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Local notes from Sangamon and surrounding counties
The Springfield Journal reports railroad improvement plans in Springfield including a new machine shop and depots. County supervisors meet to conduct business. Velocipedes and skating grow popular. a fire damages a small tenement. two deaths and several injuries occur in quick succession. A renowned burglar escapes by morphine and is recaptured. a kerosene lamp fire in Bristol Station kills Mrs McOwne/McCow an. A runaway wagon chase ends with minor hay damage. Depot fire at Turner Junction destroys Holt’s eatery. Mrs Rogers loses everything. A railroad car shop worker loses a finger to a loaded oil pistol. thieves steal tools and a clock, then are sentenced. Plum River youths jailed for drunken disorder. varied fines issued.
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Sangamon County
Springfield Journal
Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad
Board of Supervisors
Fred
Wilson
Hi. C. Meyers
Fay
Ninth and
Jefferson-st
Wm. F. Muscleman
Ninth
Madison Streets
Patrick Rourke
North Fifth Street
Arsenal
Lucinda Taylor
Madam Taylor
Macoupin County
Carlinville
Aurora Herald
Bristol
Turner Junction
Walt
Holt
Mix & Plum
Geo. Perrigo
Perrigo
Cuahnan
Montony
Lea County
Dixon Herald
Dixon Democrat
Daniel Root
Messrs. Southwell & Butler
Atlantic Ocean
Springfield
Amboy Journal