather bureau crop bulletin reports a dry start with warm, rapid progress, followed by widespread rain Wednesday to Saturday improving conditions. Northern and central districts saw low temps slowing growth, while the southern region requires more rain. Some reporters say rainfall remains inadequate in other parts of the state.
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Springfield
Ills
Weather Bureau
Tlinois
Illinois to Host Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest
Champaign May 23 The intercollegiate oratorical contest will be held at the University of Illinois Sunday evening five universities form the league and the annual contests rotate Illinois hosts this year Miss Ina Rugg is the Illinois representative and will speak on Radicalism
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Champaign
Ills
Alay
University of Ilinois
Severnl
Jearning
Allinois
Illinois
Nn Coed
Hdna Rugg
Wanted Her Son Declared Insane in Lincoln Hearing
The petition of Mrs. Lemera Gillette to have her son John P. Gillette adjudged insane and a conservator appointed was heard in Lincoln Springfield Wisconsin on May 23 with about 100 witnesses present but the case was dismissed when the name was called.
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Springfield
Lemera Gillette
John
Gillette
John P. Gillette
Elkhart
Lincoln
Pawnbrokers Association Files Incorporation in Springfield
The Annois Col ternal Toan Brokers' association filed papers of incorporation at Springfield yesterday. The group aims to raise the pawnbroking standard and push for more favorable laws. One proposed measure seeks to place mortgage loan men under the same laws as pawnbrokers.
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Pawnbrokers
Chicago
Colternal Toan Brokers’ Association
Vipers of Incorporation
Springfield
Lake rates slide on grain trade and lake ships
Lake rates for grain fell as vesselmen pushed to lower cargo prices amid a weak market. Ships from a large iron mining company faced the slump, with shippers unable to take tonnage at the reduced figures and debating a one cent per bushel reduction as necessary. In Springfield Wisconsin a striker from the Big Four railroad was jailed for violating an injunction, charged with intimidating workers who had taken strikers’ places.
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Lake
Chicago
Erie
Springfield
Wis
United States
Waton
Ick McSherry
Litchfield
Big Tour Railroad
Allen
McSherry
Strike on a Street Railway at Decatur Ills May 28
All union laborers and teamsters on the Decatur street railway rebuilding struck after a Milwaukee firm with the contract discharged union men and hired nonunion workers from outside towns, disrupting the project.
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Decatur
Ills
Decatur Reet
Milwaukee
British Ambush and Boer Resistance Rise in Transvaal
A Cape Town dispatch says British troops entered Veerenig and captured twenty seven locomotives north of the Vaal. Details describe Plumer and Mahon columns near Masibistad at sunrise May 15 with leaders in front. The Transvaal government insists on fighting to a finish and will defend Johannesburg, warning non combatant safety is not guaranteed. The British advance under Lord Roberts expected to move swiftly, with the Vaal river likely crossed by week’s end. An ambush near Vryheid left sixty six mounted infantry dead, while other notes report preparations and evacuations of officials’ families to Lourenzo Marques and noncombatants from Jo-burg and Pretoria.
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Pan Kroger
London
Cape Town
Veereeniging
Vaal River
Transvaal
Plumer
Mahon
Masibistad
Maurice Gifford
Rhodes
Prince Adolphus of
Reitz
Lourenzo Marques
Johannesburg
Pretoria
Lord Roberts
Iroonatad
Vaal
Bethune
New Castle
Natal
Vryheid
Neely's Case At Two Points Extradition Move
Washington on May 23 House judiciary committee agreed to report Ray's extradition law making it retroactive to send C. St. W. Neely the alleged Cuban postoffice boodler back to Cuba under Spanish law. Neely's attorney John D. Lindsey protested as improper and unprecedented for an American citizen. In New York on May 23 Neely was re arrested on $50,000 bond charged with wrongful conversion of 45300.26 and confined in Ludlow Street Jail.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Ray
C. St. W. Neely
Cuba
John D. Lindsey
Neely
Republic
New York
C. Ir. W. Neely
Ile
Ludlow Street
Lily Is a Good Collector, Worcester
Mrs Langtry who performed here last night says she closed estimates of funds for soldiers widows and orphans in South Africa. She reports receipts of £25,000 on both sides of the water.
