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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1906
Page
5
The late Judge Hyde home at 371 Stephenson Street is offered for sale. The lot measures T4 x 201 feet with a nine room house, bath, water-closet, furnace and gas. It is a well kept property in a handsome neighborhood and is expected to sell quickly.
The Cleveland Electric Railway company petitions the common pleas court to declare the Forest City Railway company null and void alleging Mayor Johnson is financially interested in the three cent streetcar line and helped organize and franchise it in violation of law.
Reports to the provisional government say Cuba is nearly pacified with Santa Clara as the remaining unsettled province. Inspectors note most insurgent rifles are unfit for use. Secretaries Taft and Bacon have taken residence at the palace today.
Fair and cooler tonight with rain in the north. Tuesday will be fair. Sunrise at 6 00 a m and sunset at 5 29 p m.
Bishop William Benjamin Arnett of the African American Methodist Episcopal church died last night in Nenia Ohio from uraemic poisoning. The religious leader had served as a prominent figure in the church and community. His death leaves a void among local congregations and civil rights advocates.
Closing quotations show Dec wheat at 41 1 2 cents, Dec corn 4y, oats 343, Jan pork 13.67, Jan lard 7.97, Jan ribs 7.80 32. At Union stock yards cattle 1,000 head steady to 10 lower, beeves 3.90 to 7.00, lows heifers 1.60 to 5.20, stockers feeders 2.80 to 4.0, steers 5.400 to 6.75, sheep 3.50 to 5.00.
Karl Kae Knecht, son of Mr and Mrs Henry Knecht formerly of Preenort now lives in Evansville Indiana where he works as a cartoonist for the Courier a leading Indiana newspaper He draws a cartoon daily and does illustration for the Sunday edition He trained at a premier Chicago art school and Freeport friends will follow his career with interest
Three strangers to the city were arrested on lower Stephenson street for disorderly conduct after attempting to sell razors. At a 1 PM hearing they pleaded guilty, each fined $1 and costs totaling $5.65, unable to pay, and were jailed.
Testimony in Kupenston versus the city of Freeport over paving West Street was concluded today. Flo will question the jury either late today or tomorrow morning.
Mrs. Helen Bursing, wife of laborer Charles Bursing, resisted officers after an epileptic episode in a Chicago suburb street. In a violent clash at the county jail she bit Assistant Chief Silk, shattered a chair and window, and was strapped to a bed. Jury later ordered commitment to the Watertown insane asylum.
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Mrs Harriet Ashway aged 78 died Saturday afternoon at 2:30 in Frank Street at her daughter Mrs J C Grossman home. She had hip injury months earlier and jaundice worsened with age. Born Feb 25 in Franklin county Pa she married Thomas B Ashway and moved to Mt Carroll Illinois in 1841. Survived by five children and will be buried in Mt Carroll after services scheduled for tomorrow at 2:30.
Mr Charles Burnwood and Mrs Burnwood of 26 Ordway Street mourn the death of their seven week old son who died this afternoon after suffering pneumonia. The body will be taken to Winslow tomorrow evening for interment, with the funeral set for Wednesday.
Freeport reports the sudden death of Mrs. Carrie P Duncan Reck of Winslow from uremic poisoning at Springfield. She visited Freeport with her mother Mrs. Catherine Babbitt at 67 Stephenson street and left with husband for the state fair. She leaves four children and a husband, Mr. Reck, in Winslow.
Reports state Miss Pearl Allan was shot in the cheek Friday evening and is improving though not out of danger. Doctors probe for the bullet and suspect it lies in the roof of her mouth. Auman obtained a warrant against Clarence Everhart in Kent. constable Kleekoer served it, and Everhart was brought to Freeport. Trial postponed to the next circuit term with $2,500 bonds posted.
The funeral services for Willian Hitmmn were held at LT Dexter Street by Rev. Fro C Kalvellis at St Joseph's church. J B J DuBour oversaw arrangements with pallbearers Richard Sheridan Casper Neuus John Uber Moritz Reichert Mo Mediurk and Michael Siehdt assisting.
Mr and Mrs Aaron Otway welcomed a baby boy on their Mechant street home. The newborn joins the Otway family as neighbors share the happy news.
The Freeport Woman's Club opened its season Saturday with six new members. Reports from the General Federation meeting in St Paul and a National American Woman Suffrage Association committee letter spurred discussion on equal suffrage. Delegates urged candidates to support the suffrage joint resolution, noting past failures and calling for public disclosure of replies to the petition.
Judge Septimus J. Platical of the First Church of Christ Scientist Boston will speak at Breeport Opera House Tuesday evening. He brings years of lecturing and editorial work in Christian Science and will present during the Brest Church event. Admission is free and no collection will be taken.
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