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Lily
Worcester
Brothers abandon plan for engineers home near Mattoon
Milwaukee May 28 The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers discussed building a home for disabled and aged engineers on Meadow Lawn farm at Mattoon Illinois and decided to abandon the project The will likely be sold
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Milwaukee
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Meadow Lawn
Mattoon
Ill
War taxes to be reduced in next congress session
Washington May 28 The house leaders plan to reduce war taxes at the next session and a resolution to allow the ways and means committee to sit during congress recess has been prepared.
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Washington
House
Congress
Committee On Ways and Means
Varied 1900s News Briefs From Across The World
The Baptist societies hold their Detroit annual meeting with large attendance and surplus reported. Frederic A. Bell, New York coal operator, dies leaving a 25 million estate. Forest business district burned near Jackson Mississippi, loss 200 thousand. Former Colorado senator Nathaniel F. P. Wi dies in Denver at 65. Spain’s queen regent signs a postal treaty with the United States. Alaska GOP convention votes Governor Brady to go to the national meeting. 300 delegates from 23 states attend Des Moines mothers’ convention. John C. Freeman of Wisconsin nominated consul at Copenhagen. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine hold annual council in Washington. Chicago cannot raise 410 thousand cash and will not ship grain to India’s famine. Paris reports sultan of Morocco consents to French protectorate. English Seventh Adventists expect Christ’s second coming soon. Sultan of Sulu’s Mohammedans attack U S troops at Cottabatto.
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Detroit
Frederic A. Bell
New York
Forest
Jackson
Miss
Nathaniel FP. Wi
United States
Colorado
Denver
Spain
Brady
Des Moines
John C. Freeman
Wisconsin
Copenhagen
Mystic Shrine
Washington
Chicago
India
Paris
Morocco
Sultan of Sulu
Cottabatto
Senate panel reports on Messages and Papers compilation
Washington May 28 The senate committee on printing released findings on the creation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents noting Representative Richardson spent 33 600 of his own funds to hire help for indexing. It rejects copyright claims against government materials while faulting Richardson’s plate donation and Barkus’ publishing methods as questionable though Richardson’s contract with Barkus is deemed unobjectionable.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Printing
Richardson
Congress
Barkus
Who Stole the Cannon From Wisconsin Capitol
The Spanish cannon long on a Capitol park dray vanished after a man with a team took it away claiming to move it to a city lot. City hall knew nothing of the theft, while private detectives spotted a swarthy man in a sombrero lingering near the tunnel area. Authorities suspect a Spanish spy aimed to prevent Madison from boasting of the relic.
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Wisconsin Capitol
Madison
Wis
Capitol Park
Capitol
City Hall
Main Street
Law and Order in Minnesota Dam Removal Battle
In St. Cloud Minnesota May 23 a planned attempt to blow up the Cold Spring dam with twenty five pounds of dynamite was thwarted when the fuse failed to ignite The dispute over removal has divided supporters with removal argued to reclaim meadow lands and preservation claimed to keep navigation open The case has been heard by the state supreme court twice with opposing sides seeking different outcomes
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St. Cloud
Minn
Cold Spring
Supreme Court
They Want a Cook County Man
Chicago May 23. Democratic county leaders keep the keynote as a Cook County man. Rumors of abandoning hope for a Chicago governorship candidate persist. A Burke spokesman said the Springfield nomination is expected to favor a man from this county.
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Cook County
Chicago
Robert B. Burke
Springfield
Monument Plan for Marion Soldiers Home
Governor Chapman of the Soldiers Home launched a drive to build a monument at the Marion home costing at least 10000 dollars. Funds are to be raised by voluntary subscriptions from veterans and others.
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Marion
Ind
Chapman
Soldiers’ Home
Arrests During a Berlin Street Car Strike
Berlin reports 487 arrests during the recent street car strikes. Fifteen policemen were severely injured and several are dying. Traffic has now been restored.
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Berlin
Itifteen
Chicago Bard of Trade price quotes and markets report
Quotations from Chicago Bard of Trade show May wheat at 65? to 66% with mixed futures. corn oats and hog cattle and pork prices listed across May 22 23. Produce and live stock markets in Chicago and Milwaukee with price ranges for eggs butter potatoes and livestock receipts.
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Chicago
E.eaes
Ae L
Illinois
Texas
Doble Turns From Harness to Thoroughbreds as Trainer
Budd Doble once the country’s top trotting star leaves harness horses to train for Lucky Baldwin a California millionaire. His deep knowledge of horses suggests success with runners though riding remains new to him at age sixty. If he yields top runners, his turf career could become sensational.
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Budd Doble
Tie
Lucky" Baldwin
California
Cable
Doble
Intercollegiate Games Outlook for Syracuse and Penn
Writers project another close race at Columbia field with Prinstein in broad jump and Glass in weight events boosting Syracuse hopes against Kraenzlein of Pennsylvania. Analysts predict Pennsylvania will win with Princeton Syracuse and Harvard contesting for secondary points.
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Little Syracuse University
Prinstein
Glass
Syracuse
McCracken
Pennsylvania
America
Kraenzlein
I Kraenzlein
Columbia
Mike Murphy
Murphy
Princeton
Starvard
Yale
Harvard
Rich Chicagoan Builds Mobile Office Car
A wealthy suburban Chicago resident commissioned a large automobile converted into an on the road office. It includes a owner desk a stenographer desk room for a caller and a skylight. He uses two daily travel hours to work uninterrupted en route.
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Chicago
Windy City
Not Free From Guile Indian Tricks Coins Gold Scam
A traveler recalls a Honduran Olancha district tale where an Indian man sells brass alloy “gold” nuggets to a buyer for four dollars. Later it’s revealed the man stole yellow composition metal from a stamp mill and melted it in a homemade crucible to fool the seller. The story lampoons supposed universal honesty with a cautioned verdict on crookedness.
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Olancha
Honduras
Quayape River
Port Cortez
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Snake cave tale of Alice Wilson near Rattlesnake Creek
The 1880s Kokomo area tale recalls Alice Wilson, then Miss Alice Ellis, a Quaker girl who fell through ground into a cavern full of rattlesnakes beside Rattlesnake Creek. Her rescue followed by neighbors battling the den. 621 snakes slain, spring water proved pure. The incident named the creek and connected to the snake den by an underground passage.
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Alice Wilson
Kokomo
Ind
W. H. Wilson
Morton Ellis
Ellis
Carroll County
Chicago
Prince plans six lap banked cycle track in Springfield
Jack Prince, an old time cycle racer, plans a six lap banked track at Springfield Massachusetts this year. He has backing from Massachusetts capitalists and aims to join the New England circuit which already includes Newslaven, Hartford and Worcester.
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Jack Prince
Springfield
Mass
Prince
Massachusetts
New England
Newslaven
Hartford
Worcester
Enoch Sets New World Submarine Diving Record
Enoch, renowned for his deep submersion attempts, broke the previous 4 minute underwater stint. In a controlled tank, he remained submerged for 15 minutes and several seconds, establishing a new global mark for submarine diving.
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Enoch
Congressmen Perquisites Boost Congressional Salary
A historical piece outlines extra income for Congress members beyond the $5,000 salary. It details allowances for stationery, garden seeds, and the $100 monthly clerk hire, often routed within the family. It cites examples like Speaker Reed’s daughter appearing on payroll records.
Prayer Faith Fails in Illinois Husband’s Venture
In Kenwood a Chicago suburb a woman trusted in prayer as her husband launched a risky business. Early success brought dividends and happiness, but a month ago losses grew and the couple faced cuts. The wife resolved to resume nightly prayers after learning the venture’s poor outlook.
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Kenwood
Chicago
Tne
Dr Pierce Gives Away The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser
In the past year Dr. R. V. Pierce has given away copies of his medical adviser at an expense of 325,000.00 plus postage. The 100 page, 700 illustration family book answers common questions in simple English and sex topics in plain terms. It is available free on receipt of stamps to cover mailing costs, with 21 stamps for paper binding or 31 for cloth. Address Buffalo New York.
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R. V. Pierce
People
Common Sense Medical
Buffalo
N.Y
Prince of Wales turns questions into wit at social function
An anecdote recounts a young lady presenting herself to the Prince of Wales. She asks when to leave, he replies she should tell him when she is bored. He then questions her birthplace and how long she has lived in Glasgow, prompting a quip about time and years.
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Prince of Wales
Glasgow
the Tandy
De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve Cures Twenty Year Piles
H Clark of Chauncey Georgia says the salve cured his twenty year piles and speeds skin disease relief. Warns buyers to beware of dangerous counterfeits from H J Moogk.
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H. Clark
Chauncey, Ga
de Witt
H. J. Moogk
Punta Arenas Free Port Hub for Patagonia Miners
Punta Arenas in the Strait of Magellan remains Chile’s free port and a vital market and supply point. Once a penal colony, it now serves Tierra del Fuego miners ranchers and passing steamers as a key commercial center.
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Strait of Magellan
Punta Arenas
Chile
Tierra del Fuego
Patagonia
Beardsley Man Credits Kodol Cure For Relief From Dyspepsia
W. Shipman testifies he suffered from dyspepsia for twenty five years and gained little from doctors and dieting. After using Kodol Dyspepsia Cure he now eats freely and feels like a new man, according to H. J. Moogk.
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W. . Shipman
Beardsley
H. J. Moogk
Oldest European Coal Mine Location Debated
The mining press discusses where Europe's oldest coal mine lay with Tierr Frantz Buettgenbach citing coal mining before 1113 and suggesting the Liege district as an early source.
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Europe
Tierr Frantz Buettgenbach
Liege
Grain-O new grain drink touted as coffee replacement
The ad promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute suitable for children and adults, claiming its flavor resembles Mocha and Java but is grain based and easy on the stomach. It lists price as 26 cents per package and notes availability from grocers.
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Java
Whooping Cough Remedy Miracle Note
A South Burgettstown mother recalls her boy nearly dying from whooping cough and credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with a marked improvement after a few doses. One bottle cured him entirely and she calls it the best cough medicine in the house. Sold by Jos Emmert, Druggist.
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Chamberlain
J. L. Moore
South Burgettstown
Jos. Emmert
Early and Late Harlem Gardens Note
A brief item notes Harlem gardens located south of the water tower with initials EH and D Converse referenced as contributors or commentators in the early and late period.
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Harlem Gardens
Water Tower
EH. D. Converse
Interstate Tournament and Whist Carnival in Chicago
The Chicago Great Western Ry sells excursion tickets May 26 through June 1 on the certificate plan good to return by June 6 at a fare and one third for the round trip. For details contact an agent or F H Lord G P A 118 Adams St Chicago.
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Chicago Great Western Ry
F. Hh. Lord
G. P
T. A
Adams St
Chicago
August Flower advertisement claims great sale and cures
The notice extols Green's August Flower as the largest selling medicine, claiming it cures indigestion and biliousness and eases headaches. It asserts doctors were scarce, touts the remedy’s cleansing and liver regulating effects, and promotes sample bottles at Joseph Emmert's store.
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August Flower
Joseph Emmert’s
Emmert & Burrell
Humorous Salt Lake City tale of a mailed horse shoe
A Salt Lake City eccentric sent a widow in Nevada a rose-filled horseshoe for her late husband. The gift cost $1.05 to ship. A note accused the giver of making light of the widow and her deceased husband. The recipient has not replied.
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Salt Lake City
Nevada
John
Expressman
Denar Sur
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease Ad
Allen's Foot-Ease powder cures painful swollen nervous feet and instantly relieves corns and bunions. It makes tight shoes feel easy and cures sweating callous hot tired feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c in stamps. Trial package free. Allen Simsted Le Roy New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allen Simsted
le Roy, N. Y
Two Apples and Two Pears Lesson Misleads a Child
A Detroit teacher’s arithmetic joke about apples and pears sparks confusion with a pupil named Rhude the milkman’s son who notes that two quarts of milk and two quarts of water make four quarts of milk in the morning. The item closes with an ad for DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve by H. J. Moogk and a Grand Chancellor’s endorsement.
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Detroit
Johnny
Rhude
Rube
Little Rube
Nickel Plate Express Trains Chicago to Boston and New York
The Nickel Plate Railroad offers three daily express trains between Chicago New York and Boston with a 27 hour service Chicago to New York. All day trains from Chicago include dining car meals served in dining cars at popular prices. Information provided by J Y Calahan General Agent 111 Adams St Chicago.
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Chicago
New York
Boston
J. Y. Calahan
Adams St
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